Nimoy: TMP Wasn?t Really A Trek Movie

[Warped9]

Remember also that a lot of actors of that era cut their teeth on stage in the theatre. That demands a border acting style to project what you're saying to those of the audience in the back rows. A lot of actors today get started on TV.

I'll say one thing at least the actors of old could enunciate and express themselves clearly. Today a lot of them mumble and are often barely decipherable.

 

[Use of Time]

Yes, Billy Shatner made sure you could properly hear every syllable. haha.

 

[Warped9]

Shatner's acting on TOS has often been exaggerated, in that he rarely came across as has been claimed. Comedians over the years have lampooned him to death to the point people think that's what he was really like all the time. Not so. He was usually quite restrained and rarely lapsed into the recognizable speech pattern so often made fun of.

Besides, look around you. Lots of everyday folks have distinctive speech patterns.

 

[Tallguy]

Since my three year old likes watching The Sound of Music and Superman (1978) a LOT I'm very familiar with these two films. And I've always thought that Christopher Plummer in SoM and Marlon Brando in Superman do a lot of the mannerisms that people give Shatner a hard time about.

 

[CoveTom]

It's funny. I was reading an old interview with Nichelle Nichols yesterday and she said the exact same thing: TMP was a good movie, but it wasn't a STAR TREK movie.

Does that interview happen to be online? I don't believe I've ever heard Nicholas interviewed about TMP. Always interested to hear different perspectives on that film.

 

[Bubbles McGee]

I agree with everything Warped has said. Also, I became very disillusioned about Nimoy`s acting talent when I saw how terribly wooden his acting was in Mission and in other non-Trek roles. It seems like he can`t play much else besides Spock. I think that TMP was probably the ONLY real Star Trek movie, but it comes off as so lame and boring because it reads like a 50 minute episode that was stretched out to fill a feature film length of time.

The other TOS trek movies were too Hollywoody for my taste and very far removed from the original style and genre of TOS and sci-fi in general of the 60s.

 

[Warped9]

I'm not ready to bash Nimoy despite things he might say. I've seen him do decent work in other things besides Trek, notably The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Mission: Impossible and the 1978 Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.

That said I was never crazy about his character in M:I. I much preferred Martin Landau's character.

He has an opinion, but nowhere is it written I have to agree with him.

 

[Greg Cox]

The other TOS trek movies were too Hollywoody for my taste and very far removed from the original style and genre of TOS and sci-fi in general of the 60s.

Maybe because they were made in the 80's and beyond?

 

[Uxi]

I agree with him: The Motionless Picture just has a different feel. It takes it too seriously... this is also when they went off the deep end with the metric/international feel goody in contravention of the near jingoistic swaggering Americanism of TOS. Disco McCoy and the "Decker Unit" make it unpossible for me to ever take the movie seriously.

 

[Use of Time]

I agree with him: The Motionless Picture just has a different feel. It takes it too seriously... this is also when they went off the deep end with the metric/international feel goody in contravention of the near jingoistic swaggering Americanism of TOS. Disco McCoy and the "Decker Unit" make it unpossible for me to ever take the movie seriously.

I think the story was very interesting. I think it was also a very beautiful film on the first watch albeit a tad bit colorless. Everything was so gray/white/drab. I'll admit that some of the scenes seem more plodding the more I rewatch it. While it did have a different feel, I don't necessarily think it was a bad feel.