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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MrNeutron: [QB] As to my thoughts on the TMP DE, here they are. EDITS Generally I liked the changes they made with a few teeny exceptions. I miss the Starfleet HQ logo. Did I really need to see 4 shots of the shuttle in its place? I'm glad they cut Kirk's "Oh...my God" because it came across like a bad Shatner impersonator. I agree about the second "viewer off" line in the Rec Deck. But I still wonder who's got a camera on V'ger after Epsilon 9 is destroyed. I also dislike the arbitrary change from 82 AUs to 2 AUs, but either way that's one big mutha of a cloud! I liked the way they dumped the little exchange between Decker and Ilia ("Science officer's computations...confirmed, sir"), but saved the little smile they exchange by cutting it in just after the ship goes to impulse. Excellent edit! The wormhole is still too fucking long. I like the The cloud flythrough. The V'ger flyover is still too long. The whole idea of a lengthy flyby of this thing was a mistaken idea from the get-go. Losing the countdown on Spock's thruster pack helps the pace, but it kind of removes one of those levels of reality. I like the inclusion of the Spock teardrop and the dialogue that surround it. The long shot that precedes it I'm not so fond of. The self-destruct plan is a welcome addition, but it feels wrong somehow...the performances just aren't right. UPDATED EFFECTS I recall reading somewhere that the effects were rendered at motion picture resolution, not TV rez, for a possible theaterical release. If someone has a reliable source that says otherwise I'd be interested in hearing it. Vulcan. I didn't mind the change in the composition. I did mind that the sun was at the wrong angle relative to the shot of Spock looking up. It did look really CG, but the matte painting that was there before was crap. Starfleet HQ. Nice enough shots, but the composition is a little uninspired...and the shuttle changes altitude between shots. Yeah, they got the bridge backwards in one shot...but it was flipped horizontally in the original shot. Drydock. Thank goodness they fixed the matte holes in the dock and got rid of the visible support pylon when the ship leaves. Too bad they didn't fix the fact that the Earth should be visible in a lot of shots and disappears. I didn't mind the Ent exiting the Wormhole so much, as your eye is on the explosion anyway. The shot of the engine outside the window is passable. But Andy Probert is correct that the viewpoint is slightly too low, and, opps, it's the same view as from the Rec Deck (and you CAN see the nacelle outside the windows of the Rec Deck earlier in the film). And, why the fuck is the ship "crabbing" the through space? The disappearance of the energy bolt is ok. The arrival of the energy probe is VERY well done. Nice job fixing the probe so we don't see the guy behind it, as happened before...but for all this effort, why didn't they fix the show where Ilia gets zapped? It's still, well, just a still. It's an obvious freeze-frame. Ugh. V'ger reveal...yeah...it just don't look BIG. They should have kept it more a silhouette. V'ger energy bolts. Hel-lo?! Guys, the things change size from shot to shot. First one disappears intot he distance and becomes a speck disappearing over the horizon, in the next these HUGE blobs rise from behind the horizon, 1000 times bigger (they be bigger than V'ger itself). New shots through V'ger. Not so good. I didn;t like the design of these areas. Did anyone pull out any of Syd Mead's designs to see what he was doing? The skybridge. Er, the Enterprise looks a little wonky here...there's something wrong with the (virtual) lens choice. SOUND MIX Much better. The film was very HOLLOW before. I miss the male computer voice. I like that the bridge has TOS sounds mixed in. Its not a pure TOS track, tho. Why does the voice still annource that a travel pod is now available at Cargo 6, when we see a big 5 over the hatch? There weas always sound in space in this film, from the thrusters on the spacesuits right on down the line. They just put in more or heightened those there. At least they're not as aggravating as the wholesale changes in the DVD of Superman. Finally, CGI doesn't "look better" than models...just different. Most peope don't realize how much work is still done with miniatures, because it's extremely difficult to make a CG object look real, because CG lighting is a rather clumsy approximation of the real thing. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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