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So, I watched Star Trek: The Motion Picture this evening, mainly because I couldn't really remember what happened.

And now I can safely forget it all over again!

Good lord in a red evening gown, that movie is boring. There's a lot of long sequences of special effects, cut with brief reaction-face shots. Bones walks onto the bridge, stares at the viewscreen in momentary shock, shoots Kirk a meaningful look and leaves without saying anything... four times. And Kirk isn't really Kirk until the last 2 minutes. And I don't care about Will Decker, really.

We're lucky they ever made another one at all.

Okay, there were a few tiny moments I liked. Chekov's obviously hurt feelings when Spock snubbed him, lingering into sulky frowning by the time he got back to the bridge. Spock's return-from-Vulcan outfit, which is basically the real reason I watched the movie at all. Rand. Chapel. The whole "I need you" scene. That moment Scotty and Kirk shared as they circled Enterprise was probably my favourite part of the whole thing.

*sigh* And I must be some kinda masochist, because next, I plan to watch 5. *cringing* And then I never have to watch it again! I live in the happy land where 2-4 is one big long episode to roll around in forever, with Sister Sledge performing "We Are Family" in the background.

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Date: 2009-09-27 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] timemonkey.livejournal.com
Which one is five?

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Date: 2009-09-27 09:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eliyes.livejournal.com
The Final Frontier. The one where Spock's never-before-or-after-mentioned half-brother Sybok is looking for God.

Possibly better remembered as the one where Bones, Spock, and Kirk go camping together. And apparently Uhura does a fan dance. There may also be time travel, but not the cool kind where whales are saved.

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Date: 2009-09-28 12:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] timemonkey.livejournal.com
Ah, that one. Stupid fandance. Nothing like objectifying your female lead.

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Date: 2009-09-28 05:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eliyes.livejournal.com
At least she wasn't hypnotized at the time.
That came later.

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Date: 2009-09-28 05:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] timemonkey.livejournal.com
Still, robbed her of that quiet dignity she had.

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