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Summary: It's a great adventure!
Review: This is the best of the Star Trek movies and it is a great adventure. The other Star Trek movies doesen't have the quality like this one has. The special effects are really ground breaking and in most part better then Star Wars. Robert Wise is a great director and he really wanted to work on this film. The story is large and a celebration to the original series. If you compare this movie to the other's in the Star Trek franchise, then this is a masterpice. Jerry's theme is legendary and the actors are great. This is Star Trek, this and nothing else.
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Summary: Come on People they took scenes out
Review: First of all I am a trekkie, and I owned all the Star Trek Movies on VHS through Generations at which time I stopped waiting for their DVD release. I eagerly awaited the Director's cut first movie. Now there is the rub, how many Directors' cuts actually are shorter than previously released versions. This edition has deleted the 11 scenes inserted in the enhanced VHS version, sure you get them and other deleted scenes on the second DVD, big deal, I want them in the movie. You get the impression the Director never wanted the scenes after all it is his cut. Unfortunately, those scenes are important in explaining about Deltas and Decker's relationship with the navigation officer. The improved special effects were nice, but to be honest its been 10 years since I had sat down to watch the original version and I had to go back to find the improvements. If I had only seen the original unenhanced version, I would give it 4 out of 5. However, I enjoyed the enhanced version and feel cheated by the deletion of all those scenes, so a charitable 1 of 5 is more than it deserves. I give it this because the DVD version is supposed to be special and to me this does not mean put the extras outside of the movie, put them in where the director originally had intended. There is a growing trend where studios now put the wide-screen and pan and scan versions on sale separately, where they both were on the same DVD before. If this trend continues, it could turn many of us off.
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Summary: Feel less guilty about a guilty pleasure
Review: Ever need to convince someone DVD is better than VHS? All you need is this DVD and a copy of the "Special Longer Version" on tape. Case closed.
I have always liked the first Star Trek movie and now I feel like I have to be a little less defensive about that. The movie still has a grand scope (the other movies always seemed to me more like expanded episodes... not in a bad way), but it has been tightened up tremendously. And the sound effects are a real improvement. I always hated the dead silence on the bridge of the Enterprise. The new effects are very well integrated into the footage and unless you know what to look for, I don't think you'll see much difference in the "feel" of them versus all the other effects.
The "extras" on the second DVD are pretty lame except for the few scenes of the never-produced "Phase II" Star Trek show. I would have liked more in the way of documentaries of the making of the movie (and I could have sworn I saw a couple way back when on TV when this movie was first coming out). Anyway, if you like the movie, definitely get this DVD. And with the way this movie was treated, I am not going to be buying the other Star Trek DVD's until they are brought up to this standard.
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Summary: The worst remake ever
Review: I have watched star trek all my life. And this was the worst remake of star trek i had ever seen. I am becoming an editer, and after watching this, if they are popping out people like this out of USC and UCLA, i am going to have no problem getting a job. The problem was this. In the movie there are changes, witch it is ok to change things. But the edits they change and the places where they cut look horrible. Also the orginal one also provided mystery to Vger. In this they just about give the whole thing away, with the new cgi shots that look horrible. And after listening to the documtary on the second cd called redirecting the future, it sounds like the cgi people hijacked the movie from robert wise and tryed to make it what they wanted to. The only thing i liked about it was the two other documentaries and that was about all. And one other
comment. I feel sorry for the cgi people and the other people who worked on the remake, because they could of learned a lot from Robert Wise.
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Summary: one long lumberingly boring journey
Review: the best STAR TREK films are parts 2,4,6, GENERATIONS & FIRST CONTACT. parts 3,5, & INSURRECTION weren't so good. and so does this 1st chapter with kirk and crew. so i have seen the director's cut of THE MOTION PICTURE on dvd recently. new special effects have been added that we haven't seen in 1979. when the film came out december of that year, the movie wasn't even finished according to its director robert wise. the "finished" product is improved in the fx dept but this is still 1 slooooooowwww ride on the enterprise. lotta talk, miniscule humor and very tiny action. wise wasn't a wise choice for this film. to me, he was never good in making scifi flicks; 1971's THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN was another snoozer from him. then came THE WRATH OF KHAN with a better director, nicholas meyer and the film series blasted off from there. let's see what occurs with the newest trek movie, NEMESIS out late 2002 directed by stuart baird (U.S. MARSHALS).
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Summary: Review of the movie "Star Trek" The motion picutre.
Review: Having seen the original series of episodes many, many times over the years, and still love it. Including ALL of the motion pictures, I find this movie to be extremely boring. The special effects were very good, and all, but the movie was very slow, and the script was to me, not a Kirk's "Star Trek" script! I would not recommend this movie. I purchased this on VCR when it first came out after watching it, I was let down by what I saw.
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Summary: Finally on DVD
Review: I don't know why it took so long to release the first Star Trek movie on DVD. All other Star Trek Movies are already around on DVD for quite a while. I can only guess. Okay, there is not much action, but the story is compelling. I don't know why most of the people always think about galactic battles, when they think about a SciFi Movie. The best SciFi Stories are about People, Society and Mankind (like Arthur C. Clarks's "2001:A Space Odyssey", "2010:The year we make contact", Wolfgang Petersons "Enemy Mine" and Carl Sagans "Contact"). I would have given the movie 5 stars, but the acting was a bit poor in some of the scenes. I think this movie is not only for Star Trek fans or "Trekkies or Treckers". I think this movie is something for everyone, who is not a pure action freak and wants to think about a movie and its messages.
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Summary: I Stand Corrected
Review: In 1979 Star Trek: The Motion Picture was largely seen as a throwback to the old Hollywood style of Epic filmmaking. Lavish costuming, grandiose musical score, eye-dazzling effects and a multifaceted plot. The movie even had an OVERTURE! The problem was that this film had a tremendous reputation associated with it and that reputation would haunt this film right up to its December 1979 premiere. And in 1979 it failed to live up to it. A good film but unsatisfying. The later extended television version would just make matters worse. Since the story of this film and its production are well documented I'll just comment on the new DVD Directors Edition. In short, I take back much of my earlier criticisms of the film and say that Star Trek: The Motion Picture is quite good. It still leans too heavily into the Science Fiction realm to truly be a general audience picture but the return of the crew and their familiarity more than make up for the thought provoking plot. The restoration and final edits make the film flow evenly. The moments of slowness and boredom that plagued the original release are gone. There are still the odd transitions and unresolved plot points. Dr. McCoy appears on the bridge during key scenes. He looks around then exits. This unnecessary action is very noticeable and distracting. Kirk's desire to regain the Enterprise still remains questionable. His motivations are never addressed, just his obsession. Much has been said of the acting and look of the film and I still maintain that Gene Roddenberry's template for this film was 2001: A Space Odyssey. Star Wars, and it cartoon take on Science Fiction, all but squashed any hope of reaching an audience willing to THINK about what they were seeing. But that was what Star Trek did best in its first season on television. It made you think, wonder and dream. This Directors Edition delivers that and more. This film is now rated PG for absolutely no reason other than to appease the few who didn't want this film to be considered a G rated kid's movie.
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Summary: "I...am...Nomad--er, that is, V'Ger"
Review: STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE reunites the cast of the original TV series--for the first time since the show was cancelled in the late '60s--as the famous Starship Enterprise is sent to investigate an alien entity that is heading towards Earth and leaving death and destruction in its wake.Basically a thinly disguised rewrite of the classic STAR TREK episode "The Changeling," the film itself is, for most part, of interest only to die-hard TREK fans. However, the new DVD version has been cleaned up and improved in several ways, and the package also includes a disc of extras--tidbits such as documentaries and deleted scenes--that should appeal to casual TREK fans and aficionados alike. [Note: If...allowed a multiple rating system, this DVD would be recommended as a 5-star disc to die-hard Trekkers and a 4-star disc to all other viewers. The VHS version, sans clean-up and extras, would offer only a 3-star rating to both viewing groups.]
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Summary: A Quality Treatment
Review: After seeing this movie twice back in 1979 I had mixed feelings. Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack and the visual effects rushed together by Douglas Trumball were just jaw dropping. I still feel this movie has the best storyline of any trek film though it did come at the expense of some of the characters. At times, it appeared this film was to become the black sheep of the trek universe. With each new trek film it seemed more people began to shun the first film as a waste. Something to be forgotten. A few even said StarTrek V was a better movie. Imagine my surprise when the director's cut DVD appears. Beautifully mastered, letterboxed, reworked/added sound effects, cleaned up visual effects, new visual effects, added scenes, long sequences "tightened" up without destroying the pacing of the musical track. On Disc 2 is a lot of filler material which fills out the package nicely though the only part of interest to me was seeing actual footage from Star Trek: Phase 2 whose pilot episode became the first Trek movie. If you didn't like the film when it was released in '79, I don't expect this DVD to change your mind. Those who did enjoy it will find even more reasons to enjoy it with the DVD Director's Cut.
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