Thursday, July 21, 2011

Day 34: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)


What better way to kick off the first day of Comic-Con than with the grand-daddy of nerdiness itself: Star Trek.

Starring: William Shatner, Nichelle Nichols, Leonard Nimoy
Directed by: Robert Wise

The Positives:

- Bones look like Barry Gibb in his very first scene. What a badass.
- Some of the banter betwixt the crew members is both smart and funny. At times... Really only when Bones is talking.
- 'Bout time somebody was killed via transporter.
- The wormhole's cheap Photoshop blur effect won me over. I don't have any idea how.
- Somehow, the film-makers (or better yet, the make-up department) actually made a bald chick sexy. Congrats all around.

The Negatives:

- A good portion of the effects look dated, even for the 1979.
- The movie sets off on a slow start. It doesn't get much more exciting. The film-makers seemed to focus more on the effects than the story, treating their outer space shots like they were being filmed for '2001: A Space Odyssey'. It doesn't come off as mesmerizing but tedious instead.
- Besides the 'Star Trek' theme song peppered throughout, the score was nonexistent or extremely unoriginal.
- The new Enterprise uniforms look bleak and devoid of all personality.
- I feel like I should feel something toward Decker. Whatever it is, I'm sure it's not supposed to be detest.
- The living machine cloud that served as the antagonist of this film reminded me of a mute Melllvar from 'Futurama' and Kirk of Zapp Brannigan. Actually... I found that to be pretty entertaining in its own right.
- I honestly stop caring about this movie by the half-way mark and started thinking about better uses of my time.

Grade: D

The biggest flaw of the film is that it's just plain boring, which says alot considering this film is about an intergalactic star fleet fighting against a giant machine.

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