I know I'm in the minority, but that was NOT a bad movie -- at its core. The novelization was much better than the movie itself because the novel dealt with a lot of personality, emotional, and - yes - spiritual issues that were not translated well into the movie. Of course, the fact that ILM was not available to do the special effects didn't help at all. (God! I hope that special effects company went belly up...) And we all know the stories about budget and time issues during filming.
Walking out of the theater I recognized it as a movie that had potential that simply didn't make it on the screen. A lot of people that I know who read the novelization agree with that.
Personally, I wish that Shatner was given the same courtesy as others to go back and "fix" Start Trek 5 to what it was supposed to be. I'd love to see it in its "intended" state.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I know I'm in the minority, but that was NOT a bad movie -- at its core. The novelization was much better than the movie itself because the novel dealt with a lot of personality, emotional, and - yes - spiritual issues that were not translated well into the movie. Of course, the fact that ILM was not available to do the special effects didn't help at all. (God! I hope that special effects company went belly up...) And we all know the stories about budget and time issues during filming.
Walking out of the theater I recognized it as a movie that had potential that simply didn't make it on the screen. A lot of people that I know who read the novelization agree with that.
Personally, I wish that Shatner was given the same courtesy as others to go back and "fix" Start Trek 5 to what it was supposed to be. I'd love to see it in its "intended" state.