Posted by AZ Nomad on 07/16/06 22:52

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:36:10 GMT, jayembee <jayembeenospam@snurcher.com> wrote:


>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.
The scene where arnie tries to smile was hilarious; the total added scenes
add up to under ten minutes.


>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
It made a long winded dull movie even more long winded and dull.
The movie would have best been a 40 minute episode.

>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.

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