Star Trek the Motion Picture Movie Clip

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The human adventure is just beginning.

When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.

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Star Trek - La Pelicula, Star Trek I, Star Trek 01 - The Motion Picture, Star Trek 1 The Motion Picture, スタートレック, スター・トレック, 01 - Star Trek I - La Película, Звездный путь: Фильм, Star Trek I: The Motion Picture, Star Trek 01, Star Trek - The Motion Picture, Star Trek 01 - O Filme, Űrszekerek: Csillagösvény, Star Trek: Csillagösvény, Стар Трек 1, Star Trek I - Der Film, 01_Star Trek. La Pelicula, Star Trek 01 - Der Film, Star Trek, Zvjezdane staze: The Motion Picture, 星际旅行1：无限太空, Star Trek - Le Film, Star Trek I - Le Film

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84/100

Methodically pure sci-fi; a world with icons instead of characters and vast emptiness in place of pop western operatics. "The Motion Picture" takes inspiration from classical cinema - an overture greeted me when I clicked 'play' and I was sold from then on - and the inherent fascination of movement; people, places, technology, and all the imprints they leave. Robert Wise, a master filmmaker who utilized dance (West Side Story), physical fright (A frantic, insane Eleanor in The Haunting), and an absence of movement for cinematic means (the alien visitor in The Day The Earth Stood Still is scary because he hardly moves), is in love not only with Star Trek, but with the movies and their romantic allure.…
the biggest blank check in Trek movie history and that is why I love it so
When you get down to brass tacks, this still has about 40 minutes smack in the middle that are just a bunch of people in awful, awful beige jumpsuits watching a big television. Even in 1979 you'd have to wonder who thought this would make for an exciting adventure, but certainly by today's standards it's so anomalously slow and pensive and thoughtful (not to mention the incredible miniature effects), and I just can't help but kind of love it. The spacedock flyby of the refitted Enterprise lasts almost six minutes! Unheard of now, and in fact I can't safely say that if such a thing were to occur in a modern studio event feature like this that I wouldn't be bitching about it being excruciatingly boring. But there you have it. Add it to the list of largely disliked movies I really have a soft spot for just because they are weird.
yes, it's incredibly slow, there's barely a plot and what little there is rests on your familiarity with the characters. but this is a beautiful movie to look at and i think that if you can vibe with its mood then you're in for a treat. best enjoyed with substances.
It's life, Captain, but not life as we know it.
-Spock

That quote could be changed to "It's Star Trek, Captain, but not Star Trek as we know it." This bloated mess of a film seems to take it's visual queues from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey instead of the television series it's based on. As a result the 90 minute story is ballooned to a 132 minute running time with most of the filler being that of a film that seems to be in awe of it's own visual effects.

The visuals are impressive however, but scenes like the introduction of the new Enterprise and later on it's passage within the space cloud are both pacing nightmares. While…
Symphonic, Azimovian space opera 2001 times richer and more mind-meltingly, synaesthetically hypnotic than many an alternate extragalactic fairytale. An ouverture for the ages lifts the curtain on a cosmic Wunderkammer; Spock rejects "the symbol of total logic" as he senses the approach of a being passing human (or Vulcan) understanding. The refitted Enterprise in dry dock, gantried in a glittering latticework of light; the return of a patrician Kirk, Shatner in his late forties with the mien of Caesar. But "my oath of celibacy is on record, Captain" says bald navigator lady. An Alien Entity, chaste and unknowable. Bones: "why is any object we don't understand always called a 'thing'?" Trance and fugue states, a shimmering polyspectral mandala, a prismatic…
100-word review: When Starfleet detects a massive, destructive energy cloud headed for Earth, Admiral Kirk uses his authority to take over command of the Enterprise from Captain Decker. Together with his crew (consisting of Spock, 'Bones', Scotty, Chekov, Uhura, Sulu, Ilia, and the demoted Decker) he sets out to stop the alien force. Star Trek? More like Star Tracking Shot! The series-reinvigorating Motion Picture may end on a cool, original note — although a bit too 'power of love' for my taste — but oh gawd does very little happen, besides some trippy visuals, for the first three-quarters of its bloated runtime.

Part of my September 2021 Live Long and Prosper challenge; 1st out of 13 films.
My apologies in advance, "Trekkies", if you are not offended; I'm trying my best here, but I'm fully hungover and haven't had my eggs and bacon and Bloody Marys yet. This movie is an unbelievably awful heap of dog shit encrusted cow dung topped with albatross poo and swimming in a healthy helping of elephant diarrhea. Now don't get me wrong, I can't stand the TV show either, which is an overrated and pretentious pile of fetid rotting garbage responsible for creating an entire class of cognitively insufficient and psychotic socially-awkward fanatics who worship the aforementioned rotting garbage. Avoid anything, movies or otherwise but excepting all negative reviews, with the words "Star Trek" attached to it - this is the best advice you will ever hear, yes even better than "Look both ways before crossing the street" or "Always check for dead hookers prior to accepting a hotel room". Ok, breakfast is ready, bottoms up!
I defend this movie at length -- the only way to defend this long, slow movie -- at ScreenCrush.
Watched on the big screen for the Star Trek 50th anniversary screening.

Like other nerds that attended this screening were telling me "If you've never seen it on the big screen you're going to be surprised it's actually kind of good"

I've been yelling about this for years but even for Star Trek this movie doesn't make a lick of sense. In case you're unfamiliar with this entry in the series, it's the one where the Enterprise gets caught in a giant space monster butthole. It turns out that humans are GOD.

I certainly have a new appreciation for it seeing it on the big screen. Those 10 minute boring sweeping shots turn into a glorious feast of 70's space visuals. The costumes are even tighter you can see every inch of these dudes dicks packed into the silly onsie uniform.
Into that Great Unkown: The Star Trek (Re)Watch Party - #1

I am not a Trekkie, but my wife is and has always been one. I grew up with a father who loved Star Wars and really nothing else related to film at all, so naturally I fell in love with those at a very early age. Thusly, with her and so many of my close friends loving it quite a bit, Star Trek has always been a bit of an acquired taste that I've found myself falling for more and more the older I get.

Maybe the most acquired of tastes is this one, The Motion Picture. William Shatner, after seeing the completed film for the first time at…
It should actually be called, Star Trek: The Slow-Motion Picture.