Star Trek Into Darkness

Nah, she could watch this sans the first one easily enough.

Good movie, don't late the haters throw you off.

I wouldn't say you NEED to, but the first one is better, IMO.

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I liked the 2nd better despite the ...hmmm...moments.

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I feel like they missed out on an opportunity to do something original. I thought it was good, I just couldn't get over the fact that they used too many aspects from the original Khan.

first one has some really great moments tho..

"your dad was captain of a starship for 12 minutes, he saved 800 lives, including yours and your mothers, I dare you to do better"

you have to admit that was pretty well done.

then there's the explanation of "bones", stuff like that gets fleshed out and makes it pretty dam satisfying.




overall ST:Into Darkness just doesn't have as many good lines and try's too hard to fit into the movie genre with stuff like the really forced scene in the warp core at the end.

didn't really care that much about the 'new Kahn' story line either, making Kahn look like a good guy just does't fit.

I see the flaws in this movie, but it's pretty damn entertaining regardless. Cumberbatch as Khan is just fantastic, and definitely made me want to see him in as many things as possible. Just a great villain, and they should have been open from the start that Cumberbatch was Khan.

I agree. The fake name part was essentially a worthless part of the movie. He could have been khan the whole time and the story could have been told better. I actually thought the warp core scene was good? And cumberbatch did a great job.

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he just wasn't the villain in the movie

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The epic fight at the end with Spock didn't tip you off that he was the villain.

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nothing wrong w/ Cumberbatch's performance, he just wasn't the villain in the movie, that was Marcus, didn't really care for the whole Starfleet Admiral goes off the track and starts killing everybody schtik, it just didn't work.

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Nope, Marcus was what we call Big Bad Wannabe. He wanted to use Khan to further his own goals, but Khan was the Big Bad all along. He still wants to wipe out all of humanity, and would have done so eventually. Marcus thought that he was playing Khan, but Khan really had it all under control all along. Khan is the Big Bad of the film.

I wish the "scene" at the end would have been a very menacing angry growl instead of a scream. Would have been fitting.

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Good movie

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Let's not get carried away