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Posted by AZ Nomad on 07/19/06 06:49
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:36:49 -0400, Sean O'Hara <seanohara@gmail.com> wrote:
>In the Year of the Dog, the Great and Powerful jayembee declared:
>> AZ Nomad <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Some extended movies worse than the original are the first Star Trek
>>>movie, and the blues brothers.
>>
>> And I thought the longer version of ST:TMP was far, *far* better
>> than the original theatrical version. It really fleshed out Spock's
>> character vis a vis his epiphany that the pursuit of perfect logic
>> was a hollow one, and that emotions were something that enhanced
>> logic, not opposed it. At least one of the added scenes also
>> encapsulated Kirk's character in a single line.
>>
>Well remember there are three versions of TMP.
>1) The theatrical release, which was basically a rough cut that they
>had to send to theaters because they ran over schedule. When Wise
>and his team were editing the film, they made it 130 minutes long
>and inserted all the expensive FX shots while leaving out
>character-oriented scenes. They planned to go back and cut back on
>the FX while replacing them with the character stuff, but never got
>the chance.
>2) The VHS release, which inserted all the character-oriented scenes
>but didn't remove any of the FX. While it's superior in terms of
>character development, the pacing issues are exasperated.
>3) The director's cut DVD, where Wise finally got the chance to go
>back on fix things. All the FX remain (except a few that have been
>updated with CGI), but each shot has been trimmed by a few seconds
>to liven up the pace. Most of the character stuff has been put in,
>but Wise left a few scenes out. This is the best version (though
>it's still not very good), but it's not really extended -- it's
>about the same length as (1) and shorter than (2).
If it's longer than 40 minutes then they didn't go far enough.
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