IV: the Voyage Home (aka the One with the Whales)
It's got Doc Brown from Back to the Future in alien makeup as the Bad Guy. Remember that Main Character Death, where you don't know how the franchise can continue? Maybe we can write our way out of it! And maybe Sci-Fi can be a little schlocky, sometimes, as a treat. Picks up right after the prior installment. And there's a character death that you actually care about, sincerely moving enough to be one of those things that Makes Dads Cry.Īgain, it gets a lot of recommendations from Trekkies to people who ask "what is a 'Star Trek' and why do people like it?" Sure the beginning is a Meditation on Aging that 12 year olds don't relate to, but it ends up with a tense submarine-fight-in-space that they do. It introduces all the players and their motivations, has a beginning, middle, and end, etc. This is the one that gets all the recommendations, because it's more of a movie-movie. But look at all this cinematography! Sci-Fi doesn't have to be cheap schlock!" Somewhat unfortunately, they went with a model more like 2001: A Space Odyssey - "Hey, I know it's so slow and ponderous you're falling asleep.
STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE MOVIE
With the huge success of the first Star Wars, the studio looked around for another intellectual property they could make a Big Sci-Fi movie of, and went with Star Trek, since it still had fans, even after being off the air for a decade. I'm trying to recall my rundown of the movies for the Trek Uninitiated: Posted by Thorzdad at 8:09 AM on September 24
I really hope they haven’t smoothed it out too much to where it’s just like the rest of the film. Even the grain really added to the drama. The insanely bright, single point of light, burning-out the exposure a bit. It was so different than the film up to that point and that helped emphasize the alien-ness and power of what they were dealing with. I know the scene they refer to, and I always felt it worked incredibly well. The grain that was all over the place was stabilized and smoothed out. Everything was stabilized, enhanced, cleaned up. Well, when you had a probe going across the screen going, “boing!,” it completely takes you out of the movie. To take away anything that’s distracting. And a whole goal, from the beginning, was to smooth out the film. And we spent a month going in and focused on doing everything we can just make it look like the probe actually showed up on the bridge. The probe on the bridge always felt to me like the quality difference was so dramatic that I felt like the movie practically stopped and something else went in there that didn’t match the rest of the film. I actually liked this movie a lot, even though I recognized how unevenly long it was.
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