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Oct 15, 2016 - 7:30 AM
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Joe E.
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In the history of special event screenings and whatnot, has there ever been a Star Trek triple feature presentation of just the "Genesis / Spock" trilogy (Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III - The Search for Spock, & Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home)? It's often noted how those three movies work as a trilogy, and I know there have been DVD / Blu-ray collections that present them that way, but I don't know if they've ever been presented that way in theaters.
I do know that there have been other groupings (like the 25th anniversary marathon of the first five movies, and more recently a triple feature of the "Kelvin Universe" movies shown when the third one, Star Trek Beyond, opened earlier this year), of course.
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Oct 16, 2016 - 7:11 PM
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Joe E.
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A month or two before the release of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country there was a day-long marathon of the first five films in 35mm Dolby Stereo at select theatres across Canada culminating in the world premiere of the Trek VI Theatrical Trailer.
By the time The Voyage Home rolled around, our eyes were glazing over (despite how wonderful the film was/is.)
I believe that would be the 25th Anniversary Marathon, which I attended myself here in Atlanta (decades before moving here); IIRC, the event was held at something like 44 cities in the US and Canada. Between movies, they ran both the teaser trailer and the main trailer; I believe it was indeed the first time any actual footage from the then-forthcoming new movie had been publicly seen anywhere outside the official 25th anniversary convention, which had for some reason been in June.
It was the longest movie marathon I'd done up to that point, but I didn't have a problem staying awake, and I've since done a couple longer ones. I also still have the t-shirt I bought with my ticket, bearing the anniversary logo and the words "Sit Long and Prosper".
Indeed, II, III and IV formed a successful – if unintentional – trilogy that's all the more amazing when you consider their focus on middle-aged space travellers and that thematically they'd be impossible to make today.
That Trek VI trailer was a real treat, btw – a real blood-pumper.
Yep. Everybody acknowledges they weren't planning a trilogy or anything, but the movies did just work out that way.
At the theater at which I attended the marathon, the audience absolutely went nuts at the trailer, screaming and cheering and applauding wildly, at "This is Captain Sulu, USS Excelsior." Lots of fans had wanted to see that for a long time.
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Oct 16, 2016 - 7:31 PM
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Joe E.
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I don't think I could sit still for that much TREK in one day.
As noted, a couple of us have done even longer Star Trek marathons, of the first five movies, back in 1991.
More recently, I've done Marvel's Avengers marathon in 2012, consisting of all six MCU movies up to that point (Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, and The Avengers), and then just last year a Star Wars marathon when Episode VII came out - all seven live-action theatrical features in the saga.
I found the aforementioned Avengers marathon pretty easy, even if I know others were getting punchy towards the end. However, last year they followed it up with an eleven-movie marathon, consisting of the first six movies plus Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, and finally the then-new Avengers: Age of Ultron. There were breaks between movies, but only of about ten or fifteen minutes, and the whole thing ran for something like 30+ hours. I didn't try to do that one.
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