TNG Movies on Blu-ray

[Yeoman Randi]

I could have sworn I saw this thread but in doing a search couldn't find it... so forgive me if i am repeating this question.

I received TNG movies on Blu-ray for xmas....and OMG!! Generations looks INCREDIBLE!!!!!!! I don't know why or how or what they did to it, but on Blu-ray it is crystal clear and gorgeous!! The last time i watched it was on dvd and both my husband and i commented on how awful it looked. Very much like how TNG tv show looks..like they rubbed vaseline on the lens....ugh. But Generations cleaned up beautifully! And wow...stellar cartography is amazing looking. The vistas on Veridan 3 were beautiful! The scene on the (boat) The Enterprise was amazing. The entire movie looked incredible.

Nemesis on the other hand....watching it on Blu-ray only made me dislike the movie even more than before. Suddenly sets that weren't terrible on DVD totally sucked on blu-ray! Especially the wedding scene....oy! WTH was up with that cheapo set? And i felt the CGI was not impressive on blu-ray...it all kind of looked dumbed down or something.

I haven't watched the other movies in the set yet....i can't wait to see how they look.

Anyone notice big differences with the movies blu-ray as compared to the movies on dvd?

 

[Brikar99]

"First Contact", I thought, was the best-looking of the set. The scenes on Earth just look fantastic, with excellent textures and small details. I hoped "Insurrection" would look great, with all the location shooting, but I was disappointed by that transfer. All four films look better than their DVD releases, but I think they could still look better.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Thanks Brikar. I haven't watched FC yet...i'm hoping to do that maybe tomorrow night. Putting Insurrection off a bit b/c we watched that not too long ago on dvd.

 

[Amaris]

The movies do look much better on the blu-ray sets. I noticed this even on my 720p that the image quality is vastly improved.

J.

 

[Broccoli]

A buddy of mine has these. We watched the beginning of First Contact and it looks really good. However, I have to say, it picks up on every detail. You can count Brent Spiner's wrinkles and Picard suddenly now has "old man spots" on his head (think Mr. Burns). I dunno about anyone else, but I don't need to see those details!

 

[Yeoman Randi]

^ Hehe, this is very true. But i can live with those details when everything else looks so amazing!! I really can't say how incredible Generations looked, when previously, on DVD it looked so out of focus, so soft and fuzzy. It is just crystal clear on blu-ray. LOVED IT!

 

[Penhall99]

I have to get this set!

I'm gonna hold off on the TOS movie blu-ray set (for the extended editions), but I plan on picking up the TNG set when I have the cash.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Something else i forgot to mention: The extras are AWESOME~! I don't know if these were on any of the dvd sets (i had the stripped down dvds which had nothing on them)...but wow!! So much great stuff on them!!!

I got to watch First Contact today. It looked sooo good and i never really had a problem with the DVD version. But that battle scene with the Borg early in the movie looked amazing!

I think it is definitely worth upgrading to the blu-ray set!

 

[Corran Horn]

I love the new commentaries. Manny Coto, Damon Lindelof (who even wonders why he's doing a commentary for a movie he had nothing to do with), etc.

The films all look better than the DVD release, of course. The Nemesis set extensions (particularly the Scimitar interiors like the extended corridors and shuttlebay) looked like shit in the theater, shit on DVD, and shit on blu-ray. So at least they're consistent.

 

[Starbreaker]

I really want to see First Contact on Blu-Ray. I haven't seen the movie since it was on VHS, sadly.

 

[Brikar99]

Something else i forgot to mention: The extras are AWESOME~! I don't know if these were on any of the dvd sets (i had the stripped down dvds which had nothing on them)...but wow!! So much great stuff on them!!!

The only extras that weren't ported over from the last DVD editions were the trivia pop-up tracks, I believe. But that information was incorporated into the 'Starfleet Access' tracks or whatever they're called now. There's also some new stuff for each movie.

 

[Broccoli]

Something else i forgot to mention: The extras are AWESOME~! I don't know if these were on any of the dvd sets (i had the stripped down dvds which had nothing on them)...but wow!! So much great stuff on them!!!

Really? When I was at my friend's house, we watched the extras on the fifth disk and we thought they were kinda stupid. "The History of the Enterprise" feature was lame. The "Star Trek The Experience" feature was neat when they did the behind the scenes stuff, but it goes off the rails when they start interviewing fans. I'm sorry, but it is people like that who take Trek to the extreme which give Trek fans a negative view. The feature that had a spattering of former (and current) Trek writers talking about their favorite movie moments was horribly misplaced as they only talked about TOS movie moments and no TNG movie moments were mentioned (thus asking the question why this was on this set).

I hope the disc with the actual movies on them had all the good stuff. The fifth disc is a frisbee.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Something else i forgot to mention: The extras are AWESOME~! I don't know if these were on any of the dvd sets (i had the stripped down dvds which had nothing on them)...but wow!! So much great stuff on them!!!

The only extras that weren't ported over from the last DVD editions were the trivia pop-up tracks, I believe. But that information was incorporated into the 'Starfleet Access' tracks or whatever they're called now. There's also some new stuff for each movie.

Really? Wow! The dvds i had earlier had no extras on them (except for nemesis, IIRC, which only pissed me off further cos we got to hear from that idiot-editor-who-thought-he- was-a-director).

Well, the extras were new to me anyway.

Broccoli, obviously, it is all a matter of personal opinion. I enjoyed them!

 

[Broccoli]

Broccoli, obviously, it is all a matter of personal opinion. I enjoyed them!

NO! This is the internet where opinion is fact! Now, aggressively defend the features through put downs and cutting remarks!

 

[DontFeedPhil]

WTF?
When did this all get released? I thought I heard that they werent going to do these on Bluray?

 

[Broccoli]

WTF?
When did this all get released? I thought I heard that they werent going to do these on Bluray?

A month or two ago. It is the TNG movies, not the series. The series is very unlikely to get a Blu-Ray release.

 

[Cingular]

The big problem with TNG the TV series and also DS9 and Voyager, is they were filmed on video and for Paramount to remaster them properly and genuine HD, would cost them millions of dollars for 21 seasons of shows and they may not want to spend the money.

 

[BigMovieGeek]

The big problem with TNG the TV series and also DS9 and Voyager, is they were filmed on video and for Paramount to remaster them properly and genuine HD, would cost them millions of dollars for 21 seasons of shows and they may not want to spend the money.

I may be entirely wrong, but I'm sure I read somewhere that TNG was shot on film and then transfered onto video for editing/vis-effects. So the problem with making a hi-def release is all down to the effort in re-doing the effects, which are obviously more complex than TOS-R.

 

[ATimson]

I may be entirely wrong, but I'm sure I read somewhere that TNG was shot on film and then transfered onto video for editing/vis-effects. So the problem with making a hi-def release is all down to the effort in re-doing the effects, which are obviously more complex than TOS-R.

Not just the effects - as you said, they did all the editing on tape, meaning that they'd have to reassemble the episodes from the original daily takes on film.

 

[Ssosmcin]

I love the new commentaries. Manny Coto, Damon Lindelof (who even wonders why he's doing a commentary for a movie he had nothing to do with), etc.

All of the Blu-Ray movies, from TMP to Nemesis have an additional commentary track withpeople who had nothing to do with the making of the film. It gives sort of a professional / viewer look at htem. That is, when they actually talk about the films and not go off on tangents. Insurrection has a commentary track from Frakes and Sirtis, which I had hoped would be great. It wasn't...