Re: Paramount Agrees To Two More Trek Movies

Snake wrote:
> "Jaxtraw" <jax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> Well, it was a pretty good movie. I liked it at the time.
>>
>> Watching it recently though I found it had that same curly-round the
>> edges feel of every Trek movie since TMP. They just don't feel like
>> "major motion
>> pictures". There's something just not blockbustery about them.
>> There's this
>> sort of lack of epicness, they've always felt like the throttle's
>> only at 90%.
>
> That is a very good point.  What separates a  *good* / *great* movie
> from the also-rans is that it understands the medium - the Large
> Screen - and uses it for all it's worth.  The movies that are
> considered the "finest" ever made - Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane,
> Gone With The Wind, et al. - knew that they had a *huge* canvas in
> front of the viewer to paint upon...and they used it to the max.
> Almost all of the TNG films simply miss this.

Insurrection is the classic example of course :)


Ian

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