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Star Trek: The Motion Picture DVD In Nov
CliffSpradlin writes "The Motion Picture will be released as a two-DVD set. More info can be found here on TrekToday about what is on the DVDs. At the bottom of the page, there is a form to ask the developers of the DVDs questions about the release. This rerelease is totally revamped, with a new sound mix, better effects, and a better feeling of continuity. For more info what has been changed technically, go here for information from the official website, StarTrek.com"
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did they "re-master" the part where spock is out, flying around in a spacesuit?
... but that scene still gives me chills.
the first film really did set a tone for the rest of the series (saving the planet, one episode at a time)
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Is it just me, or does the newly rendered Planet Vulcan look like something out of a level from Quake?
Specifically, it didn't appeal to the shot'em up types, and the "gimmick" used for the plot was a little too pat for my taste.
So in some ways, it was typical Star Trek. I wonder how much the new graphics, and special effect enhancements can make up for the weakness of the original story.
To tell the truth, it would have been better to have a revisit from Harry Mudd, or something.
The common consensus was that the movie with Kahn was a much better story all around.
Still, should be interesting
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When will the box set of 1-6 (DVD) come out? Anyone know? Anyone have any information about it?
Do you changes clothes while making the "chee-chee-cha-cha-choh" transformation sound?
Hurrah, now I can watch the best bits without wearing out my tape. Specifically, the first two minutes: that spine shivering D7 battlecruiser flyby intro, and the sterling example of a thorough Klingon scientific investigation: "Visual! Tactical! Stand by torpedoes! Fire! [pause, oops] Evasive!"
After that though, the boring old Federation Dudley Dorights take over, and it all kind of goes downhill from there. ;)
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Aren't we supposed to be boycotting anything that has to do with DVD? Ohhh, I forgot. That doesn't apply to Anime and geek movies. Silly me.
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This is not a good sign...
This should have been called "Star Trek : The Slow Motion Picture". Terrible.
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The guys I miss are the Iotians. The closing line from that episode begs for a sequel. Alas, the official party line is that Sigma Iotia II is under permanent quarantine. Mustn't give the Federation any real competition.
I read about this new release a couple weeks ago and cried with disbelief when I read they are replacing the ship shots with computer rendered ones. One of the things that always made star trek, star wars etc look so great was the fantastic battleship looking models they all used on classic blue screen setups, not this cheap garbage like in Bablyon five. I've seen examples from the dvd of the ship and sure enough it looks computer generated, plus in the pictures I saw they didn't even bother to render in the random hull plating look that the models have, which make them truly look like a battle ship.
you're probably right. if they didn't waste about two hours oohing and aahing over the enterprise in "dry-dock" and hired some actors it probably wouldn't have been so horribly nauseating.
According to the rec.video.dvd FAQ, it is in fact a technical limitation. You're looking at four layers in one disc. Combine that with changers built to play only single sided DVD's, and you won't see many DVD-18's around.
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I hope not. STTMP is the only movie where they looked cool and only appeared during acceleration. All of the other silly ST movies show them any time the ship is in warp and as it goes by it makes a silly "whoosh" sound.
Gladiator was DUAL LAYER, not DOUBLE SIDED.
I haven't heard of a DVD player which will read both sides of a double sided DVD, nor have I heard of double sided DVD's being used for a single version of a movie... I've only seen double sided used for widescreen/regular view versions of a movie so you don't have to flip it. But I won't deny the possibility those exist.
DUAL LAYER means that the laser focuses deeper into the DVD to read multiple layers. I believe they actually did some tests with up to 4 layers, or maybe it was 10 layers. Of course your DVD player must support the number of layers to be able to read them and older DVD players only supported one layer. Newer ones support two. That means you can't even use the dual layer CD on an older DVD player at all. It's not as simple as getting up to flip it over.
Also, Dual Layer DVD's have a little bug in them. Many DVD players will pause for a second when they switch to read the next layer. Apparently the DVD player manufacturers have never heard of anti-skip technology where you buffer the data so that it doesn't skip when something like that happens. Or maybe they just didn't want to increase the costs of the DVD player.
Gladiator has this problem near the end. I thought the DVD was messed up at the time because I'd never heard of this issue before then. I don't know why they didn't disguise it by makign the swap when the screen was dark and there wasn't anything on the screen. Maybe they wanted more room for extras.
I think the newest DVD players don't have this problem anymore, but I'm not sure about that, and I'm not upgarding my DVD player until recordable DVD's come out... I was planning to wait for those before I even bought my first DVD player, but when a couple years went by and there was no recordable DVD in sight, I was kinda forced to buy the regular kind of player. They'd better get those recordable DVD players out soon!
is why are they all wearing their pajamas in STTMP?
Little models are better than rendering because computer programmers still don't know shit about texture and (un)rigidity and natural motion.
A two-foot piece of plastic with funky lighting looks a hell of a lot more real than a wire-frame sprite with a shaded skin.
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What a waste of plastic.
Blade Runner (new special edition due on DVD later this year, BTW) tanked at the box office originally - it found its legs on TV and video. Scrapping the voice-over and sappy ending in the Director's Cut didn't hurt either.
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While being able to get ST:TMP on DVD was something I looked forward to, I can't help but be greatly disturbed by a certain trend.
For twenty years I've greatly enjoyed ST:TMP. Now I find the only version I can see coming in the DVD format is.. the Directors Edition.
What if I don't want a directors revised version? Where do I get ST:TMP it its pure unaltered version on DVD?
Now I'm all for a film being enhanced or added to.. but NOT at the cost of its original vision, flawed or not.
I'm similary going to be force fed a bastardised version of Star Wars when George Lucas feels worthy to put them on the DVD format, most likely only in his 'special' editions.
I personally feel an altered movie should not be allowed unless its true original version is also made available.