Favorite Prequel Movie

[CorporalClegg]

Interesting videos. I'm personally in this very weird, almost paradoxical, state where I don't really like Voyager or Enterprise, but I'm always quick to come to Berman and--to a great extent--Braga's defense.

I think they both get an unfair rap. I've always felt that many of the things they were accused of were due more to studio involvement/pressure than anything they'd done themselves.

Certainly, they became a little complacent and the writing became repetitive and banal, but I think that had a lot to do with the oversaturation. But, right up to the end, Braga still presented some interesting concepts, even if they were executed poorly. I'd even go so far as to say the basic, core idea of "Threshold" is still conceptually provocative.

And honestly, if he's still in CBS's rolodex, Kurtzman would be smart to bring him in in some kind of consultant capacity--provided he'd even want to, of course.

 

[Mach5]

^ the first vid starts off with the gazelle speech

 

[Mach5]

Anyone here seen AOTC in IMAX? One thing just occurred to me - it was shot in (mere) 1080p, so it must have looked really shitty on that big IMAX screen, no?

 

[cooleddie74]

^ the first vid starts off with the gazelle speech

I know. I almost mentioned it.


Almost.

 

[DWF]

Anyone here seen AOTC in IMAX? One thing just occurred to me - it was shot in (mere) 1080p, so it must have looked really shitty on that big IMAX screen, no?

Outside of special theaters I don't think anybody had IMAX screens in 2002. I didn't see it but I'm sure the 70mm reshoot of the oeping of the first movie probably looked pretty good in IMAX.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

^ the first vid starts off with the gazelle speech

I know. I almost mentioned it.


Almost.

It made for an amusing moment. It's funny, those videos take me back to those arguments we used to have here about the show. Though it's interesting to hear them say the same things we used to go on about. God, has it really been 15 years since it premiered?

 

[cooleddie74]

14 years, 1 month and 18 days.

For an android, that is an eternity.

 

[Venardhi]

Anyone here seen AOTC in IMAX? One thing just occurred to me - it was shot in (mere) 1080p, so it must have looked really shitty on that big IMAX screen, no?

Outside of special theaters I don't think anybody had IMAX screens in 2002. I didn't see it but I'm sure the 70mm reshoot of the oeping of the first movie probably looked pretty good in IMAX.

It was on a bigger screen, and the color was very good. That is all I remember. I think they edited it a bit because at the time IMAX movies couldn't run quite as long as the original cut was.

 

[Mach5]

It was on a bigger screen, and the color was very good. That is all I remember. I think they edited it a bit because at the time IMAX movies couldn't run quite as long as the original cut was.

They cut full 22 minutes out of it.

I remember AOTC looking a bit washed-out in my theater, and I also remember Ebert mentioning the same thing in his review. Although, these weren't digital projections, and the analogue trasnfers that they used obviously weren't that good (Ebert did say that it looked much better in digital, second time around).

Still, 1080p on a huge-ass screen? And IIRC, it didn't even have the full 1920 horizontal resolution, because they cropped it to 1.85:1 to fit the IMAX screen.

 

[Trek Survivor]

"Phantom Menace" for me definitely.

 

[Jedi_Master]

My favorite prequel movie is Revenge of the Sith. Some fantastic set pieces (such as the opening Battle of Coruscant and the final Obi-Wan v Anakin duel) interspersed with some terrible, terrible dialogue and inexplicable character weakness - the battle hardened Jedi Masters getting sliced and diced by Darth Sidious, for example.

However, it is the most emotionally resonant film in the prequel trilogy, with the ability to make me a little depressed after I am done watching it although I have seen it many times.