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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ryan McReynolds: [QB] I was born in 1980, a year after [i]The Motion Picture[/i] was released, and it's still my favorite. But as I said in my list post, it's my favorite overall, from a critical perspective. I don't claim that it's my favorite with regards to pure fun. I don't think the budget or special effects have anything to do with why I like [i]The Motion Picture[/i], either. It's the [i]care[/i] that was put into the movie (probably due to the Phase II planning time). With the exception of the extending-into-open-space engineering corridor, just about everything on the refit [i]Enterprise[/i] was so thought-out and planned that it felt like a real starship in that film alone. Under Nicholas Meyer's direction, you had realism sacrificed for the military, nautical feel. Things were added that make no sense at all, like the dilithium room and the engineering wall that cuts through the warp power shaft. By [i]Star Trek III[/i] you've got the [i]Excelsior[/i] and [i]Oberth[/i], both so poorly thought out that they are rife with inconsistency. [i]Star Trek IV[/i], while certainly fun, had the most contrived plot of any film (like having the crew walk up the bird's ramp after rescuing Chekov but leaving Kirk behind just so that Gillian can jump on him when he gets beamed). The characters give no consideration to protecting the past. [i]Star Trek V[/i] is obviously flawed in the realism department. Now, realism isn't everything. [i]Star Trek II[/i], for example, is a damned entertaining film. But because it didn't have that level of care, it (and all films but TMP) still feels like a two hour widescreen episode with better lighting. The worst perpetrator is [i]Insurrection[/i], while the least episodic (save TMP) is [i]Star Trek VI[/i]. Of course, that's just my opinion. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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