[ReggieX]

Yeah baby!:

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - The Director's Edition

(1982) Due August 6: a new 2 disc edition of the best of the Star Trek features. Ricardo Montalban reprised his role from the original series TV episode The Space Seed, but now the genetically perfect human has become a man obsessed with revenge against Captain Kirk. This a veritable swashbuckler of a sci-fi adventure, as different as could be from the stately, stodgy first film. Director Nicholas Meyer brings a panache to the production and James Horner's brassy score is jaunty and heroic (perhaps his best ever), but what really works is the way actors William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley seem to have both gotten in touch with their characters and relationships all over again, deftly flirting with the changes of age, gleefully falling into familiar clashes of logic versus emotion, and Shatner's Kirk springing into action with the wiles of an old fox teaching the young cubs the real rules of the wild. That, and the still impressive sight of wild-maned and bare chested Montalban looking more buff and cut in his sixties than most of the young stars on screen. The expanded "Director's Edition" features an added four minutes of material and commentary by director Nicholas Meyer (along with a text commentary option provided by Michael Okuda, co-author of The Star Trek Encyclopedia). Disc two includes the 27 minute documentary The Captain's Log (with new interviews with cast, director, and producer Harve Bennett), the 24 minute Designing Khan production design featurette, The Visual Effects of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Star Trek Universe: A Novel Approach by Authors Julia Ecklar and Greg Cox (who both wrote novels spun off from the film), ten minutes of cast interviews from 1982, storyboards, and the trailer.

DETAILS: Lbx (2.35:1, 16x9), 5.1 Dolby Digital and Dolby Stereo Surround, optional French soundtrack and English subtitles. PG. Paramount.

[CaseCom]

Have they updated the visual effects? Some of them were really bad ... Like when that ear-burrowing thing went into Chekov's ear. That looked really cheesy.

[starfleetX]

Sweet!

My credit card is anxiously awaiting the coming of August 6th!

[MikeM32]

F-_kin A right!!! Wrath of Khan was the best one.

"Burried alive.....burried alive......burried alive"

"KHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!"

Mike

[starman]

BTW: Just a head's up - we're getting special editions of the rest of the films. ST II was announced roughly a year ago.

I'd like to know if it's going to say "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" or "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan" like it originally did in the theaters.

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Mike

[Mr. Blur]

yes, I read about this DVD about a month or so ago...looks to be very cool...where as the first trek was too long, wrath of khan always seemed a bit too short for me.....

a good year for trekkies....the new next gen feature should hit the screens before x-mas too.

(and Patrick Stewart is in little 'ol Victoria this week filming some of X-Men 2....)