Rating: 
Summary: For every silver lining, there's a dark cloud
Review: Well, for all you all or nothing at all people reviewing previously, I have to wonder; what's so special about a special edition? I like the little trivia nuggets & easter eggs, I like the extra features, but in my experience a special edition or directors cut usually changes the movie in such as a way that it loses its magic. What I see on the screen I like to see on my telly; most often adding footage and scenes just ruins the rythm & doesn't improve the story. Now, including the scenes in the bonus features, or having some way for the scenes to be re-integrated if you so choose when you play the film, that'd be swell!
These are movies, they're some of them special editions, director's editions, some are not. Take ST:TMP for instance. a quarter hour, 900 extra seconds of voyaging through V'ger. Some folks called this first Trek film "Star Trek: The Motionless Picture". Can you imagine what an extra 12 minutes without dialogue does? 780 seconds of actors pretending to be awed, overwhelmed, impressed? Even for an old school original issue Trekkie (YES! That's the *proper* definition for the fans who got the first space shuttle named Enterprise!) it's too much to bear. It's like an intermission. Rent a special edition before you buy it, lest you be saddled with a disappointing re-rendering of the film you enjoyed.
Rating:
Summary: For every silver lining, there's a dark cloud
Review: Well, for all you all or nothing at all people reviewing previously, I have to wonder; what's so special about a special edition? I like the little trivia nuggets & easter eggs, I like the extra features, but in my experience a special edition or directors cut usually changes the movie in such as a way that it loses its magic. What I see on the screen I like to see on my telly; most often adding footage and scenes just ruins the rythm & doesn't improve the story. Now, including the scenes in the bonus features, or having some way for the scenes to be re-integrated if you so choose when you play the film, that'd be swell!
These are movies, they're some of them special editions, director's editions, some are not. Take ST:TMP for instance. a quarter hour, 900 extra seconds of voyaging through V'ger. Some folks called this first Trek film "Star Trek: The Motionless Picture". Can you imagine what an extra 12 minutes without dialogue does? 780 seconds of actors pretending to be awed, overwhelmed, impressed? Even for an old school original issue Trekkie (YES! That's the *proper* definition for the fans who got the first space shuttle named Enterprise!) it's too much to bear. It's like an intermission. Rent a special edition before you buy it, lest you be saddled with a disappointing re-rendering of the film you enjoyed.
Rating:
Summary: For every silver lining, there's a dark cloud
Review: Well, for all you all or nothing at all people reviewing previously, I have to wonder; what's so special about a special edition? I like the little trivia nuggets & easter eggs, I like the extra features, but in my experience a special edition or directors cut usually changes the movie in such as a way that it loses its magic. What I see on the screen I like to see on my telly; most often adding footage and scenes just ruins the rythm & doesn't improve the story. Now, including the scenes in the bonus features, or having some way for the scenes to be re-integrated if you so choose when you play the film, that'd be swell!
These are movies, they're some of them special editions, director's editions, some are not. Take ST:TMP for instance. a quarter hour, 900 extra seconds of voyaging through V'ger. Some folks called this first Trek film "Star Trek: The Motionless Picture". Can you imagine what an extra 12 minutes without dialogue does? 780 seconds of actors pretending to be awed, overwhelmed, impressed? Even for an old school original issue Trekkie (YES! That's the *proper* definition for the fans who got the first space shuttle named Enterprise!) it's too much to bear. It's like an intermission. Rent a special edition before you buy it, lest you be saddled with a disappointing re-rendering of the film you enjoyed.
Rating: 
Summary: Ugh
Review: Why is it so hard for Paramount to release a box set containing only all of the Special Editions they have ready so far? Every Star Trek box set is like this -- several movies with Special Editions and several more movies that you'll end up having to repurchase seperately because they are not the Special Editions.If you're looking to buy something for the Trekkie in your life, I strongly suggest looking up the Special Editions individually and buying them like that and avoid buying the movies that are not out in Special Edition yet -- save those for future gifts when they get released. Whatever extra you end up spending by doing it like this will ultimately be saved by not having to buy the regular edition now and then the Special Edition later. Perhaps the casual Trek fan will enjoy this box set but even for the casual viewer, I don't see why you'd want the regular edition of some of these movies now when you can wait a few months and get a much better edition later.
Rating:
Summary: Ugh
Review: Why is it so hard for Paramount to release a box set containing only all of the Special Editions they have ready so far? Every Star Trek box set is like this -- several movies with Special Editions and several more movies that you'll end up having to repurchase seperately because they are not the Special Editions. If you're looking to buy something for the Trekkie in your life, I strongly suggest looking up the Special Editions individually and buying them like that and avoid buying the movies that are not out in Special Edition yet -- save those for future gifts when they get released. Whatever extra you end up spending by doing it like this will ultimately be saved by not having to buy the regular edition now and then the Special Edition later. Perhaps the casual Trek fan will enjoy this box set but even for the casual viewer, I don't see why you'd want the regular edition of some of these movies now when you can wait a few months and get a much better edition later.
Rating:
Summary: Wait till they release a 20-disc set
Review: You heard me. As soon as 2-disc Nemesis comes out, a 20-disc edition will more than likely be released. Get that instead.
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