Are you talking about "Director's Edition" of TMP? If so, many of the shots were digitally recomposited from the original elements to completely eliminate matte lines and to allow the first generation quality to shine through. This couldn't be done for every shot as there were cases where they didn't have all of the elements.
Glad more wasn't done to the theatrical cut based on the few hack job "fixes" that were done to it. Still not sure why it wasn't left alone what with the DE getting the 4K treatment.
I almost felt guilty. Almost.
No. I express my displeasure and ask what the options are. Usually they apply some type of credit for the inconvenience and offer to replace or return for a refund. I certainly didn’t expect the result I got and expressed my gratitude.
A large portion of the people were who were in those shots were Star Trek (Classic) fans who had been invited to participate. AFIAK the ones in Alien make-up were paid professionals with some human professionals as well. They were given general dialogue to respond to. As well generic information about what was on the viewscreen. It's arguably the same thing as having Civil War reenactors do um Civil War scenes in movies/TV shows about the Civil War.
Bill Hickey was very big on the Star Trek convention circuit in the 1970s and early 1980s, and was one of those Super Fans that were invited to that shoot. In fact, George Takei, Walter Koenig, and Nichelle Nichols encouraged him to nudge his way up from the fourth row to the second row between takes (or so the legend goes). Those in the front row were paid extras.
Why the He** aren't I told these things!
Been checking all day!
You would be better off simply returning it. Refused packages often get lost at the Amazon warehouse it gets sent back to by the carrier, and then you will have to fight with Amazon to get a refund.
