Paramount+ Releases Photos for Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director’s Edition 4K Remaster

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Paramount+ has released two new images for its upcoming 4k Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director’s Edition streaming debut. The remaster was announced last summer, and shortly thereafter, a teaser trailer was released. It will be the first time this version of the film has been available in higher-than-DVD resolution since its 2001 release.



The Director’s Edition of #StarTrek: The Motion Picture is coming exclusively to @ParamountPlus. The restoration is being undertaken by David C. Fein, Mike Matessino, and Daren R. Dochterman, all of whom worked previously...
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Like watching 4k UHD paint dry. Even as a (recovering) Trek fan, this one leaves me limp.

Now show me a 4k fully restored director's edition of TWOK and we're talking. Well for about $10 anyway, I have bought that movie so many times already.
 
Burticus said:
Like watching 4k UHD paint dry. Even as a (recovering) Trek fan, this one leaves me limp.

Now show me a 4k fully restored director's edition of TWOK and we're talking. Well for about $10 anyway, I have bought that movie so many times already.
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It's a film with great parts but it needs an editor. There is probably 20-30 minutes of film that could hit the cutting room floor without compromising the film's story or even the more character drive scenes.
 
Makes the best possible version, put it on the worst possible platform, that's not even available outside the us. It's as if cbs/paramount can't do right even when they try.
 
Dan_D said:
It's a film with great parts but it needs an editor. There is probably 20-30 minutes of film that could hit the cutting room floor without compromising the film's story or even the more character drive scenes.
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That's like saying 20-30 minutes of 2001 should be hitting the cutting room floor. The story could be told in 20 minutes, but that is not the point of audiovisual feasts like this.
 
Burticus said:
Like watching 4k UHD paint dry. Even as a (recovering) Trek fan, this one leaves me limp.

Now show me a 4k fully restored director's edition of TWOK and we're talking. Well for about $10 anyway, I have bought that movie so many times already.
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Half of this is like archival - remastering to 4k, which at 8.3MP is about the limit of 35mm film, is a good thing to do just for the sake of preservation. Ideally, audio would be remastered to Atmos as well, since that would allow director's intent to flow through to the soundstage, and at whatever bitrate can be extracted from the analog masters.
MadMummy76 said:
That's like saying 20-30 minutes of 2001 should be hitting the cutting room floor. The story could be told in 20 minutes, but that is not the point of audiovisual feasts like this.
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Was on a bit of a Kubrick kick when I last watched this, and with a bit of background information it was pretty fascinating. They did a lot with the technology they had at the time!
 
Burticus said:
Now show me a 4k fully restored director's edition of TWOK
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There is one on Amazon but then you have to deal with streaming/compression. It's in HDR and the sound is just regular Dolby 5.1. I got it a couple of years ago when it randomly popped up on a search. It's even the true cut with all the same scenes from the DVD. The one that came out on BD still has a missing scene that existed on the DVD.
 
There was a mind numbing streaming show I watched on something recently on the history of Trek. Actually I think it was on the History Channel. I had no idea about how extenuating the drama was for this movie between Roddenberry, Wise, and the studio. Seriously it felt like they spent hours just going back and forth with clips about it. It was sort of fascinating, and explained a lot about the how/why of what this movie turned out to be but as you can tell I felt it was a bit excruciating to watch. The drama didn't stop with just the 1st movie either and it let to more for TWOK. Around that point I stopped watching.
 
MadMummy76 said:
It's as if cbs/paramount can't do right even when they try.
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Sad to say it's pretty well-known that they don't have a good handle with ST so it's not a surprise what happens on the streaming platform. Recently a local business where I live posted in the paper how excited they were about getting new leadership with someone coming on that used to work for Viacom and I had a total facepalm moment when I read that.
 
I saw this movie once, that was more then enough, even though I don't rememeber much of it anymore, it is without a doubt the most boring movie I have ever seen.
 
I saw this at the theater when it came out. I maybe have revisited it only a handful of times over the years. It is apart of my collection though.


Will there be any bad cgi additions like the original SW movies?
 
Burticus said:
5 is pretty bad too but at least it's not as long
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I had a friend of mine back then that read the book and said there was way more humor and depth in it and the movie seemed to miss so much of what was there. Likewise, I read the book for the third movie when I was kid because I couldn't wait to see what happened after TWOK. I still have a hard time explaining all the ways that movie felt like a letdown. I'm not saying the book was great but there was so, so, much more character development in it.
 
I like all classic Star Trek movies, my least favorite is probably the Search for Spock, but over the years I started to appreciate even that one more.

The Motion Picture was probably one of the first Sci-fi movies I've seen, and it had great effect on me, I watched the VHS of it to shreds, seen it uncountalble times during my teen years. But as I've said I like all six, even the often criticized V.

Comparatively the next gen movies are pretty awful, none of them can hold the candle to any movies with the original crew. That's what early on put me off from watching TNG. But thankfully the series is nothing like the movies.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
I had a friend of mine back then that read the book and said there was way more humor and depth in it and the movie seemed to miss so much of what was there. Likewise, I read the book for the third movie when I was kid because I couldn't wait to see what happened after TWOK. I still have a hard time explaining all the ways that movie felt like a letdown. I'm not saying the book was great but there was so, so, much more character development in it.
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Search for Spock is ALMOST a great Trek movie. But while half is good/great, the other half is groan worthy. Also they should have stuck with Kirstie Alley for Saavik. I just skip the parts where they are on Genesis and it's not bad. I love Doc Brown as Kruge, I liked seeing the Klingon side of things... that was the first time we had seen anything from their view so to speak.
 
Burticus said:
they should have stuck with Kirstie Alley
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She wanted out in order to escape the ST curse of being typecast for the rest of her life.

Burticus said:
Brown as Kruge,
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Yeah, Lloyd had fun with it. Back then I would still occasionally pick up the Mad magazine movie spoofs and I had the one for that movie and they had an "off duty" taxi light on top of the Bird of Prey. The Genesis parts in the book were a lot better with a whole lot more dialogue, and romance, between David and Saavik. She also had some flashbacks about being rescued, and raised, by Spock. There was also a bit more about the challenges the team and his mom were having in creating the torpedo plus how he cheated in using proto-matter to get around some unsolvable issue.

Edit: Here you go. http://mystartrekscrapbook.blogspot.com/2010/03/mad-spoof-star-blecch-iii-search-for.html
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MadMummy76 said:
That's like saying 20-30 minutes of 2001 should be hitting the cutting room floor. The story could be told in 20 minutes, but that is not the point of audiovisual feasts like this.
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That one too now that you mention it. Artsy bullshit doesn't do it for me. The pacing on several films considered "excellent" by the masses leaves a lot to be desired. Star Trek The Motion Picture, The Godfather, Blade Runner, etc. all could use a trim. Glaciers melt faster than these snooze fests.
 
Dan_D said:
That one too now that you mention it. Artsy bullshit doesn't do it for me. The pacing on several films considered "excellent" by the masses leaves a lot to be desired. Star Trek The Motion Picture, The Godfather, Blade Runner, etc. all could use a trim. Glaciers melt faster than these snooze fests.
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There are much more to movies than just the plot. I'm sorry you can't appreciate visual storytelling and atmospheric set pieces. Some of the best scenes in movies make very little sense and often don't drive the plot at all.
 
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