The most famous split infinitive!

[erastes]

Just got back from The Menagerie which they were showing at the cinema - was amazing to see on the big screen.  Evidently the entire thing is a big promotion to launch the H-D and remastered versions of the Star Trek DVDs - which I didn't even know they were redigitsing and remastering.

I don't know about them, really - while it now actually looks like what it looked like in my head all these years, I don't know if it's right to muck about with it so much, adding CGI etc. Clean it up - yes, I'm for that - but all the recolouring and enhancing?  I don't know. 

It makes me sad that Kerry had never seen an episode of it before today and that she'll probaly never now see any of the original amateur footage with wobbly spaceships.

But very enjoyable and very geeky.

Comments

[aunty_marion]

*bounce*

Wasn't it good? Did your audience all cheer and laugh at "The women!!"?

Don't you have Ye Olde Original on videotape to show your friend?

I went 'in costume'!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I was just reading your post!

No, they were frighteningly quiet, they laughed a couple of times at Spock, specially at the end when he said "no need to insult me, captain, I acted quite logically"

It was very enjoyable, though! I so love Jeffrey Hunter.

:)

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I think the re-coloring was inevitable--film fades badly over the years, and the episodes themselves were made in the late 1960s. I'm not sure how I feel about the CGI. I kind of think that the lack of CGI should be preserved for historical reasons. I mean, there WAS a time before computer-generated imagery, Hollywood. It's okay to acknowledge that.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

they've sort of done with it what Lucas did with Star Wars, but slightly less so - keeping very much in the "time" and using sympathic colours (day glo mostly) and effects (nothing too sophisticated, so it does work. And they haven't been tempted to add a CGI spaceship, they've just tidied it up a bit so it looks more realistic. The recoloured planets are nice though, as are the lights on the consoles etc.

It's done pretty well, to be honest.

[rwday.livejournal.com]

Cool! I hope we get it over here, though I gree with you about the wobbly spaceships - that's part of the charm of it, IMO.

[mylodon.livejournal.com]

I remember the wonderful wobbly Menagerie...

Oh - and in re your dirty-stopper-outer, did you see this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/7092301.stm