We Hate Movies - The Nexus 28 - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (CLIP)

Episode Date: December 20, 2018

On this month's very special We Love Movies-inspired edition of the The Nexus, the gang is chatting about the best Trek film ever made, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan! Would you look at Kirk's killer—OOPS! This episode is for subscribers only! If you want access to the full episode, head on over to our Patreon page and sign up today! Unlock Exclusive Content!: http://www.patreon.com/wehatemovies See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

And they don't do this a lot in Star Trek. It's this exterior shot of this space station and you hear all the scientists arguing for like a very long time before it cuts to the interior. It's a great flourish here. I like it a lot. And it's kind of cool because they're really, they're putting the hat on the festival. Federation's the military. We do not want this to be a military weapon. Like, you know what I don't know. Like, hey, look. I don't want this to go up, but Klingon's asshole. I want to fucking, you know, make something nice year. This is where we get a lot of David who is, we learned to be, is played by Merrick Buttrick, who is Kirk's son. And actually, it's good casting. He looks a lot like him.

Because Merrick Buttrick, they're both, they're both. They had that curly hair. Oh, really? I was about to say they both have a perm. Well, no, because William Shatner is wearing a fucking dead show on there that they put the microwave for a little bit. Dude, this piece is disgusting. Oh, hot. Better put this piece in the fridge for a little bit. Don't touch the shell, babe. Oh, my hair is proofing right now.

Would you like to gleam the dome? They found an actor who had natural hair to William Shatner's hilarious Chia Pet artificial hair. It's like fucking Greg Brady in the 70s shit, dude. They just like, they chopped off all the roundness of it. and just made it like it's not exactly a flat top but it's like

it doesn't go beyond the width of his skull but it goes up Captain Yuda It reminded Khan of Barton Fink He looks like an obese Kramer Now Jerry will tell you that Wrath of Khan is the better picture

but I like a search for spot But yes So this is when Bones kind of has this kind of fun, Bones' indignation of like, oh, it's the Genesis device. It's going to wipe out humanity. We're doing, you do it. God did it in six days?

What about six minutes, you motherfucker? Bones is fucking right. Are you kidding me? This is a terrible invention. And, of course, Spock is being logical. Well, it'll, it's like, you green-blooded son of a bitch. We finally get that this movie,

which is great, green-blooded monster, you know. I think this is particularly where, it's like you green-blooded half-breed. And then it's like, whoa, whoa. He says inhuman at one point. Oh, yeah, you inhuman, which is great because then at the end of the movie, when Kirk is giving the eulogy, he says, human, calls him human. After bones, he's not really a slur.

Well, it's not really a human, because he's not really a human. Well, that's inhuman to me, man. Wow. 100% are boss? Yeah, dude. Really? What if the guy was like? Half gleepclops.

Yeah, what if it's like a half-man, half-dog? Well, that's a werewolf, I think. Well, isn't that okay? No, that's clearly inhuman. It's a monster. That would be... But it feels. That would be the move.

Because, I mean, first of all, this movie does... If I will ding this movie on one thing, it doesn't have a lot... Like, creature effects, you know, even aside from the monster. Like, Kirk's son should be half monster. Like, it's this monster lady that he fucked way back in the old day. She looked like a fish. And it's this fish boy with, like, curly hair on it. Oh, yeah, or at least like a green skin individual or something.

Or Khan from the whatever, the mute, you like, because, you know, city alpha of six got destroyed. Yeah, sure. Maybe he got mutated and he's got like a little quado baby in his belly. Oh, shit. Like it comes out. This is what happened to my wife. She's under my t-shirt. Yes, yes.

And then like, like, it's got a whole human head and little baby arms. We didn't talk enough about Khan's physique. It is fantastic. Gorgeous. And apparently it was real because it does almost look fake sometimes. Because it's so fucking perfect.

Do you think he was working out with Stallone? Like going to Muscle Beach? I think it was a thing where he was like, I got to be on the love boat, man. You never know on the love boat. Fantasy Island.

Or Fantasy Island, excuse me. Yeah. Fantasy Island was at the time, yeah. But he was on Love Boat too. Mr. Rourke. Whoever... That's, that's Fantasy Island. That's what I think he was still doing.

Yes, he was. No, he was definitely doing Fantasy Island. I don't know if he did the Love Boat as well. I could be just mixing up stuff. But either way, like, listen, you're on an island or you're on a fucking boat. At some point, you might have to take your shirt off. That's true. I think it's more of, like, the American Psycho Workout.

Yeah, like, porno blaring in the background. Porno blaring. Mechanical push-ups. Just, like, over and over again. I can do a thousand now. I was wrong. You're totally right. 154 episodes of Fantasy Island.

Although, credited in one 1980, episode of The Love Boat where he played Horse Race Annancer. Oh, wow. This horse is riding around perdition's flame. I will say Ricardo Montalban also amazing on Freakazoid, a couple episodes.

He plays a bad guy. It's a great voice performance. It is fucking laugh-out funny. How about when he squares off with Detective Drebben? Oh, right. He's in the Files of Police Squad. Yeah, naked gun won. He's very funny in that movie, too. He had just so much presence.

It's just so, like, it's always amazing, man. And the bummer of this movie also is that he doesn't have a scene with Kirk. Like, you know what I mean? Like, figure that. It's kind of fun. It was because of fucking Fantasy Island. Oh, well, yeah, to make the schedules work. They were FaceTime and did they not even read lines together?

I don't know. He said it was a script girl. It was him and a script girl. I mean, it works really well for that. It does. You're going to need to get me a fatter script girl. Could she have a puttel on her head? could she have smoked for 30 years

so we were like oh man that genesis device sure can't get in the wrong hands but before we get to SETI Alpha 5 we are on under attack or we meet the reliant we're not sure what it is what's going on this is an awesome scene though because it's like all right

they're not responding to any of these hails they have no idea what's going on this is a fucking federation vessel it's I mean it's awesome because like in this this happens so infrequently and literally all these movies is really fun and cool ship to ship submarine to submarine kind of stuff

and that's exactly like Nicholas Meyer talks about in his book his idea was he wanted to make this like a Horatio hornblower kind of master and commander type these are boats warring with each other kind of a thing he had another ref the enemy below

I think was another subframe movie yeah which I mean which it makes sense because that I mean and that's that is why I think the facetiming stuff as much as it would be really cool to have that heat scene

maybe they go to a diner to get in there. You know one day I'll be coming around that corner. They are neutral zone diner. Right? I had coffee with Kirk. Half an hour ago.

But like no, I mean like but it works because it's like it is that thing where like that's how space battle would work. You wouldn't talk to each other. You wouldn't meet up. You would be in two different ships. It makes you realize

one of the problems are just like a flaw with Star Trek I mean it's Star Trek so that's their thing but like everybody keeps picking up the phone just ignore them and it's terrifying but I can imagine Khan being the kind of maniac that would like if if you know

God forbid Kirk ever like actually retired and like actually like laid down somewhere he would come five more film appearances after this he would come to his house even just to like move in I'm your next door neighbor, Captain. Ooh, that's a sitcom.

Absolutely. Well, all right. Well, to achieve this double date, we'll have a detent on a rivalry as they are to stewardesses. That would be amazing. Like, Khan barely survives this encounter. And he's just like, he just hasn't seen any love.

Like, take him under his wing. I need to get this guy laid. They moved to San Francisco. Now, by double date, you mean we both get two, right? A quadruple date? Oh, yeah, man. Two by two. What's awesome, too.

I love the detail. Because they also, they kill all the crew of the Reliant. Yeah, yeah. Con's fucking superhuman people. Thank you.