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« Reply #405 on: February 04, 2012, 03:19:16 PM » |
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True. I don't think Netflix streams anything that is Blu-ray only. It's probably a different license/package (I'm pretty sure that the original series remasters were a different package, because they kept making a big deal about premiering them).
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Tarrik Dane
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« Reply #406 on: July 09, 2012, 04:57:03 PM » |
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http://www.aintitcool.com/node/56860According to AICN Karl Urban slipped up and said that Cumberbatch is playing Gary Mitchell. Wasnt it he who they said the villain was going to be way early on when people kept saying Khan at first?
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Wolfe
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« Reply #407 on: July 09, 2012, 05:10:14 PM » |
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A major STAR TREK villain being named Gary Mitchell is very funny to me.
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« Reply #408 on: July 09, 2012, 05:15:23 PM » |
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If he doesn't conquer the galaxy, he can totally sell the shit out of your house.
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sean
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« Reply #409 on: July 09, 2012, 05:21:44 PM » |
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I was worried that Kurtzmann and Orci were a bit too literal-minded to go with any villain other than the one from the pilot of the show.
But, having said that, he fits the 'Star Trek' mythos pretty nicely; you've got themes of "human turning inhuman but then gets saved by his own humanity", the Roddenberry trademarked "God-like thing", plus he's an old friend of Kirk's. (Though it's kind of strange that they specifically had Kirk at the Academy but didn't establish Mitchell, if they're gonna go that route.) He's not *really* a villain in the show, either; he's not malicious so much as overwhelmed and out of control.
It definitely could work, silly name aside.
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Wolfe
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« Reply #410 on: July 09, 2012, 05:23:22 PM » |
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Star Trek II: The Sound Legal Advice of Gary Mitchell
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« Reply #411 on: July 09, 2012, 05:26:31 PM » |
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Star Trek II: Gary Mitchell Gets YOU The Settlement You Deserve
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Tarrik Dane
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« Reply #412 on: July 09, 2012, 05:40:04 PM » |
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Why does there even need to be a villain? The best episode of TOS City on the Edge of Forever, didnt have one. Star Trek IV didnt have one. A bunch of good TNG and DS9 episodes didnt have a villain. I think thats why the TNG movies were mostly all terrible, they kept trying to have a Khan.
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« Reply #413 on: July 09, 2012, 06:02:29 PM » |
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Yeah, but the writers ruled him out last week.
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sean
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« Reply #414 on: July 10, 2012, 04:31:57 PM » |
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Why does there even need to be a villain? The best episode of TOS City on the Edge of Forever, didnt have one. Star Trek IV didnt have one.
He's more of a villain than either of those had, admittedly, but he's way less a villain than Khan, if they stick to the way he was done on the show. |
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Tarrik Dane
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« Reply #415 on: July 10, 2012, 05:08:36 PM » |
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Yes, I'm very familiar with him from the show. I just would like to see them try something much different.
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« Reply #416 on: July 10, 2012, 06:17:28 PM » |
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While I agree and am a fan of Trek episodes/movies like that, I think the days of seeing a Star Trek movie like that are long gone.
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"Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor."
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Steve Lilley
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« Reply #417 on: July 25, 2012, 06:31:36 AM » |
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Did anyone buy THE NEXT GENERATION: Season 1 yesterday?
It looks pretty incredible. As a kid I never liked this show mainly because of how cheap and stupid it looked. The Blu-ray restoration is night and day. There's a 25 minute featurette about the restoration and they show a lot of "Before/After" comparisons and some of them are crazy. I knew the old SD versions looked bad, but I was shocked at the extent of how bad they really were.
And the supplements are great. There are three new documentaries with interviews from EVERYONE.
Best Buy has it at $59.99 (or $54.99 if you trade in some random old DVD for a coupon), so anyone who's interested I suggest getting it now. If history holds true, nothing STAR TREK ever really goes on sale, ever. Even TOS Blu-rays are still pretty expensive and they've been out for years.
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« Reply #418 on: July 25, 2012, 07:24:53 AM » |
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Me, I bought it. I usually don't buy any of the Trek sets until a series box comes out, but I had a $40 gift card to burn. The quality is amazing. It actually looks better on my 92" projector than it does on my 50" plasma. I'm about a third of the way through it now. Loving the special features thus far (I've watched the ENERGIZED doc on D1). I aldo forgot that they set up Wesley's arc so early in the series.
I think I'll sell it when I'm done (since it's unlikely to depriciate in value) and wait for the big box after this though. When they start doing those cliffhanger season finales, I don't want to wait.
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« Reply #419 on: July 25, 2012, 07:30:00 AM » |
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I had planned on just switching to Netflix after I was done with the first series and buy the rest for future viewings/posterity, but I don't think I can. I watched the first few minutes of a season 7 episode on Netflix last night and it looks awful. I mean, I'm sure it probably always looked awful, but now it REALLY looks awful.
STAR TREK sets and MST3K sets are really the only two franchise home video releases that you can truly count on to never depreciate, so your plan is not a bad one.
I was skipping through episodes last night just to kind of get a feel for all of them, and my only minor complaints are some artifacting in the space backgrounds in certain places and a little bit of black crush. That's it. Aside from that, this thing is perfect.
It's also apparently selling really, really well. I got to Best Buy last night at like 8 and they only had one copy left, but there appeared to be two full racks of it when they opened.
Robert Meyer Burnett said that a proposed special feature for a future release is to get all the writers back together and have them break the story for a season 8 episode on camera, which is one of the coolest things I can think of.
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