Wonderful Movie

Sick Product of a Sick System

People are voting emotionally.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This movie has a bad rap and while the theatrical version is too long and in need of some trimming, the movie is actually quite good, with great effects and an interesting story. Sure some of the cast get the shaft in terms of having barely more than cameos, but the ideas here are grand and epic and worked well on the big screen.

Of all the Start Trek Films this was the least entertaining. The fact that no established writer wanted to write the script should have been the first sign to producers of a pending disaster. The story was choppy and appears to have elements of several of the TV story lines twisted within the script.The actors we stiff. That has always been the norm for Shatner, but even Nimoy, Doohan, and Kelly just didn't seem to have the chemistry that they had in the TV series or even the later films. And this film, coming off the heels of Star Wars, had to make the special effects even more special. Unfortunately,without a good story, the special effects are meaningless and Trumball and Dyskstra just couldn't carry the whole film. It's a good thing the had better success with Wrath of Khan or we may not have had the Star Trek culture that we have today.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture is one of my favorite examples of a movie that starts out promisingly but builds up to nothing. The premise, if nothing else, has sometimes been praised even by people who don't like Star Trek. The real trouble is, it doesn't do enough with said premise, building up to nothing. Anyhow, the good:-The opening scene gets the movie off to a misleadingly fast start. It's ominous, and it's a trip. Plus, we get the first glimpse of the redesigned Klingons. -The first glimpse of the Enterprise. Many people think it's such a lousy scene because it goes on a bit more than it ought to, but the first minute or so of it was the first time we ever saw the refitted Enterprise, and on the big screen.-The transporter accident. Some of us can't help thinking it might have been prevented, but it was disturbing, sound and all. It may have even been there to try to keep the film going, but that's actually a good thing.-The wormhole. Another Enterprise glitch that briefly jump started the movie. After that is when it gets the most boring, as the movie lumbers to a stop.-When (SPOILER) Chekov agrees wholeheartedly not to interfere with V'Ger hacking the ship's computer. A friend of mine once said that one moment was the only good part in the whole movie. Shortly before that was when I officially got bored. -The "Spock Walk." Most of what this movie's supposed to be about is here, though many viewers were asleep by then. Easily one of the most fascinating scenes in the film. Not sure how many people wrapped their heads around it, instead of just expecting a space battle or something. Star Trek TMP isn't as boring as almost everyone thinks, but it is boring. The V'Ger flyover could have been edited at least a little, and Robert Wise still could have gotten the point across. Ditto for the scene with the Enterprise in drydock. It's great that the movie isn't just another shoot-em-up space cowboy movie, but it didn't have to be just the opposite. At least (or maybe at most) space operas are fun (witness the Trek reboots), though stereotypical.The climax didn't make sense to everyone, but I understand what happened. It just wasn't powerful enough to justify sitting through the whole movie. So all in all, I liked Star Trek: The Motion Picture in some ways, but it's hard to believe that it took so much preparation and rejected, in some cases better, scripts to end up with what we finally got. Just lucky The Wrath of Khan got things on track.

I had tried to see this movie again for years, remove it out of boredom. I'm wearing it again. How can a film of space popcorn be so slow? As there is always that Star Wars showdown, Star Trek, because I wanted to see both. But the truth has been a big disappointment. I do not see anything to this movie. It is clear that it is forty years old and the effects are not going to be of now and you will see that they fail and of course this one shows what is done in chrome, but that is the least of it. But I keep asking myself when the adventure is going to start and testosterone is going to jump.The film is so special, that at one point two nurses enter the screen and go to the sick. In this movie everything is going slow.The beginning of the film is like a trip to enjoy the ship, but who wants to delight with the ship? I do not like the costumes, they seem ugly and not appropriate for this type of cinema.Photography is normal, neither good nor bad. But the direction, starting from that the film has a lack of total rhythm, there are many plans left in the beginning. The plans are not pretty.I do not think the actors are all right. Neither good nor bad.Personally, I stay with Star Wars