SilverWook

I have read that Dragonheart and Apollo 13 look better on HD DVD. Universal apparently went DNR happy on the Blu Ray masters...

Flexicon9 said:

Animal House is much much better on HD-DVD and also Streets of Fire with Diane Lane is only available on HD-DVD.  It looks incredible if you're into DL in her prime.

Is yours the combo disc with the standard DVD side? Mine rotted pretty badly and would freeze up during the end of the film. The DVD side was unaffected though. Glad I paid less than five bucks for it...

If you're looking for something to surpass Friday...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_kf9_GvsK8

I would advise not watching the official video though. (The above link is a lyrics video.) It's pure nightmare fuel.

And since fear is the path to the dark side...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IR-jDCziLs

The real reason Steve Grievous' ship breaks in half? ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLUUifu2WAs

Tobar said:

SilverWook said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I'll never understand why they decided to add the thing with the drink in the comic. Am I supposed to believe he drinks through the grill in his mask or something?

The comic was being done way ahead of the finished film, nothing was set in stone yet. Vader could probably guide the liquid with the Force if there was no mechanical straw apparatus in there. There did seem to be straw like appendages near his mouth when the mask came off in Jedi.

And I'm giving this way more thought than when I was a kid. ;)

The answers you seek lie within...

I've seen that before. It's what made Mr. Fett seem cool to me again. :)

Leonardo said:

The Gilligan crossover with Alf makes more sense than this!

At least that was a dream. ;)

Spock's arc is sometimes overlooked. He's left Starfleet and his closest friends in pursuit of ridding himself of emotions. He's on the verge of reaching that goal when he senses V'ger.

It takes a mind meld with same to realize his human half, and all the illogical baggage that goes with it, does have value. (Scenes in the longer version bear this out.) The post TMP Spock seems to be more at peace with himself.

All these years later, I'm still boggled the movie got a G rating. The transporter accident scene is enough to give me nightmares!

Perhaps those proto TIE fighters ought to fire at Supes?

Even that crossover with The Critic makes more sense than this. (And we'll probably be forever denied a Futurama crossover outside the comics.) Mind you, crazy crossovers aren't a new concept, but usually those shows have the same creative team, or plausibly exist in the same universe. Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, and The Beverly Hillbillies crossed over all the time.

Even with the same creative team, The Charlie's Angels gang taking a cruise on The Love Boat still feels weird to me. Ditto The Green Hornet showing up on Batman.

AFAIK, all overture screens are blank. (2001 being a good example.) I saw The Black Hole theatrically, and it also had a black overture screen. It's overture wasn't restored until the early DVD release, and then they put a star field shot over it.

Still images and titles on overtures are a home video invention, so people don't wonder why they are hearing music but not seeing anything.

A passing resemblance to the plot of The Changeling with a dash of The Doomsday Machine, probably doesn't help. Decker is actually the son of the late Commodore Decker from that very episode.

In some ways it's The Phantom Menace of Trek. No fan has a neutral opinion of it. But, it also made the smaller budgeted sequels such as TWOK possible, as the sets were already up. Every series from TNG to Voyager used those redressed sets. It was a sad day when they were finally torn down.

It's Trek done 2001: A Space Odyssey style. (I'd be surprised if Kubrick wasn't ever considered to direct, although he would have been busy prepping The Shining.)  Having seen it opening weekend on a huge screen, that's where it worked best. It's probably not the movie to introduce newbies to Trek though.

Why would you be embarrassed by an overture? Lots of movies had them. The oath line probably should have been cut, since it's never explained in the theatrical version that Deltans have no sexual inhibitions compared to other species. Gene Roddenberry projecting his fantasies again. ;)

At the time, it was the first new live action Trek since 1969. Old cancelled tv shows just didn't come back from the dead in those days. Trek took a long twisted path back to life, almost becoming a new series, (Phase II) and then becoming a big budget film in the wake of Star Wars' success. In 1979, this was a big deal.

Anchorhead said:

Gaffer Tape said:

 I'm currently enduring the infamous four minute long Kirk and Scotty looking at the Enterprise scene, but still.  I could write this post seven more times, and it still wouldn't be over.  It's still going on!

I chalk it up to being a product of it's time: Trek being back in the world again - and bigger than ever.  Plus, they were finally able to show the Enterprise in all it's detailed glory.  At that point, it had all existed only on 26" Zeniths. But yeah, they got carried away with that beauty shot.

 

That's an RCA tv, made by the company that owned NBC at the time. In my family, owning a Zenith would have been tantamount to treason. ;)

Someone could have recorded two different PPV airings though. No logos or FBI warnings in sight?

Are you able to peek at the vertical blanking interval with your gear? Fox occasionally had blocky white text in there on their early video releases, possibly as a sort of watermark. I miss the days when you could mess with the vertical hold on the tv.

LOL! You guys are killing me tonight!

And holy poodoo! There's a guy in the crowd holding a candle that kind of looks like Spock!

I still think there needs to be a sound effect (evil laughter?) or a callback to "it's working!" when we see the Japor snippet in Padme's hand. That thing is cursed!

http://youtu.be/1iHkqgKMBDc

Thoughts again about a musical moment for Anakin's rage and cookout. Turns out someone else thought of it a few years ago, but you could credit them and steal it borrow the idea? ;)

http://youtu.be/Yxve208piBc

Lest we forget the Voyager episode where Janeway and Paris mutated into giant salamanders, and proceeded to do the nasty. I kid you not...

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Threshold_%28episode%29

I'm rather surprised there are MOS toys aimed at the preschooler crowd. Hey kids! Recreate all the massive collateral death and carnage from the movie! General Zod with Kryptonian neck snap action!

Seriously though, they are wisely not directly linking these with the movie, which may mean someone still remembers the parental uproar over Batman Returns Happy Meal toys twenty one years ago.

Randomly remembered today a joke spoken in the 1984 movie Dreamscape.

"Who's your decorator, Darth Vader?"

DuracellEnergizer said:

I'll never understand why they decided to add the thing with the drink in the comic. Am I supposed to believe he drinks through the grill in his mask or something?

The comic was being done way ahead of the finished film, nothing was set in stone yet. Vader could probably guide the liquid with the Force if there was no mechanical straw apparatus in there. There did seem to be straw like appendages near his mouth when the mask came off in Jedi.

And I'm giving this way more thought than when I was a kid. ;)

LTK was a nice diversion from the typical Bond foils meglomaniac's outlandish plot. I appreciate it even more now than when I first saw it, especially how 007 slowly makes Sanchez distrust almost everyone around him.

There are times I think perhaps the iguana was really in charge, and Sanchez was merely his minion. ;)

The text on the 1990 Fox widescreen Laserdisc jacket sounds so certain that Dalton would return. *sigh*

Ryan McAvoy said:

^ The Tron one is amazing thanks. And the Jaws one is great, I might finish that off with a title.

Don't know why you've posted Dr Who though. It's not a SW poster in the style of another poster, which is what this thread is for.

As George was going to be the director at one point, this works on two levels.

It's hilarious that airline wants to sue the tv station that aired those fake names, because it damaged their image. I would think the NTSB intern (now fired) who punked the station would be the target, but they probably don't have as much money.

I would think the charred wreckage of an airliner, three people dead, and who knows how many facing life long injuries is the real image problem.

That the pilots did not have to submit to drug tests after the crash is outrageous.

The troopers don't all have to be Johnny clones, either. Which would explain why they are such lousy shots in the OT. ;)

Something lifted from What's Up Tiger Lily? would be oddly appropriate.

Nice find! Thanks.

Vader would have been so badass casually sipping his latte while force choking Motti. Dark Side multitasking. ;)