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After reading posts on this newsgroup and avl and avd for 10 years, I find that the hatred people have to altering a film is directly proportional to the popularity of the film, regardless of whether or not the film was completed with 100% of the filmmaker's vision. I'll leave it at that. Mike

My God. What a contrast. E.T. gets altered and everyone's all over it. Star Trek gets altered and nobody cares. Someone on the E.T. thread was right - when bad movies are updated nobody says a word. When classics are updated, it's a controversy. I never had any problems with how "loose" the...

I'm not sure I agree with you, Nelson. I was listening to the commentary and there was a statement made by Wise about how out of perspective the E looked when the crew was walking on it at the end of the film. That seems more like a fan-based comment than a technical one, especially after...

Oh, so now we delete entire lines because of how they're delivered? Damn, how about making Star Trek: TMP a special-effects-only narrative then and cut out all the bad acting and dialog altogether? It seems to me that some of the "suggestions" from the fans over the years were taken a little...

So, I'm watching it and there are some questionable changes that I don't understand. First, when Epsilon 9 is reading the transmission from the Klingon ship, the computer voice-over is cut, screwing up the music cue. When the transporter accident is over, Kirk's line "Oh my God" was cut...

Wow. Oddly enough, the DVD starts off with the rating and then goes right into the film. The overture starts off with the stars trailing behind you, as if you're looking at them from the back of the ship. Then the new CGI Paramount logo runs, and the new titles - forward moving starfield over...