MattGentry
Second Unit
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2003
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You people and your 'directors cuts'... "Directors Cuts. What does God need with a directors cut?"
Well, someone had to do it...
Well, someone had to do it...
Would Nimoy call in his reciprocity contract clause and ask for money to spruce up III and IV for future releases?But do they NEED sprucing?
Robert Wise notoriously had to rush the original ST, so at least there was a good reason for a director´s cut.
And, I never understood the humor in the expert engineer, intimately familiar with his starship, knocking himself out by walking into a beam.I actually liked this, you see this was a new Enterprise (NCC-1701A) The original (NCC-1701) was lost in part III. The design was different, Scotty was thinking he was on the old Enterprise.
Anyway, This movie was pretty weak, I used to consider TMP to be the weakest, but I rewatched the DC recently and actually liked it, although it was still a bit slow.
Spock not killing his half brother which would have been logical.After Spock was "resurrected" in Star Trek III, I believe they tried to make the character more emotional. Notice how he's kind of a blank slate in ST4, and they start teaching him to "use his best guess", and in ST5 he's swearing "Damn you sir, you WILL try". I think it was intentional that the character is more open to his emotions and no longer embraces only pure logic. Star Trek 6 continues the trend.
- Cry
I'm buying, but not proudly. More out of a sense of obligation.Well put Mr Briggs. Likewise.
I somewhat dread the thought that I might have to double-dip on this if a DC comes to pass. At least it won't be a triple-dip though.
Heck, even BATTLEFIELD: EARTH was better than STV!I wouldn't go THAT far....
Being more emotional is a big jump to endangering the lives of everyone aboard the Enterprise and letting the ship fall into enemy hands. The whole point of the Spock character is that he is type of person that could make the right decision in those situations.But that's the whole point. Perhaps "old" Spock would have fired, but "new" Spock is more emotional and doesn't want to shoot his own brother, even if it goes against pure logic or his mantra from star trek 2 (needs of the many...)
Also, if it were Kirk who were endangering the ship, would Spock (even old Spock) shoot him? Doubt it.
- Cryo
Can't remember what weapon Spock ends up with in that scene, no stun setting?