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DVD : Babylon 5 - The Movie CollectionIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Bruce Boxleitner, Jerry Doyle, Jeff Conaway, Carrie Dobro, Peter Woodward directed by: Janet Greek, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Michael Vejar, Richard Compton  List Price: $59.98 Amazon.com's Price: $47.99 You Save: $11.99 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790791326 Feature: First time on DVD! Initiate jump sequence for feature-length tales about key events in the B5 chronology. Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790791323 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 5 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 17, 2004 Running Time: 471 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: January 03, 1999 Sales Rank: 5778 MPN: 33437 Features:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: Now entering your stargrid: 5 B5 movie adventures in one deluxe set! First time on DVD! Initiate jump sequence for feature-length tales about key events in the B5 chronology. Movie 1: The Gathering - Alien envoys come to the giant space station in the pilot that launched the five-year TV series. Movie 2: In the Beginning - The B5 prequel! It's humans vs. aliens in the battle that led to the station's creation. Movie 3: Thirdspace - Is there a realm beyond hyperspace? Discovery of a million-years-old gateway technology may hold the answer...and more. Movie 4: River of Souls - After death then what? Questions of eternity arise when a supposedly infallible harvester of souls proves to be very fallible. Movie 5: A Call to Arms - The torch is passed. A race against time to save Earth links the B5 mission with the Rangers' new interstellar efforts.Running Time: 469 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY UPC: 085393343729 Manufacturer No: 33437 Amazon.com: The Babylon 5 pilot movie The Gathering was originally broadcast in 1993 a full year ahead of the regular show. A somewhat dull tale of an attempt to assassinate Koch, the Vorlon ambassador to B5, the feature served to introduce Commander Jeffery Sinclair (Michael O'Hare) and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi (Jerry Doyle) as well as familiarize the audience with the unique environment of a five-mile-long space station in the year 2257. Missing many of the main cast, and suffering from a leaden pace and mediocre music score, series creator J Michael Straczynski later improved The Gathering by tightening the cut for a special edition (the version released on DVD), adding some deleted character moments and commissioning a new score from series composer Christopher Franke. Four new TV movies were part of the deal to syndicate Babylon 5. In the Beginning is a prelude set 10 years before Babylon 5, telling the story of the Earth-Minbari war. Told retrospectively, many of the mysteries revealed gradually in the main series are recounted, making the show a collection of spoilers for newcomers while adding little for established fans. It is effective to see events only previously talked about, and enjoyable to have most of the main cast playing younger versions of themselves. River of Souls is a self-contained adventure featuring a return of the Soul Hunters from Season One, while Thirdspace offers a spectacular Lovecraftian space opera which slots into the saga after the end of the Shadow War. A Call to Arms is the most important of the TV films, laying the ground for the future TV series Crusade. Set five years after the Shadow War, it tells the story of a Drahk revenge attack on Earth. A final showcase for Bruce Boxleitner as Sheridan, the story fits between fifth-season episodes "Objects at Rest" and "Sleeping in Light." The cliffhanger ending sets the scene for new starship Excalibur to boldly go on a five-year mission to explore strange new worlds and find a cure for the Shadow virus infecting the Earth. --Gary S. Dalkin Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Sorry to See the Series End!What can I say more than all the other reviews of this and the previous years' series? It's been a fantastic adventure, and I'll miss it. Babylon 5 is a great end to the series, though I think Babylon 4 was the best of all. Babylon 5 is a "must have" to complete the paths that each character has followed til now, including the reappearance of Ivanova. Quite an emotional goodbye. Rating:  - Hi 5 to B5!!!I first bought this show a few years back after watching the last 4 seasons on TV. For some reason, I had a momentary lapse of reason and sold them all!!! Few months back... could not resist, especially when I saw that they were starting to come out with movies like "The Lost Tales". Rebought the whole 5 seasons and the movie sets! Started rewatching with one of my daughters.. man, I'm like a kid with a new toy!!! Rating:  - Wildly inconsistent in quality and importanceGetting into the BABYLON 5 universe can be confusing for newcomers. To see everything you really need the DVDs in this box as well as all five seasons of BABYLON 5 the series and the single-season series CRUSADE. I'm going to give a simplified chronology. You can make it even more precise by putting one movie in between two episodes of a single season, but I don't think you gain too much by doing that. First watch BABYLON 5: THE GATHERING from this boxed set. To be blunt, it is not ... Read More Rating: - Content varies widelyThe problem here is that there are five movies, equivalent to ten episodes of the TV series in length, that vary in quality. The cost is a bit high to call this a good value. Thirdspace is pretty good. In The Beginning is great. I've watched it many times. The rest are just average. Last night I saw Call To Arms, as a prelude to watching the Crusade series I just bought. It sets up the premise of Crusade, but I thought overall it was missing something. I'd recommend seeing ... Read More Rating: - Great BuyI bought this as a gift for my husband. He hasn't gotten out of his chair since I gave it to him! 5 Stars! Browse for similar items by category:
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