The center of the galaxy is....a boiling pot of sludge? (ST V Trailer)

[The Rock]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yEAvkUMHra8

This theatrical trailer for Star Trek V has me rolling in the floor. I wonder if Paramount realized that they had a bomb on their hands at the time this was put together, hence the use of James Horner's exciting adventure music from Star Trek II? I know it is an early trailer and that things weren't finished, but you still have to wonder. This is a great trailer, chock full of great special effects from other movies. It shows many moments from the film that deceive us into thinking something interesting is going on, and above all else, paints the picture of a non-stop, action-packed film! A favorite moment comes when the narrator says "Only one crew dare to travel where no man has gone before", yet it shows a clip of a boiling pot of sludge that we know was actually used as the watercolor cloud tank to make the Great Barrier. The funny part? You can hear a bubbling sound accompanying the shot! Only one crew dares to travel to the boiling pot of sludge!!

Oddly enough, the same clip is used in trailer number 2 http://youtube.com/watch?v=LurjQE3g24Q, as the narrator calls it the "center of the universe". You can still hear the bubbling noise! Sit back and laugh at the trailer, for it is highly entertaining. Remember, "The greatest 'Enterprise' of all is ADVENTURE!"

 

[foxmulder710]

Re: The center of the galaxy is....a boiling pot of sludge? (ST V Trai

"What does GOD need with a starship?"

ROFL.

 

[Magisterfrodo]

Re: The center of the galaxy is....a boiling pot of sludge? (ST V Trai

Wow! Even the trailer was horrible!

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Re: The center of the galaxy is....a boiling pot of sludge? (ST V Trai

I liked those trailers...though they could've used something better for the center of the galaxy.

 

[cardinal biggles]

Re: The center of the galaxy is....a boiling pot of sludge? (ST V Trai

The fact that they recycled some of James Horner's music from Khan/Spock doesn't mean anything except that Jerry Goldsmith probably hadn't finished scoring this film. They frequently do substitutions like that when they don't have selections from the actual film's score to choose from. Horner's theme from The Rocketeer has noticeably popped up in a few trailers and commercials over the years.

edit: There's also a shot of the battle-scarred Enterprise from Search for Spock that they threw in. Again, similar to the music, the visual effects weren't finished either. You get a lot of this in the teaser trailers for Generations, First Contact, and Insurrection.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Re: The center of the galaxy is....a boiling pot of sludge? (ST V Trai

The advance promos for TNG featured an fx sequence from TWoK--the Reliant's rollbar photon torpedo tubes getting phasered, I believe.

Trk V did suck, though...

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Re: The center of the galaxy is....a boiling pot of sludge? (ST V Trai

OK i will now have to go and watch STV after watching that trailer .........hey its a fun movie, that's good enough for me.

 

[GodThingFormerly]

Re: The center of the galaxy is....a boiling pot of sludge? (ST V Trai

I liked those trailers...though they could've used something better for the center of the galaxy.

I think it is pretty obvious that William Shatner, ah, liberated, the idea of placing "heaven" in the "center of the galaxy" from Douglas Trumbull's 1983 film Brainstorm but - after shamelessly parasitizing a monstrous chunk of ST:TFF's already meager budget upfront as salary for himself and Nimoy - was left without sufficient funds to pay for a VFX outfit that could actually do the sequence justice.

TGT

 

[Therin of Andor]

Re: The center of the galaxy is....a boiling pot of sludge? (ST V Trai

I think it is pretty obvious that William Shatner, ah, liberated, the idea of placing "heaven" in the "center of the galaxy" from Douglas Trumbull's 1983 film Brainstorm

And, indeed, the location of the devil-like Lucien's imprisonment in TAS: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu".