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I love that film, but that wasn't always the case. I thought it was a total drag when I was younger. The director's cut with the much improved special effect and great sound has now turned me into an admirer of the film. It's also such a slow moving film (which doesn't bother me actually) you have more than enough time to marvel at all the incredible effects shots and hear Jerry's wonderful contribution. There is also a very likeable chemistry between the cast members, and it's always a pleasure to see them together.

One of these days I will have to listen to that commentary. I'm sure it's very intruiging.

Oh, I didn't know Mark Lenard was in it either? ( Played Spock's dad for those who don't know )

I like the slow pace of the film and we who are fans of Jerry's score should be truly thankful for that, it is very rare that any composer let alone a great one get's such an illustrious canvas to compose upon.

p.s. Critics at the time dubbed it STAR TREK THE MOTIONLESS PICTURE.

I think having a great affection for the original show and characters does indeed play a large part in enjoying this film.

Again I've noticed a divide many times, obviously it's an age thing, TNG characters are very much less appealling to me.

I've never seen much of any of the TV shows, the odd episode at times, but I definitely grew up with the movies. Shatner, Nimoy, Kelley, Doohan, Takei, Koenig, Nichols: those are the people I'll associate with Trek forever.

Though I do like Stewart and company as well. Just a little less.

Well I like both kinds. Watching Transformers, followed by Star Trek... I can do that.

I just use my brain in two slightly different ways though, well one way I put it in neutral.

Spot on!

I think there's an even deeper issue than the characters, although that's a major one. Gene Roddenberry -- as he got older -- seemed to have trouble with anyone who introduced conflict with consequences into his universe. TNG took years to acquire the sorts of stakes that regularly featured in the films of the original crew, and by the time they got around it, it was too late to shake the impression that everyone just got on a little too well. (Perhaps connected to the end of the Cold War and the brief sense that the US had 'won history' that occurred over the show's 7 years.) In this sense the reimagined Battlestar Galactica was a welcome shot in the arm.

Star Trek Generations has maybe the best character moments of the 4 four last films. On the one hand there's Data activating his emotion chip and the repercussions that has, secondly Picard losing his brother, and last there's the meeting between Kirk and Picard, some magical moments there and one of the reasons I've always liked that film.

"The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella"


This has to be the best telling of Cinderella I have ever seen.
Richard Chamberlain, pulling off his Christopher Reeve "Somewhere In Time" look, plays the prince, and somebody named Gemma Craven plays Cinderella (she's cute and innocent looking).

I've never read the book that inspired all these films, so I can't say how much was borrowed, but this version expanded on details and made the whole thing more believable in certain areas.

The film has some good dialogue, expands on characters, and flows nicely.

As opposed to the Disney animated film, where the sisters are ugly and treat Cinderella mean and she weaps and runs away, here Cinderella stands up for herself just a little, but ultimately she is treated like dirt and you feel bad for her, genuinly bad --- it strikes a chord.

There's some real character conflict between the prince and the king, adding more dpeth to the film and giving good reasons why the king is trying to marry him off to a princess.

The film, has musical numbers; I'd say a fairly big orchestra, and dancing, what not. On the rare occassion, dialogue doesn't synch to the lips -- obviously the singing was recorded seperately and layed over.
I'm sure they're catchy and good, but for the most part I just can't get through a musical, so I just sort of scanned through them.

The film is beautiful -- full of lovely settings, cinematography, colors -- it's cinenomatic eye candy. It really works in the film.

I'd say the only casting that didn't work for me was the Fairy Godmother. I think if somebody, say Candice Bergen, had been chosen, it would have been far better.

Despite being from 1976, the film doesn't feel dated at all. And the lush, beautiful arranged & adapted score by Angela Morley is a clear winner (though at times it sounds more like a symphony). The IMDB credit, which I have corrected (still awaiting the change) is wrong: she IS credited.


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-Erik-

Hello everyone
Need some advice, although we'll go see the movies anyway:

Is it necessary to have seen the Alien movies before seeing Prometheus?

Any opinions on The Amazing Spiderman?



What movies did we see recently... not many.

The Avengers in the theatres

And we watched Blades of Glory again on DVD, the kids enjoyed it too

Last week Date Night was on TV. I remembered it as a nice movie so when we watched it again I was surprised how funny it was again. I had forgotten about it. Not brilliantly funny, but more funny than expected kind of funny. Quinn and I had some good laughs.

Annapolis was on TV too. We were just zapping around. We missed the beginning but watched it till the end. Interesting how the kids experience a 'drama' as slow and nothing happening. After the movie they said... 'OK... so what was it about??'. When they see a movie is a drama, they don't want to see it (especially Julian) because they think it's either very sad or slow and boring.

No, but you'll have a deeper understanding if you at least watch the original. There are references and cool moments that you will go over your head if you have no clue what the 'space jockey' is, for instance.

And go ahead watch the second too, it's non-stop thrill ride and one of the all-time best sequels, my favourite film ever and that will never change.

And then you can watch Prometheus.

What Martijn and Gilles said though it's not necessary to see ALIENS* before seeing Prometheus.







*Though ALIENS must be seen by you at some point, one of my favourite sci-fi films ever and arguably James Cameron's best film.

I like most of Cameron's films, now I think about it. Titanic is least appealing to me because it's just not my type of film, but I can tell how well-made it is for what it is. I keep meaning to watch Aliens again at some point.