Movie Notes: Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan

Synopsis
Feeling past his prime, Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) is pulled into an encounter with an old nemesis, Khan (Ricardo Montalban) who spent the last 15 years stranded on Ceti Alpha VI.

Synopsis
Feeling past his prime, Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) is pulled into an encounter with an old nemesis, Khan (Ricardo Montalban) who spent the last 15 years stranded on Ceti Alpha VI.

That Star Trek: The Motion Picture was a box office success and launched a film franchise is hard to believe in retrospect. The jab “Star Trek: The Motionless Picture” is all too true. There are many reasons: in the late seventies, Paramount was working on Star Trek: Phase Two, a new television series that was prematurely aborted. A one-hour television episode V’Ger story was hurriedly expanded into a feature film after the unexpected success of Star Wars. The rest of the movie’s running time is filled with a large, nebulous cloud of pointlessness.

Okay… this is a truly strange cult classic. It’s a black and white horror film starring William Shatner. Plus, all the dialogue is in Esperanto (an invented language, intended to be understandable worldwide).

With Halloween coming up, here’s a horror film I just watched: The Devil’s Rain, starring several famous folks, Tom Skerrit, Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, and the incomparable William Shatner.