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List Price: $89.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 514
Released: September 22, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: PG
Street Date: 09/22/09
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection Reviews:
Beam me up Scotty! 
2009-12-22 - I have waiting for months for this to come out! I put it in my shopping cart and waited. The price dropped $20 and I bought it in an instant. Thank you Amazon!
By the way....Bill Shatner is the ONLY Captain Kirk! :)
Five Star Films deserved better. 
2009-12-22 - They botched the colors on Wrath of Khan,i saw the color of the theatrical reel and the uniforms were red not orange.
Star Trek I- Too much Dvnr but overall the best presentation ever on home video at least in terms of picture quality.
Star Trek II- Wrong Colors but the grain structure is intact and pleasant to the eyes, and the only reel restoration in the set. The only film restored from its original negative and not a vaulted print.
Star Trek III a bit bright but otherwise Perfect
Star Trek IV Too Much DVNR again
Star Trek V the best this film has ever looked on DVD
Star Trek VI substandard old transfer from an old HD scan, edge enhancement artifacts and less than sharp image.
Special Features are nothing really. The Captain's Summit is basically worthless Banter instead of Interesting stories and repetition of what stories these stars have told before. Nice to see Shatner and Stewart, Nimoy and Frakes on the same stage. None of the special features from the 2 disc sets or special editions have been carried over, no trailers, or old commentaries either or making of and no deleted scenes. Basically this is the movies only. With that in mind i was ready to give the set five stars but subtracted 2 because of the wrong colors on wrath of Khan.
Wonderful!!
2009-12-16 - The quality is very good. I had seen just one of the Star Trek movies previously. This is a great way to see them all and not break the bank. Highly recommended.
Double-dipped but worth it 
2009-11-21 - "Theatrical releases".
We FINALLY get Trek VI in the proper 2.35:1 ratio. AND the original cut, as the inserted bits only turn a benign President into a double-dealing creep unworthy of the Federation. (not to mention the 2-disc "Director's Cut" release, which changes even more around, including the mind meld scene to the point the emotive effect is lost.)
We FINALLY get "The Motion Picture" in original form, warts and all. The special DVD release prior to this one has CGI f/x that are rather good, but replacing an understandably repetitive computer voice with this cheap voice and klaxon -- no way was the director involved with that change; it's horrible. Ditto for hacking up a few scenes that didn't need to be truncated...
"Khan" definitely shows a proper film cleanup job, even on standard-def.
The other movies look and sound great, especially for being standard-def releases! These cuts came were minted from the same masters used for the Blu-ray sets, so we won't notice any negative differences, but Blu-ray users will. Go read their reviews: Blu-ray users are right in being disappointed in that only "Khan" was given the full restoration and the others given half-baked, upconverted "remastering" treatment. (Tangential question: Did Generation-Y do the work for all of these new releases? They're all said to be lazy... Assuming the work was done by Americans, in this global day and age AND where "'good enough' is good enough" is just good enough, it can be done by anybody anywhere and if people don't care, a poor quality product is the result. But that's the gripe for the blu-ray set and not relevant here. Since the resolution isn't being upconverted, the problems there don't apply. :-D )
All in all, this is a fine release for people not desiring to go blu-ray or at least until blu-ray players are affordable and when Paramount can put out all 6 movies in a format that natively makes the best use OF blu-ray, which for now is only "Khan" that will. Even if you've bought all the other sets, these do look and sound better, and were what were shown in the movie theaters to begin with. Theatrical purists will indeed love this set.
Great set is all I can say!
2009-11-14 - The Motion Picture had been out of print for quite a while, and I was wondering how and why Paramount would put that out of print, of course they released the Blu-Ray version of this set earlier, which I was kind of upset about because I don't have Blu-Ray, and I wanted these movies really bad on DVD, so a few months ago I bought Star Trek 'The Motion Picture' trilogy, but of course it only had 'The Wrath of Khan' 'The Search for Spock' 'The Voyage Home' and while I knew what movies it had with it, I was disappointed kind of, 'cause I wanted 'The Motion Picture' with it.
Well, finally a few months later, they released the standard definition version, I was very pleased when I had found out they did, it was on the top of my list to get (along with 'The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection, which I bought a few weeks ago), and they did a great job with that one, so I knew this one would be just as good...and it is.
You get all 6 motion pictures of course, as well as a bonus disc 'Captains Summit', which I have not watched yet, I will when I watch all the movies, of which 2 I hadn't seen before 'The Final Frontier' and 'The Undiscovered Country', and I watched them both last night, and I was very happy with them, I find 'The Final Frontier' to be very underrated, and 'The Undiscovered Country' was the perfect way to say goodbye (although in 'Generations' from 'The Next Generation' we saw Captain Kirk, Chekov, and Scotty one final time).
As for 'The Motion Picture' I find this one to be criminally underrated, I think it is a great start for the movie series, I guess I saw more than most other people saw in it, and even after seeing it countless times in my teens, it just never gets old, great underrated movie.
As for the trilogy part 'The Wrath of Khan' 'The Search for Spock' 'The Voyage Home', these were the most successful movies in the series, with good reason, it's just an awesome three part adventure, epic, full of action, great acting of course, and great stories, everything a Star Trek fan could ask for.
I can never get enough of Star Trek...well, aside from 'Deep Space Nine' and 'Enterprise'.
To me, Star Trek is and will always be 'The Original Series' 'The Next Generation' and 'Voyager'.
Bottom line, fans, buy this set, it is well worth the price paid for it, it pays for itself, and if you buy this set (and like it), what Star Trek fan wouldn't? I suggest buying 'The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection' as well, as it's just as nice as this.
Hope this review was helpful.
