audience reaction to Special Preview of Star Trek II The Wrath of Kahn May 8th, 1982 in Kansas City.
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- Local color surrounding a May 8th, 1982 Special preview of Star Trek II The Wrath of Kahn at the Metcalf Theater, Overland Park, KS. Includes exit interviews. This was unique preview offered in advance of the June 4th, 1982 nationwide release. The ticket promotion was made via Mike Murphy on KCMO Radio 810. The rough cut film screened was missing credits and some sound and special effects. Portions of film content/plot were changed in advance of the film premiere 26 days later, based on audience reaction.
As a trek person of over 35 years, I recognize my people under the bad early 80's haircuts and nerd clothing of the time. The awkwardness of some is charmingly apparent. I was awkward like that as a teenager. Thank god that is gone for me.
That lady really got it. This movie was what the original Trek fans wanted.
Think about this: they publicly screened a workprint of a major release nearly a month before it opened. I can count the reasons they stopped doing that, starting with Harry Knowles. Kansas City had a huge connection to STAR TREK at that point (still does), having had conventions since the early '70s, so having that preview/test screening in KC made a lot of sense. They wanted the fans to get a peek and see if they actually would, as one of the people interviewed before the film speculated, tear down the theater.
This is awesome. Love bits of history like this.
Amazing piece if Trek history. Brings back memory’s when I stood in line for STTMP!
Richard Rivera how disappointed were you? I was a kid and mad that it was NOTHING like the show. Different music, no “space the final frontier”, Spock was a dirty hippie then cold, some animal was on Kirk’s head, ugly uniforms, the ENTERPRISE was a totally different , everyone acted weird, etc.
Matt Mayse
I felt betrayed by the first trek film. I remember going home that night after the film and I sat alone in my room wondering what it was that I saw on the big screen. I actually wept. I was 15 years old and Star Trek was the world to me.
Now as an adult I think it’s the best or at least second best after wrath of Khan who is beautiful facts it’s music it’s production it’s a moving work of art.
Could've gone worse. For ST:TMP I skipped school, STARTED the line (that gives you an idea of when I got there, I had to "secure the position" for my friends who couldn't get there as early) & had my first blind date.
The blind date only went marginally better than seeing STTMP.
I did, however, meet some great people and had a great time. The local pizza chain had these special delivery trucks that would keep their pizzas warm and they had trucks on about a 15 min. rotation starting at about 11AM, just selling fresh pizzas from the truck. It's a practice they started after seeing people lining up for STAR WARS after a week. Man, it may be easier to watch all of this stuff now but it's just not as much fun.
This is great, thanks for posting.
Wow, thanks for posting. It really brought me back to the time when I first saw it in the early 90s as a 12 year old. I actually got quite emotional watching this as this type of love and admiration for a show and the community around it is sorely missing today.
Just imagine if all these excited fans were to view modern Kurtzman Trek.
Such a tragedy.
This movie had the best Starfleet uniforms 🙌👌. Those custom Star Trek tickets must be worth money 💰🤑
These people have NO idea what they're in for! And DAMN, that woman who shows up at the 7:56 mark!!! I think I'm in love!💕🖖💫
That's one dedicated wife, standing in line for her husband.
I think we've really lost something wonderful with the death of the movie theater experience. I've never waited for a movie for hours like this, never had the theater owner come out and hand out free coke and popcorn, but man it looks like the people shared an amazing comradery before Twitter came along and destroyed people's trust in one another.
Top Gun: Maverick proved the movie theater experience is still alive. Just my opinion
AMAZING FIND!!!!!!!
7:20 thats a great moment. That guy love Star Trek
The movie that saved the franchise, my opinion only.
I've rewatched this one on occasion, and every time I'm surprised how fantastic it is. The best of the Star Trek movies IMO, with only First Contect getting close.
@@Christobanistan I think Undiscovered Country got really close.
10:24 dang she was cute AF and a Trekkie!
Interesting to see that the _Star Trek_ fanbase is mostly women here.
IT's pretty 50/50 actually, was pretty shocked to find, as an adult, that my mom has always been a big sci-fi fan, even as much as I am! So strange, coming from her. She would always watch her shows in her bedroom, little did I know she was a huuge Trekkie! :D
OMG... we used to go to York Steak House all the time!!!
Spock Lives 🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖
Leonard Nimoy R.I.P.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Live Long And Prosper🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖
Bringing people popcorn and coke in line for free. How cool.
9:19 I wonder if I can find one of those handouts
I noticed all the guys just took it, while all the women said "thank you." LOL
People weren't this against kirk dying in VII
Let's not be generous. The first film was crap.
The director's edition was much better.
I thought so also for many years. But it grew on me.
(The recent iterations of Trek might have something to do with that.)
But yeah, no where near as good as Star Trek 2.
But better than Star Trek 5, imho.
@@user-michael77 No. The director's edition is terrible.
The new sound effects are jarring, the CGI doesn't fix the real issues with the film.
Instead of cutting little character quips and bits of humanity, they should have CUT the excessive effects down. Just a few minutes trimmed of the excess effects would help the movie so much.
But no, let's cut out little character quips that give the film some of humanity it desperately needed.
@@OpenMawProductions Are you kidding?! The director's cut is far superior. Critics have said the director's cut ranks the film from one of the weakest to one of the strongest. Even Leonard Nimoy himself said it was much better. Many many fans agree it's the best version which is why they're calling for paramount to release it on Blu ray and 4k.
It's awesome but slow