I've been watching some of the Star-Trek: Remastered series here for the last year, and have come to the conclusion that the idea is interesting, but pretty hit or miss. Some things look good on the shows, and then some of the FX look very much like CGI, rather than what the original stuff that they seemed to want in the 60's.
What I wonder is, what do you think of remastered FX of images that seem to be coming out some. Of course Lucas did it in the original trilogy, with some intersting, some ham-fisted(Greedo shoots first. Greedo shoots first!) Spielberg did it with ET, with showing the G-men with radios intead of the guns that they had in the originals. Do you think things like re-imagining is a good thing, or is it better to leave things alone, or just re-make the whole film. Personally, after I put my original trilogy on dvd, that I got on laserdisc before, I watched the first remastered in theatres, and felt that it wasn't really needed, so the Death-Star blew up with a new 'plosion?
So what, I like effects, but it's story that draws me in, which is why I picked up the Forbidden Planet disc this weekend. Just wanted to get some opinions from folks.
What I wonder is, what do you think of remastered FX of images that seem to be coming out some. Of course Lucas did it in the original trilogy, with some intersting, some ham-fisted(Greedo shoots first. Greedo shoots first!) Spielberg did it with ET, with showing the G-men with radios intead of the guns that they had in the originals. Do you think things like re-imagining is a good thing, or is it better to leave things alone, or just re-make the whole film. Personally, after I put my original trilogy on dvd, that I got on laserdisc before, I watched the first remastered in theatres, and felt that it wasn't really needed, so the Death-Star blew up with a new 'plosion?
So what, I like effects, but it's story that draws me in, which is why I picked up the Forbidden Planet disc this weekend. Just wanted to get some opinions from folks.