First Contact is one of my favorite movies of all time.
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The ear worm.
20 characters expressing how much that scene shook me as a kid.
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Inspired indirectly by this post, we watched “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” last night. I’d been meaning to do a rewatch of the whole series of movies and figured we’d start there.
I hadn’t seen it since it came out. First rewatch in 45 years! I remember being disappointed by it when I saw it in theaters in late 1979 or early 1980.
How did we like it last night?
It was terrible. So, so bad. You know the expression, “That’s two and a half hours of my life I’ll never get back again”? I always thought that was exaggeration, but by the end of the movie I sat there thinking of all the other things I could have been doing other than sitting through that tendentious tripe.
Fortunately, our “Star Trek II” rewatch will be much better.
The only good thing I’ll say about TMP was that it was mildly interesting to see a couple of tropes that got picked up in TNG. Decker/Ilana were re-used as Riker/Troi. And the movie theme was the same as the TNG series theme.
You can just barely read his name on the spine of Moby Dick
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Ah, sad! Was that the original or the new remastered director’s cut? It’s “one of the bad ones” but it’s pretty faithful to the show’s ethos as a concept.
We watched the director’s cut.
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First Contact was the first piece of TNG media I ever saw! It hooked me immediately.
God what a way to begin. I watched a lot of TNG with my Dad growing up. Still havent seen every episode (I dont know I think I want to watch every episode there is a certain joy of finding one you havent seen). But I watched First contact fairly recently actually and it hit a nostalgic beat for Pre-Digital filmmaking I didnt know was there. That Jerry Goldsmith score just gobsmacked me most of all.