Star Trek: The Motion Picture - re:View (Part 2)

Rich has always been salty at Mike for not included him in his original review of Star Trek The Motion picture with Canadian Clown™ Jimbo. Rich loves this movie so much he can barely remember anything about it and needs to be constantly reminded which scenes are which. However, after the release of the beautiful 4K restoration, Mike felt like revisiting this dusty old classic. He does so with minimal effort, examining all the changes to this film, while getting numerous things wrong and very little correct. It's time for the home! Rushed into theaters for no real reason in 1979. The film was not really done, but Shatner had rented a new toupee for the premiere and he needed to return it, so he insisted they rush out the print. Then in 1983 they made a longer 3 hour TV version for virgins to watch on the other network when the Super Bowl™ was on. Then in 2001 there was a directors cut supervised by Robert Wise himself! Now the ultimate 4K directors cut has been released (which I think includes the other versions) so much has changed and been removed and unfinished it's hard to keep track of. There is also the "Memory Wall" sequence which we didn't get into cause it's REALLY unfinished and I just don't care one bit. All joking aside, Rich and Mark really do love this movie. It's slow, it's dull, and it's mature and lacks punching and a villain with a super-weapon. It's core Star Trek when Star Trek was really for nerds and not jocks that like explosions and punching.