Right. It played non IMAX movies on the IMAX screen. Exactly. That's not "seeing it in IMAX" But the bigger screen the better.
It was quite the adventure, not quite a ‘rollicking’ one but an adventure nonetheless. But here is a spoiler from the end of the movie, before the credits it said that... Spoiler: SPOILER The human adventure is just beginning… Maybe they’ll make a sequel one day? English was not the first language for the people that I went to see this film with, so some of them did fall to sleep at points but that is understandable as the language was quite ‘technical’ in places and it was their first ever Star Trek film.
I love how they cleaned up the audio so that dialogue doesn't sound like it was recorded from twenty feet away. It was terribly flat before. Spock had some high hopes. Not only was he monitoring the ship's transmissions (were they not encrypted? Like that would bother him), but he also got a regulation haircut just in case he needed to reactivate his commission. He easily suspected his help wouldn't be refused. Then he called for a cab... It's a good thing for everyone that his attachment to this particular ship, the Enterprise, was so deep that, like nostalgia, he was drawn to the comforting embrace of her nacelles. I have to wonder, while he was eavesdropping for snippets of cockpit talk like a kid who tuned in the air band on the radio, if he thought, "Gee. Jim got the ship back. Did he blackmail Admiral Nogura? It probably didn't sit well with Captain Decker. I wonder if he had to be escorted off the bridge like his father."
Just found out my local Odeon Cinema is showing the new Directors Edition tonight so that's my evening plans sorted
I'm still wondering how Spock became knowledgeable about the Refit's engine difficulties. Spock had 'labored long' to achieve Kolinahr, but after changing his mind and joining up with the Enterprise, he somehow fixes the warp drive issue in less than three hours. Compare that to Scotty, the chief engineer 'miracle worker' who had spent 18 months working on the refit and couldn't get it to work on her first flight out. Having everyone's level of expertise be reduced to garbage in favor of Spock doing better jobs than the crew is not one of my favorite TMP contributions.
TWOK is week on Sunday at my local cinema - booked that too. Seeing TMP again made me realise it has the best soundtrack of any Star Trek movie.
Regardless of what people think of the movie, it's pacing etc (I happen to love it) that's one thing that can be universally agreed on. One of the greatest film scores of all time, period.
I happened to catch part of Ghostbusters: Afterlife yesterday. The score, by Rob Simonsen, seems to be a conscious homage to Goldsmith's scores.
Certainly a movie you can listen to with your eyes closed without missing anything but Doohan. It's Oscar nom for best score was well-deserved. It wasn't just John Williams who arguably shut out Goldsmith from extra Oscar wins, though I do find it odd Goldsmith only won when going Satanic in 1976. If I had to sum their output with only two words, which is obviously unfair, it'd be power and versatility. Though that's not to say JG didn't possess both.
It says a lot that the most derided movie of the original six - TFF - has almost nobody demeaning its soundtrack because it's a beautiful Jerry Goldsmith score. If anything Goldsmith's music enhances the bad or disappointing scenes of the fifth film and makes it that much more watchable.
If my own personal entire life had a music-theme, what could possibly better than STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT? Call it hyperbole, but I'd bet many of you would choose it yourselves.