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- #1485945
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- Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition HD Recreation (V3 Now Available.) (Released)
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… I’ll ask if anyone’s seen it? Thoughts?
Yes I have. I’m glad that it exists, and it probably is the best way to watch this film, but…
(Further) S P O I L E RS
I actually went out to watch it in a theater on Monday evening (Fathom event). I agree with pretty much all you said about the visuals. (The audio items you listed admittedly went unnoticed to me.) Bones in the lounge, yeah, what happened?
Also, the CG shuttle landing (in SF) jumped out at me as… unfortunate I’ll just say so as not to sound too mean as I’m sure everyone who worked on this whole version poured out blood, sweat and tears these last few years. Still…
I’m also not a fan of the sparkly credits. I saw a side-by-side reminder of the DVD DE version (which I saw only once a long time ago) and I would’ve (much) preferred them just taking that same route over the sparkly-ness.
I assume they didn’t have the budget for it, but some of the matte line issues (in the few shots they didn’t redo the compositing for)… I don’t know all the tools out there, but it seemed like those matte lines could’ve been taken care of or at least diminished much more than they were.
However, in the showing I went to there were only two other people, so I can imagine Paramount will feel they were correct to not spend more money on further clean up (I understand most people are seeing it streaming, but only two others for the event? 😦).
Still, the movie has stuck with me the last few days. Not saying I was blown away, but some things work for it for sure despite some larger issues in regards to the movie itself and a few small ones to be found in this 4k DE. At least that’s my little two cents.