I'm seeing Star Trek 2 on the big screen

[I am not Spock]

God, you guys are making me feel so young!

I was born in '82, the year TWOK came out! I first saw it when I was 14 in '96 on TV. I was thinking 'Hang on, there wasn't a Eugenics War this year!'

 

[Ihlecreations]

Ok I am only 34, but I remember seeing TMP in the theaters with my mother(she is the reason I am into Trek)when I was 6 and getting a happy meal at McDonalds on Forest Ave in Staten Island back in 79, the box was a TMP meal. I also remember going to the theater and watching TWOK with my mother and sister when I was 9.

 

[Grant]

Thanks for nothing.

 

[SpeedRacer]

Man, I wish the theaters up by my college would have film festivals like that.

 

[cardinal biggles]

The closest we ever got at my college were occasional back-to-back film nights (i.e., Mission: Impossible and Mission: Impossible 2 or The Mummy and The Mummy Returns).

I thought about organizing a showing of the four Monty Python films in 1999, since that was their 30th anniversary, but didn't have the first clue how to go about it, and settled for renting them all from Blockbuster.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

We didn't get campus movie nights very often...

 

[Therin of Andor]

SpeedRacer said:
Man, I wish the theaters up by my college would have film festivals like that.

Go talk to the manager. Help him organise the publicity for one.

 

[Cmndr J Crichton]

Lucky! I would love to see Tron on the big screen again. The last time I did, it was a new film! I've seen it hundreds of times at home, though. Here's a music video tribute I did to Tron. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0K3uGQQgI&feature=PlayList&p=EA1885F2F4618435&index=4 Kahn is a whole new experience at the theater. I hope you have a great time!

 

[refuge5]

Grant said:

refuge5 said:
So... my friday night screening of TWOK was AMAZING! there was a good crowd on hand and every one had a good time... cheering and clapping just everytime Kirk kicked Khan's ass! it was really great! Two things that really stuck in my mind as I left the screening:

1. Spocks death has got to be one of THE best deaths of a hero in any movie. It really, really punches you in the gut and has real reason behind it... Just think if Trek had ended with two and Spock would have never returned... I think we'd still be feeling the hurt of the death of a good friend... Nimoy and Shat were really on it during the death scene too.

2. Can anyone ever play Kirk and Spock other than Nimoy and Shatner? I'm really pulling for Star Trek XI but I'm not sure that just anyone can play these characters...

well... People still love Star Trek and that was shown to me again this past friday night... Makes me want to see the rest of the big screen Trek on the big screen again with a room full of fans!

Okay dude, really glad you got to see it on the big screen, BUT
which version was it????

A showing like this may come to our towns & some of us might like to know what version!!!

Thnaks!!!

SO SORRY!!! It was the original version of the movie...

 

[22 Stars]

I used to be the guy at Paramount who sent the Repertory films out to theaters, and there was no way it would be anything but the original version. Most if not all prints that go out to theaters like this are original prints from back in the day, as it costs A LOT to strike a new print, over 2,000 the last time I checked.

 

[seigezunt]

saw it on a sorta big screen (TV) last night, with a 30-ish pal who never saw it, back to back with "Space Seed."

Probably my 60th time or something. Still cried at the end...

 

[guardian]

Thanks Refuge, from those of us who wanted to know that.

I had hoped they had gotten around to transferring the Director's edition to film.

With the HD DVD probably less than a year away---it seems likely.

 

[Indysolo]

guardian said:
I had hoped they had gotten around to transferring the Director's edition to film.

With the HD DVD probably less than a year away---it seems likely.

One has nothing to do with the other.

Neil

 

[22 Stars]

Indysolo said:

guardian said:
I had hoped they had gotten around to transferring the Director's edition to film.

With the HD DVD probably less than a year away---it seems likely.

One has nothing to do with the other.

Neil

Ya, one really doesn't have anything to do with the other. Even if they went back to the original film stock, they would not bother doing a physical edit with it, just a HD digital transfer and then a digital edit.

The best you can hope for is a special HD screening at a local theatre sometime in the future, like what they are doing for The Menagerie.

 

[guardian]

Wow, I'm impressed by the knowledge you guys have of what Paramount has and might do as far as doing a version of TWOK Director's cut on actual film.

I know they can play the DVD version on a larger screen--I was just hoping for a true film version of the Director's cut at a theater near me.

I mean it not impossible to make an actual new re-master of the film version is it?

My point was that had they already made a new version of the TWOK Director's, that might mean the HD DVD was closer to release.
Up to this point it just seems logical that the Trek movies would be among the most hoped for titles on that format. The actual existance of the long version on film would imply it might be closer still.

 

[Darkman]

I stood in line for the opening on Friday at my local cinema and saw it many times after that.

In fact, I remember the day I walked into the theatre to see Poltergeist, the ticket girl said 'Star Trek is gone'. I knew that...

Saw TWOK again on the big screen last year with Back to the Future after a really great martini...

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Sounds like fun...

 

[Cyrus]

I saw it in its original theatrical release when it was still "Star Trek:The Wrath of Khan" (without the Roman numeral) on the film print. The theater was showing it in 70mm six-track stereo which was a fad in those days (70mm presentation improved the sound quality but not the picture quality if it was originally filmed on 35mm, as was the case for just about every movie released at that time).

I came away disappointed. After the magnificent TMP, TWOK was a letdown for me, the lower budget painfully obvious on the big screen. I have come to like it on subsequent viewings though. The great performance by Ricardo Montalban and the fine score by Horner were things that I liked even on that initial viewing.

 

[Indysolo]

70mm for films shot in 35mm could still look better since there was a larger image area for detail to reside and more light could pass through.

Neil