Nov 27, 2009 03:51
- Flux Capacitor
If my calculations are correct, when this CD hits five hundred rotations per minute… you're gonna hear some serious shit
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The release of Star Trek on Blu-ray is most satisfying.
Aye, so I've heard. One day. One day.
I am normally reticent to recommend special effects-heavy movies on Blu-ray because the resolution tends to show the effects for what they are, but the superb job Industrial Light and Magic did with this movie makes it a notable exception.
I haven't had a chance to yet listen to the 'expanded' tarball yet (my iTunes has been down for six weeks since I blew two power supplies) so I wasn't sure what all that encompassed.
Not much, actually. Most (but not all) of it is just re-edits of music from the album in place of analogous cues in the film. There is a bit of previously unheard music from the jump sequence I think, but for the most part it is just more of what was already there. That said, I think it is a better listening experience than the album because it gives music a structure closer to that which appears in the film. It is not, however, a replacement for a bona-fide "Volume 2" or "Deluxe Edition" from Varèse Sarabande which I would hope would include all of the music I had listed above, none of which, except for those aforementioned few seconds, is on the faux expansion.
You're exactly right about the 'watchability' of this movie. I've seen it four times since it came out and so far it never gets old. I expect each time to not get goosebumps as well when they first reveal the Enterprise while Bones & Kirk on approach in the shuttle. Its time like that I think Giacchino knew exactly what he was doing.
Yes, "Enterprising Young Men" is very much saying "There she is! Didn't you miss her?"
We have a tradition at Thanksgiving that we all watch a movie that came out that year. Last year I brought my HD player so we could watch Iron Man; this year I brought Star Trek. Everyone who had already seen it was eager to see it again, and everyone who hadn't thoroughly enjoyed it. Plus, it was interesting to have such quick answers to all of the kids' questions ("Why does the barrel flip like that?" "Stun and kill!" "Oh! Neat!").
The only person who had any issue with it was someone who had been a little out of the loop and thought that this was a straight prequel to the original series, and so was rather shocked at some of the more cataclysmic events in the film. But even he enjoyed himself, and his wife was already asking when the sequel was coming out.
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