I'd like to read this 1939 comic but I can't find any information about its publication history since it was re-discovered. Has Marvel published it as part of a collection? Is it in the public domain?
I know only a few issues were published and it was thought lost until 1974 but has it really been unavailable to the public since then?
The team included Lex Neal, Bob Parker, Bert Haines, and Monte Collins – but not Viola Dana (pictured), despite looking great in the uniform.
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Jerry Goldsmith was an experimental composer of TV and films from the 1950s through to the 2000s. In the upper echelons of movie composers, he holds his own against John Williams (Superman, Star Wars et al) and Hans Zimmer (Pirates, Crimson Tide) with his own pieces from Poltergeist, The Omen, Planet of the Apes, Mulan, Alien, The Mummy, Gremlins etc - basically any movie from your childhood that wasn't George Lucas made, had Jerry Goldsmith in there, somewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Goldsmith#List_of_movies_and_series
Star Trek The Motion Picture is often described as slow, plodding, "boring" (I disagree personally) - and one major complaint or at least major observation is that there are very long sequences of "nothing happening" except music and people staring at view screens.
This is notable at least 4 times in the film, each time taking at least 5 minutes:
The Enterprise Flyover - 5 minutes,
V'Ger Flyover - 5 minutes, and
Then you must account for many scenes such as V'Ger Revealed in which it takes 100 seconds for someone to say something ("V'Ger!") and another 60 seconds for someone to say the next line ("V... G... E... R... V'Ger!").
We actually end up with over 58 minutes of shots of "stuff" without any characters doing anything, or, if they are, that thing is just reacting / opening their mouths staring / pushing buttons to confirm what they're seeing is real etc, in a 2 hour movie.
I posit that Star Trek TMP isn't actually a movie. It's an elaborate hoax by Goldsmith to trick tens of millions of people into being listeners to one of his experimental symphonies, only this one has a couple of actors and some psychedelic visuals thrown in for good measure.
The entire production was staged, by him, in order to play with a Blaster Beam - and for no other purpose.
Obviously Paramount wouldn't greenlight this insane project, so he slapped a starfleet insignia on it, and made some lovely paintings and visuals and played around with them with some Paramount execs, whilst under the heavy influence of drugs, until Paramount gave in and let him have his project.
If you thought that TMP was slow, here is some of its music slowed down
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Its coming out in December allegedly, hope it does not end up on delays but no dismays
Why do people not like the first Star Trek film from 1979? It gets shit on by Rotten Tomatoes and I don’t really understand why. I like that it’s a slow paced film kind of like 2001 Space Odyssey. The movie holds true to what TOS was all about. Mysteries in space and I love it. Even the special effects, which definitely seem dated, are cool to me. But I dig retro kind of stuff. I just think the film deserves better treatment than it gets. Thoughts?
I was just going through the list of films that came out in 1995 on Imdb and was amazed by how many influential films came out in that single year. Nearly every genre had groundbreaking films all of which came out in a span of one year.
> Action: Die Hard with a vengeance, Golden eye, Bad Boys, Desperado, Mortal Kombat, Sudden death, Crimson Tide
> Biopic: Braveheart, Apollo 13, Nixon
> Drama: Leaving Las Vegas, Sense and Sensibility, Dead Man Walking
> Crime: Heat, Casino
> Romance: Before Sunrise
> Fantasy: Babe, Casper, Jumanji
> Thriller: Se7en, Usual Suspects
> Animation: Toy Story, Pocahontas
> Science fiction: Waterworld, 12 Monkeys, Johnny Mnemonic
> Teen: Clueless, Empire Records
> Comedy: Ace Ventura: when nature calls, Billy Madison, Dracula: dead and loving it, Get Shorty, Mallrats
People usually consider 1994 and 1999 as the best years of the decade but looking at this I believe 1995 also deserves to be up there.
It’s just a reminder; that is all.
