Anim8rFSK wrote:
> In article <45cb8921$0$334$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
> "Wouter Valentijn" wrote:
>
>> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>>> In article
newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net>,
>>> "GeneK" genek_hates_spammers.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> "Steven L."
earthlinkNOSPAM.net> wrote...>>>>> Here's a video preview of the remastered "Doomsday Machine," which
>>>>> will probably be broadcast this weekend.
>>>>
>>>> I think I've figured out what bothers me most about the CGI.
>>>> It's the contrast. If I jack contrast up about 50%% on the new
>>>> space scenes they start to look not too bad. Unfortunately,
>>>> the contrast that makes the space scenes look better washes
>>>> out all the other shots in the episode.
>>>>
>>>> GeneK
>>> It looks terrible. It's like they've given up any pretense of making
>>> it match the original footage, and they're just gonna make it look
>>> like what it is: low end CGI.
>>>
>>> Our old buddies the nacelle caps are the worst they've ever looked,
>>> the detail on the model is wrong, the Doomsday Machine is a dull flat
>>> gray, and the restaging of the 2 shot from above of the Enterprise
>>> and the Constellation is NOT an improvement.
>> I agree 100%%.
>
> Hey Wouter!
I'm still trying to pin down which bothers you more: the relatively
poor (by today's standards) quality of the digital SFX, or the fact that
they have re-interpreted and re-imagined the choreography of the scenes:
Let's pretend for a moment that they had used the best state-of-the-art
digital SFX rendering, from Pixar maybe. But they still changed the
choreography so that the Big E is swooping around the screen like a
fighter-bomber in a video game, rather than moving majestically like the
giant stately "ship of the line" we were used to seeing. Would that be
acceptable to you? Or does the re-imagining bother you at least as much
as the substandard digital SFX?
Because Roddenberry's original conception was Captain Kirk as "Captain
Horatio Hornblower." And Captain Hornblower was not a fighter pilot:
http://www.solarnavigator.net/images/explorers_history/indefatigable.jpg
And for them to call such a *conceptual* change "remastering" is bogus.
--
Steven D. Litvintchouk
Email: sdlitvin@
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