The Dresden Files - The Complete First Season

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Actor: Paul Blackthorne, Valerie Cruz
Brand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 530 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Lions Gate

DVD Reviews of The Dresden Files - The Complete First Season

DVD Review: Great Series...
Summary: 5 Stars

The Dresden Files was a great series and I couldn't believe it when they dropped it. Paul Blackthorne was perfect for the part and made it believable. Valerie Cruz was also good and brought a good character to the show. You never knew where the show was going to go each week, so it made each one exciting. That is why I had to purchase the Complete First Season on DVD. A good series like that needs to be watched over and over.

DVD Review: Does not match quality of the book series
Summary: 1 Stars

I was genuinely disappointed. I could understand that Bob the Skull is now Bob the see through person, but why replace the blue beetle with a black truck, or the oh so cool cloak with a crappy jacket? Murphy at least is cute and short, albeit brown instead of blonde.

The show does not do the books justice, and the viewer is hopelessly lost in the plotlines.

Instead of elaborating on some of the stories that the books leave open (hello car eaten out by some sorta bugs down to the steel?), it tries to condense "Storm Front" into a single episode. They should've tried to just go with smaller story arcs, and leave a bigger story arc over the entire season.

I can only desperately hope for a remake that does the books justice.

DVD Review: TV Show-The Dresden Files (based on books)
Summary: 4 Stars

I love the Dresden File books that Paul Blackthorne writes. I watched a couple of the shows on TV, but I didn't get see them all. The TV show was somewhat different than the books, but I liked it. I thought it would have gotten better if they left if on for another year. I got the DVD to watch all the episodes when I needed to relax and blank my mind.

DVD Review: exellent
Summary: 5 Stars

I hope there is a second season, excellent actors, they need to reconsider it.

DVD Review: much loved series
Summary: 5 Stars

The Dresden Files in books are so interesting from start to end, that I
was interested in putting a face to this wizard. The first season
was very good, especially Bob who played a more vibrant character. It's
too bad that it was cancelled after the first season, because as more
people read the books, I think it might have more viewers.

Description of The Dresden Files - The Complete First Season

Based on Jim Butcher's best-selling novels, "The Dresden Files" chronicles the cases of no ordinary detective. Harry Dresden (Paul Blackthorne) is a wizard, the only one listed in the Chicago phone book. He's got a handle on the crimes that can't be solved by anyone else. Paranormal? No problem. Dresden deals in all matters of supernatural threats. If you need a little hocus pocus or some other worldly advice, Dresden's your man.

The Dresden Files is about a wizard named Harry. "Good marketing," a cynical observer notes in one episode from the Sci-Fi Channel's one-season wonder based on the books by Jim Butcher. "Couldn't you come up with something a little more original?" Actually, this series manages to be plenty original despite echoes of The X-Files and the 1970s cult classic The Night Stalker. Paul Blackthorne stars as Harry Dresden, a scruffy Chicago private eye whose gift comes in handy for children menaced by skinwalkers, or for offering Lt. Murphy (Valerie Cruz) of the Chicago police "an unconventional point of view" concerning grisly, bizarre cases involving werewolves, vampires, and other decidedly unfriendly spirits. The Dresden Files is a paranormal noir (para-noir?) that deftly balances genuine scares, hard-boiled moxie, and tongue-in-cheek humor, delivered with panache by "Bob" (Terrance Mann), an ancient English spirit who resides in a skull and gives.Harry supernatural assistance. Harry's backstory--magician father, wizard mother, treacherous uncle--is revealed over the course of these 12 episodes. The eighth broadcast episode, "Things That Go Bump," was reportedly intended as the series pilot, and may be the best place to start. But Harry's world-weary voice-over in the classic tradition ("If you're a wizard and you fail, people can end up dead") keeps viewers oriented. Low ratings made The Dresden Files disappear, making this DVD set welcome for the series' hardcore fans who mounted the ultimately unsuccessful letter-writing campaign to save Dresden from the "Brilliant, but Cancelled" files. But even those who are unfamiliar with Butcher's books or are not on the Sci-Fi Channel's wavelength will be charmed. --Donald Liebenson

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