Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)'s comments

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badblokebob

Well, I found this to be a very pleasant surprise. It has a pretty poor rep (just look at the other comments), which I can’t help but feel stems back to expectations on its release in the wake of Star Wars, when presumably people expected a fast-paced action-adventure. But it's something different entirely; almost more akin to 2001 in its sense of wonder and exploration, digging into an imagining of a genuinely alien lifeform rather than running about blasting rubber suits with laser guns. Engaged with on the right terms, I enjoyed every minute of it.

3 years 3 months ago

Earring72

Terrific special effects, but boring and slow moving movie. Enjoyed the sequels much more than the first movie.

11 years 3 months ago

Woliver

Agreed whit past comments. When you feel you can't deal with the boringness, this movie gives you a mind blow. The V'ger entity is a must-see for sci-fi enthusiasts.

12 years 1 month ago

essaywhu

First time watching and I loved it. The version I went with was the Director’s Cut. I’ve been so burnt out with modern sci-fi action films and this was the antithesis of that. It’s slow with almost zero action, but it has all the old favorite characters from the show. It’s not a perfect film, but it was so refreshing not having to sit through a huge battle in the third act. Seriously, thank goodness. It was a big risk to do a film like this after Star Wars, and it appears to have not paid off since this doesn’t have a great reputation.

11 months 1 week ago

Sviggolo

The first half of the film contains a lot scenes with characters sitting around in chairs while watching screens with images of stars. In the last part it gets a bit more interesting though, with the existential bits at the end. The movie would probably look good in 1979, but it hasn't aged as well as for instance "2001: a Space Odyssey" or, for that matter, "Star Wars".

12 years 8 months ago

Zeltaebar

Some movies age like fine wine. This movie age like milk. The movie is an inexplicably expensive trek through the stars, which feels like a long and tedious episode of the show, starring most of the old cast moving through a paper-thin plot at a sluggish pace. It seems like the entire first act of this movie is constructed so that people familiar with the old tv-series can sit back and appreciate how nice it is that the old crew is getting back together again. The effects are unimpressive, but we linger on them for most of the movie. The crew has nothing to do except reacting to the effects with awe and wonder. I have rarely seen a movie with so little to offer with such a budget. The original show was about ideas and how the crew of the Enterprise interacted and dealt with those ideas. We are not even introduced to the idea in this movie until the very end and then we are served a concept and resolution so preposterous, silly and, quite frankly, stupid that it's almost so bad that it is good.

9 years 2 months ago

DisneyStitch

It starts off a fairly promising movie incarnation of the TV show with all the familiar characters (albeit in totally generic costumes). From there the whole film goes downhill. Only the hardest of the hardcore Trekkies will be able to watch this movie and give it a positive review. The film plods along at a pace that makes a snail look like an F1 racecar and features what seems like hours of the characters watching the ship's viewscreen and reacting in horror or surprise. Even the character of Captain Kirk gets no time to do anything with his character and the picture portrays him as an old washed up naval officer. Luckily the Wrath of Khan projected the series into warp speed and effectively saved the franchise.

9 years 6 months ago