Sounds cool! How long is the new edit?
1 hr 35 min but with a 2 minuteish new trailer at the front included. The heart and soul of the movie is the same. Not trying to make it into a different movie. Just trying to make what was intended more enjoyable for a wider audience.
That's great. I was afraid it was going to be "TV episode" length as someone did years ago or @83 minutes like a 1950s quickie sci-fi movie!
I'd love to see it. How would it be sent to view?
I just PMed you. My tagline for it is 'Watch it for the First Time ... Again.'
Star Trek V has an interesting first half - the camping scene is good. The rock climbing less so.
The ambassadors hostage plot on Nimbus had the potential to be most interesting thing to hang the rest of the movie around, esp if the three powers would have had to work together to rescue their ambassadors- can Kirk work with Klingons and Romulans?
But the second half - the search for the barrier and GOD sucked hard. There are no redeeming features better SFX could fix imho. Whole thing needed dropping.
So I’d make a tight hostage drama with a strong villain who wants off Nimbus; Starfleet has to work with their enemies to pull off a rescue.
I do recognise that this version has less space stuff in, but Trek can work in a ground setting esp if the message is very ‘work together’ Trek tropes.
The ambassadors hostage plot on Nimbus had the potential to be most interesting thing to hang the rest of the movie around, esp if the three powers would have had to work together to rescue their ambassadors- can Kirk work with Klingons and Romulans?
But the second half - the search for the barrier and GOD sucked hard. There are no redeeming features better SFX could fix imho. Whole thing needed dropping.
So I’d make a tight hostage drama with a strong villain who wants off Nimbus; Starfleet has to work with their enemies to pull off a rescue.
I do recognise that this version has less space stuff in, but Trek can work in a ground setting esp if the message is very ‘work together’ Trek tropes.
Happy 37th USA release day birthday Star Trek 5!
A lot of bad movies have good ideas that they fail to deliver on, whether due to lack of creativity, having too many chefs in the kitchen, a studio executive overriding every good idea and replacing them with his bad ideas, limitations being forced upon the production (filming needs to start right now even if the script isn't finished so we can hit our target release date no matter what) or whatever. So the simple premise of hijacking the Enterprise to find god could work, but it would look nothing like the movie we got.
Previously, many fans had made videos replacing Trek effects with CGI recreations. I like the fact that CGI has become so ubiquitous now that I am seeing videos spring up of people who are redoing effects with physical models and motion control rigs. Here's a video I ran across of someone redoing some of the effects from TFF using actual models:
The VFX, while crappy, were not the problem. STV could have had the greatest VFX of any film ever, and it still would have been a dud.
Frankly, the shuttlecraft approach to the Enterprise in Earth orbit sequence gave me 2001 vibes between Goldsmith's score and the model work.
I disagree because I think it's a good film as is.
You are entitled to your opinion.
The film should've taken the lead from near death experience accounts and have God reading out the sins of Sybok, McCoy, Spock and Kirk, and sending them to hell, with Kirk screaming "No don't send me there!" and God replying "You sent yourself there" (I wish I were making this up, but NDEs involving hell often have the angel/God/Jesus/(insert your religion's deity) blaming the person themselves for going to hell, and often for seemingly trivial matters like not going to church, having selfish or vengeful thoughts, etc.)
Should it have?
No.
What people who make these videos showing off their replacement VFX need to learn is that it has too much footage from the film. I'm not interested in wading through the non-VFX footage just to find their new shots. I've already seen STV, thanks. Pare it down to just their new VFX shots, maybe also with a side-by-side comparison with the original VFX, and I'll watch the whole video. Save the incorporation of the non-VFX footage for their fan-edit opus. (This is not directed at you, @CoveTom.)
But that's not the purpose of the god pretender. He's Sybok's vision first and foremost, not Kirk's.
Some of the footage could have been shaved back to make their point. But the scroll bar at the bottom helps to find the new footage, thanks to the little popup to show you where you are.
I didn't find it to be that time consuming.
