Star Trek II : The Wrath of Kahn

norrie rugger

Absolutly great film in all fairness.

Just finished watching it there and debating if I should watch IV

It is late though and my supply of Guinness is running low

monkeyfudge

Best of all the Star Trek films and it has one of my favourite film scores of all time.

Watch III before watching IV... it's the best of the odd numbered films...

Goodshape

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Best of all the Star Trek films and it has one of my favourite film scores of all time.

Watch III before watching IV... it's the best of the odd numbered films...

+1.

IV is overrated anyway, in my opinion. While III is often underrated.

Kiith

Wrath of Kahn was brilliant. Favourite trek film, followed by either Undiscovered Country or First Contact.

robby^5

Ahh yes its up there in my top 3 of Kahn, Generations and First Contact, good stuff.

norrie rugger

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Best of all the Star Trek films and it has one of my favourite film scores of all time.

Watch III before watching IV... it's the best of the odd numbered films...

Unfortunatly I don't have III.
I own II, IV, VI, VIII and even X

Considering that I actually like III, this is a serious oversight

Now, time for VI

Thrill

The Wrath of Khan is the best of the bunch when it comes to the Trek films imo. The episode from the original series which featured Khan was on recently and I'd never seen it before. It was the only one I hadn't seen as far as I know

monkeyfudge

Gotta love the "Stealing the Enterprise" scene in Search for Spock though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_SGXx3pLzs

Goodshape

Poor Spock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLcc26-Mzac

_Kaiser_

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Gotta love the "Stealing the Enterprise" scene in Search for Spock though...

Best part of the movie IMO

Sherifu

Khaaannnn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJTi7KJPx_E

JerryHandbag

Some bits of IV are pretty funny tho, Spocks general failure to grasp 20th century irony and the lack of logic.....and when he gives the Vulcan death pinch to the guy with the ghetto blaster in the bus, and gets a round of applause, classic

norrie rugger

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Some bits of IV are pretty funny tho, Spocks general failure to grasp 20th century irony and the lack of logic.....and when he gives the Vulcan death pinch to the guy with the ghetto blaster in the bus, and gets a round of applause, classic

Death pinch???

JerryHandbag

Death grip, whatever

Sherifu

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Death grip, whatever

Try again.

JerryHandbag

Vulcan death grip
Vulcan nerve pinch
Vulcan death pinch
Vulcan nerve grip
Vulcan death nerve
Vulcan pinch grip
Vulcan thingy-that-spock-would-do-to-baddie-alien-with-purple-head!

I give up

Sherifu

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Vulcan nerve pinch

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Vulcan_nerve_pinch

User45701

wasent the death grip something spock made up up fool a romulan?

User45701

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Gotta love the "Stealing the Enterprise" scene in Search for Spock though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_SGXx3pLzs

Yup one of the best scenes and your right about the music in Wrath of Khan as well

Endaaaagh

User45701 wrote: »

wasent the death grip something spock made up up fool a romulan?

Yup..he used it in on Kirk in "The Enterprise Incident"

IamBeowulf

I love how EPIC the film is.

A device that can take out an entire planet and create a new one.

A genetically enhanced tyrant out for blood.

An ageing legend out for perhaps one last adventure, and finding new life in himself.

A good friend sacrificing everything to save his people.

A lost son, found.

Two bad-ass starships firing at each other in the stormy nebula.

The awesomeness never ceases. That music gets me excited each and every time, you can almost see the Enterprise leap to warp every time I hear the fanfare.

Star Trek VI came close. I love the design of the bridge, and the handheld camera bringing us around the crew to give it more personal feel. And I love the firing-while-cloaked. But it was missing something, and Shatner had by then become hammy.

(OK he was hammy in II but it somehow fit the overall arc)

III was good but felt neutered and the last act is too slow.
IV was good for its time but the fashions styles make me cringe and just as the Enterprise reappears the whole thing's over.
I and V---aaaargh!
Generations started OK, was real cool when we saw the grimly-lit Enterprise D bridge and thought Romulans were coming into it---but overall too talky, too grim, and the Shat died a terrible rushed death. Soran was cool though, wish they'd kept in the heart-attack scene.
First Contact started out amazing and dark and new and scary and quikcly became preachy and boring, IMHO (don't shoot me).
Insurrection tried, really really tried to force the Next Gen into a Kirk and co type adventure, and came out missing soul and decent plot. Boring. Plus the FX were sub-par (no ILM)
Nemesis was a hugely wasted opportunity. Check out Stuart Baird on the documentary and in the commentary, he is a jerk (there's a vid on youtube of LeVar Burton confirming his jerk-ness, its gas)

Looking forward to seeing JJ Abrams riff on ST, he met with Nicholas Meyer I believe, Meyer is a friend of the family's, they have the same approach to ST (danger, soul, adventure, naval atmosphere). But retreading old characters is not like recasting Bond or Batman, it seems redundant but I hope for the best.

Anyways, I would KILL to see TWOK on the silver screen, perhaps remastered? Cmon Paramount you know it would sell.

G-Money

I just finished watching The Wrath of Khan and it has left me unimpressed to be honest. I don't think I was in the right frame of mind for watching it to be honest, had to stop and start it a few times too which I hate doing.

I like the Undiscovered Country and First Contact. I haven't seen III or V in many many years so it might be good to see them again. Ditto for Generations.

Marcus.Aurelius

Wrath of Kahn is easily the most epic of the early film series. Kirk's shuttle approaching enterprise for docking is great.