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The original film is much higher resolution yes, but its never been publicly available at those higher resolutions, especially not after restoration efforts.
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Also don't shows (didn't shows) sometimes shoot their VFX on 8 or 16mm? Which scanned at HD resolutions wouldn't hold up as well against the presumably 35mm the actors would have been shot on. I'm completely talking out my ass, though, anyone know if this is the case?
I think so long as the new FX are trying to maintain the aesthetics of the original (star placement? who does that?) and I hear even matching film grain that really I can't take issue. Honestly I'm more curious to see what they come up with. As previously stated, it would be nice to have the option to view the episodes in their original form. (Which if nothing else would be a great, 'In your face, SW fans!')
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Except they are not anamorphic and the film quality is all cruddy and something else technical is bad I'm sure, and I read all about it on the internet.
(But, for real, they have not done a good job with the originals I hear.)
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On the subject of the Enterprise's... equipment, I was looking at some of the images on http://cloudster.com and this one seems like it might be there. Could be the light hitting the nub funny though. My outline is terrible, but it highlights what I'm seeing, even if it looks totally off.
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The BoP in particular looks quite good, although even that doesn't have very good lighting. I'm starting to think the dingy lighting of the original shots really helped give them character, which these CGI replacements desperately lack.
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Do you think they managed to track down the original Romulan BOP model? Didn't it go missing years ago?
That comparison - looks like the 'top fin' has a bit of a point at the back whereas the original version looks to go straight up - but that could be because of it being cropped off at the top.
I always thought the bird picture underneath always had a bit of a glow to it - was it supposed to?
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It's an interesting Star Trek music video from Nine inch Nails.
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I love that video, I won't spoil it for people who haven't seen it yet, but it's one of the most touching and beautiful videos based on Star Trek that I've ever seen, and it's very well edited.
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: Do you think they managed to track down the original Romulan BOP model? Didn't it go missing years ago?
That comparison - looks like the 'top fin' has a bit of a point at the back whereas the original version looks to go straight up - but that could be because of it being cropped off at the top.
I always thought the bird picture underneath always had a bit of a glow to it - was it supposed to?
I noticed the change in the tail fin as well. It's a minor change, and I don't really have an opinion on which is better, but I'd be interested in knowing if it was an intentional change in the design, or a tiny error. As for the bird, I don't think it was supposed to glow, but we don't have many shots to go on.
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