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I've got the PERFECT ENDING!! Shatner says there's a lot of shots of him running away from something... they should just splice that footage of Uhura dancing naked in and Kirk always running, running and looking backwards every now and then! LOL!
Or a Kirk/Sybok experience to feel his pain - were you again see Kirk's memory of Uhura naked with the palm leaves! LOL!
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BTW, I agree with you that TFF had by far the best soundtrack!
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Ooh, Sarcasm Bat, that's a good idea. I'll file it right next to the Jump To Conclusions Mat.
My point is that one day, not too far from now, they probably WILL release an extra-footage version of TFF. Quite likely someone still involved with the production of TFF is still high up at Paramount, and to include all the extra stuff (which might actually improve the film) which they might have had a hand in removing in the first place would be ebarrassing for them. Once someone new is in place they'll gladly let it be released.
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Your theory of corporate shame meets corporate greed is of course a sound one, but that chance is now. The Final Frontier has been out on DVD for some time now in the plain no bells and whistles version. At some point they will hit the law of diminishing returns. This is why the super-extra fancy Fellowship DVDs were announced at the same time as the regular release. It's simply good business.
But no one in their right mind is going to pay for this film three times. Quite frankly, no one completely decent and presentable is going to pay for it once, but there you are.
Star Trek V is not a film so much as it is a punchline. Absolutely no one who matters takes it seriously. It gets mentioned in the same breath, by mainstream folks, as Battlefield Earth and Highlander II, and any number of high profile flops. Ishtar. Anyway, a high-up executive who green-lit it and remains has very little to gain by tinkering with it, and lots to lose.
Having said that, aren't there a few dozen different DVD versions of Highlander II out there? Who buys these things? So, I guess, I dunno.
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Meh..
If they hired a CGI house, and added in a Federation battle fleet, I would buy it.
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Or you could just watch "Call To Arms" instead.
The thing with TFF is that I don't think they do have any extra footage to put back in. The ending was chopped down from what it was originally, but that was on the fly. It wasn't a case that they filmed a massive scene and had to remove it because the SFX weren't ready. To fix the ending would be like adding the "Let's get the gang together" scene back to the beginning of ST VI: you'd need some magical New Footage Making Device.
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....yeah, mabye Stan Winston could make McCoy.
The original scene for the STV climax involved demon creatures jumping out of the pit to chase Kirk after Enterprise lobbs a torpedo into it. The "demons" rip one of the shuttle's nacelles off and prevents it from taking off. The "demons" combine into the cheesey "God" and get hosed by the BOP.
...while it would have made for a better ending, the film would still cause me to scramble for the remote whenever it plays on TV. It's just that bad.
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i still think that, using the existing shots of shatner on the run, with some bitchin CGI demons, you could revolutionize the end of the movie, and redoing a lot of the other effects would help too.
but it would not change the problems with the pacing or drama, and it would not generate a helluva lot of interest.
they could digitally remaster the deck signs though..
maybe if they wait til 2009 for the 20th anniversary..
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You can't seriously put TFF in the same boat as Highlander II, Ishtar and Battlefield Earth. That is just not right. TFF is watchable more than once. It's not THAT bad a movie - it's just not the BEST of the Trek movies.
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I think STVI did so well, and is so beloved, beacuse TFF sucked so impossibly hard. Watching "Spock's Brain" twice -in a row- is still better than watching STV once. Ever.
The much maligned Insurrection, is Citizen Kane by direct comparison.
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