Couldn't agree more. 'Kirk's Death' evokes huge emotion, and conveys a real sense of immediate grief and loss, followed by a reassured look to a continuing future.
Star Trek Generations at 20 (November 18, 1994)
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Couldn't agree more. 'Kirk's Death' evokes huge emotion, and conveys a real sense of immediate grief and loss, followed by a reassured look to a continuing future.
That's a good way of wording it. McCarthy loads his compositions with so much raw and energetic as well as subtle emotion that his film score turns the most mundane and otherwise unimpressive scene into something special to watch and listen to.
One of the great and underrated soundtrack composers of the Trek franchise.
One of the great and underrated soundtrack composers of the Trek franchise.
I've been holding off buying the movies on Blu-Ray for years for this exact reason, I've got the 1-10 box set which is still decent but I'd love to see the movies remastered.
I hate this movie.
No, wait. Let me correct myself:
I loathe this movie. Easily the worst Star Trek movie, IMO.
No, wait. Let me correct myself:
I loathe this movie. Easily the worst Star Trek movie, IMO.
Any specific reasons?
I rewatched it and it's pretty enjoyable until we get to Veridian, then gets worse with the space battle and then much worse from when Picard is in the Nexus. The characters and pacing felt likely nice the series (primarily TNG but with the plot having some interesting original series elements) while also not just being another episode but it really hurts to have Geordi kidnapped and then sent back just so the Enterprise can be destroyed by a weaker foe and then to have both Picard and Kirk seem unreasonable in their interactions and leave their paradises so quickly.
I remember when the VHS release of the movie came out (sometime in the early months of 1996 because back then you didn't always get a recent movie - even a certified hit or worldwide blockbuster - on home video within a few months or so of its theatrical run) you got different covers: the regular box with the classic Generations movie poster and a collectible lenticular 3-D version. The tape didn't have any special or bonus features (what with this still being the mid-to-late '90s and most VHS movie releases lacking those extras) but the boxes looked very cool and I really loved seeing them in stores.
You had to wait until 1996? Here in California, we had it in November 1995. That's when I bought my first copy of the movie.
You are right however, that the wait for VHS releases was longer than it is now with DVD/Blue Ray.
Yeah, our local stores didn't get copies of the movie until the winter months of '96. Which really isn't all that bad considering that in the mid-nineties it wasn't unheard of to buy a movie on cassette a whole year after it was in theaters, and this was also around the same time that you often paid high double-digits for some movies on VHS.
I remember when My Giant with Billy Crystal was first released on home video some copies cost $99.99 or thereabouts. A comedian joked that it was to make money to pay back the people who'd actually seen the movie in theaters.
I remember when My Giant with Billy Crystal was first released on home video some copies cost $99.99 or thereabouts. A comedian joked that it was to make money to pay back the people who'd actually seen the movie in theaters.
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