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Hmmm....
By Jadzia-Dax

An interesting review to say the least. I think it comes down to being somewhat "non-committal". Image

Ie., a "compromising" review for a film filled with "compromises".

I think anyone who has seen me post comments on this movie knows from whence I come from with respect to it. There is some incredible music here and moreso, incredible effects, from the opening sequence with the bottle spinning in space, where as it comes closer to the audience, you can finally read the label to realize it was a bottle of "Dom Perrignon"... To the unbelieveable saucer crash sequence, something that I sat in a packed theater to see (one that had a sold-out crowd at a 1:30pm or thereabouts showing on the opening Friday in 1994). And as the audience braced itself for what was to come, all one could do was hold on as that massive saucer hit the ground in full Dolby Surround glory. And when it was all said and done, the audience literally sat there STUNNED in silence and awe. And it was good to know that the model for that was 12ft long because I figured it HAD to be big to get that kind of detail and massiveness displayed on camera.

And ever since, I had tried to recapture the power of that scene - first with the VHS (lol) and Dolby Prologic, and finally with an expensive upgrade to create a home theater including a brandy new laser disk player back then (a Denon) to be able to get the LD Dolby Digital AC3 version of GEN. At which point, with the addition of a powered subwoofer, pots and pans would rattle on their shelves in the kitchen, which shared a wall with the system. ;-)

The sad thing is that as I quickly discovered, the pan and scan VHS release had footage cut, not only from the actual saucer crash, but from other scenes that fully used the widescreen format (eg., some of the Lursa and B'Etor stuff).

But other than that in this film... Sigh. Kirk dead. Picard's Nexus sequence totally inconsistent with the character, Data sadly annoying, Borg knowledge now introduced back into Kirk's time (and if anyone believes that the El-Aurien refugess would keep their reasons for being refugees from the Borg "secret", is pandering to ENT syndrome), yadda yadda.

If anything, it will be interesting to see Moore and Braga's comments as I have seen some in written interviews recently. And I might even do a side-by-side check of the DVD vs the LD, but because my DVD now has a component video hook-up, I may not be able to put the LD in a PIP on the TV and play both simultaneously based on how my TV does the video options. I'll see.

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