Apparently, The Motion Picture is going to be a two-DVD set with Disc 1 having the movie (running at 136 minutes) and some commentary by Robert Wise and others (including Michael Okuda). Disc 2 is going include some documentaries, the original theatrical trailer, and a few other extras.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
How does 136 min compare with the original? I know the Special, longer Version is 143.
I really hope they don't trim scenes. I hate it when they do that to movies. Once you've seen a more complete version of a film, one with bit cut out seems really terrible.
Posted by Wes1701E (Member # 212) on :
Yes, they trimmed the movie. it needed it. Mabye this time I wont fall asleep EVERY time I watch it.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I agree that some of the scenes needed a bit of trimming. The scenes that I feel need to be trimmed are entirely special effects sequences (such as Enterprise's journey into the cloud where we're just staring at the scenery changes on the main viewer).
On an interesting note, I think that the DVD release is longer than the original theatrical release. IMDb gives The Motion Picture a run-time of 132 minutes in the US with the expanded television version running 146 minutes.
So, it looks like the DVD version is 4 minutes longer than the original version, seven minutes shorter than the Director Cut on VHS, and ten minutes shorter than the expanded television version.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Was the VHS special version an actual director's cut in the sense that Wise had anything to do with it, or was it just the addition of some footage?
Commentary equals cool!
Posted by The Red Admiral (Member # 602) on :
I enjoyed much of TMP, for me it was old friends coming back, which allowed me to somewhat overlook much of the movie's shortcomings. I sincerely look forward to seeing this, particularly the documentaries.
Yes, I think the only things that required trimming were the extravagant SFX scenes, but lets keep all of the flyby of the Enterprise in spacedock, I was a fan of that, even though it went on forever. It was after all the first ever, really good close up view of the Enterprise (refit or not)
Posted by Woodside Kid (Member # 699) on :
If memory serves, it was put together for the movie's first airing on ABC back in the early 80's. It was something the network and Paramount cobbled together. I don't believe Wise had anything to do with it, and it shows. He's too fine a craftsman to have done such a piss-poor job with all the continuity errors with the new scenes.
(Yes, I know the original film has a lot of the same problems, but I blame that on Paramount and its iron-clad release date.)