My rating
Search for Spock - 4.5/10
The Motion Picture - 7/10
I don't understand the appeal of this one. It seems to be a poorly directed character reunion with a lame story in order to undermine Wrath of Khan by bringing back Spock.
http://www.imdb.com/list/rJuB9UoASlQ/
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True, but I found the themes explored in TMP to be much more interesting, even if there was littl ein the way of action. TSFS just seemed to undo everything that happened in TWOK. And on top of that, they have the audacity to blow up the Enterprise!
"Live long and suck it, Zachary Quinto!"
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I am not going to dignify that with a response.
I think III is vastly underrated, and is orders of magnitude better than TMP.
Star Trek The Motion Picture: 6/10
Star Trek II The Search for Spock: 9/10
I've always wished that The Wrath of Khan was the first, instead of TMP.
"What is necessary is never unwise." -- Sarek.
TMP I do like a lot but it can be hard going. Star Trek III is a much better movie however.
shareThey are both very different films, and everyone seems to be looking for different things from their Trek films. The Motion Picture is a beautiful, epic film and a true work of hard science fiction first and foremost. Star Trek III is a serious, character-oriented space opera that deals with themes of loss. Ergo, some like this better and some don't. In the end, who cares about ratings or whether this one beats that one or vice-versa?
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You left out the bad acting, bad effects and bad stunts. This looked like a mediocre TV episode. I pretty much agree with your ratings.YAAAAAY! Now you go, lady!
shareLike I stated elsewhere, I didn't like it much. It could have, and should have, been a better film, but for budgetary reasons it wasn't.
shareSTIII had a higher budget than STII.
shareTWOK borrowed a lot from TMP, so it's budget is a lot lower than it otherwise would have been. There were three new ship models plus a new orbital shipyard model to be created for TSFS.
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Bob the Builder and Hadji walk into a bar...
For obvious reasons. They were able to reuse a lot of FX and models from TMP for TWOK. But TSFS had two new ship models, a very sophisticated looking Space Dock model, a Vulcan set, and a fairly complex set for the Genesis planet.
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Bob the Builder and Hadji walk into a bar...
For obvious reasons. They were able to reuse a lot of FX and models from TMP for TWOK. But TSFS had two new ship models, a very sophisticated looking Space Dock model, a Vulcan set, and a fairly complex set for the Genesis planet.
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Sorry, but Search for Spock was far better than the first movie. The first movie felt like a mediocre extended episode of the show rather than a movie. The effects were marginal at best, especially given what George Lucas pulled off the year before with Star Wars. The acting was rusty; it looked like it really had been a decade since everyone worked together, and the secondary characters were far more bland. (let's not even get into what happened to Steven Collins)
But I will say both films were a landslide better than The Final Frontier and ST: Nemesis.
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