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Summary: Just An Extended TV Episode
Review: There are two kinds of Star Trek Films...those that genuinely work as full length feature films (Wrath of Khan, First Contact) and those that spread a one hour episode's worth of plot over 100 minutes of time. Nemesis, despite excellent effects and cinematography, and fine performances by the cast, falls into the latter category. Villain with special link to one major character endangers Enterprise. Romulans may or may not responsible. Villain almost triumphs. Enterprise in dire peril. Picard pulls a brilliant last minute strategy out of the hat. Villain perishes on the bridge of his exploding spaceship. (I hope I'm not giving away too much here). Does that sound familiar?
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Summary: Terribly disappointing
Review: As a science fiction and Star Trek fan, I was terribly disappointed with this film. The story was disjointed a nd unclear, and the dialogue went nowhere. I'd pass on this big time
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Summary: Star Trek: Nemesis
Review: This movie is ok but not one of the best. I have seen better. Some of the other Star Trek movies were better. I own all of the Star Trek movies made so far on dvd. In "Star Trek: Nemesis" the Enterprise is fully restored and a new android appears in the movie so will this be the last Star Trek movie?
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Summary: I am no fanboy.
Review: First, the good: 1. Special Effects were amazing, as always.
2. The acting was, for the most part, terrific. It was good to see the cast cutting loose. The melodrama present in the first few seasons was gone (it made a reappearance in the first TNG movie) which was also good.
3. The story could not fit in a single episode, unlike Generations and Insurrection, also very good. Then, the bad (brace yourself for length: 1. Inconsistencies. As I said, I am no fanboy, but I could pick out dozens of inconsistences. The least of which being technology that is present in the Trek timeline, but not utilized in this movie. Convenient that the technology would have altered the present. This is lazy, lazy writing. 2. The villain was pointlessly evil and stupid. A person does not rise to a position of domination over billions of people, and then gloat over a single ships destruction. Again, lazy writing, as this EXACT SAME PREMISE is present in dozens of episodes. Villain almost destroys Enterprise. Enterprise crew constructs plan.. you know the rest. 3. Troi gets weird. She magically displays abilities far and away different than anything she has ever displayed before. They were even conveniently made up AFTER the [stuff] hit the fan. 4. He looked nothing like Patrick Stewart. Lazy casting job. 5. Where did the Remans come from? Why is there no mention of them EVER? 6. The Super Ship of Death and Pain was a terrible, terrible plot device. Come ON. Super Ship of Death and Pain is a too common a theme, why not something more sublte? 7. Speaking of plot devices. The little transporter. I didn't question it's existence. I really, really didn't. I am not a trek nerd, but this thing was a terrible, lame contrivance. Lazy writing, AGAIN. 8. Leader of Romulus? Please. A militaristic society doesn't kneel down like scared puppies like that. 9. Three on one and they still get the snot beaten out of them? 10. The list goes on and on and on. This movie is lame. I will not get cerebral in this review. It was simply, undeniably, agonizingly lame. I am done with Trek movies forever.
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Summary: thoroughly enjoyable
Review: first let me say that Tom Hardy is the hottest thing to hit the screen since I don't know. Watching him as the oh so tragic Shinzon is a total treat. The characters are true to form and do something more, they evolve. I was very pleased that this Next Gen movie had nothing to do with the Borg or time travel themes this franchise has been mired in since they took to the big screen. I really enjoyed this installment and recommend it wholeheartedly to any and all, Star Trek fans or otherwise.
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Summary: AN OPEN LETTER TO SHERRY LANSING, CHAIRMAN OF PARAMOUNT
Review: Recently, Paramount Studios chairman Sherry Lansing stated, in response to the box office failure of "Nemesis", that "the fan base has in some way shrunk". If you are a ST fan, that comment should chill your hemoglobin, because it is studio-speak for "we lost our butt financially on these last two turkeys and we need to start thinking about spending this kind of money on something else." Well, Sherry, if you are reading this, I am here to tell you: The problem ain't the lack of fans. The problem with this failure, and the slumping ratings of "Enterprise", can be summed up in two words: RICK BERMAN. And, Sherry? RICK BERMAN MUST GO. The second-season of "Enterprise" is now behind us, so now would be the perfect time to pink-slip him. What proof do you need for this? Well, in the case of "Nemesis", let's start with John Logan's horrid, silly script. It was so fraught with errors and inconsistencies, it had the fans screaming last February when it was posted on the 'Net, so the film was doomed from bad-word-of-mouth before it was released. Anybody who hires Logan should realize he has absolutely no feel for detail. He had printed flyers being passed out to Romans entering the Colosseum in "Gladiator" centuries before the invention of the printing press! John Logan is the Michael Bay of writers: All flash & noise and totally devoid of substance and coherency. Hey, John? You just directly contributed to the death of a lucrative film franchise. So, if "Last Samurai" bombs, you may want to sign up for the "Joe Eszterhas: Invisibility In Hollywood" community college course, because the studio execs are not going to be blaming the guy with the big shiny molars. As Executive Producer and Grand Poo-bah of the ST franchise, it is ultimately Berman's responsibility to review any feature film script. There is NO WAY Berman should have ever allowed this terrible script to become the finished film. And, BTW Rick, did it ever occur to you that the character-death at the end of this vapid clunker directly conflicts with the TNG finale ("All Good Things..."), big time? The answer is no, because obviously Rick either didn't read the script or, more likely, just doesn't care anymore. Nowhere is this attitude more prevalent than "Enterprise", whose first-season promise has faded, with only a few exceptions, right from the disappointing second-season opener (where the crisis resolution hinged on hammering & shaping a large piece of scrap metal with a rock to fix a tiny, sophisticated electronic circuit? Yeah, RIGHT!). Anybody notice that after the spring '03 hiatus it's quickly becoming a "Voyager" clone? Like, all of a sudden the alien translation problems have vanished and they all now speak fluent English? Pity poor Linda Park; she has been demoted from being an integral part of almost every episode to now just being the Sickbay waitress/Flox groupie. Sherry, Rick is old. Or he is old and tired. Or he just doesn't care. Or he has his mad money and just doesn't care. Or he can't remember all the critical ST minutiae. Or "Voyager" was a 7-year-old vampire that sucked him dry. I DON'T KNOW, Sherry, just pick any or all of the above and fire his [rear]! PLEASE! We need some new blood! We're out here, Sherry, we're really out here! And we want to come back! As for this DVD? It should exist only as an audio store surround system demonstration disc. It sure does look and sound great; at least, that is, when there is no dialog. Actually, I have an idea. Everybody who has a 5.1 system and buys this disc? Unplug the center channel speaker and chapter-skip forward to the space battle. That way, you can enjoy the great sound and effects mix and not have to be subjected to the inane dialog. You won't miss anything, I promise. Remember Sherry, we're counting on you to do the right thing. And we promise you, the fan base hasn't "shrunk", we're just disgusted (and we used to be amused). As Frank Zappa once said, "jazz isn't dead; it just smells funny". Well, Sherry, there's a foul odor at the Paramount lot, and if you just wave a pink piece of paper at it, the fresh air will come rushing back! Count on it!
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Summary: Where was the heart that STTNG used to have?
Review: Star Trek:The Next Generation was a TV show with a warm heart.
It was a family series with a Pollyannish view on life. a positive view.
Instead of that we get a film called Nemesis with such things as a rape,a sex scene,a major Star Trek character killed off and an appalling scene of a man not just being impaled on an iron bar but actually pulling himself along it. What was Rick Berman thinking?
Remember when this show was for family viewing? Sure,they had action but nothing as sadistic as a man being impaled. And about the villian Shinzon. In previous Star Trek films the villians all had some sort of charm and there were some great villians. In Nemesis,the villian is a peeping tom that perves on Troi and wants to rape her. What a comedown for Star Trek this too-young and whiny villian is!
No wonder families gave the film a miss.
And once again the Enterprise's shields easily fail. As one frustated critic stated "haven't they fixed them yet"?
Would it be too much for Star Trek fans to ask to actually give us one well written adventure film where the good ship Enterprise isn't so easily outwitted or outgunned by the enemy?
Come on Mr Berman,you can do it can't you? Get it right and the fans will come back. This show still has the fans,we just want a decent story.
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Summary: The poster is cool, but this was a real disappointment
Review: As everyone knows this is the last TNG movie, so essentially the last movie in the best series that I've ever seen on television. The special effects are excellent; some of the action is really good; Picard is awesome as always...but other than that... This movie was an incredible disappointment for me. The plot is thin, the notion of character determined by genetics, which has the potential to really become interesting, instead is reduced to triteness because it no one ever explores it beyond the basic ideas that everyone already has about it, and the whole thing basically feels dissociated from the rest of the series. For some reason, all of the actors seemed fatter now. And that would be okay, but it's just that there is nothing monumentally final about "a generation's final journey." This feels like an extended episode--admittedly, a criticism often brought against all Star Trek movies--but for this one I think it's spot on. It's a substandard sci-fi action movie that lacks TNG's affinity for philosophical discussion, deep plotlines on two-part episodes, and involvement of the entire cast. Generations was about paradise and expulsion, and finding one's self and the believable insanity of Malcolm McDowell, and Data finding his emotion and it had Klingons and space battles and the Nexus. First Contact was about sophisticated plotlines where the action was integral and where our knowledge of the characters was drawn from the show. It was about visiting the past and uncovering the oft-alluded to, but never explicitly stated, trek elements. Insurrection was about love and immortality, about the exile of family. I don't know what Nemesis is about. Genes? That hardly receives sufficient interesting treatment. Family? Shinzon is a tacked on new character that we've never seen before, with no history with Picard. Endings? True, the sacrifice at the end is powerful, but there is this feeling that it has been wasted...like it could have been done for so much more. Ships have been on the verge of exploding hundreds of times in this show, so why this time did someone we love have to die? And Shinzon, this character with no history and in which we are not invested at all, is to insignificant to deserve the title of "nemesis". Even if the idea of nemesis alludes to selfness--the nemesis inside Picard--it's still to small, since when we actually see that realized we have no connection to him. The nemesis in TNG is the Borg, or Q--characters with incredible power, and intriguing minds, and mystique. Not some young guy who comes on the show with no history, and whom we are supposed to believe is remotely comparable to either of those entities, which are both possessed of history and demonstrated futuristic omnipotence. I just don't buy it. This story is too narrow for a generations final journey. It's an anticlimax, and that is just such a tragedy.
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Summary: DVD release impressed me more than the big screen outing
Review: When I first saw Nemesis in the movie theatre, I wasn't extremely happy with it. When I first went to see it, I was a little tired, having come just after getting out of work. I'd been anticpating it something fierce, and I was mildly disappointed with the unexplained appearance of Welsey, and Worf. (Wesley left ST:TNG to travel through space and time, and hadn't been seen for something like a decade, and Worf became the ambassador to the Klingon Empire at the end of DS9.)Anyway, apparently, Worf's new job sucked, and he punched a few of the wrong people, and Wesley decided to pop in for a few moments. Oddly he vanishes right after the crew's first scene. I would have liked him included in the memorial scene, as he was very fond of... him. (I'm trying hard not to spoil anything. I'm sure most of you already know it though...)The story flows somewhat differently than previous outings, and this time there's some extremely excellent action shots of the Enterprise-E in battle. Most of the 'dog-fighting,' if you could call it that with ships this big, are breath taking and in a couple cases, jaw dropping! Digital Domain took over the special effects, as ILM is busy with the other 'Star' franchise, I assume, but they certainly did a hell of a job, and are to be commended for their fine work. And I certainly didn't feel the SE's took a lead role, the story is still very much character driven, with the SE's taking a supporting role, which is a good thing. Patrick Stewart (Picard) shines in the movie, with Sirtis, Frakes and Spiner (Troi, Riker and Data in order) all receiving some fine supporting work. Data most of all, of course gets a lot of time, and a huge scene, but Riker, Troi and LaForge all have some great scenes, but I felt the rest of the cast didn't have enough to do in the movie, Worf, most of all, seems to get shafted. Shinzon is a great villian, and his interaction with Picard is nicely done from beginning to end. The film looks great, and the transfer is crisp and smooth throughout. I didn't notice any flaws at all, honestly. (And with a film this new, there sure shouldn't be, damn it.) The 5.1 surround sound is great, as is Jerry Goldsmith's film score. The extras include several deleted scenes, and it would have been nice to see them in the context of the film, but I'll take what I can get. The documentaries are nice, showing some of the making of the film, and thoughts of cast and crew. I haven't listened to Director Stuart Baird's commentary yet. All in all, the film may have flopped at the Box Office, but it's really well worth another look. I'm happy I decided to pick it up, and my overall view of the film improved with a second viewing.
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Summary: Distracting Plot Holes
Review: As I watched the movie I couldn't help but obsess on all the unexplained questions. This movie has some of the laziest scripting I've ever seen. For instance:
The Enterprise crew seems baffled as to how a human could end up in charge of the Romulan empire. Guess what. So was I and it's never really explained. Are we to just assume the Picard's genes are so superior that if placed on Romulus he would naturally take over the whole planet. Why would the Romulan's help Shinzon with his coup, urge him to follow through with his bizaare plan and then turn on him the moment he starts putting his plan in motion? Shinzon spent his childhood being tortured by the Romulan's so naturally he holds a deep hatred for... EARTH???? What do the Romulan's hope to gain by destroying the Earth? Who built the Scimitar? Was it the Romulans or the Remians and how did they suddenly make this technological leap to build the most powerful starship ever? Why would the Romulan's give Shinzon charge of this ship since he seems to have no experience as a starship commander. Who designed the Phazon generator to sit on the Scimitar's bridge? Doesn't that seem like an accident just waiting to happen. How in the world did the Remian's think they were going to capture the Enterprise by beaming a half dozen soldiers aboard? Why would the Romulan's build such a massive space cruiser and then fill it with no defense forces? Picard had little difficulty storming the ship SINGLE HANDEDLY. Why did the Romulan's attack their OWN SHIP knowing it's power after giving it to Shinzon? Naturally they got their butts handed to them but it makes no sense. If the Romulans can just start beeming people off the Enterprise at will why not just keep doing it until you capture the whole crew? I give the movie a three because I have a soft heart. The Final Frontier would have received a one.
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