I loved the original show as a kid. Ultimately, I like it better than the re-imagined series. They are both so different though, I have a hard time pitting one against the other. I used to have this awesome 12 inch Cylon figure who used to have fights with my 12 inch Darth Vader figure. Vader was cool, but my Cylon's eye and gun lit up, which made my Vader seem quite pathetic in comparison. Had I not seen some of the old series as a kid, I might not have liked it much. I still would have recommended giving it a shot past the first four episodes though. The pilot alone spans the first three episodes, and those were hardly the best the show had to offer. Once the show gets out of the first story arc and reaches its more serialized storytelling format, you might like it more. Or not.

That said, a new movie based off the old series... well, the term dead horse comes to mind. How many reboot/reimaginings/whatevers do you need? The old series was taken off air because it cost too much to make, then the more budget sensitive but yet overly lame Galactica 1980 took over and really drove the whole thing into the ground. The continuation of the original series Richard Hatch had in mind would have been cool, but at this point after the 2003 series, it just sounds like a bad idea to me. Especially with Caprica entering the mix.