I like STID. Is that wrong?
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And ironically enough as previously stated in another thread for the same reasons Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness are.
Dissatisfied fans with too much time on their hands are the ultimate renewable resource. If only the volume of complaints could be harnessed as some sort of energy source...
One can even see it get the same treatment today from certain fans who don't want to admit it's better than the new movies.
It's a truly rich tapestry.
Though there is at least one reason why STID is criticized that doesn't apply to TWOK...
Come to think of it, I do remember fans in 1982 complaining about how TWOK's production team time-travelled three decades into the future to gank a sequence from a more highly-regarded movie. All of this has happened before...
What the Horatio Hornblower movie from the 60s?
http://terencebowmanblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/horatio-hornblower-vs-james-t-kirk.html
Fans certainly complained that the portrayal of Khan and his people in TWOK was inconsistent with "Space Seed." Also that the science sucked and the continuity was lazy - those were among the more trivial and repetitious complaints. There was definitely unhappiness that Trek was being turned into a bargain-basement Star Wars with the climax turning on a big shoot-em-up. But then, what did you expect when Paramount took Trek away from The Great Bird and gave it to that "Six Million Dollar Man" guy? 
I'm sure someone in 1982 wondered why an Indian was being played by some pale assed guy with a Spanish accent. Then he was told the guy had played Khan before, so it was okay
The Wrath of Khan and Into Darkness had pastie white guys as villains, huge plot holes and science gaffes, great special effects (for their respective times) and cheesy over-the-top acting. Why exactly is TWOK the better movie? Personally, I prefer Into Darkness, though both are a Hell of a lot of fun to watch. But I prefer both The Motion Picture and The Undiscovered Country over either one. 
Right, we are just about due for a fresh round of But Ricardo Montalban Was White So What's The Big Deal, aren't we? Good times.
I noticed they found the whitest picture of Cumberbatch possible for that article. While the one of Montalban is in full Khan make up, with brownface and wig.
That is fucking hilarious!
I enjoyed Cumberbatch's version of Khan quite a bit - his performance was brilliantly, coldly menacing and the writers really returned the character to something like the version in "Space Seed," which is always the version I preferred. Granted, the TWOK character seems to be the more popular now, but Montalban was reduced there to an operatic, scenery-chewing attempt to get something out of a two-dimensional villain (but then, he was "mad" - aren't they always just? ).
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