Star trek the motion picture3/16/2023 (Watch for our review in this year’s Holiday Gift Guide.) There’s also the “Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection” boxed set, upgraded from last year’s “Original 4-Movie Collection” to now encompass Star Trek V and VI in addition to The Director’s Edition and the theatrical cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Most indulgent, is the “Director’s Edition Complete Adventure,” a deluxe presentation of the movie with ample bonus content and nostalgic tchotchkes. There are several different ways to add this latest Director’s Edition to your collection. Rather, this new edition is a ground-up re-creation at the most fundamental level, rescuing pieces of film and snippets of audio thought lost for more than 40 years and finally utilizing them in ways long intended but never before realized, landing at the highest standards of 4K/HDR and Dolby Atmos. This version of the film is not a “restoration” in the traditional sense - it doesn’t merely reveal detail that had been overlooked or refresh the sound and picture, although it certainly does that too. (Unfortunately, studio pressures left the original release rushed and compromised.) The 2001 redux required extensive new special effects and careful editing that honed the story and better motivated these beloved characters, which brings us to the new 2022 Director’s Edition reviewed here. With the theatrical re-release of The Motion Picture earlier this year, a new generation of fans has discovered its charms thanks in large part to an extensive upgrade to the creator-approved Director’s Edition released on DVD in 2001 - the version personally overseen by director Robert Wise to better represent the movie the way he wanted to debut it back in 1979. In fact, The Motion Picture was judged somewhat harshly in the years following its release perhaps because of what would follow: the action-packed revenge thriller The Wrath of Khan (Trek II) and the accessible character humor of The Voyage Home ( Trek IV). This was not the first time, nor would it be the last, that a TV show transitioned to the big screen, although few would achieve such box office success or anchor such an enduring franchise. Taken by itself, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is an epic science fiction tale in no hurry to make its points about the nature of humanity and the future we might be headed toward. A malevolent cloud of unknown origin is destroying everything in its path, and the seasoned crew of the Starship Enterprise must reunite if there’s to be any hope of saving the deadly entity’s next target - Earth.
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