Star Trek: TMP Director's Cut (1 Viewer)

[Tino]

Laserdisc edition there is no comparison with bluray.

You're right. The laserdisc sucks compared to the blu Ray.

 

[Tino]

Of the current available home video version of TMP I would rate them as follows. The Blu RayThe directors cut DVDThe LaserdiscVHS

 

[Nelson Au]

I haven't been looking at all the new threads ever since I have been using the HTF app and reading subscribed threads so I didn't know about this thread!

I've been lobbying hard on the Star Trek films on blu-ray thread as you know for a new blu-ray of TMP DC for ages! I was also thinking that tomorrow is the 35th Anniversary of Star Trek The Motion Picture. What a missed opportunity. I just hope its out in a year or two for the 50th Anniversary of the Star Trek TOS premiere. I'd rather have it sooner.

Its like yesterday and my friend tried to get me to cut class to see it, but I waited until the evening to see TMP. Its funny that my memory then was how everything was so different in the film after 10 years of syndication and daily viewing of the series and the film really did feel cold, just like V'Ger. But now to me, the Enterprise refit is the best film version behind the original TOS ship. No other Star Trek film has the same epic feel that TMP does.

Here's a rendering I have been working on for my own personal projects of building the Enterprise in CAD. I'll post this to celebrate the anniversary. Of course it would be better to have done the refit, but that's my next project. As Scotty once said, N C C One Seven Oh One, No bloody A, B, C or D.

Shall we give the Enterprise a proper shakedown!

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Nelson - very nice!!

By the way, I feel the same about TMP - the older I get, and the more I watch it, the more I enjoy it. It's got some flaws for sure, but it captures the vast epicness of space and the unknown better than any of the other films. I used to think less of the film for not having a villain, but now I really love that about the film - there are no fistfights or guns and they can't just use their technology to get out of the situation. And all of the long shots of the inside of V'Ger are still stunning to me. I can't imagine a film today spending as much time on long, atmospheric shots the way TMP did. Sometimes modern editing is great, and sometimes I miss the slightly slower pace of slightly older films.

 

[Nelson Au]

Thank you Josh! There's also that similar feel in TMP that Kubrick did for that little film of his.

 

[ROclockCK]

Nelson - very nice!!

By the way, I feel the same about TMP - the older I get, and the more I watch it, the more I enjoy it. It's got some flaws for sure, but it captures the vast epicness of space and the unknown better than any of the other films. I used to think less of the film for not having a villain, but now I really love that about the film - there are no fistfights or guns and they can't just use their technology to get out of the situation. And all of the long shots of the inside of V'Ger are still stunning to me. I can't imagine a film today spending as much time on long, atmospheric shots the way TMP did. Sometimes modern editing is great, and sometimes I miss the slightly slower pace of slightly older films.

IMO, the reel saviour of Star Trek: The Motion Picture - then, since, now, and likely forever - was Jerry Goldsmith's masterful score. Wildly inventive yet wonderfully modulated, his 'tall ships'-redux music elevated even the most mundane scenes, and became the glue that held together whole sequences rushed to (near) completion with shots still missing.

I agree that ST:TMP has aged surprisingly well Josh. I always liked the movie despite its 'human misadventure' production history. But that Goldsmith score vaulted it to another level entirely. Never tire of it.

 

[Nelson Au]

I listened to the main score segment on disc one and two of the 3 disc set yesterday. I will probably have it playing again today. It's nice to have created it as one whole album in iTunes for continuos playback.

 

[Nelson Au]

This is pretty cool to read a thoughtful review from Roger Ebert:http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/star-trek-the-motion-picture-1979

 

[Scott D S]

By the way, I feel the same about TMP - the older I get, and the more I watch it, the more I enjoy it.

I'm in the same boat. Oddly, I never found the film boring, even watching it as a kid on cable (where the USA Network would expand it to as much as 3.5 hours with all the fat added back in). And I've said it elsewhere but, with the exception of Bones' disco-era civvies, the film has aged like a fine wine. And while it's flawed for different reasons, Star Trek V is another one that's grown on me as I've gotten older. (I'm only 31, but still!)

 

[andySu]

Decker, has been fiddling with under-age. Disgusting.

 

[Tino]

No need for that in this thread.

 

[Jason_V]

No need for that in this thread.

Thank you, Tino. Not relevant to talking about TMP.

 

[Tino]

Thank you, Tino. Not relevant to talking about TMP.

Exactly. But is anyone really surprised that member posted it?

 

[Osato]

Return to tomorrow is finally shipping!!!http://trekmovie.com/2014/12/08/return-to-tomorrow-shipping-this-week/

 

[Nelson Au]

And an interview with the author:http://thedigitalbits.com/columns/history-legacy--showmanship/return-to-tomorrow-star-trek-tmp-35th-anniversary

 

[Osato]

And an interview with the author:http://thedigitalbits.com/columns/history-legacy--showmanship/return-to-tomorrow-star-trek-tmp-35th-anniversary

Great stuff! He has a cassette recording of audience reactions from the flms original showing?? Crazy!I'm excited about the book. Really hoping the dc Blu Ray is on the way soon!!!

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I completely forgot I preordered the book until I saw Nelson and Osato's posts. Thanks guys - I can't wait!

 

[Osato]

I completely forgot I preordered the book until I saw Nelson and Osato's posts. Thanks guys - I can't wait!

Hoping mine arrives any day now....

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Hoping mine arrives any day now....

Me too!

I'd really just like it by first week of January - I have a family trip to go on and I want some good reading for the plane!

 

[Tino]

Me three! I mst sayCreature Features CUSTOMER services is horrendous! I contacted them numerous times for the status of my orders and they NEVER responded.