{"id":32233,"date":"2013-01-17T19:19:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T02:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/film-review-star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-1982.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T08:33:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T14:33:15","slug":"film-review-star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/17\/film-review-star-trek-ii-the-wrath-of-khan-1982.html","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, the movie still rocks. But it's also not that great. But it's still fun.<\/p>\n

Also, it's nice to see a 1980s movie that doesn't make me feel (ironically) old, since there's such an obvious 80s aesthetic that there's no question that it's from the distant past …<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn the plus side: – Direct ties to the original series (in terms of a recurring character, vs. a returning plotline). – Ricardo Montalban rocks. – Unlike the first movie, it is *not* a “Motionless Pic…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Okay, the movie still rocks. But it's also not that great. But it's still fun. Also, it's nice to see a 1980s movie that doesn't make me feel (ironically) old, since there's such an obvious 80s aesthetic that there's no question that it's from the distant past … Embedded Link Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of … Continue reading “Film Review: "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv-star-trek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133192,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/01\/movie-re-review-star-trek-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":32233,"position":0},"title":"Movie Re-Review: "Star Trek" (2009)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Apr-17 2:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The more time that passes, the more irritated I get at some of this movie's horrifyingly stupid key plot elements. 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