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[Cheapjack]

Check these out:

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/2756/star_trek_the_motion_picture_hd_movie_review/index.html

There are some screen shots, and they look pretty impressive!

You can see the hairs, wrinkles, but you can't see the pores, as you can with film. They're good, and I'll probably by them, but it's not as good as actually sitting down in a movie theatre in the 80's! Nothing can recreate that.I suppose we'll have to wait for super-high def for that, if people will still be interested by then.

 

[Gary Sebben]

I'm shocked at how hairy Shatner's upper arms were in TMP. Funny how he waxed himself in TOS.

P.S. I disagree with him about the Director's Cut of the film. Doctorman et al's work was swell and all, but not that different from what was there before for me to want it mucking up a classic film that was fine as it was. Unless a film was seriously butchered by the studio against the director's wishess, Special Editions will always be, to me, and exercise in ego. The SEs will eventually fade and the originals will remain in place. Such a waste of time.

 

[Grant]

He only waxed his arms and/or body in episodes where he knew there would be no shirt worn.

I've begun to notice how hairy his wrists/arms are in many episodes and then bam in Shore leave or Journey To Bable---not one hair.

 

[destructive]

yeah, how true, so-called director's cuts, special editions, and extended cuts, are ultimately special features, and will be looked upon as curiosities in the future.


thank god for that

 

[Cheapjack]

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=70813

This is definitely weird. Check out the standard and blu ray comparisons. Have they upscaled it, or is it from the film original? You can't see the detail on Jimmy Doohan's hair, so I think they have upscaled it.

 

[trevanian]

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=70813

This is definitely weird. Check out the standard and blu ray comparisons. Have they upscaled it, or is it from the film original? You can't see the detail on Jimmy Doohan's hair, so I think they have upscaled it.

You can't get more detail out of a smoked image past a certain point, because the air between the subject and camera is messing with clarity. They ran the same processes on all of these (well, TWOK got some kind of bonus cleaning or fixup), it is just that between the terrible smoked lighting on TVH (y'know, a reason why it got nominated for cinematography, eyes roll back and make my head explode) and the noise reduction they've done on ALL of the pics this time out, it isn't looking anywhere near as detailed in the faces as it ought to.

 

[Duane]

I'm puzzeled by the negative reaction to the Director's Edition of TMP. Since Robert Wise is on record as saying that the film released in cinemas in 1979 was not the film he wanted people to see, shouldn't we be happy to have the DE?

I just bought the first six movies on Blu-Ray and am sorely disappointed that the TMP version is not the DE.

 

[trevanian]

I'm puzzeled by the negative reaction to the Director's Edition of TMP. Since Robert Wise is on record as saying that the film released in cinemas in 1979 was not the film he wanted people to see, shouldn't we be happy to have the DE?

I just bought the first six movies on Blu-Ray and am sorely disappointed that the TMP version is not the DE.

If you search back several years (or several months) you'll probably see any number of threads on this issue. The DE is in some ways closer to his intent, but if you read his comments right after the film came out and even a couple years later, you can see that the DE is as many steps back as it is forward (for me a lot MORE steps backward.) This is the movie that SharpLine could pull together for Wise and Paramount at the lowball price offered, so DE-lite would be a better name than DE for this DVD.

And believe me, there ain't any 78-79 art pieces indicating there is supposed to be a single awkward nacelle out the back of the lounge.

 

[Duane]

Thanks. That helps. I need to research Wise's past comments.

 

[Cheapjack]

Don't get me wrong- I will buy these blu-ray releases, when I can afford it. I mean, they might not ever release full film transfers for all of them, there might not be a market someday. I think that they have just jazzed up the ST4 one, even so, it looks hyper-realistic, but you can't see the wrinkles or hair. Imagine what they could do with those old Dr Who episodes, if they cleaned them up!

 

[trevanian]

Thanks. That helps. I need to research Wise's past comments.

There's an inteview with the L'officiers in one of those unauthorized books, MAKING OF TREK FILMS I think, where he mentions needing to cut down the drydock sequence and a few other changes that are clearly not executed in the DE.

 

[Harvey]

Thanks. That helps. I need to research Wise's past comments.

There's an inteview with the L'officiers in one of those unauthorized books, MAKING OF TREK FILMS I think, where he mentions needing to cut down the drydock sequence and a few other changes that are clearly not executed in the DE.

True, but then he expresses an alternate opinion on the Director's Edition DVD, saying that Goldsmith's music is too beautiful to cut the sequence down. On the other hand, the approach towards V'Ger is slightly trimmed down in the DE.

I would like to read this interview, though, if anyone knows where to find it.

 

[trevanian]

Thanks. That helps. I need to research Wise's past comments.

There's an inteview with the L'officiers in one of those unauthorized books, MAKING OF TREK FILMS I think, where he mentions needing to cut down the drydock sequence and a few other changes that are clearly not executed in the DE.

True, but then he expresses an alternate opinion on the Director's Edition DVD, saying that Goldsmith's music is too beautiful to cut the sequence down.

But again, this informs the notion that it is NOT the version he'd've released in 79, which is the gimmick that the DE credibility rests upon. It isn't, it really isn't. And proceeding from there, all is suspect.