Who saw this in cinemas back in 84?
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michaelward15 — 12 years ago(January 21, 2014 04:01 PM)
I saw in the theater in '84 when I was 11. I remember being excited because of Spock's return and wanting to see how it was going to happen. My friend and I assumed as most people probably did that the Genesis effect would bring him back. I remember being really please with the mind meld angle which I had not noticed in Star Trek II. I don't remember the crowds very well or even who I saw it with. Probably my father though the rest of my family might have been with us. Or my best friend. I remember liking it a lot. Unlike most people, I really liked Robin Curtis as Savik, but I was disappoint that the role had been recast because of the discontinuity.
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faeria — 12 years ago(February 19, 2014 10:25 AM)
I actually saw this movie at a drive in theater, with my family. My sister and I were just children and we went with our parents to see this film at the drive in. I remember the warm summer night and sitting with the speaker on the car window, my parents snuggling in the front seat.
I still clearly remember getting sleepy partway through but determined to watch the whole movie. And snapping full awake when the Enterprise was destroyed. Watching that ship burn across the Genesis sky on the giant outdoor screen, itself surrounded by stars (by then night had fallen) was a visual that is still ingrained in my head.
I also remember asking my mother (I think the next day) what happened after the end of the movie. She said "we'll just have to wait until they do the next one to see" or something similar.
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tigheman — 12 years ago(March 17, 2014 07:15 PM)
I remember when the first movie came out the audience applauded each actors name as it appeared on the screen. By this movie we knew it would keep going on for a while. We all wondered how Spock returns. He's dead, Jim.
Favorite memory was the 2 people on a date sitting behind me. As the lights dimmed the girl asked him, "Now, who is Spock?" I quietly laughed imagining how to answer that in 10 seconds before the film starts.
. . . The Bones tell me nothing. -
Fluke_Skywalker — 11 years ago(May 24, 2014 06:28 AM)
When I left the theater after having watched
The Wrath of Khan
in 1982, Spock was dead and Han Solo was frozen in carbonite. When I left the theater after having watched
The Search for Spock
, the universe had been put back in orderA journey into the realm of the obscure:
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konover — 11 years ago(June 19, 2014 05:54 PM)
I was 9 years old and here's what I remember:
- HUGE lines at the concession stand, which had a model Enterprise hanging overhead.
- Being inside waiting for the movie to start and hearing an even smaller kid whining about the waiting and the dad trying to comfort the kid by telling him, "It's alright, it's alright Star WARS is about to start."
- Being in ABSOLUTE SHOCK that the Enterprise was blowing upthen thinking, "Nah, it will be repaired somehow." and then it turns into a fiery streak in the sky.
- My dad trying to cover my eyes when David opens Spock's casket, but then removing his hand when nothing was in there except a robe.
- I remember loving the movie.
- To this day, the stealing of the Enterprise remains my favorite sequence in ANY Star Trek film.
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bjlevine — 11 years ago(August 22, 2014 12:30 PM)
As I"ve said elsewhere, my overall impression was one of disappointment. Three movies in and only one even remotely like an episode of the series. While I did like the theme of sacrifice, I didn't like that they basically undid everything from TWOK, and blew up the Enterprise to boot.
I also thought that Kruge was rather comical, which made his decision to arbitrarily kill a hostage seem rather strange.
And what's with Kirk offering his hand to Kruge during the fight? Maybe he thought Kruge was his only ticket off the planet.
"Lovey-dovey. Bonk bonk on the head!" -
bjlevine — 11 years ago(August 25, 2014 01:20 PM)
That was partly the reason, but I had seen him play villains on TV. The way he fried his gunner and waxed philosophically at times.
He was obviously some kind of Klingon renegade. Makes you wonder why the Klingon Empire was defending Kruge instead of apologizing for his actions.
"Lovey-dovey. Bonk bonk on the head!" -
finkemon — 11 years ago(July 09, 2014 05:41 PM)
I saw this in a full theater when I was 17. It was great to see a movie that had people cheering,
cheering
at Uhura pulling a phaser on Mr. Adventure, "Don't call me Tiny", and "The answer is no, I am therefore going anyway". Really got the audience fired up. -
Blueghost — 11 years ago(July 23, 2014 10:29 AM)
I saw it opening day with a friend.
I didn't think much of it. I wondered where Kirstie Alley was.
The story seemed to move a little too fast, and I was wondering why the hell the Klingons were flying a Romulan ship.
It was a sequel that had a lower budget than the previous film, sothere you go. -
bozo_500 — 11 years ago(July 27, 2014 03:01 AM)
It had a higher budget
The BOP was a Klingons ship (originally the idea was for the villains to be romulans in a romulan ship, then Klingons in a romulan ship, then Klingons in a Klingons ship)
It'd have been awesome had K Alley had returned and would've felt even more like a true sequel to TWOK but alas 'twas not to be. In retrospect a deal should've been reached as Savvik wasn't just some throwaway character..and Alley totally owned it in TWOK (she was one of the highlights of that film) -
Blueghost — 11 years ago(August 15, 2014 05:48 PM)
The story is that the STIII script was stolen, and mister Roddenberry was so outraged by it that he swapped out the Roms for Klingons, but by then the SFX footage had already been shot, so the Klingons got a Rom ship.
It's just more ego idiocy. I love Trek, but the figurehead for the creative team that put it together had some character issues. -
Suzume-san — 11 years ago(August 02, 2014 01:26 PM)
I saw each of the films in cinemas in the West End of London - my home town - as soon as it came out. They used to do Trek marathons, showing all the films with the new one last, of course.
I remember saying to my friends as we came out after seeing
TSFS
, well, now get out of that! Because they had destroyed the
Enterprise
, and as we thought were all likely to be sacked from Starfleet. -
chris109 — 11 years ago(August 21, 2014 09:57 AM)
The one thing I remember was when in 1985 when I was going to UAlbany, they had a common area called the Rathskeller (sic) which had a bar and food etc. I had taped both TWOK and TSFS back to back and the bartender was nice enough to play both of them on their big screen projection tv. People were skipping their classes to watch both movies. Had to be over 100 people at one point. Ovation at the end of the 'show'.
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RussellDunn — 11 years ago(September 21, 2014 06:04 PM)
I remember William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy being interviewed by David Hartman on Good Morning America about TSFS the day it opened. At one point, Hartman said," Leonerd, give it upWhat brings Spock back to life?"
Before Nimoy could answer, Shatner cracks,"I'll answer that. It was the $25 million they paid him to play the part again."
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Blueghost — 11 years ago(November 06, 2014 03:05 AM)
by bozo_500 Fri Oct 18 2013 03:12:18 Flag | Reply |
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Post Edited: Sat May 3 2014 07:55:07
Who saw this back in the day? What were your memories - the anticipation of seeing it in the weeks/days before, the actually seeing it and how much a big deal was it where you were back then, the crowds, audience etc and after coming out of the cinema what were your thoughts and in the days/weeks that followed.
I was very young but remember thinking it was amazing it felt so epic and big like it was really there in space witnessing the giant space station and destruction of the Ent. plus it had abit of a star wars feel to it with the cantina, alien microbes, crew becoming rebels, the klingons, phaser fights/ship battles, and the epic fight at the end with all the lava recalled Temple of Doom.
I saw it on opening day, and it was a dumb-@$$ film.
In fact I was quietly angry, and didn't say a whole lot about it.
It looked like it was directed by some idiot who knew the characters and some basics about story telling, but not much beyond, and certainly even less about Trek itself.
I thought it was a poor film on nearly every level, and refuse to see it again, much less buy the DVD.
There was no overarching theme that is usually the main focus of the story. It was just an installment to bring back Spock, which I don't mind, but no real message to it.
There was nothing about the planet, other than it was a failed experiment, there was nothing about the Klingons interfering, Kristy Alley apparently wanted a boat load of cash to come back for the role, the script got stolen and Roddenberry dickered with the story out of anger it was just one giant FUBAR.
I'm sorry I saw it. I'm sorry it was made. I wish someone at the executive level would have raised their eyebrows and slapped the producers with a giant restraining order and/or fine for making such a piece of trash. -
Dark_Star1 — 11 years ago(November 20, 2014 10:26 AM)
It was so awful, I actually walked out of the theater with about 20 minutes to go. I couldn't take any more. That was the only time I've ever done that.
What was up with the way the Klingons were talking? Did anyone eve figure out why they were switching back and forth between Klingon and English in the same conversation? It's like the writers and directors didn't even care enough about the whole silly mess to attend to even the most basic details. The whole film was a disjointed, disorganized joke in my opinion.