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Jul 30, 2019 - 7:10 AM
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jackfu
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I enjoy(ed) STTMP immensely – in 1979 & in 2019. It accomplished much of what I assume was intended – Star Trek the Original Series on a grand scale. Full-blown, state-of-the-art effects, big story, big ending, big cast, etc. At last! – Our favorite sci-fi TV show, given the special effects budget we always wanted and felt it (we) deserved; an Enterprise with real windows and lights, engines that looked like they might actually could drive it to Warp Factor 10, the correct visual impression of scale, on and on we could go. So, yes, it accomplished much of its goal.
Yet, in some ways I liken it to The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour film – as far as my disappointment with it, in contrast with A Hard Day’s Night and Help – both of which were great. I’m paraphrasing someone else’s words from a long time ago, but MMT came off as a film that was made with no real story, just the hope that the cast could get together and magic would happen.
To me, the chemistry between the actors/characters in TMP just wasn’t quite the magic it was in the TV show.
That said, TWOK was more of a return to the “intimacy” of TOS, cast – wise, and I feel it balanced and complemented TMP.
Had TMP been the only film entry, I would have been left feeling somewhat let down, and I would have been ok if TWOK had been the finale.
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Scott, are you saying that the tears moment was snipped on the Director's cut?
Because it's still there.
Nope, I meant it was a mistake to lose it in the theatrical. I could have been more clear. I was saying why I don't feel the theatrical is really the most effective version of the film.
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I've never understood the hate for TMP. I was absolutely blown away when I saw it on the big screen on release. It was a genuine feature film - as the title itself states. Maybe it had more of Roddenberry's loftier ideas, and you can feel elements (eg. the command structure onboard the Enterprise) of the pilots and the Next Generation in it.
For me there are two main ways of looking at this first cinema installment.
First it's a Star Trek feature made as if it was in the wake of 2001 (those lofty ideas), whereas Wrath of Khan feels like it was made in the sf boom created by Star Wars. 2001 didn't create a movie boom as such and so studios didn't bankroll sf films as a mega popular genre like they did after Star Wars. 2001 was more of a critical success, Star Wars of course the commercial one. The only thing to try and emulate 2001 as a space opera was Trek's first tv rival attempt, Space 1999.
Second, I look at TMP as another pilot where everything is being set up (this time for the cinema), and the rest of the movies are the series, where the character interplay etc., is settling down into a regular show.
I'm happy with both approaches. I don't see why it has to be one or the other. Of course we might argue the best of both worlds is to get the balance right every time. But movie history shows us time and again that's not as easy as we'd like it to be.
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