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Apr 15, 2013 - 9:45 AM
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Ado
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Well I read the back of the package on bluray.com at
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Star-Trek-The-Motion-Picture-Blu-ray/19793/
It says that - "for the first time on blu ray" well, that is not true, it was released in the six film box a few years ago. The bottom of this picture states the run time at 131 minutes, which was the original cut. The other comment is correct that they decided to not release the recut film because the effects were in standard def. And as far as I am concerned, I have to disagree with Robert Wise on the recut, ironically, I think that the picture that they rushed to screens in 1979 is actually better than the shorter cut. In any case, the bluray of this film is terrific, sound and picture are really excellent, actually better than any of the five films after it. The widescreen photography is really awesome in the picture.
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Apr 15, 2013 - 12:14 PM
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Ado
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I don't care for the director's cut either. Then again I almost never do.
Agreed. I have to say after years of trying to like it, I'm just not crazy about it either.
In my opinion, the newer FX seemed a little on the cheap-looking side. "Off-the-shelf" software. And I feel that a lot of the cuts he made were good little character moments... like he was trying to emphasize the action moments in what was never an action movie to begin with. It was an idea movie. So then what's left? Character moments. Emphasize those.
I thought I was alone in my thoughts about liking the first cut better. I am glad that I am not. There might be something to the first instinct about the film being correct, while it is being made. (I also hated the changes Nick Meyer did to Star Trek 6) I hated the modern effects they added, I loved the long ponderous shots of the Vger cloud and the character moments. Yes, there were some effects boo-boos here and there, but now, that just shows that the effects were not so processed. It is also a terrific point that people say the film is slow and boring and not enough action, well it was not an action movie, no more than the original series was an action-show. If you watch most episodes of the original show they were fairly slow and talkative.
All in all I love the ponderous, sink into your seat and wrap it around you quality of TMP in the original cut. The film was remarkably well made, and comes from different era of film making not so pyrotechnic and low attention span. But I think you could argue that without the score it might not have worked at all. The score holds it together as one whole experience and carries it through the slowness of some scenes. If there is a list of pictures probably saved by the score, this is one for the list.
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Dear Octoberman,
I'd love to sit down with you some time and watch a side-by-side comparison of the two versions, precisely because my impression of the director's cut is that it restored many valuable character (and philosophical) moments which had initially been ignored or discarded in the rush to get the original version into the theaters.
Preston
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I found confirmation on Bill Hunt's website