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| Star Trek: The Motion Picture |
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  (8/10)
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Runtime: 143 |
| Public Rating: 8.95 (66 votes) |
Director: Robert Wise |
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| Genre: Sci Fi |
Year: 1979 |
| Writer(s): Harold Livingston |
| Reviewed by: Matthew Coats |
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Robert Wise is a very old director whose directed such a variety of films. There's nothign specific about his films that makes them noticibly a "Robert Wise" film, but they are all good nonetheless. You have to admire the fact that he's like 86 years old and still making movies. He's directed everything from Curse of the Cat People to The Sound of Music. The Day the Earth Stood Still to West Side Story, The Haunting to the Andromeda Strain. Lots of variety, and lots of good movies.
When the time came, after much demand, to make a Star Trek movie, who else would they pick but the best director they could find. Wise directed some of the best sci-fi films ever, including this one. The movie is A LOT different from the series though.
It's been years after the crew of the USS Enterprise disbanded and went their seperate ways. Now, a big space thingy I don't speak sci-fi), is destroying ships and coming closer and closer to Earth. So all the Star Trek people get together to find out jsut what it is, plus some new people.
The costumes are a LOT different, and neater looking. Kirk doesn't wear that gross yellow shirt he used to wear... Now they're all dressed in red and look very uniform. A lot of the more minor characters all look older, but they're a lot better developed. Chekov's Russian wackiness comes off a lot better, Sulu is just cooler all around, Scotty looks even more Scottish than before. But Kirk... still... talks... like this. And Uhara that weird lady with the giant peice of metal that sticks out of here ear, is still a non-entity passed off as a central character. All she ever says is "Captain, we're recieving a transmission," about 90 billion times.
So, the USS Enterprise check out this big space cloud thingamabob that blows stuff up, and a bald girl appears and says that VGER needs to see it's master. After some pretty cool mystery solving and cool, but dated, speical effects they find out what VGER is, and it's pretty neat over all.
I'm not a big fan of Star Trek. I like the show, but I'm not a fanatic. So, as far as this movie is faithful to the series, I'm not too sure. It looks better than the seriexs (and with 8 sequals, the movies are a series themselves). Over all I give it an 8. It's an awesome movie, really.
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