BlueRay: Oh...they are SO proud of Budweiser...
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Boycott!
"When I didn't want to produce em, Harve Bennett came along and he did a very good job."
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"When Paramount removed me from my title then that motherf*&^er came along and did it better than me. I hate him! But Paramount is paying my salary right now so I better shut up."
IIRC, TOS was positively made of concrete floors.
But, the exposed beams, and the overall industrial look of that ship, esp: the lab Uhura was working in. Jesus.
Thanks for the video!
As I said, maybe it's a 23rd century flooring material that resembles utilitarian concrete?
And we know from TOS ("The Devil in the Dark") that the Enterprise had stocks of thermo-concrete. McCoy used it to mend the injured Mother Horta. Maybe it came from Scotty's reserves for repairing battle damage to the floor of engineering?
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
Well, first of all, you have to have a cranium that houses something worth shielding, so . . .
Oh, I see. I poke fun at your media conspiracy theory and you call me all but stupid. Real classy.
Don't worry! Coming soon will be the "All geniuses are seen as insane by the people at first!" defense!
My viewing was mostly fueled by seeing it in IMAX. I saw it 16 times there, and that's really the way to see it and hear it. I like Kirk's face the size of an old-fashioned bank building. I think I will be poring over the home video for screen caps for a long time, but I honestly don't know how seeing it on our 50" HD is going to shake out for me. You might easily pass me up!
Wow and I thought watching it four times was a lot, though I will watch it many more times when I buy the blu-ray.
You know I think that the things that were complained about the most in the film, the bridge on the USS Enterprise, its water pipe section, and its engineering, worked very well for me, why? If you look at phase II bridge concepts you will see a very bright, very polished and white colored bridge that looks a lot like the one in XI more so than TMP's bridge, it is faithful to Trek and also faithful to TOS, and it will eventually be replaced when the ship gets its first refit and it evolves through the films. There is nothing wrong with pipes on a ship, they really don't use many replicators yet so having to process and treat water is important especially for a ship that size. Lastly the engineering on the Enterprise should always look very busy because in reality they do look busy and cramped even, Star Trek has been unrealistic in its aesthetically pleasing engineering sections with its big shiny warp core, and why has it always been just one warp core, shouldn't there be more than one in case something goes wrong or there is a battle, I was very happy that the new film had multiple warp cores in it (remember the ejection scene at the climax of the film?) Besides aesthetics which I won't argue about because that boils down to personal preference (I am referring to the bridge of coarse), I feel this film is more realistic than most previous Trek has been.
You know I think that the things that were complained about the most in the film, the bridge on the USS Enterprise, its water pipe section, and its engineering, worked very well for me, why? If you look at phase II bridge concepts you will see a very bright, very polished and white colored bridge that looks a lot like the one in XI more so than TMP's bridge, it is faithful to Trek and also faithful to TOS, and it will eventually be replaced when the ship gets its first refit and it evolves through the films. There is nothing wrong with pipes on a ship, they really don't use many replicators yet so having to process and treat water is important especially for a ship that size. Lastly the engineering on the Enterprise should always look very busy because in reality they do look busy and cramped even, Star Trek has been unrealistic in its aesthetically pleasing engineering sections with its big shiny warp core, and why has it always been just one warp core, shouldn't there be more than one in case something goes wrong or there is a battle, I was very happy that the new film had multiple warp cores in it (remember the ejection scene at the climax of the film?) Besides aesthetics which I won't argue about because that boils down to personal preference (I am referring to the bridge of coarse), I feel this film is more realistic than most previous Trek has been.
I don't think I've watched anything that many times in my life.
I've probably seen Dark Knight and a few other movies like that - that many times, its not really unusual.
PS
Once I own a copy of this film I will probably watch it just as often.
PS
Once I own a copy of this film I will probably watch it just as often.
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darkwing_duck1
Vice Admiral
The brewery scenes were terrible.When Kirk is running through some large tanks I could see those being antimatter storage pods or something, but there's a scene where Kirk is meeting Uhura in language labe or something and it's just a bunch of tables and machiery stuffed along some industrial equipment.
"Stuffed along" is the phrase! Look at the nearest visible computer terminal to Kirk's right. It doesn't even fit next to the tank at any kind of sensible angle.
http://reboot.trekcaps.net/caps/Star_Trek/ariane179254_StarTrek_3145.jpg
And look at the other goodies. Steel beams. Industrial lamps. Welded taps. Concrete walls. Just some of the innovations that await us in the 23rd Century.
See, that's what gets me. I mean, there's huge tanks, one with a large pipe and cap on it. Is Uhura working in a language lab or is she regulating the ship's fermentation tanks? That scene irked me more than anything else, everything else I can somewhat shrug off as just being somehwere deep in the dirty, industrial, bowels of the ship doing insane things.
But a bunch of computer terminals long-side some tanks with pipes and chains?
What they could have (and should have) done was redress sickbay as the Communications Lab.
Oh, and for the guy who mentioned "V". Yes, the "engine room" in V WAS a brewery...the same one JJ used as a matter of fact.
I believe I saw the original "Planet Of The Apes" thirty-some times on a movie screen before I lost count, in the days before home video. That wasn't all first-run, and the last few were at college campus "movie night" fund-raisers in the early 1970s.
Thanks Aike so much for this video clip.
"Respectable" is not an adjective any of my friends or family applied to my obsession with the movie in those days.
When it first ran on network TV I had a friend film most of the thing in Super-8 while I tape-recorded it. A lot of splicing involved to get it all together on several eight-inch reels. The color ran pretty blue, the rolling scan lines really weren't that obvious, but of course it was impossible to sync the sound.
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