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02-24-2023, 09:53 PM
https://www.looper.com/1210336/william-shatner-says-the-star-trek-movie-finally-showed-the-series-potential/
Star Trek: The Motion Picture boldly went and looked good doing it
William Shatner made his assertions during a 1979 interview with television personality Bill Boggs to promote the release of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." Asked what made the movie special, the freshly promoted Admiral Kirk spoke highly of the story, describing it as "good, solid, mm-mm tasty 'Star Trek.'" But what really set the experience apart, in Shatner's eyes, was the film's ability to create a visual spectacle.
"The special effects are incredible," Shatner enthused. "Imagine Doug Trumbull, imagine John Dykstra on the same show ... Those two geniuses of special effects. The greatest artists in the industry are working on the same movie, I mean it's incomprehensible."
He wasn't wrong, either. Doug Trumbull and John Dykstra really were two of the biggest names in special effects in 1970s Hollywood — Trumbull was one of the minds behind the breathtaking UFO sequences in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and Dykstra was a founding member of Industrial Light and Magic, helping to bring home the Academy Award for Best Special Effects for a 1977 indie project called "Star Wars." The results of their collaboration speak for themselves: For all the weird things that happen in the "Star Trek" movie franchise, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" remains a visually astonishing display.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture boldly went and looked good doing it
William Shatner made his assertions during a 1979 interview with television personality Bill Boggs to promote the release of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." Asked what made the movie special, the freshly promoted Admiral Kirk spoke highly of the story, describing it as "good, solid, mm-mm tasty 'Star Trek.'" But what really set the experience apart, in Shatner's eyes, was the film's ability to create a visual spectacle.
"The special effects are incredible," Shatner enthused. "Imagine Doug Trumbull, imagine John Dykstra on the same show ... Those two geniuses of special effects. The greatest artists in the industry are working on the same movie, I mean it's incomprehensible."
He wasn't wrong, either. Doug Trumbull and John Dykstra really were two of the biggest names in special effects in 1970s Hollywood — Trumbull was one of the minds behind the breathtaking UFO sequences in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and Dykstra was a founding member of Industrial Light and Magic, helping to bring home the Academy Award for Best Special Effects for a 1977 indie project called "Star Wars." The results of their collaboration speak for themselves: For all the weird things that happen in the "Star Trek" movie franchise, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" remains a visually astonishing display.