Saturday, August 1, 2009

Star Trek: The Motion Picture


Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) – It’s terribly slow at times, it isn’t an original idea (see the TOS episode “The Changeling”), the pajama uniforms are terrible (they come in paunch-disguising and genital-accentuating cuts), and the usually-great chemistry is largely missing, but the film takes an interesting philosophical bent and it powers through on the quality of presentation and the strength of Shatner’s performance (see the director’s cut). 6

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