R.I.P.D.received negative reviews from critics, as well as negative feedback from moviegoers.[20]Moviefone users gave the movie a 60% rating, whilst critics on the same website gave it 25%.[21]IMDb users gave the film 5.4/10[22] whilst Rotten Tomatoes gave it a rating of 14%, saying "It has its moments—most of them courtesy of Jeff Bridges' rootin' tootin' performance as an undead Wild West sheriff—but R.I.P.D. is ultimately too dimwitted and formulaic to satisfy."[23] Film critic Roger Moore gave the film one-and-a-half out of four stars, calling it "the worst comic book adaptation since Jonah Hex."[24] At Metacritic the film received a generally unfavorable rating among critics, but has a mixed reception among the website's audience.[25] Kyle Smith of the New York Post rated the film a half-star out of four, saying, "For a movie that so strenuously rips off Ghostbusters and Men in Black, R.I.P.D. manages to come up with fresh new ways of being absolutely terrible. The plot manages to be fully predictable and freakishly bonkers at the same time, seemingly born of the same kind of brainstorming-on-L.S.D. session that must have given us Howard the Duck."[26]
As of September 29, 2013 (2013-09-29)[update] R.I.P.D. has grossed $33,618,855 in the United States, plus $39,500,000 internationally, for a combined gross of $73,118,855[5] and has been labeled a box office bomb, with the opening weekend bringing in less than 10% of the film's $130 million production budget.[27] Is there an original idea anywhere within Universal Studios?
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Fact #1:"GINO" - (Galactica in Name Only)was cancelled at the end of its fourth season due to low ratings.
Fact #2:"GINO" - (Galactica in Name Only)was not "One of the most popular Science Fiction programs of all time." It crawled along on the SyFy Channel's schedule due to low ratings during its entire four season run. Routinely getting beaten by reruns of "SpongeBob." Let's also not forget that each of the four, low rated seasons of "GINO" were broken up with a long (and I mean long!!) hiatus between season renewals. As if SyFy Channel were saying...."Should we renew this low rated thing or shouldn't we?" Wouldn't a ratings hit have been renewed a lot more quickly between seasons?
"GINO" was a flop, plain and simple. Certainly from the business side of things. As for this nonsense about "GINO"...being...."One of the most popular Science Fiction programs of all time"......as I have said many times before...."The Stealth Marketing Machine" for this long cancelled flop never turns off!! It's still active four years after its cancellation!!
What I'm waiting for is someone REALLY opening up about this show!!
1. Yes, "GINO" was a low rated flop!!
2. Yes, it should have been cancelled long before its first season completed due to low ratings.
3. Yes, its mini series / pilot had the lowest audience test scores in history.
4. Yes, it really wasn't "Battlestar Galactica" but was instead...the eighth season of "Star Trek: Voyager"....dark and dirtied down.
Were the SyFy Channel and Ronald D. Moore really naïve enough to believe that simply calling something "Battlestar Galactica" made it so?
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Status Quo Conformity - TheSyFy Channel, Ronald D. Moore, and Bryan Singer love to go with the flow. They are not risk takers. Everything they do is firmly and permanently grounded within the "Corporate America Parameters" of the mundane....the "not surprising in the slightest"....the "bearing a striking resemblance to everything that has come before."From the SyFy Channel's umpteenth variation on the crappy monster movie...to Ronald D. Moore's "typical Wall Street - Corporate Take" on "Battlestar Galactica" - (complete with unappealing characters, and a business suit obsessed wardrobe being worn by a culture of people supposedly thousands of light years from Earth)...to Bryan Singer's failed remake of Richard Donner's "Superman - The Movie" in "Superman Returns"....and apparently being involved with the umpteenth and thoroughly unnecessary sequel to ..."X-Men."
....SyFy Channel, Ronald D. Moore, and Bryan Singerare typical "Corporate America Conformists"who by their very natures...always take the fun out of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror by instinctively and unconsciously...always adhering to the....."tried & true"....the "endlessly baked over ad nauseum"....and most criminally....the "always boring as hell."...
Lack of Talent, Imagination, and Inspired Thinking - There are endless mysteries in life and one of the "biggies" always has been...why SyFy Channel, Ronald D. Moore and Bryan Singer continue to pursue Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror when the three of them have always lacked the talent, imagination, and inspired thinking to do so. When you suck at something....move on!! Move on to other things!! SyFy Channel, Ronald D. Moore, and Bryan Singer never got this blunt lecture from anyone. So, they keep paddling in water going nowhere...continuing to accomplish absolutely nothing in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.
I think it has a lot to do with the fact that SyFy Channel, Ronald D. Moore, and Bryan Singer keep hoping to make it big in some way in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Failing to realize every step of the way that habitual "Status Quo Conformity to the Mundane, the endlessly Baked Over, and Typically Boring" is not the way to go about it. This is what keeps holding them back. And the three of them not having the wisdom to realize this.
No brighter opportunities on the horizon for any of them - SyFy Channel, Ronald D. Moore, and Bryan Singer always stay right where they are at because they always lack something better (career wise) to move on to. Look at Ronald D. Moore, for example. He may have had a new employer in the form of "Sony" for the past couple of years...but look at who his only paying customer has continued to always be even while he has been working at "Sony." That's right...."SyFy Channel." He might as well have remained "in-house" at the "SyFy Channel" because he really hasn't gone anywhere. Because "SyFy Channel" continues to be the purchaser of roughly 99.99% of the garbage he continues to crank out. Oh yes, he has that one project and one project only with "Starz." That sword and sorcery "mumbo-jumbo" of some sort but let's be serious and realistic here. How long is that "gig" with "Starz" really going to last? I base that on Ronald D. Moore's failed "gig" with CBS-TV and the "Wild, Wild West" remake. SyFy Channel, Ronald D. Moore, and Bryan Singer have always been locked into this...."Boomerang"....."Merry-Go-Round".....relationship with one another. They always end up back together again sooner or later. "Likes" attract absolutely. Especially in this extreme case when the three of them are so alike in terms of lacking talent, imagination, and inspired thinking.
They were made for one another.
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Lou Scheimer, the founder of "Filmation Associates"...had more imagination and inspired thinking in his little finger than NBC-Universal / SyFy Channel, Bryan Singer, and Ronald D. Moore combined.
Mr. Scheimer devised Science Fiction and Fantasy concepts that were quite frankly too good for Saturday morning television...and quite frankly formidable enough to be taken seriously in their overall concepts if they were presented to adult audiences exclusively.
I place the late Mr. Scheimer in the same proud category as such giant pioneers in Science Fiction for television as Gene Roddenberry, J. Michael Straczynski, Leslie Stevens, and Rod Serling.
Mr. Scheimer's Science Fiction and Fantasy concepts were too big to be contained within mere Saturday mornings. They were that good.
Goodbye, Mr. Scheimer. You are already missed and we want you back!!
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October 21st, 2011 Press Release - These "Biennial Anniversary Dates" of the latest "Fake Battlestar Galactica Press Releases" from NBC-Universal and Bryan Singer really need to be given more attention!! Doesn't everyone have a right to know how dishonest they really are?
August 3rd, 2012 -Bryan Singer looks like he could use a few straight shots of whiskey after stammering his way through this fake follow-upof his (on August 3rd, 2012) to the above fake press release dated October 21st, 2011!!
Here are a few suggestions as to how NBC-Universal and Bryan Singer can raise hell together on this anniversary date of their latest fake press release!!
1. Rummage through the NBC-Universal film vaults and toss on to a bonfire any remaining footage of Richard A. Colla's "Saga of a Star World" pilot.
2. Sit down at a table with coffee and donuts in order to mastermind their next round of "Fake Battlestar Galactica Press Releases" throughout the remainder of 2013 and all of 2014!!
3.At the same table with coffee and donuts, mastermind how they could really screw up on purpose, the "1978 Battlestar Galactica Series" if it were ever released on Blu-Ray!!
4. At the same table with coffee and donuts, mastermind how during their next "Fake Battlestar Galactica Press Release"...it could really be a cover for doing a sequel to "Mockingbird Lane!!"
5. At the same table with coffee and donuts, mastermind another fake press release announcing a prequel film to "Galactica: 1980!!"
Have NBC-Universal and Bryan Singer bought the cases of champagne for themselves yet??
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Gee, I wonder what happened to all of this never before seen footage of Richard A. Colla's uncut version of "Saga of a Star World." The footage ABC-TV and Glen A. Larson chain - sawed from the original cut of the pilot because they were foolish.
It just goes to show you!! A studio can't hate "The 1978 Battlestar Galactica Series" while at the same time keeping lost footage from its pilot episode in proper storage for 35 years!! No doubt this footage was neglected / discarded(trashed) by Universal Studios long ago because they just didn't give a shit. Eliminating any chance of a proper restoration of Richard A. Colla's pilot episode.
The sad part is, this lost footage wasn't even included in the "Deleted Scenes Section" of that crappy "Battlestar Galactica" Boxed set released 10 years ago.So you know it's long gone for good thanks to film storage neglect from Universal Studios.
Jim Peck engulfed in flames while reporting on the progress of the armistice on "Caprica" before he was replaced by Jane Seymour.
Adama and Athenawatch in horror as the colonies are destroyed.
As Richard A. Colla originally shot it, the escape from Carillon had Warriors in battle uniforms instead of battle dress.
The healing of Cassiopia's arm was a much longer sequence as Richard A. Colla originally shot it.
An extended confrontation between Starbuck and Athena shortly after he crash lands.
Richard A. Colla shot lots of footage of the Carillon Casino.
Being led into the "Queen Ovion's Chambers."
The master card dealer within the Carillon Casino.
An alternate camera view of Starbuck escaping from his Viper after crash landing.
More footage of Starbuck and Boomer confronting survivors in the "Gemini Freighter."
Extended sequence between Adama and Tigh at the Star Map shortly after the "Battlestar Atlantia" is destroyed.
Let's not forget the sequence where Starbuck confronts Colonel Tigh on the bridge shortly after he crash lands. There isn't even a still photograph of this scene.
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Yes!! It was on October 21st, 2003 when Universal Studios released the most poorly manufactured DVD set in history with "Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Epic Series." This DVD set had everything under the Sun wrong with it!! Doubles sided DVD-18 discs....cracked discs....freezing discs....and a really bad transfer of the pilot episode...."Saga of a Star World." You name it!!On top of that, it was stunningly overpriced at $119.95. I will say this. DVD sets this badly manufactured don't happen by accident. Not when the studio involved (Universal Studios) had a reputation of mismanaging the "Battlestar Galactica" property on purpose for 25 previous (and consecutive) years. Yes, the all around manufacturing flaws of this DVD set were by design. It was as though every flaw in this DVD set was carefully discussed, planned out, designed, and choreographed in order to satisfy a sinister corporate agenda.
Yes!! It was on October 21st, 2011 when Universal Studios released yet another "Fake Battlestar Galactica Press Release!!" Just as they had done in 2009, 2008, and 2001!! You mean....Universal Studios doesn't have another round of "Fake Battlestar Galactica Press Releases" for us in October 2013??But...But!!!...It's the Biennial Anniversary of the last one!!
Forget everything Bryan Singer may have achieved in movies and television!! The one area where he really excels at is making "Fake Battlestar Galactica Press Releases" on behalf of Universal Studios as he did right here on August 3rd, 2012 (and previously right along side Universal Studios in 2009, 2008, and 2001.) Bryan Singer is also known for really racking up the "Fake Press Releases" on behalf of himself...Listed below!!
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