As Good As It Gets

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Movie Review: "Star Trek: The Search for Spock" (1984)After a finale furioso with "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan" in the movie summer of 1982 beyond belief with highly inventive still-standing pictures as "Tron" directed by Steven Lisberger, "Blade Runner" directed by Ridley Scott or even visually-splendid "E.T.-the-Extra-Terrestrial" directed by Steven Spielberg, comes this "Star Trek" movie of succession directed by initial 1960s-television star-actor Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015), who enjoys the benefit of a high-end Hollywood production produced by Harve Bennett (1930-2015), who keept close ties to distributing Paramount Pictures, a Los-Angeles-based studio major since cornerstones of 1912, which can be proud of this 1984 summer release.Even though "The Search for Spock" marks the shortest of all "Star Trek" movies with shy off 100-Minutes-Cut by film editor by Robert F. Shugrue (1937-1999), who is able to arrange fulminate visual effects shots ingnited by Lucasfilm Ltd. affiliates company of Industrial, Light and Magic (ILM) with up-playing famous cast surrounding William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, who together with Dr. "Bones" McCoy, portrayed with utmost convictions and retrieving years of comfort in his alterego actor DeForest Kelley (1920-1999), when actor James Doohan (1920-2005) as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott steals the show by preparing a major steal of a life-time in high-jacking an already-damaged "Enterprise NNC-1701" from the main near-earth all-new "Federal Space Station" in order to bet into a notorious race toward the secret artificially-made "Planet Genesis" at the far side of the Galaxy only to have an historic stand-off between "Enterprise" and a Klingon "Warbird", led by close-to "Khan" viciousness-playing, yet all-too-ambition Commander Kruge, given face by actor Christopher Lloyd in high-quality nevertheless former-feel of analogy and then overthrown make-up-effects by Wes Dawn (1938-1990) and assciates, benefiting of a high-contrast, hot-spot to dark-ambience indulging cinematography by Charles Correll (1944-2004).This "Star Trek" movie becomes highly-recommended as a dramatic as "Enterprise" challenging centerpiece in a three-part viewing experience, if any spectator can afford a full running-time of approximately 315 minutes, alongside "The Wrath of Khan" (1982) and "The Voyage Home" (1986) to witness stunningly written character arcs by a consortium of writing filmmakers involved, including producer Harve Bennett, actor Leonard Nimoy and also-directing Oscar-nominated writer Nicholas Meyer, who given into familiar as emotional human conditions of rise, fall, struggle and risen again, especially with regard to the extraordinary friendship captured between "Kirk & Spock".© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Garbage. Makes the new Star Trek movies look good. Crap story, acting, cinematography, lighting, sets, costumes, fx. No charisma. Just plain garbage. What a shame. I'm a fan of the original TV series. I hate all other TV series, including the Next Generation, and all the movies. Even the worst original TV series, like I, Mudd is better than the crap that was produced after the original TV series ended, including this movie, Star Trek 3. Here's the main problem. The story just plain sucks. The dialogue sucks. The acting is garbage. Best acting was Bones, and even that was a joke compared to the 60's TV. When Kirk found out his son was killed, it's pure embarrassing. What the hell is the deal with FAT SCOTCHY with that stupid MUSTACH? Maybe someone tells him, hey you want to be in the movie, lose some weight and that stupid mustache. Jackoff, Solo, and U Whore You, were there, but nothing special. Spock directed this mess. Maybe he should stick to acting. He was great in the TV series. Here, he's not even there until the end, and the dialogue was just retirement home sleep inducing. What about the villain, Christopher Lorde. He's a good actor. Here, he's a freaking mess, joke cliché nonsense. He tries to pull Kirk down, and gets Kirk's boot in the face and falls into a volcano. Not suck a great villain. Spock's father, another mess. He was great in the TV series. Here, not so good. On Vulcan, U Whore You just shows up. Did Scotchy beam her up? I would rather if this movie was just the original cast sitting in a retirement home watching tv and telling stupid jokes. That would have made a better movie. Captain Jerk, Spot, Boner, Jackoff, Solo, U Whore You, Scotchy. What a mess. The costumes? 80's neon disco! What we have here is pollution. It pollutes the airwaves. If you want to unpolluted, consider not watching any of the movies or any other tv series, and just stick to the original 60's TV. There are a few bad episodes in the original as well. But if you stick with it you'll find most have some great stories, acting and even fx. May the original Live Long and Prosper, and the rest go to hell.

I'm a more recent Star Trek fan and have recently moved onto the movies. I have to say, this one was a bigger disappointment to Star Trek I for me. After the how brilliant 'The Wrath of Khan' was, I was hoping Star Trek III would be a worthy follow up, but even the title seemed a little unimaginative now I look at it. The story takes forever building up, has some great moments during that, for example, the Klingons are brilliant but it just lacks some imagination much like how 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' often felt. It's like the franchise took one huge step forward, Star Trek II was an exciting film but still about morality at the end of the day, but this film offers none of it.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is directed by Leonard Nimoy and has music by James Horner. The film stars William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Christopher Lloyd, Robin Curtis, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Merritt Butrick, Mark Lenard, Judith Anderson and Leonard Nimoy.This is a very good film and pretty underrated compared to some of the others. It has several moving scenes and is really funny too. McCoy trying to charter a ship in an alien bar is hysterical. The mind meld scene between Kirk and Sarek is very moving and Christopher Lloyd is excellent as the cunning Klingon Captain. It's a bit odd that Carol Marcus isn't in this film, you'd think she would have wanted to study the Genesis planet.The Search for Spock is set shortly after the events of The Wrath of Khan. Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew are returning to Earth, Kirk is devastated by Spock's loss and is struggling to come to terms with it.David(Merritt Butrick) and Lt. Saavik(Robin Curtis)have been assigned to the Starfleet ship Grissom, they are in orbit of the Genesis planet and are studying how the planet is evolving. That sector is off limits now to anyone apart from their science team.When the Enterprise returns to Earth, Kirk is told the ship is to be decommissioned. Dr. McCoy(DeForest Kelley)appears to be having some sort of breakdown and Kirk is visited by Spock's father Sarek(Mark Lenard).Sarek pleads with Kirk to return Spock's body to Vulcan(at the end of the previous film he was buried on the Genesis planet), he tells Kirk there is a ritual that could restore Spock to life. It is discovered that McCoy is now carrying Spock's memories and personality within his own mind, that is why Spock melded with him at the end of Wrath of Khan.Spock's memories must be taken from McCoy and placed back into Spock's mind. Kirk, Scotty, Sulu, McCoy and Chekov steal the Enterprise and head to the Genesis planet.Rogue Klingon Captain Kruge(Christopher Lloyd)has found out about the Genesis device and realises the potential it has to be a weapon. He and his crew head to the Genesis planet.This film has some very interesting things in it, such as the mystical Vulcan ceremony that can restore life and the accelerated development of the Genesis planet. It makes you think also about the positives and negatives of building a device like Genesis.Although it's great that Spock lives again, I think this lessens the impact of his sacrifice at the end of The Wrath of Khan. I think it would have been better if he stayed dead, and then we could see the impact on Kirk and McCoy and how they coped with that loss.Well directed by Nimoy, with strong performances from the cast. Shatner is good as the devastated Kirk who will stop at nothing if there is even the slightest chance of saving Spock. Robin Curtis is good as Saavik, but it is a shame that Kirstie Alley didn't reprise the role.Doohan, Takei, Nichols and Koenig get more to do in this film and that's great to see. DeForest Kelley steals every scene he's in as a very different Dr.McCoy.