'Star Trek-The Motion Picture' Directors cut arrived today, sneaked a good look at it while 'She who must be obeyed' was having a nap, good picture good sound, effects have been replaced, you WHAT?, oh yes its a director's cut, similar to what El Lucas did with his trilogy.
I miss that matte painting of Vulcan with its giant moon (I know Vulcan doesn't have a moon) its replaced with a couple of new matte paintings, nice though, the San Francisco Bridge matte painting is gone replaced by 3 new ones, and more new effects are dotted all over the place, we get to see V'Ger approaching Earth in more detail, in fact V'Ger looks like a huge detailed alien spaceship near the end of the movie instead of an enormous blue cloud, the effects are excellent.
And you get snippets of extra scenes that were in the tv version, Spock crying etc, and a few slight trims to speed things up a bit.
All in all I was quite pleased with it, but I'm saddened that the 'original' cinema version of this classic SF film will probably never get a release on DVD now.
ps. I havent checked the extras in disc 2 in detail yet, but it looks like most of the replaced scenes from the cinema version and all the missing scenes from the tv version are in the second disc, along with 3 documentaries, can't wait to check them out.
Disc 1 gets an A-
Disc 2 not checked
[Edited last by Steve Christou on October 30, 2001 at 08:19 PM]
I miss that matte painting of Vulcan with its giant moon (I know Vulcan doesn't have a moon) its replaced with a couple of new matte paintings, nice though, the San Francisco Bridge matte painting is gone replaced by 3 new ones, and more new effects are dotted all over the place, we get to see V'Ger approaching Earth in more detail, in fact V'Ger looks like a huge detailed alien spaceship near the end of the movie instead of an enormous blue cloud, the effects are excellent.
And you get snippets of extra scenes that were in the tv version, Spock crying etc, and a few slight trims to speed things up a bit.
All in all I was quite pleased with it, but I'm saddened that the 'original' cinema version of this classic SF film will probably never get a release on DVD now.
ps. I havent checked the extras in disc 2 in detail yet, but it looks like most of the replaced scenes from the cinema version and all the missing scenes from the tv version are in the second disc, along with 3 documentaries, can't wait to check them out.
Disc 1 gets an A-
Disc 2 not checked
[Edited last by Steve Christou on October 30, 2001 at 08:19 PM]