TMP poll

[SRFX]

First saw it on video - the super extended version, with the incomplete Kirk spacewalk thrown in and I always loved it as a kid.

And then the Director's Cut came along in 2001 and polished up my favourite movie in the best way possible. This is the version I continue to watch to this day.

 

[bbailey861]

I still predict that, in 50 years, TMP will be the only Trek film on the same shelf with 2001, Ben Hur, On The Waterfront, Citizen Kane, Gone With The Wind, Etc. It is an epic classic with incredibly big ideas and scope. (and one of the best scores ever). I saw it first-run and still enjoy the Directors Cut today.

Hearty praise. I expect that over this holiday season that I'll have the opportunity to rewatch this film, only in Blu-ray this time. It'll be the first time that I will have seen it in this size and scope since I first watched it in the theatre. I am interested myself in knowing how I'll feel compared to having seen it many times on a 4:3 screen. I do wish it was the Director's cut, though.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I still predict that, in 50 years, TMP will be the only Trek film on the same shelf with 2001, Ben Hur, On The Waterfront, Citizen Kane, Gone With The Wind, Etc. It is an epic classic with incredibly big ideas and scope. (and one of the best scores ever). I saw it first-run and still enjoy the Directors Cut today.

It's not that good. It wasn't that good in 1979 either.

 

[Procutus]

I first saw it in a theater and gave it thumbs up. I saw it six times theatrically (the only one Trek film that I saw that many times in a theater was the new movie).

I still think that TMP's Enterprise(both inside and out) was the most realistic depiction of a futuristic spaceship in movie history.

Like several others, I first saw it in the theater, December 23, 1979 to be precise, exactly 30 years ago tomorrow. I loved the film then and still do. It does have flaws but then again, what film doesn't? To me, it was the closest filmed version to how I envisioned Trek in my head.

And I have to agree completely with Valin about the movie's version of the Big E. It's still a thing of beauty, IMO.

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

I first saw it in a theater and gave it thumbs up. I saw it six times theatrically (the only one Trek film that I saw that many times in a theater was the new movie).

I still think that TMP's Enterprise(both inside and out) was the most realistic depiction of a futuristic spaceship in movie history.

Like several others, I first saw it in the theater, December 23, 1979 to be precise, exactly 30 years ago tomorrow. I loved the film then and still do. It does have flaws but then again, what film doesn't? To me, it was the closest filmed version to how I envisioned Trek in my head.

And I have to agree completely with Valin about the movie's version of the Big E. It's still a thing of beauty, IMO.

The TMP Enterprise exterior is great, however I loathed the interiors when I saw TMP in the cinema and still do.
I was somewhat disappointed with TMP when I first saw it - though I've enjoyed the various VHS versions and now the DE more as time passes (probably got used to it or something).

 

[cooleddie74]

I had just turned all of five years old when I first went with my parents to see TMP in a local theater three decades ago this very month, but even that young I can remember being awed by the ship, effects and music and really liking it even then.

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

I first saw TMP on VHS back in 86. I had braced myself for the worst. I've been hearing for years how boring and awful it was. Then I watched the movie and loved it.

It was big and it was beautiful. The FX, the sets, the music. The poster art. The story.

I was amazed that TMP wasn't a simple space opera like the other ten Trek movies but was instead more of an experimental film. A meditation on the subject of obsession. Kirk, Spock, Decker, V'Ger all suffering, all obsessed. Some (Spock) came to understand their obsession and thusly be freed from it. Some (Kirk) came to embrace their obsession. Some (Decker, V'Ger, Trek fandom) were consumed by their obsession. Obsession was the through-line of the movie and I understand if it was too heavy a through-line for most.

 

[Nardpuncher]

My theory on TMP is that it's like you thought you were going to get steak, but instead you got really good New York pizza.
You may be disappointed originally, but really the pizza isn't so bad at all.

TMP didn't feel much like TOS to me, but it was a grand, magnificent and even eerie spectacle that you don't really watch to 'jump out of your seat'.
This can also be said of the most recent Harry Potter movie....it was really good, jusy I wouldn't use the word 'excititng' to describe it. To some people thatmay be bad, but I think if you know before you go that the tone and atmosphere is not geared toward fast-paced excitement then you'll have a better time. Thing is the PR/advertising department will neve let a movie be described as anything less that "rip roaring!"

 

[Captain Robert April]

Saw it on December 7, 1979, first showing of the day at the Lakeridge Twin Cinema on Wadsworth (now long gone). My dad pulled me out of school for it.

 

[Starbreaker]

I've only seen the director's cut. I like the movie.

 

[tomalak301]

First saw it as a tape recording and gave it a thumbs down. Still bought the directors edition and it improved quite a bit. Still one of the slower star treks, but the heart was there.

 

[cooleddie74]

Even Roger Ebert, who can be notoriously rough on TREK and STAR WARS films over the years, gave TMP three stars and says it's an achievement in cinema even if it sort of parrotted and copied elements from 2001 and other iconic sci-fi movies of the decade prior to its release.