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Got the 4K Director’s Edition yesterday and watched it with my brother last night. It’s still our favorite Star Trek Movie and I think the pacing of this version is just about right. The movie whizzed by and held our attention even though we’ve seen it countless times.
Refitting the Enterprise (6:57): Redesigning the Enterprise from the 1960s version to the "A" model seen in this film. The fact that VFX finals arrived too late to be cut into the theatrical always made me think the wingwalk at the end could have been improved post-release, and I never got why the DE team went with low-rz CG instead of trying to find the alternates, unless it was to put their stamp on things (which seems to have worked with a lot of fans, but not with me.) Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection gathers together the original classic films featuring the complete series cast. Some went on to appear in later Next Generation films, but this is where you can see everyone manning their stations aboard the Enterprise.While each successive film may vary in terms of ambition and execution, it's difficult to dispute the consensus that these films are incredibly entertaining voyages. Even when the franchise is at its lowest point, there's still a nugget of an interesting idea at the center compelling you to look past the goofiness. The final film proves to be a bittersweet but emotionally satisfying final send off for the crew of great actors who began their interstellar journey to seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no other television series had gone before.
The opening titles
The first two images revealed by project producer David C. Fein at StarTrek.com show the USS Enterprise leaving orbit and the orbital office complex. According to Fein, they have been “digitally recombined with little to no loss in quality from the original negative of the elements of each shot.” Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition has come home in three editions. A 2-disc Ultra HD Blu-ray set, a 2-disc standard Blu-ray set, and a special limited edition 3-disc Ultra HD Blu-ray set called “The Complete Adventure.” This review will focus on the Ultra HD Blu-ray set and the US version of the limited edition box set. The Motion Picture The original shot of the V’ger model approaching Earth was replaced with a new CG shot of the cloud dissipating as the camera pans towards Earth. This shot was recreated for the 2022 version. The tunnel front end. Spacing is wide and immersive; this is truly the stuff of audio engineering bliss. The same holds for the iconic Jerry Goldsmith score (and all
Return to Tomorrow (6:04): More discussion on the production deadlines and rigors, visual effects work, and rebuilding visual effects to big screen, Wise's relationship with the film and desire to rebuild the picture, remastering the film, and adding Dolby Atmos audio. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier also gets a nice new presentation, with a correction to many blown-out highlights and the restoration of more natural-looking colors in a number of scenes — most notably during the Yosemite camping sequences and during the encounter with the Sha Ka Ree “god” near the end of the film. The odd blue tone disappears Uhura’s nighttime arrival in STAR TREK V. Highlights on the STAR TREK V campfire scenes are balanced out, and an odd green tone is gone. Given that the schedule was adjusted from 60 to 100 days after the first two weeks of shooting, and certainly went well beyond even that figure with how long they were on the v’ger set, would not come to any conclusion about Wise not getting to do reshoots (especially when practically the last stretch of live-action was a reshoot of the tag that happened at Shat’s behest.) A constant issue for the duration of the main shoot (not counting the SF, klingon, epsilon or new spacewalk scenes) was the concern that they might have to shut down to wait for the vger set … why would that be an issue if Wise could have just used that time on the standing sets to do what you are talking about?
V’ger emerges from the cloud
Star Trek: The Original Series wowed TV audiences with the boundlessness of space a decade before Star Wars hit the Big Screen, but its first motion picture had to deal with a world post-Star Wars.
NEW! Costume Tests (1080p, 4:40): Exploring motion film and still photo costume tests as well as some history on Star Trekmusic throughout the film). It's just incredible. The free-flowing space, the precision clarity, the perfectly balanced low end...it's a Trekkie's, and And now that all three versions of the movie are here in this beautiful, pristine form, which one holds up the best and do they differ? The Original Theatrical Cut I’ve just posted my in-depth look at Francis Ford Coppola’s legendary The Godfather Trilogy in 4K Ultra HD from Paramount. And let me tell you, the image restoration is breathtaking—as good as the 2008 Blu-rays were, this is almost a night and day difference. It’s really something. Best of all, the set includes all three films, including Coda (and two alternate versions of Part III as well), not to mention a wealth of new and legacy special features. There’s even restored mono audio on The Godfather and The Godfather Part II. This may very well be the 4K release of the year, so don’t miss it. The set’s bonus disc is a treasure trove for fans of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, including material newly-created for this release along with a nearly complete archive of legacy special features produced for this film previously. (And international fans will be pleased to know that the disc features optional subtitles in English, Danish, German, Spanish, Latin Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish to ensure that the content is widely accessible.) The bonus disc includes… Audio Commentary – With David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren R. Dochterman; New for this release.
Ironically enough, the Robert Wise-supervised “Director’s Edition” of Star Trek: The Motion Picture runs for two hours and 16 minutes – four minutes longer than the theatrical release. It also includes some of the scenes Wise left out initially, which surfaced in the interim in the TV version of the movie (a detailed list of alterations and additions can be found here). TMP is basically more talky than Star Wars, taking inspiration from Star Wars by being more visual, making it a unique Star Trek film because its both visual and talky in more equal measure.
TMP: DE UHD on FC Day
You don’t generally see a walking dog as a central character on Star Trek, nor a an old guy shooting lighting from his hands and screaming, powerrrrrrrrrrr!! like it’s a big budget panto show. (Haha)
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