Quote from: Stottie Girl on Yesterday at 11:28:56 AMYeah I loved the motion picture, I don't understand why it got so much hate.
People didn't like the pacing of it. You have to remember that in 1979, the version that was released was essentially a rough cut of the film—-it didn't even have all the sound effects. It was mostly just music.
Plus, the story of the movie was changing constantly throughout the shoot—-at one point the actors didn't even know how the movie would end, because they were shooting with only 2 acts of a 3 act screenplay complete.
Plus, in 1983, Paramount inserted cut scenes into an already unfinished movie, so that it would air in a three-hour time slot on ABC. And the 1983 TV Version is the one most people, myself included, remember from the 80's and 90's, because it was the one on VHS/Laserdisc/Betamax that replaced the original pan-and-scan version of the theatrical version (after 1983, the theatrical version wouldn't really be available until the 2009 Blu-Ray, widescreen VHS/Lasrrdisc versions used the theatrical version because the scenes added in 1983 were transferred from film in 4:3, and not widescreen, so Paramount couldn't issue the "Special Longer Version" in widescreen).
So in 2001 Robert Wise was allowed to go back and do the final edit that he couldn't do in 1979 and tighten up the story and redo the effects. Just when I think of "Director's Editions" of films, "Star Trek The Motion Picture" and "Superman II The Richard Donner Cut" are really the Top 2 because, in both cases, the films were never given the proper editing they deserved until years later.
