A bit of both. I just like being able to relax and enjoy a film without the added unpredictability of a bunch of performing sea lions clapping and whooping at everything that happens on screen.
30 Years of The Motion Picture
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I have a whole passel of TMP trading/bubble gum cards from '79.
Might be the entire set.
Most definitely. Although I had already read the novelization a month before (the movie didn't premier here in Cleveland until the 21st of December and I didn't see it until the 23rd), I was quite enamored with what I saw on the big screen. It's still my favorite Trek film, 30 years later.
I was nine years old and my parents took me to see it for my birthday. I remember enjoying it, but I kept waiting for someone to shoot a phaser pistol. My Dad who enjoys ST fell asleep during the Kirk/Scotty shuttle approach to the Enterprise. The hair was standing up on my neck during that part. That is the best looking Enterprise ever.
I think it holds up pretty well after 30 years. It wasn't TOS from the 60s nor was it trying to be Star Wars, but it had an epic sort of feel to it. It is more like 2001 than any kind of action popcorn flick. The characters did act differently, but they were at different stages in their life an career. I enjoyed it then and still do 30 years later.
I think it holds up pretty well after 30 years. It wasn't TOS from the 60s nor was it trying to be Star Wars, but it had an epic sort of feel to it. It is more like 2001 than any kind of action popcorn flick. The characters did act differently, but they were at different stages in their life an career. I enjoyed it then and still do 30 years later.
My first experience with TMP was on video and I liked it!
The first time I saw this movie was on a taped ABC version from the mid 80s. It was even the special longer version.
I always remember being enamored with this movie. Even as a 6 year old. Something about the overall look, music, and special effects kept making me want to watch it over and over again. And I must say I've watched TMP more times than Khan over the years.
A lot of people think the characters acted out of character, yet the story was set up so the crew had been separated for years. Think of any situation where you haven't been around friends for years. The first couple of days are a bit awkward.
The Klingon attack in the beginning was probably enough to keep people coming back to see it in the theatres back in 1979. Certain scenes were highlights. That one, the wormhole incident, seeing the Enterprise go to warp, Spocks spacewalk, and the very ending of the film. So even though certain parts in the middle dragged, it had enough scenes that had good enough replay value to probably make people wanna see it again and again on the big screen.
If only they had CGI back in 1979, you could have had whole armadas of ships getting obliterated by Vejur.
I always remember being enamored with this movie. Even as a 6 year old. Something about the overall look, music, and special effects kept making me want to watch it over and over again. And I must say I've watched TMP more times than Khan over the years.
A lot of people think the characters acted out of character, yet the story was set up so the crew had been separated for years. Think of any situation where you haven't been around friends for years. The first couple of days are a bit awkward.
The Klingon attack in the beginning was probably enough to keep people coming back to see it in the theatres back in 1979. Certain scenes were highlights. That one, the wormhole incident, seeing the Enterprise go to warp, Spocks spacewalk, and the very ending of the film. So even though certain parts in the middle dragged, it had enough scenes that had good enough replay value to probably make people wanna see it again and again on the big screen.
If only they had CGI back in 1979, you could have had whole armadas of ships getting obliterated by Vejur.
Far be it for me to question your memories, but I'd guess you actually saw it several months later at the Varsity Theater. My first viewing of TMP was at the old Fox Theater in Provo on December 7th (where future friends of mine were dressed up in costume for the premiere, and someone had built a big cardboard replica of the new Enterprise and mounted it above the theater lobby.)
It was still playing first-run when I got back to Provo after the holiday break in January. Movies didn't usually make it to a second-run venue like the Varsity Theater until months after release. It seems unlikely BYU would've been able to screen a movie on campus while it was still running at theaters a few blocks off campus.
It was the same in Australia.
The only place to see ST:TMP in Sydney when it was in first-run was the Paramount in Sydney's CBD. It wasn't till the May school holidays that it was doing the rounds of all the suburban cinemas and then, by the August school holidays, it had reached vacation centre makeshift cinemas in suburban public meeting halls.
You are right to question my memories, because you are absolutely correct. The first time was at the good old Fox at 12th N. and 2nd West. The Varsity was the second time, and it was probably quite a bit later as you say. Somehow I had combined the two, maybe because that was the only movie I ever saw at the Varsity.
Do you remember if The Black Hole was the first PG movie ever shown at the Scera in Orem, or am I mis-remembering that, too?!
Thanks for the refresher,
Justin
two things:1. the series enterprise with the glowing nacelle caps is way better than the enterprise in the movies, always has been, always will be....2. star trek:the motion picture, aside from the sequence with the klingon squadron getting its ass handed to it by v'ger(which is wonderful)is a huge pile of junk, which only shows how even a great filmmaker like robert wise, just didn't get star trek,and it really shows here
Totally disagree. You're dissing the film that made me a fan of Star Trek, the science fiction genre - and Robert Wise films. ST:TMP has its faults, but they are swept away by the sheer majesty of this film.
I can't remember if I saw The Black Hole at the Scera, but it's likely I did. I've tried to suppress all memories of that steaming pile. (I refer to the movie, not the theater, which was OK in that era. They later restored it to epic glory, but I believe that was later.)
It was kind of reassuring that someone could release a sci-fi blockbuster the same month as TMP that was even worse... It gave me something to make fun of while I was licking my wounds over the epic disappointment that was The Motion Picture.
Just watched TMP DE with my wife (who is a moderate trek fan), she quite enjoyed it. I am a great supporter of this film, though it has been a while since I saw it, but it is a marvel to see how well (visually and thematically) this film holds up to other later trek films. I am also a great fan of Trek XI, and see where JJ was informed by TMP in a variety of his visuals (as well as Pike's admiral uni) May TMP live long and prosper!!!
trevanian
Rear Admiral
Most people have a hard time accepting this, but for me Spielberg's 1941 was the most enjoyable pic to come out of that awful month. Then again, if you look ahead two months and backward two months, you have two of my alltime favorite films, APOCALYPSE NOW and ALL THAT JAZZ, so those also assuage the agony of firstviewing TMP and that HOLE thing (which I have to admit I bought for $1.99 on DVD recently, just for the CYGNUS lighting up sequence and to be able to laugh at the absurdity of the 'search for habitable life' line.)
^1941 
startrekrcks
Fleet Captain
here is a pic of the director's Edition if you like enjoy
