Too bad you had to see it on a plane ride! It's much better on pretty much any format, as you may imagine. But it depends more on script and characters than action and effects, so I guess that's why it wasn't totally deflated. Testament to the film, I guess.

I was tossing up watching The Thing or Dawn of the Dead, but somehow ended up watching Star Trek VI. Whenever I watch that film it's under random circumstances. Anyway, I saw it about 9 months ago and it holds up as it always does. I usually say STII is my favourite, but I suspect this is better made and better acted but I just can't get over the status of STII. I remember seeing this in the theater in 1991 and having my mind absolutely, totally blown. Remember, I was like 7, so the only movies I had seen up until then was Land Before Time and Honey I Shrunk the Kids and whatnot. I still have memories of that screening, despite how young I was. Top notch special effects--that hold up just as well today, mind you--tons of action, humour, great performances, suspence, spaceships shooting each other, even some gore, plus a breathless pace, with a political alegory that went right over my 7 year old head. Hard to ask for more for a little boy in 1991. I mean, Star Wars was long dead, and it would be another 5 or 6 years before they started making sci-fi action films again. This was as good as it got, and it still holds up as well as it did then--maybe better.