SilverWook

How much time passes between the final battle with Shinzon and Kirk getting the big chair? (The ship needed some patching up.) IIRC, Kirk was about the youngest fellow to make starship Captain in the original timeline.

Not to mention Shinzon wiped out a good chunk of the fleet based on all the shattered hulks orbiting Vulcan. I don't think anyone else made it of that slaughter alive.

Luke Skywalker went from farmboy on a backwater planet to Rebel hero who blew up the Death Star in only a few days. ;)

timdiggerm said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

I really need to see the original series. Rubber foreheads aside, this sounds like a fun series worth watching.

You're more likely to get really cheesy 1960s sets.

 

Less cheesy than Lost In Space. ;)

I think Enterprise more than proved the original set designs hold up pretty well.

Shades of Avenue Q!

If I didn't know that was a real kid's show, I would think it was a lost Monty Python sketch. ;)

I've had the impression the Falcon's cockpit was inspired by the B-29 Superfortress.

Interesting. I've never been able to figure out if the videos of mine that were taken down after five years were flagged by machine or man.

Given the tons of Star Wars clips, (and in some cases the entire films!) that are on YT, it seems you are being specifically targeted.

Grevious

Kali

Looks like it was released in the 90's.

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Muppet-Caper-Various-Artists/dp/B000008IQC

Rubber foreheads? You're thinking of the wrong Trek. ;)

No problem. Since I don't know what form the Japanese preservation is going to take, I wanted to have some other video sources as they were cheap to get.

I like the print Criterion used, as it's a bit Grindhouse. Cue marks at reel changes, and a little scratchy in places. It may be the only video release that doesn't just fade to black over the ending organ music.

If you're after the Superman DVD set, I've seen it for dirt cheap in the clearance bins at clothing stores like Ross.

Nobody thought to cut Spock's emotional reactions when that footage was incorporated into "The Menagerie". I never had a problem accepting that Spock might be a little less stoic earlier in his career.

I suppose Spock was still "in development" during "Mudd's Women" and "The Enemy Within" too.

What sort of logical unemotional being regularly trades barbs and insults with Leonard H. McCoy, who is possibly the most illogical emotional being in the universe? ;)

Isn't Superman theatrical in the box set?

Weird things happen between remasters sometimes. Mary Poppins has more info at the sides in 1:85 than it does at 1:66.

One thing I've noticed about the Criterion Grail is slightly more info at the right of frame. The Blu has more picture at the left of frame.

When I get the discs in, I want to do some screencaps. Is there any particular shot you'd want to see?

Yikes. Being a repo man really ages you. ;)

In the case of Kubrick, it gets complicated. IIRC, there is a storyboard glimpsed on the Blu Ray supplements for The Shining that clearly shows the intended theatrical ratio. Might be some framing marks on a playback monitor as well.

Stanley personally supervised the Dr. Strangelove transfer for the Criterion LD, and that had alternating full frame and 1:66 ratios. Had widescreen tv's been more common before his death, (and the DVD format taken off) it's likely he would have approved more theatrical ratios for his other films.

Save for an early 80's pressing, 2001 was properly letterboxed in all the LD incarnations I own. It even aired on TNT in widescreen several times in the 90's.

There was a lot of teeth gnashing over the Barry Lyndon Blu Ray over at the HTF. It's a slightly different aspect ratio from previous widescreen releases.

I ran The Matrix DVD in sync with a TBS showing once before digital tv came along, and the framing differences were interesting.

Would characters from Ruby/Spears productions count as being under the HB umbrella now?

Warbler said:

the only real problem I had with the 2009 movie was the Spock/Uhura relationship.  It seems very out of character for a logical and unemotional Vulcan. 

Half Vulcan. And having a thing for human females runs in the family.

Uhura was flirting with Spock in "The Man Trap". That scene was cut from syndication prints for decades. If Nurse Chapel is in the next movie, and still has a thing for guys with pointed ears in this timeline, there could be trouble. ;)

Spock seemed kind of emotional, and even smiled in "The Cage". He has never been an unemotional character. He's just pretty good at concealing his emotions most of the time. That internal struggle with his human half is one thing that makes him more interesting.

A plot point that is sometimes overlooked in TMP is Spock's realization after his mind meld with V'Ger. "Logic is not enough." In this new timeline, he may have had that epiphany sooner.

This old school Trekker liked it. I got misty eyed when Nimoy showed up. I think the sequel is going to be huge, and I've got an inkling who the villain is. (And it's not Khan.)

I mentioned New Coke to someone recently, only to be met with a blank stare. ;)

FanFiltration said:

SilverWook said:

It's probably long out of print, but a collected edition of DC Trek comics I was given to read once while recovering from an illness had a kick ass story. It bridged the end of the five year mission and the first film. Pike and Talos IV were also involved. If you can find it, it's a great read!

For the all too brief time Marvel had the license, they put out a good Pike era comic.

 

 

Was this It?  

 

Edit:

 

or this one?

 

Definitely the first one, but it was part of a large softcover collected edition when I read it. It set things up for the movie so well, it could have been the prequel!

I forgot Walter Koenig wrote an issue!

Warbler said:

 

I suppose I was sort of correct.   But iirc, I what I suggested was:

• that they bring all the series together.   TOS, Next Gen, DS9, Voy, and Enterprise, + Pike's Enterprise
• give them a good enemy to fight, one worthy of having them all together to fight. 
• get a great actor to play the villian
• somehow involve the planet that Pike visited in original pilot: The Cage
• get a great director to direct the thing
• Don't do it on the cheap
• get everyone involved to give maximum effort

 

They didn't do all of that, so I was not so eerily close.    But thanks anyway.

It's probably long out of print, but a collected edition of DC Trek comics I was given to read once while recovering from an illness had a kick ass story. It bridged the end of the five year mission and the first film. Pike and Talos IV were also involved. If you can find it, it's a great read!

For the all too brief time Marvel had the license, they put out a good Pike era comic.

I've got a copy of the 1994 Columbia/TriStar LD on the way, as well as the 1999 DVD. (And a pending offer on the 1983 LD.) Will be interesting to see the differences.

Coincidentally, there is a discussion over at dvdtalk.com about audience reaction recordings with links to some youtube clips.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/600866-recordings-audience-reactions-famous-scenes-jaws-halloween-lethal-weapon.html

Crowd reacting to Halloween's climax in 1979.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSz1XNT-Q

2011 screening of Jaws.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Req9CzVJrZU

I saw a documentary about the history of toy boats once. Turns out there were toy Titanics being made and sold after the sinking. I once almost bought a 1997 toy that was paired with a Titanic book. Flip a switch on the bottom and it breaks up and sinks. IIRC, it was marketed as an educational toy. They fetch a lot on Ebay now.

I would find the animated Titanic way more offensive than a generic ship sinking water slide. (Except it's so awful, it cries out for the MST3K treatment.) Not only does it rip off Cameron's version, but everybody survives the sinking.

Why bother with Facebook when Vimeo's around?

You'd be amazed how much the imagination fills in with some carefully timed bleeps. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI5XL7dYCmg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jojOqtzKD8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sJ2GqOEc94

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

Then there's the real deal...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9qsdz7gMlY

Night Flight used to run this little clip in the dead of night on the USA network back in the 80's. Just when you were groggy enough to think you hallucinated it. ;)

I think he means Prowse did a public appearance in costume...

EDIT:timdiggerm beat me to it. ;)