evan1975 said:
danny_boy said:
It is relevant because in the period that it was not available Wise(and Paramount) were never castigated in the same manner that Lucas has been.1) People WERE pissed about only having the DCs on DVD. But at least all the scenes that were changed WERE on the DVD as deleted scenes bonus features. A fan editor could have used those and reassembled the original cut if they wanted to. (I don't think anyone did, though.)
2) People ARE pissed about the current inverse situation, where we can't get the DCs on Blu-ray
3) But the majority of people don't give a damn about Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It was a lousy to mediocre movie depending what cut you watch. Many, many more people love Star Wars, thus a disproportionate outcry.
But you know this already.
Well---no film is perfect----but if there had been no Star Trek The Motion Picture-----then there would have been no ST movie franchise ------ Period.
And if I am not mistaken----after it is adjusted for inflation---ST:TMP had been the highest grossing ST movie(yes---even more than the beloved Wrath Of Khan!)----until the 2009 release of Abrams's new ST film.
I do agree with your points that you made above------- having said that there is a certain amount of subjectivity when it comes to this kind of analysis.
I personally felt that the CGI version of the Vger spaceship looked exactly that----CGI!
I also think that the CGI depiction of the Vulcan planetscape also looked out of place for a movie made in 1979.
Also---the deleted scenes did not include every scene that had been replaced by CGI.
It should also not be forgotten that the CGI additions made for this 2001 Star Trek special edition were only rendered in a modest 480i resolution(when 2K was already considered a standard)-----thus they would not hold up on a big screen.
All of this would have been more than enough for Trekkies to make a rumble.