I suspect the movie is going to play around with the concept of identity, and no one will turn out to be quite what they seem. When you consider the elements of the original movie that can be read as a trans narrative, I wouldn't be at all surprised if it goes as far as people wearing the faces or memories of others as digital avatars, or all the characters being simulations.
I acidentally repeated same message / damn my iPhone
Glitch in the matrix.
Yes, it's just a shame that Foundation will be exclusive to Apple's streaming platform. I'm already subscribed to five (I was going to drop HiDive this month, but then they licensed Yuki Yuna season 3
), and I can't justify a sixth. I'll probably end up doing the same that I did with Disney+: wait until there's a few things I want to watch, subscribe for one month to binge them all, then cancel.
Nice!, I was wondering if the UK was gonna get this. I still have my DVD copy of the 2001 Directors CutStar Trek: The Motion Picture was released in a rushed and unfinished state in 1979. It took 22 years for Robert Wise to be given the chance to go back and polish it in 2001, but his director's edition remained bound to DVD since the newly added CG effects were only rendered in SD. After another 21 years, and countless HD releases of the inferior theatrical cut, Paramount have finally re-redone the additional effects in 4K and the director's edition is coming to blu-ray and UHD on 5th September.
TMP is my favourite Star Trek movie. Sure, Wrath of Khan is fantastic, and is perhaps superior from a purely critical standpoint, but TMP is the only Star Trek movie that feels like hard SF to me. That plot of having to understand their way out of a problem instead of shooting it, the mesmerising visuals, the haunting music. I love it.
Very pleased to read this. I haven't even seen any Star Trek film yet! I feel like I should watch all of the series first.Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released in a rushed and unfinished state in 1979. It took 22 years for Robert Wise to be given the chance to go back and polish it in 2001, but his director's edition remained bound to DVD since the newly added CG effects were only rendered in SD. After another 21 years, and countless HD releases of the inferior theatrical cut, Paramount have finally re-redone the additional effects in 4K and the director's edition is coming to blu-ray and UHD on 5th September.
TMP is my favourite Star Trek movie. Sure, Wrath of Khan is fantastic, and is perhaps superior from a purely critical standpoint, but TMP is the only Star Trek movie that feels like hard SF to me. That plot of having to understand their way out of a problem instead of shooting it, the mesmerising visuals, the haunting music. I love it.
The original series was episodic with no ongoing continuity or character growth, so it's not necessary to watch it before the movies. The one exception is the episode Space Seed, since the movie Wrath of Khan is a direct sequel to it. I would recommend watching the first six movies in order though, since they do have some ongoing plot elements.
Well the series is still fun, though personally I adore the "trilogy of series" as I call it way more (Next generation/Deep Space Nine/Voyager). Everyone has different oppinions about Star Trek shows though.
The original Star Trek has some great episodes, though which ones people like tend to vary depending on what they want from the show. While I appreciate the drama in City on the Edge of Forever, I've never been a fan of the Enterprise crew showing up in 20th Century settings, which by time travel or the 'parallel evolution' hand-waving that excuses an alien world identical to prohibition-era Chicago or something. It's the hard SF, mystery, and military SF side of things that always appealed to me, with the likes of The Doomsday Machine, This Side of Paradise, or Balance of Terror. The latter in particular created the template for starship battles playing out like a tense game of cat-and-mouse between submarines, and remains one of the best examples of that style.
