le facepalm
http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/entertainment/story/cult-classics-star-trek-the-original-motion-picture-collection/
this appeared in the online version of my local paper. summary: guy thinks star trek wouldn't have had to have been rebooted if it didn't suck to begin with. exciting as the new movie was (and we'll see about how it holds up in home viewing once the DVD comes out..), it's far from perfect. aside from that, what an utterly ironic and agonizingly banal review. what has been produced for generation Y or mimi or me first or whatever that hasn't been ripped out of gen-x or instantly cloned 1,000 times and all ever so painfuly processed with the latest off the shelf digital effects plugin?
i'm not on any trekkie "mines bigger en yurs" high horse or anything.. but that kind of sums up how easy it is today to simply wad up context and throw it away for the jacked up jolt cola version. one of the iconic scenes the reviewer laments is from the motion picture where scotty and kirk take a tour of the enterprise from a shuttle pod. a scene in which the reviewer describes it as laboriously slow. for a generation raised on wondering why they never got to see the inside of king friday's castle or where the muppet's legs were, let alone the same stock external scenes of the enterprise and that one red planet in every shot, even when the skies were blue that you saw over and over...
well, heh, you know what i mean; it was a big deal. besides, there's more than one way to tell a story. sometimes it's about the journey, the atmosphere, the surprise, where you've gone and where you've been. life is better when it comes in more than one flavor.
this appeared in the online version of my local paper. summary: guy thinks star trek wouldn't have had to have been rebooted if it didn't suck to begin with. exciting as the new movie was (and we'll see about how it holds up in home viewing once the DVD comes out..), it's far from perfect. aside from that, what an utterly ironic and agonizingly banal review. what has been produced for generation Y or mimi or me first or whatever that hasn't been ripped out of gen-x or instantly cloned 1,000 times and all ever so painfuly processed with the latest off the shelf digital effects plugin?
i'm not on any trekkie "mines bigger en yurs" high horse or anything.. but that kind of sums up how easy it is today to simply wad up context and throw it away for the jacked up jolt cola version. one of the iconic scenes the reviewer laments is from the motion picture where scotty and kirk take a tour of the enterprise from a shuttle pod. a scene in which the reviewer describes it as laboriously slow. for a generation raised on wondering why they never got to see the inside of king friday's castle or where the muppet's legs were, let alone the same stock external scenes of the enterprise and that one red planet in every shot, even when the skies were blue that you saw over and over...
well, heh, you know what i mean; it was a big deal. besides, there's more than one way to tell a story. sometimes it's about the journey, the atmosphere, the surprise, where you've gone and where you've been. life is better when it comes in more than one flavor.