Movies of 1986 Bracket Game!: Highlander vs Star Trek IV

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Star Trek IV is very different from Highlander when you consider its place in its own franchise. The Voyage Home retains its charm in large part due to its unique approach to its characters and the world they live in. Leonard Nimoy, who had directed the previous installment The Search for Spock, had been invited back by Paramount for the fourth movie, giving him more freedom to create the kind of movie he wanted. He has been quoted as saying that he wanted the new movie to have “no dying, no fighting, no shooting, no photon torpedoes, no phaser blasts, no stereotypical bad guy.” Also, it was decided that most of the movie would take place in modern day San Francisco. I’m wondering if the studio guys who gave Nimoy so much control over the project ever heard this stuff prior to the movie going into full production. If they did they would have been very reasonable people if they were slightly panicked. Who wants a space adventure movie with no space adventure? Well, as it turns out, quite a lot of people really. When Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was released on Thanksgiving weekend of 1986 it was welcomed warmly by both critics and audiences. Despite making marginally less money at the box office than the first movie in the franchise, its lower production costs made it the most profitable Star Trek movie to date. Its lively and humorous tone made it a crowd pleaser too. As Garry Marshall’s character in Soapdish says, “You know the words I like? I like the word ‘peppy’ and the word ‘cheap.'” He would have loved the fourth Star Trek movie.