Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan

[Nalykh]

Originally Posted by thkauffman

Hi Nancy

Hi Tim

[NeedSpeed]

Awesome flick

[OddBall]

Originally Posted by thkauffman

I was giving you crap. Your spelling was way off...

LoL. Too tired to know I spelled it wrong, too tired to know you busted me on it.

[thkauffman]

Originally Posted by OddBall

LoL. Too tired to know I spelled it wrong, too tired to know you busted me on it.

[MattW]

For the most part, the early movies got GREAT actors in the villain roles.

Ricardo Montalban, Christopher Lloyd, Christopher Plummer... those guys really made the movies.

Kirk: "The whole planet is tearing itself apart!"
Kruge:"Yes! Exhilarating, isn't it!"

[onedef92]

That's mofo's bumpin! Last Sunday, they aired ST: The Motion Picture on that mofo, too.

[Mike Mercury]

when Kirk commanded Sulu to do a "Z axis" maneuver... all the geeks shot their load.

[Cybercowboy]

Watched the last half of it. That movie just never gets old, although the effects are getting a little long-in-the-tooth by today's standards.

[thkauffman]

Originally Posted by Cybercowboy

Watched the last half of it. That movie just never gets old, although the effects are getting a little long-in-the-tooth by today's standards.

They still look pretty darn good, though. That was almost 30 years ago, too.

[onedef92]

Originally Posted by thkauffman

They still look pretty darn good, though. That was almost 30 years ago, too.

Wasn't Industrial Light & Magic the FX house for that mofo, too?

[thkauffman]

Originally Posted by onedef92

Wasn't Industrial Light & Magic the FX house for that mofo, too?

Hm. That's a good question. I don't know the answer.

****EDIT****

According to IMDB, ILM was the FX house for the movie.

[onedef92]

Originally Posted by TxAg

Kaley Cuoco's hawt. Resembles that slim Marcy Rylan to me.

[ApexOversteer]

Wrath Of Khan fun fact: The "Genesis Project" video, where Dr. Marcus explains Genesis while a simulation plays, was the first piece of work on a major motion picture for a tiny, experimental group of ILM scientists, programmers, nerds, artists and animators, gathered by George Lucas to explore the new world of computer technology, as it applied to film production. This sequence is the first to go beyond wire-frame graphics and make use of three-dimensional CGI in a feature film, beating Tron to theaters by a month.

Three years later, in 1985, The ILM Graphics Group, as they were then known, would create the first fully rendered 3D CGI character for a feature film; a Crusades knight made of living stained-glass, for the Disney film Young Sherlock Holmes.

A year later, in 1986, The Graphics group broke a third major barrier for CGI with a morphing effect blending the faces of characters, during Captain Kirk's dream sequence in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

In the 5 years spanning 1982 to 1986, the Graphics Group had broken the back of the three major barriers holding CGI back from entering the Hollywood mainstream. First 3D CGI, first 3D CGI character, first digital enhancement of a filmed character element. George's experiment was a success, to say the least. But the team hadn't even gotten started yet.

Later in '86, George Lucas felt that The Graphics Group experiment had run it's course and decided to disband the project, absorbing elements of it into ILM itself. The main staff involved asked Lucas to sell them their equipment, found some jeans with deep pockets being worn by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs and with George's blessing, turned the next corner...

...and thus Pixar Animation Studios was born.

[Mike Mercury]

Originally Posted by onedef92

Kaley Cuoco's hawt.

[ptindall]

I love that movie! I told my wife to get it from Netflix as it's not on instant download. She's never seen it and thinks I'm a nerd for asking.

[ApexOversteer]

Originally Posted by ptindall

I love that movie! I told my wife to get it from Netflix as it's not on instant download. She's never seen it and thinks I'm a nerd for asking.

She won't make it past the brain eels...

[onedef92]

Originally Posted by ApexOversteer

She won't make it past the brain eels...

Khan: "Allow me to introduce to you Seti Alpha Five's only remaining INDIGENOUS life form and sheet. They killed seventy of us including my beloved wife."

It's funnier'n a mofo listening to Paul Winfield and Walter Koenig scream after being attacked by the Seti Eels, though.

[dwjz06]

Originally Posted by Mike Mercury

Wow that's nice she do any neked stuff?

[78SA]

Originally Posted by 78SA

The Motion Picture was the introduction of the Borg.

[onedef92]

Originally Posted by 78SA
The Motion Picture was the introduction of the Borg.

It was the introduction of super slim Persis Khambatta (Lt. Ilia) too. May she R.I.P.