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Gaffer Tape
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Sequel Statistics Chart ~ OR ~ Sequels Suck and We Have the InfoGraphic to Prove it ~ OR ~ Anchorhead was right! Tell your sister... Anchorhead was RIIIIIGGHT! ~ OR ~ Sequals (thx Boost!)
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26-Jan-2011, 5:55 PM

Bingowings said:

ST:TMP...there is no suckage.

The whole conversation with Kirk and Spock about taking command seems to me to be a direct reference to Kirk's bumhurt of Decker in TMP something that wouldn't cross Spock's Vulcan mind.

TMP is much more epic and cinematic than the recent film and is about exploration both inner and outer which makes it more like the series to me than any of the other films.

The story samples a number of the classic episodes but so do some of the other films including TWOK which is more like a really good television movie than a piece of epic cinema.

Crap!  There's a Star Trek conversation going on, and I'm missing it!  I agree with pretty much all you say about TMP... but the problem is, the content is good, but the execution is piss-poor.  There's only about 45 minutes worth of movie there (which makes sense, considering it was converted from a television script), and the rest is just padding through special effects, slow, boring, several-minute long special effects sequences.  I remember the first time I watched it.  I made it through the overture well enough, but my jaw dropped when Kirk and Scotty go to the Enterprise.  Good lord!  The first 45 seconds (re: the clips they reused for Wrath of Khan) were amazing and epic.  It was when it went on for about three and a half minutes that my ability to stay conscious began to feel itself in jeopardy.  Sadly, it's a clear case of style over substance.  There's just not enough substance to balance itself against all the fluff.