Star Trek VI - The best looking film?

[KennyB]

The buyer has launched a Go Fund Me (of course he has) trying to raise $150,000........quite a return on his $600 investment.

 

[Defiler-Of-Redshirts]

Sorry, I liked Star Trek VI but when it comes to massive visual, eye-candy splendor, no other Trek movie has ever touched The Motion Picture. And I don't reckon any ever will.

 

[Maurice]

The trasnlucent panels would probably be a nightmare to actually use IRL (ditto free-floating hologram text), but they open up a world of dynamic shots where you can see the expression of the actor AND the information they're reading.

And thus they're awesome.

There are other ways to do that (link).

 

[jaime]

While I love the connie refit, she never looked as good as she did in TMP. Think they deliberately tried to dull her paint scheme from then on, so she never quite had the luster of that original pearlised paint job in TMP.

That’s exactly what they did. Made it easier to film apparently. But then, using a 12 inch AMT kit sprayed with a rattle can and stuck on fishing wire would be even easier...

 

[jaime]

I think the '10s started early. Musically, stylistically, politically, and technologically, most of what I associate with this decade was already in place by 2009. If I had to break down the 2010s into what I think of it is at its most broad I'd say: slimmer clothes, neater-looking hair, more electronic-sounding music, permanent political gridlock, HDTV, binging, streaming, and entrenched social media. Beards become big in the second half (in some cases literally). That's the decade in a nutshell. Movies? I don't pay attention to mainstream film much anymore but ever since Transformers, I've noticed a lot of it all looks very teal and orange. This even extends to the NuTrek movies.

I have no idea what the 2020s will bring, but given that it's the 100th Anniversary of the Roaring '20s, I keep thinking fashion will swing to a modernized version of that (pun intended). And maybe the music, through different genres, will begin to sound more jazzy. So maybe you'll have techno jazz, neo-flappers, and a more futuristic-looking version of 1920s clothes. I could be totally wrong. But that's my wild guess. One thing I don't think I'll be wrong about is that next year you'll hear a lot of 20/20 jokes. Like "Hindsight is always 20/20." "2020: A Perfect Vision", etc.

The eighties already returned the twenties...into early nineties. Though Blade Runner was made in the eighties, influenced it and was influenced by it, and was set in 2020 until part way into production, so you may be on the money there. The eighties resurgence itself could lead to those twenties and thirties influences kicking in...but also the fifties (which came later in the eighties as things like Happy Days and BTTF gather steam internationally, culminating in the existence of Jive Bunny and The Master Mixers, and the neverending slew of fifties and sixties soul and Motown creeping back into the charts with newly made videos.)

All of which seems about right for politics.

 

[Khan 2.0]

Talking of VI, Kim catrall was on bbc One Show tonight and talked alittle VI. said it was abit like being in a space program (the show was also dedicated to women in NASA) Nimoy was a lovely guy (they showed a pic of Valeris with Spock and she said 'there she is..traitor'), and that it was great experience to be in Trek.. especially with the original cast (she did the Vulcan salute with both hands. her hair was in a fringe so she looked abit like a blonde Valeris)

 

[HaventGotALife]

The silver Enterprise is your favorite? The Klingon prosthetics did not age well, especially Chang. Pinks and silvers? The look on location of the penal colony?

Give me Insurrection.

 

[Qonundrum]

TMP was a (sometimes) vain attempt to make the cast look just a couple of years older, rather than the decade older IRL. The bland, pastel palette they were walking around wearing didn't do the attempt any favors, nor did the sterile grey (or grey-looking) sets they were standing on.

Thank Star wars for the gray sets. Battlestar Galactica suffered from those minimalist-hued sets as well. Looked militaristic, but those pastels... just film in black'n'white instead?

And speaking of lacking favors, some camera shots in tandem with those outfits... how'd TMP not get Rated X?!

 

[JonnyQuest037]

And speaking of lacking favors, some camera shots in tandem with those outfits... how'd TMP not get Rated X?!

Deck-er Un-it.

 

[Lance]

While I love the connie refit, she never looked as good as she did in TMP. Think they deliberately tried to dull her paint scheme from then on, so she never quite had the luster of that original pearlised paint job in TMP.

Yeah, it's almost a shame that they did the big reveal of the brand new Enterprise in TMP, but from one movie later the narrative was "She's old, we want to replace her", so they obviously decided to play up that. TMP turned out to be the only time we really get to enjoy the refit looking it's best. Even the A, when ultimately revealed, is a pile of bolts where barely anything works and gets decommisioned a movie later. The movies were not particularly kind to the USS Enterprise.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I have to admit, I'm looking at the Enterprise model and picturing making one heck of a bed!

 

[Phaser Two]

Cool that the guy saved it even though he wasn't a Trek fan

Very cool. I love that story.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Give me Insurrection.

Okay but if you have an Insurrection for more than four hours, go immediately to the emergency room.