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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dukhat: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [qb] Ugh. Since when did updated FX become a plus? Have y'all learned nothing from what Lucas has done to his films? You don't go back and alter iconic pop cultural artifacts like ST and SW decades after the fact, 'tis bad. The ONLY goal of remastering something in higher definition should be just that: to obtain a higher-resolution transfer and possibly to repair damage or defects that have occurred. The idea should be to preserve and archive the original material, not to update or recreate it. It is what it is, you're not going to improve it by second-guessing in hindsight. And CGI will ALWAYS age poorly compared to practical effects. ALL. WAYS. Keep it away. [/qb][/QUOTE]I'm sorry dude, but comparing Lucas's self-deluded compulsiveness about constantly changing things in the SW movies, and the VFX changes done for TOS, is like comparing apples and oranges. First of all, Lucas is, quite simply put, insane. He's an "artiste" (yes, I'm using that term facetiously) who will never be completely satisfied with his own creation and would rather change the fuck out of it than to leave it alone and work on new stuff, even though everyone else on earth was fine with the original product. But be that as it may, it's entirely Lucas the man making these changes. Not 20th Century Fox, not the producers of the films, not anyone else but him. Now compare that to CBS's TOS-R for high-definition BluRay release. While you are correct that they needed to obtain a higher-resolution transfer and possibly to repair damage or defects that have occurred, the fact of the matter is that the '60's effects would just not hold up to an HD release. And quite frankly, almost all of the changes they made were a) for the better, b) kept to the spirit of the original, and c) would not be overly noticed by anyone who's not as anal-retentive as your typical Star Trek fan. But these changes weren't done because of the obsessive-compulsiveness of Gene Roddenberry (since he is, of course, dead, whether he was OCD or not). They were done to satisfy a production mandate. And on the subject of CGI not aging well: Sorry again, but that's out of all of our hands (and I completely disagree with that anyway...if anything CGI is just going to get better, not worse). No effects houses are doing motion control any longer because CGI is easier, more efficient, and cheaper while still looking realistic and better than any model/matte painting/etc. ever could. Unless you're talking about stuff like "The Last Starfighter" (1984!) And all I have to say about that is, compare that movie to the new Planet of the Apes film, and you'll see what I mean. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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