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    PHE Press Release: Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Fully Restored Director's Edition (4k UHD) (Paramount+ Streaming)

    Have you read the Kaufman treatment? It's a fascinating mess. For decades I thought it and/or the story by the two screenwriters preceeding it was a big missed op relative to what we got, but after finally reading it (or all but one page that was missing), it just seemed way off the mark for the...
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    PHE Press Release: Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Fully Restored Director's Edition (4k UHD) (Paramount+ Streaming)

    Just to clarify on this: all of the costs preceding the actual production on TMP, from GR's office space for several years to the setbuilding for phase 2 and work that went into TITANS and pay-or-play contracts for cast, only came to maybe 5 mil of the total cost of the film. That's a figure...
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    UHD Review The Godfather Trilogy – UHD Blu ray Review

    I've just finished interviewing a bunch of folks who made THE OFFER (making of GODFATHER series), and every single one of them brought up Willis' work even before I got round to asking. Most of them actually recounted how the work changed the way they thought about movies, in terms of potential...
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    Movies you want on HD disc but don't expect to ever see

    Seconded, still have a good memory of seeing that at the theater, but every time I've ever tried rewatching, the look of the thing just unravels the experience. Felt it could have been called HOW TO BEAT THE HIGH COST OF LIVING PT 2. Oh, my choice in this category is always LOOKING FOR MR...
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    Are you acclimated to Star Trek: TOS Remastered?

    That's like saying there's no point in doing Bond movies at 4K. Fine grain slow ASA film stock with tons of light pouring onto the sets creating saturated yet contrasty rich results, and even if Finnerman's work sometimes had seven shadows, it was truly painting with light. And that's just the...
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    PHE Press Release: Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Fully Restored Director's Edition (4k UHD) (Paramount+ Streaming)

    I don't supposed this time they honored Roddenberry's promise from 1980 that any reissue would include a lot of the 'accidentally left out' credits, like Brick Price Movie Miniatures which worked on the film for the better part of two years without any onscreen mention at all, despite repeat...
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    Paramount+ Theatrical Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

    Count me among them, as I find the director's cut version of the wormhole sound to be utterly abysmal, sounding monotonous and also injurious to the scene (and that's just one of dozens of complaints I have with what they did to the film, since most of their 'enhancements' just exchanged one...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About While we Wait for A few words about...™ No Time to Die -- in 4k UHD

    I've read a pretty detailed description of some UK mystery series that did an episode in the 90s that SKYFALL duplicates beat for bloody beat. Will have to try to find out the title. I found SKYFALL to be one of the worst Bond movies since VIEW TO A KILL -- except for the brief Shanghai fight...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ Star Trek - 4-Movie Collection -- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    The stage where the final metamorphosis takes place was used on HEAVEN CAN WAIT for the limbo set, and was just filled with dust. So no matter how hard studiofolk tried to vacuum the air and clean things up, when you turned on a backlight the dust was everywhere. I suppose all stages have...
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    Press Release Scream Factory Press Release: No Way To Treat A Lady (1968) (Blu-ray)

    Don't think I've seen this since the late 80s. I know William Goldman thought the film was miscast, that the leads should have traded parts, but it worked for me. I picked up a copy of the score on vinyl recently (still in the shrinkwrap!) and have been trying to figure out whether I should...
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    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    Then I guess I'll absent myself from this forum. If you reward incompetence and outright deceit with the citation that it is somehow good journalism in your book, you don't deserve better. Very disappointed in you both.
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    Twin Peaks returns in 2016 on Showtime

    Agree with most of your assessments, and caught most of same errors (I had that same apollo XI stamp as a kid) though the thing about when Cooper got shot isn't right. The way it is written, I can see how you draw that timeframe conclusion, but on those 2 pages Frost talks about one thing, then...
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    Arrival (November 11, 2016)

    If it really only cost 40 or 50 mil, I'd think it almost can't help but break even or succeed, even if they drop a fair amount on ads (that we apparently have seen yet) to boost the break even number. (then again SERENITY was this cheap and somehow got trashed at box office by DOOM and other...
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    Blu-ray Review Star Trek Beyond Blu-ray Review

    If this were the 1970s, I'd agree, but modelkits are far from a going concern marketing-wise. Plus the marketing on BEYOND was almost nonexistent (not even a tie-in novel, and the only making-of is something from the UK that isn't even out yet), so again par isn't really exploiting this resource...
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    Jaws 2 (1978)

    You're saying Spielberg was there for the 2nd unit stuff with real sharks? I hadn't ever heard that. The Alves thing sounds like a real trouble stirrer upper, like the Saul Bass claim to have shot the PSYCHO shower scene.
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    Jaws 2 (1978)

    I love JJAWS more than just about anyone I know, but it does have some annoying continuity issues (total mismatch when Quint fires on the shark, for one that is so 'off' you can't force yourself to miss it.) That it transcends them is to its credit, but that's still a weak point. EDIT ADDON...
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    Are you acclimated to Star Trek: TOS Remastered?

    I've seen about half of season four and honestly don't see significant improvement (although the Reeves-Stevenses SHOULD have improved things .... PRIME DIRECTIVE is one of my five favorite TREK novels ever, and I like a couple of their other early ones too, though they are disaster in the...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ The Chase -- in Blu-ray

    Never understood the antipathy, have always found it pretty solid, and loved the Barry score. This is a definite maybe for me, which means I'm giving it time to sell out so I don't have to buy and can grouse about it afterward like ZARDOZ ...
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    Are you acclimated to Star Trek: TOS Remastered?

    I thought I could find a link to an old discussion of my various trek pitches on either trekbbs or hobbytalk from 10-15 years back, but I'm not having any luck. Lemme dig the thing out (I actually wrote two-thirds of it in teleplay form rather than as a premise or treatment, I was THAT sure it...
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    Are you acclimated to Star Trek: TOS Remastered?

    Yeah, I noticed that -- three years after I pitched the 'replication is bad' idea -- in season 4, they were actively looking for environmental issue eps, which may have continued throughout the run. They DID mention it in later eps, and supposedly VOYAGER's articulated nacelles were to mitigate...
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    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    Hey, I've got all sorts of ideas for doing TMP right (or right-er, at least, in terms of what they should have been focusing on), don't get me started. But Disney would show me the door as soon as I demanded a 24 foot Enterprise be built for beauty pass work ...
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    Are you acclimated to Star Trek: TOS Remastered?

    Back in the late 80s, I read an interview with Robert Butler, who directed the original THE CAGE pilot for Trek. He had been approached to do WRATH OF KHAN and turned it down, saying he wanted to it the way he wanted to do the pilot, 'dirty,' with coffeestained uniforms and wear on the walls. I...
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    Westworld (HBO)

    Have been thinking for awhile now that some showrunners - espeically ones who are brought in to replace original creator/showrunners -- will be using forums like this to figure out their next season's arcs, since we're generating so much stuff (good AND bad) for them already. Not unlike the...
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    Are you acclimated to Star Trek: TOS Remastered?

    Sometimes the style of the new hot thing works against it. Personally, although I love about 80% of nuBSG and have rewatched the series a few times, I found the visual style to be godawful bad and still do. Making your show almost entirely under- AND over-exposed (in the same frame!) is really...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Star Trek Beyond -- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    BEYOND may have played like pastiche in a lot of ways, but it remains the only TREK movie where I've come out of the theater feeling good about what I saw since Shat's FINAL FRONTIER (warts, vfx, unknown siblings and all, TFF is, along with TWOK and TMP -- plenty of warts there too -- the only...
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    Scott Atwell Star Trek Discussion thread (Series and Films)

    In the 70s, in Louisiana I believe, CORBOMITE was adapted as a stage play; considering how much of it is on the bridge in the ep, it is easy to see how they could adapt it (apparently they did some projections for the viewscreen.)
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    Star Wars Episode VIII "The Last Jedi" Coming December 15, 2017

    There's a third volume too, pretty much covering ILM this century. I haven't looked at that one. I had the first one till it fell to five pieces, loved it. The 2nd volume was rewritten practically from scratch in something like 3 weeks, and there are points where it shows. I remember there...
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    Are you acclimated to Star Trek: TOS Remastered?

    I remember reading Patrick McGoohan was the original choice for Bester and then for the Mars zillionaire played by Efram Zimbalist Jr. Also that they wanted to do a continuation of OUTER LIMITS' DEMON WITH A GLASS HAND with Culp's character hanging out on B5. Except for TKO, I can watch nearly...
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    Are you acclimated to Star Trek: TOS Remastered?

    https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-005 Yeah, found the original story about the 'trek banned in texas' on the STARLOG archive. Man, recovering from pneumonia gives you way too much time spent horizontal. WOLF IN THE FOLD is one of the other banned eps, along with CATSPAW, and they...
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