Mr Toad
Joined Dec 1999
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This was not a challenging movie for Hollywood, ideologically. How difficult it must have been to convince a studio to fund a film in which Smaltown, America is shown for the homogeneous, prudish, uncreative and, worst of all, boring, place that it is.
You get the sense the director had an affair and this movie was his attempt to convince his wife it was better for everyone that he did. It's a stupid idea and an entire feature length movie saying as much just shouldn't be taken seriously.
The acting was good, the casting was good, the technical gimmick of selectively coloring things was all right (hadn't we been colorizing films for several decades by this point?). But the arrogant premise was just too much.
You get the sense the director had an affair and this movie was his attempt to convince his wife it was better for everyone that he did. It's a stupid idea and an entire feature length movie saying as much just shouldn't be taken seriously.
The acting was good, the casting was good, the technical gimmick of selectively coloring things was all right (hadn't we been colorizing films for several decades by this point?). But the arrogant premise was just too much.
The makers of this film must have watched 2001 a few too many times while they storyboarded.
"Nah, let's throw in some primitive computer graphics stuff, and some quiet footage of docking and undocking. It's all the rage, you know. And I think if there's one thing sci-fi needs more of, it's transcending. You can't have too much transcending these days." Still, through it all there is something there. Even if it's just getting to watch out favorite crewmembers outside the Enterprise in spacesuits. And it helps to establish the theme through the original cast films that the Enterprise is a character in itself, always growing and changing.
"Nah, let's throw in some primitive computer graphics stuff, and some quiet footage of docking and undocking. It's all the rage, you know. And I think if there's one thing sci-fi needs more of, it's transcending. You can't have too much transcending these days." Still, through it all there is something there. Even if it's just getting to watch out favorite crewmembers outside the Enterprise in spacesuits. And it helps to establish the theme through the original cast films that the Enterprise is a character in itself, always growing and changing.