I Believe the original Star Trek movies, after the first one, are vastly superioir to the TNG ones, even though TNG was the better series. Though I enjoyed the new one except I hated what they did with the Spock character. They made him into one of those whiney emotional Enterprise Vulcans. I'll still go to see a new one of those movies.
I would agree with a few exceptions:
1. Star Trek 5 is crap. It's not as bad as Star Trek 1, but it's still worse than even Insurrection.
2. I will argue that Star Trek Generations is at least as good as Star Trek 3, and is certainly better than Star Trek 5.
3. First Contact is IMO as good as the best of the Original Series movies (2, 4, and 6). It's probably my favorite Trek movie, and it alone makes up for the massive amounts of disappointment that were the TNG movies.
I recently sat down and watched the
Beetlejuice Blu-Ray. That movie gets stranger every time I see it. Some aspects of the movie come off a little too goofy or cheesy now than I remember it, but I still really enjoy the movie. The acting's solid, the story has a good flow to it, the production design is still
amazing in its sheer oddity (it's probably the purest expression of Tim Burton's art style), and the special effects are...well, ok they look like crap now, but I get the feeling that like Ghostbusters the effects were never really intended to look "good", exactly.
Something that's always bugged me, though: why is the movie called "Beetlejuice", and why do characters in the movie call him that? Whenever we see the name written out
during the movie, it's written as "Betelgeuse". The Maitlands even pronounce it "Beetle-gice", and then all of a sudden they use the more familiar pronunciation. Weird.
As for the Blu-Ray, it's one of the laziest I've seen so far. The transfer is decent, though dark scenes seem to suffer a bit. The real culprit is the appalling lack of extras of
any sort outside a few assorted episodes of the cartoon series (which hasn't aged well and I don't find very good now) and a music-only audio track. And that's it. We don't even get a commentary track from Tim Burton. This movie deserves a lot better than this.