Star Trek: Into Darkness or Star Trek II or Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan Redux hits DVD and Blu-Ray today.
You remember the one Paramount insisted wouldn't feature the Khan character as the baddie, the one where the cast and crew led by J J Abrams denied that they would be using the Khan character in the movie The one where fan speculation reached fever pitch but still the powers that be refuted all claims that Khan was after all the baddie. They even went so far as to create false trails saying that the baddie was actually Gary Mitchell from the second pilot of the original Star Trek, or someone called John Harrison.
And then after all the fuss it turned out that Khan was after all the baddie. None of this made any sense - after all, Khan is an iconic character and you'd think the studio would have wanted to build audience buzz by shouting loudly that Khan was back.In the end the reveal that Khan was the bad guy felt rather lame and Star Trek: Into Darkness received mixed reviews - the film currently holds an 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Not bad maybe but nowhere near as good as the original Star Trek reboot which holds a 95% approval rating.
Still, the movie was action packed and although not as good as the original Star Trek reboot, it still packed a punch.
I enjoyed the movie on the big screen and I'm looking forward to re-watching it on my home cinema system, so expect another review later this week.
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Monday, 2 September 2013
The Wrath of Khan: Redux
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Thursday, 25 April 2013
Star Trek into Darkness - Cumberbatch is - CAUTION MAJOR SPOILER
DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE WORRIED ABOUT SPOLIERS BUT THIS POST REVEALS WHO CUMBERBATCH IS PLAYING IN STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS.
Into Darkness has now opened in Australia and advance news is mixed - there are those who loved it but also those that feel Star Trek's been turned into a dumb action movie. We can also reveal that Benedict Cumerbatch is actually playing Khan even if he does go through much of the movie using the name John Harrison. And that this movie is a thinly disguised re-make of The Wrath of Khan.
Expect a full Archive review in the fullness of time.
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Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Star Trek: Into Darkness PARAMOUNT name Cumberbatch's character
Parmount have released a new image from the forthcoming Star Trek II: Into Darkness and in the caption to the pic they state that Benedict Cumberbatch is John Harrison - not Khan then, not Gary Mitchell - although this could be a red herring served up by the studio.
The caption with the pic reads - (Left to right) Zachary Quinto is Spock, Benedict Cumberbatch is John Harrison and Chris Pine is Kirk in STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
We're still none the wiser over Benedict Cumerbatch's character but as we say Paramount could be teasing fans here and the recent 9 minutes IMAX preview recently shown did not name Cumberbatch's character.
Below is the latest trailer.
The caption with the pic reads - (Left to right) Zachary Quinto is Spock, Benedict Cumberbatch is John Harrison and Chris Pine is Kirk in STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS from Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions.
We're still none the wiser over Benedict Cumerbatch's character but as we say Paramount could be teasing fans here and the recent 9 minutes IMAX preview recently shown did not name Cumberbatch's character.
Below is the latest trailer.
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Sunday, 9 September 2012
Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek 2 will be called Star Trek: Into Darkness. Paramount have bought the domain names StarTrekintodarkness.com and startrekintodarknessmovie.com - neither website have any content as of yet but expect to see something very soon.
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