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[SJN1279]

Post any thoughts of movies that you've seen or plan to see here.

-The last movie I saw was Bee Movie and I liked it a lot. I'm a fan of Seinfeld's humor though.

-That new George Clooney film was horrible though. It got awesome reviews but I felt it was impossible to follow and pretty dull.

Anyone else see anything of note?

[Grandpa Grizz]

It's not exactly a movie, but I saw the special presentaion of The Menagerie (Star Trek: TOS) on the big screen in high definiton last week They really did a good job on it, and I highly approve. The purists always have the original DVD version, and the rest of us have a picture that is free from scratches and has vibrant color and deeper contrast. It's much more 3-D and the closeups are stunning. In The Menagerie the Cage scenes that are viewed on the Enterprise monitor are the old picture that suddenly becomes the new picture once the monitor frame disappears. That really highlights the difference.

The old exterior special effects simply wouldn't work with the vastly improved picture. As was pointed out in the 'remastering of' featurette, the effects would have been done this way originally if they had had the technology.

Star Trek is iconic of it's era, the sixties, a time of dreams. This loving update in quality will insure it's endurance as a time capsule for future generations.

This post has been edited by Grandpa Grizz: Nov 21 2007, 8:25 am