Posted by jayembee on 07/16/06 22:36

AZ Nomad <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com> wrote:

> The extended 'T2 judgement day" is definately better than the
> theatrical.
>
> Some extended movies worse than the original are the first Star Trek
> movie, and the blues brothers.

I disagree in both cases.

I do like the extended T2 more than the original, but only marginally.
Only one of the added scenes really adds to the story: Sarah doing
the repair job on Arnie is a nice mirror to his helping stitch her
up elsewhere in the film.

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.

-- jayembee

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