OMG about ten years maybe a bit more.
When was the last time you saw Star Trek The Motion Picture?
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I saw it when it was released in theaters before everything went bonkers. I might break out the DVD this weekend, though.
With my then-not-the-ex-fiancee, a few years ago.
It's easily the most sci-fi of all the Trek movies, though genre-blending is inevitable and not bad just because they do it.
Plus, the way they treat the ship - such close-up and detail and even scale that even Star Wars did not show, and the result is sumptuous and something you rarely see. The techniques used to composite various film segments was pretty brilliant too.
TMP was an event. Later movies also often were too, but TMP will always be unique.
It's easily the most sci-fi of all the Trek movies, though genre-blending is inevitable and not bad just because they do it.
Plus, the way they treat the ship - such close-up and detail and even scale that even Star Wars did not show, and the result is sumptuous and something you rarely see. The techniques used to composite various film segments was pretty brilliant too.
TMP was an event. Later movies also often were too, but TMP will always be unique.
Yeah, the backlight/frontlight technique was fascinating, even if ultimately it never gained traction due to its complexity it did allow for things that weren’t possible with chroma key
About four to five years old in a recorded tape that had three movies on it.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Airplane!
funny thing is my Dad was pretty finicky on the timing when he pressed record and stop. After the mother ship from Close Encounters finally faded away, BOOM! Jump right into the title card to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. No overture, no paramount logo, no starting credits, just right into the main title.
Oh, it gets better. The film cuts to ‘Airplane!’ only five seconds into the long shot of the Enterprise, so I never got to see it go to warp speed until my Dad got the laser disc. It was very weird seeing the opening and ending sequences in full after so many years of watching the whole film without them.
Also, very weird full screen placement. “I have an exterior visual!” But it’s still on the station commander.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Airplane!
funny thing is my Dad was pretty finicky on the timing when he pressed record and stop. After the mother ship from Close Encounters finally faded away, BOOM! Jump right into the title card to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. No overture, no paramount logo, no starting credits, just right into the main title.
Oh, it gets better. The film cuts to ‘Airplane!’ only five seconds into the long shot of the Enterprise, so I never got to see it go to warp speed until my Dad got the laser disc. It was very weird seeing the opening and ending sequences in full after so many years of watching the whole film without them.
Also, very weird full screen placement. “I have an exterior visual!” But it’s still on the station commander.
Maybe it was the only way to fit three movies on one tape.
Yeah…didn’t tapes barely hold two usually?!
it would have been funnier if the third had been airplane 2, by the way!
it would have been funnier if the third had been airplane 2, by the way!
I also liked taping movies on our VHS and fantasy and Sci-Fi was no exception... TV shows too. I had the whole TNG series once along with X-Files that I taped off the TV. Execs today may be livid. But I no longer has those so don't sue/torture me. J/k sort of.
Let's see, the last time I watched TMP was actually just yesterday in the Director's Edition as part of a marathon of the TOS movies.
Theatrically? Fun story there - it was the Fathom screening back in 2019, and immediately afterward I had to rush myself to the ER for some soreness that turned into needing surgery not even 24 hours later. Talk about a memorable screening!
Theatrically? Fun story there - it was the Fathom screening back in 2019, and immediately afterward I had to rush myself to the ER for some soreness that turned into needing surgery not even 24 hours later. Talk about a memorable screening!
wasn’t it legal where you live? It surely was legal here in Italy, in fact around 2006 a free service that let you “tape” TV programs and then download them as files started, got sued by Mediaset (berlusconi’s TV network) and won…and I had most of TOS-R on file that way (I had to edit out the commercials manually!).
I like the parts that aren't seen in the theatre version, like when we discover that the assassin (in the end) is not a Klingon but a human. I find it odd that they eliminated that part since it's only a few seconds.
It was technically but only til these companies realized just how much people were doing it. It was the same with those who taped songs off the radio. But it wasn't enforced. Its one of those things where no one was really interested in doing anything about. Also it didn't keep people from buying like they thought. Hell, I still bought movies and music.
yeah…I understand removing the detail that it was the major, as the character had bend cut anyway due to the cringeworthyness of the rescue operation scene, but mentioning the killer was actually human added something and could have been left in easily.
indeed! Those things are still completely legal here!
Just saw it on the 4k blu-ray. It's not one I return to often, but I appreciated the pedestrian tone a lot more. Like "2001", I get the impression it's trying to sell a real-time event for the audience to share and experience. Just as with 2001, it doesn't always work, but the visuals and screen saver effects do retain a sense of awe. Maybe more so, since it's a mind-boggling how they did this solely with optical effects (cameras, special lighting, slit scan, prismatic filters, through a rotating pinwheel, etc, etc...) and I continue to gawk and wonder rather than trying to find the fast forward button.
I watched the "Music Only" version on the 4K a week ago.
I really, really love that music!
I really, really love that music!
When I got the Bluray about a year ago. It was my first time seeing the original version since the VHS, I loved it. If it had Spock's line about everyone making God in their own image, it would have been at least 25% better as a movie overall.
Protagoras said that 2, 500 years ago. He said something like: "If horses had gods, they would look like horses."
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