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Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition

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I love this directors cut. The added effects showing more of Vgir are excellent. Planet vulcan redone in the beginning is much better than original one. Only thing I dont like is the explosion they added for destruction of asteroid when trying to get to warp speed. Looks to cartoonish and looks obviously composited and to rich in color. The original one was fine. I wish they would put that one back. I was satisfied with the extras. I like this movie better than others because it seems more big in scope and vision like a 2001. I am not in a hurry when I watch so I dont mind the slower pace sometimes. The other movies are more like tv series style which is good but not as thought provoking and space doesnt seem as deep and spacious if that makes sense. I hope they do directors cut on blu-ray...and with luck they put the old explosion back in.

Beautiful homage to the original intent. Amazing V'GER in full light! The new spoundtrack with sound effects in place makes it worth it alone!

I am a longtime Star Trek fan, but this movie is a real snoozer. There is virtually no action in this film. There's no moral force acting in the plot, and the film doesn't bother to even speculate what meaning the ending has. Admiral Kirk is depicted as connivingly seizing command of the Enterprise, then incompetently commanding. Spock is shown with zero personality. Whatever sex appeal the movie might have had was tossed out the window when they shaved Ilia's head. If you don't believe me on how bad this film is, just go read its entry in W1kipedia. The actors hated the script, the costumes, and had no camraderie. The only saving grace of the film is that it was clearly the inspiration for Galaxy Quest.

This movie is a fine example of how editing should not be done, around litterly half of the movie could have been edited out and you would have been left with something better in the end. The directors edition instead of making an effort to cut scenes that really just slow things down they decided to make the movie even LONGER. The movie does not have the charm or interest of the TV series that came before it. It starts off slow, its slow in the middle, they felt that the long sweeping shots of things in space would make people excited but it only slow things down. For example for several minutes of the film we see the crew just staring at the inside of V*Ger which is not a whole lot to see other then some flashy effects this scene could have been cut down and just shown the jist of it.

Every Star Trek movie after this one does capture the feel of the series it represents and is fun to watch but this movie is really only for those who are die hard trek fans. though it does not hurt to watch it at least once for Trek Fans but its just in my opinion the worst Star Trek movie ever made its basically two hours of flying through space gawking over V*Ger and trying to communicate with it and stop it from blowing up things. Yeah really exciting.

They could have taken any one of the episodes of the 3 years of the original series and expanded it into a movie and it would have been better then this.

I would recommend any of the 10 movies that came after this one. Only worth if if you buy it in a set.