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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mrneutron: [QB] TMP DE -- A brief review I watched the film through once, and forced myself not to pause or rewind to review anything. I figured I'd give it one chance to be seen start to finish with my full undivided attention. I then played it again and listened to the audio commentary track. I have yet to look at disc 2. $$$$ POTENTIAL SPOILERS $$$$ The film is better. The pacing is better. Awkwardly timed shots have been trimmed. Extraneous sectyions have been chucked. A few of the mpost badly delivered lined have been culled. Some shots have been moved around to better effect. And music and sound effects have been added to shots that were previously rather flat. Those expecting a massive reworking of the film will be disappointed. TMP is still TMP. Yes, it doesn't take as long to fly through the cloud, or to fly over V'ger, but the film's pace is still leisurely. The new sound mix is overall an improvement, albeit a few of the new sound effects are less impressive than the originals. Some nice touches are mixes of familair TOS sounds throughout (such as the transporter "on" sound). Computer voiceovers have been replaced throughout, and correct some errors in the previous versions (such as reporting a travel pod available at "cargo six" when the pod is docked at a port clearly maked 5). One minor annoyance, and typical of modern film/video releases, is that there are occasion sound effects so much louder than the balance of the film as to rattle the neighbors. The new digital effects are less numerous than some would expect. Most of the effects are the originals, with digital cleanups of matte lines and so forth. Some of the edits are a bit puzzling. One is a strange cut that results in Commander Branch reporting that the V'ger powerfield measures "over two A.U.s in diameter" as opposed to "eight two" in the original film. SO, the V'ger cloud goes from being big enough to hide the solat system in down to the the size of the Earth's orbit. A rather pointless change. The few all new digital shots are mostly good. If you didn't know they were new effects, you might mistake them for originals. A couple are just a tad too CGI looking, but not nowhere near as jarringly out of place as the new effects in the Star Wars Special Editions. The picture is the bigest revelation here. I'd forgotten how good looking this movie was, remembering all those bad and washed out video and laser disc transfers rather than how it looked in the theater. The lighting and cinematography are top notch. This really looks like a movie, moreso than most of its cinematic progeny. If you disliked TMP before, this edition is unlikely to change your opinion of it much. However, if you liked the film enough but always thought it was just a tad too slow, this version is a definite improvement, and more enjoyable. A few highlights: Finally seeing the Enterprise blast the asteroid in the wormhole. Getting to see V'ger in all it's glory. And, never again having to hear Shatner's "Oh ........my god" line. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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