Ok “complete remake” is an overstatement but c’mon, they ripped off all of the best parts of Wrath of Kahn and focused more on fan service than making an original script.
There are more “best parts” to TWOK than just Spock’s death. Can’t think of what else they might have ripped. 95% of the script is original by the way. There’s just that one scene that could be considered fan service but I don’t think that’d really count as fan service because it’s only the fans who don’t like it. Making Khan the villain could qualify as fan service but his role in this script is completely different than before.
Leonard Neemoy’s final cameo was also very forced and poorly done which is a huge shame.
True but this is 30 seconds worth of a 2 hour film.
The only thing it remade entirely from ST II was the climactic death being done exactly line-for-line. Other than that, it’s more like a paranoid conspiracy theorist’s remake of the episode Space Seed.
The scene is mostly the same but “line-for-line” is just inaccurate. And there’s not much similarity to Space Seed beyond the mere presence of Khan.
Listen guys, STID isn’t perfect. Dislike it all you want, dislike the Khan stuff all you want. But to say that the whole film is a rip-off is just flat out not true. And I really don’t get how you could hate a whole movie for one scene and the name of the main villain. (I’m not saying this to anyone in particular.)