Review Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Doctor Omega

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Your thoughts on this movie......

When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine and hopefully stop the intruder.







On to the next movie....

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-1982.252/



Back to the previous episode.....

STAR TREK CONTINUES: TO BOLDY GO PART 2.....

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/star-trek-continues-to-boldly-go-part-2-episode-11.4754/
 
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chainsaw_metal1

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I have attempted twice in the last few years to sit and re-watch this one, and I fall asleep every time. It's stunning to look at. The visuals, the colors, the effects. But it feels, at least to me, to be much too long. Only my opinion, of course, mate. But yeah, I just can't get into it.
 

Gavin

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But it feels, at least to me, to be much too long.
That's because it was adapted from a script for a 42 minute episode. It probably could have benefited from some kind of additional sub-plot to fill it out more. But it's always disappointed me that between the poor reception of this one and the wildly popular Wrath of Khan, the movies got pushed into the "must have a main villain" stories (the exception being Voyage Home). I believe that a lot could have been done with stories that didn't have an individual villain but were more exploration/forces of nature type stories.
 

Doctor Omega

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William Shatner called her a "stunningly bad actress in his Star Trek Memories book, additionally claiming that she took many takes just to say the word "No".





She wrote a letter to him after the book's publication asking "How could you be so unkind?"

Was it possible that the Shat was simply envious of the fact that her character figured so largely in the promotional material for Star Trek: The Motion Picture?

Or was he, in fact, correct?

Sadly she died at far too young an age.
 

ant-mac

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William Shatner called her a "stunningly bad actress in his Star Trek Memories book, additionally claiming that she took many takes just to say the word "No".

She wrote a letter to him after the book's publication asking "How could you be so unkind?"
That's simple - William Shatner is a major arsehole. It's no secret. Throughout his entire acting career - STAR TREK or otherwise - he has been known to mistreat his co-workers and fans.
 

chainsaw_metal1

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No no no! Kirk didn't transport up. He spent ten minutes in a space porn scene looking over her hull longingly from a shuttle.

Also, I finally found it! I don't know how many times I listened to this as a kid. And it's still not good.

 
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Elliot Thomas

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It plumps for a thoughtful story with special effects over action-packed thrills so, for me, the result is mixed- but more positive than many will have you think; boosted by great production values and a fine score by Jerry Goldsmith too
 

Doctor Omega

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Then there was the alleged appearance of Darth Vader and Miss Piggy during the film.

I can see Darth Vader. Not so sure about Miss Piggy though!

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Doctor Omega

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Watch Star Trek: The Motion Picture recut with the music from Tron: Legacy

It works better than you’d think


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Star Trek and Tron aren’t two things that typically go together, but filmmaker Patrick Collins recently mashed the pair together in a short film called Star Trek: Legacy. In this 22-minute film, he recut Star Trek: The Motion Picture and set it to Daft Punk’s fantastic score from Tron: Legacy. The resulting film works better than it sounds on paper, and makes for a really cool viewing experience.

Collins noted that he wanted to give the original film a bit more of an updated feel, while maintaining the “pacing and staging of the original.” The two films share some thematic similarities, in that they’re both about people being uploaded into computers. As a result, the introduction of Tron’s music doesn’t feel enormously out of place, and even like a natural fit.

Daft Punk’s score is the best thing to come out of Tron: Legacy, and while it’s a far cry from Jerry Goldsmith’s music, Collins’ edit mashes the music together with the visuals perfectly. The music drones as the Enterprise swoops across the screen or and soars during the film’s big action sequences. The result is a film that’s somewhere between an elaborate music video, or a particularly trippy Star Trek episode, but either way, it makes for a cool short film.

We’ve seen examples how changing up a film’s score can really change the tone of the film, such as with a recent Rogue One fan edit called Rogue One: The Battle of Scarif, which reintroduced John Williams' classic score to the movie. This edit wasn’t trying to fix its original film, but the results are pretty similar. The changes reinterpret the film and impart an entirely different tone. It’s a reimagining that could only come out of the massed creativity of fans on the internet, rather than a film studio.



 

Doctor Omega

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Okay, this is geeky on my part, but I remembered that a SPIDERMAN comic had had a frame in it where a cinema marquee was showing STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE.

Today I found that very frame and was able to find out what issue it was.

203 of AMAZING SPIDERMAN.... with the Dazzler in it.

What a pointless waste of brain cells retaining the scrap of memory for all those years!

At least I got this post out of it.... :emoji_confused:



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