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....not that it costs them anything like what they'll charge you for the "added features" either. Personally,I bought the LOTR boxed set for the added footage....and it was worth it, but I could care less about all the documentary or behind the scenes crap that came with it. The added footage should have been in the basic set. Same with the Trek movies. A DVD's selling point is the picture/sound quality as well as the extras. To me watching all that takes away some of the magic. ....if only Kazaa was better quality...
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quote:the Nebula (Endeavour?) in that scene fires torpedos from under the saucer-the same place the torp launcher is located on the Galaxy class!
Except that the Galaxy has three launchers: one at the rear of the secondary section, one on the neck above the secondary section, and one at the rear of the saucer. Since the Nebula-Class's second section does not bear much resemblance to the Galaxy-Class (same with the saucer), your statement is in error.
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Huh? I mean that the Nebula fires torpedos from the same place as a Galaxy's forward launcher: just above the main Deflector. Not a lot of clearance there on a Nebula. I think the Nebula in First Contact fires from this location as well.
Where is the aft launcher on the Galaxy's saucer? It's got to be where the saucer joins the "neck".
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Yes, as per the technical manual. (And presumably the blueprints, but I can't say I remember looking for it.) I don't recall whether we see anything that looks like a launcher on the model, though.
And it seems our DVD philosophies Differ. (Hint: Lots of people don't want to sit through a fifty hour Lord of the Rings, but instead would like to be able to purchase and watch the version they saw in theaters. Extra footage does not in and of itself equal quality or desirability! I say with emphasis! For some reason! Two versions caters to the Whole Market, which is a Good Thing. The release date for the expanded version of The Two Towers is already penciled in for November 4, with the theatrical version scheduled for August 4 [the same days Fellowship came out on last year]. One can hardly complain of a lack of advance notice.)
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Two versions I can see. TLOTR has three: each with more footage and a higher pricetag than the last.
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LOTR has two versions, with two different pricetags, and one of those comes packaged with bookends, and costs more, but has no extra footage.
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Okay, let's see some DS9 screen caps now then.
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Simon: Again, it's a DVD, not a tape. There's nothing preventing them from putting in a little option that says "Watch movie w/ deleted scenes / Watch original movie".
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That assumes that the scenes were cut after they were finished -- if they weren't, why would you want to see them in the movie unprocessed, without sound, etc.?
quote: Not so, I've some of the first films to be released as DVDs have been later re-issued with extras although only Starship Troopers and The Fugitive spring to mind. Again, I can only speak for Region 2 disks.
The Matrix. Just after I bought the first version as well. And then they start selling the special features disk seperately at almost the same price as the film .
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Well they need to pay for Keannu's acting classes don't they? I can't believe he's going to be John Constantine in the Hellblazer movie....
It was my understandinf that the "bookends" version of TLOTR has 7 minutes of additional filmtime over the "regular" specialeditionbellsandwhistleslimitededitionversionboxed set. I could be mistaken, as I won't spring for bookends I'll never use. Anyway you look at it: multiple releases of the DVD is a marketing scam.
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I just dont understand why they dont release the original 2:50 min movie that was the original cut. It was decided to cut so much from the movie because of somebodys pre-determined requirement for a trek movie length, among other things. However, in the end it was noted many many times that the movies biggest weakness was that it was too heavily edited and it lost something in the process. Why not restore it to the original cut and let us be the judge of what we missed and see how the movie could have been. Its not as if we are asking them to recut the movie with rock creatures or a plot that makes sense!
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I want rock creatures! ...far cooler than aliens in SUV's chasing our heroes.
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quote:Originally posted by Futurama Guy: I just dont understand why they dont release the original 2:50 min movie that was the original cut."
3 hour first cuts are not uncommon. In fact, what a lot of people don't realize is that a lot of those minutes we hear about in first cuts are dead air that is removed to tighten up the pacing. Often it's pauses between lines of dialog, actors entering into scenes, etc. I read the Nemesis script and I cannot image there's a whole 'nother hour of scenes out there waiting to be integrated. There was not enough "there" there for that long a film.
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