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Summary: if and only if you are a Trekkie!
Review: If you are a Trekkie and don't have these three movies yet, it would be a good idea to get this pack. fans of the original star trek series and the first 6 star trek movies (who probably don't like the next generation much anyway) might discourage you from buying the pack. however as a fan of the next generation series and the occasional reader of the books, I found these movie to be very well done and worth owning on DVD. Generations: is the perfect transition between the original Star Trek and The Next Generation. First Contact is my favorite, it has satisfied my curiosity about the Borg! Insurrection: on the outside it's about preserving a small settlement of humans on a planet that everyone have their eyes on! but if you look deeper, it's like any other episode of the TV series, it has a moral point summerised by Picard's question: who the hell are we to decide the next course of evolution for these poeple?
eventually, the choice is yours: to miss out on a great adventure or to go where no man or borg has gone before!
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Summary: Trek Heaven?
Review: Look, basically, if you are a non trek fan, then buying this set and watching these films in order will convert you, wow. They are great, you want them dont you, go on add them to your shopping basket. Because you are finding it hard to resit, after all it is futile, isn't it? (hahaha)
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Summary: Pretty decent.
Review: OK, I'll go ahead and say it, Paramount is not at all the leader in DVDs. That aside, I'll just review the movies themselves.Star Trek Generations is a good Star Trek movie. It's not great like First Contact, but it's still good. Kirk and Picard teaming up is a nice treat. First Contact is great as far as Star Trek goes. It's got just about everything going for it. It looks wonderful both in terms of special effects and design, although I feel the Enterprise-E doesn't look as tough as past Enterprises. The film is just greatly entertaining, with the NextGen crew on their own and wonderful supporting characters (James Cromwell is perfect as the imperfect Zefram Cochrane). The film is just wonderful and has a great ending, I smile whenever I see Cochrane doing the Vulcan hand signal. Now on to Insurrection. Like many people, I'm fairly unimpressed by this movie. Sure, I appreciate it's attempt at recapturing the spirit of The Original Series (something that I feel is pretty unattainable at this point), but the film is for lack of a better word... weak. I mean, Insurrection... That's a pretty strong term to be applied to a handful of 50 year-olds with like two phasers and some bazooka thingy fighting about ten flying robot phasers-tag thingy's that look like those little oragami things you put your fingers in. And the space battle, come on! Note to Berman: Use ILM next time. Insurrection had THE weakest space battle of ANY Star Trek movie. They didn't even scratch the paint on the Enterprise. What ever happened to the Wrath of Khan-like battle scars? The villian (Ru'afo or something) was also weak. Heck, F. Murray Abraham was more menacing as a court composer in Amadeus! To sum up: Generations was good, First Contact was great, and Insurrection was pretty lame. Also, why does Paramount insist on making sub-standard DVDs? Do they not know what they can do with these disks, or do they just not care? Why didn't they make Generations anamorphic, are they that lazy? What about director's commentary? What a waste of three good disks. I guess they'll release Special Editions when they FINALLY get on the ball. Of course, like all Paramount DVDs, they'll be severely overpriced.
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Summary: Pretty decent.
Review: OK, I'll go ahead and say it, Paramount is not at all the leader in DVDs. That aside, I'll just review the movies themselves. Star Trek Generations is a good Star Trek movie. It's not great like First Contact, but it's still good. Kirk and Picard teaming up is a nice treat. First Contact is great as far as Star Trek goes. It's got just about everything going for it. It looks wonderful both in terms of special effects and design, although I feel the Enterprise-E doesn't look as tough as past Enterprises. The film is just greatly entertaining, with the NextGen crew on their own and wonderful supporting characters (James Cromwell is perfect as the imperfect Zefram Cochrane). The film is just wonderful and has a great ending, I smile whenever I see Cochrane doing the Vulcan hand signal. Now on to Insurrection. Like many people, I'm fairly unimpressed by this movie. Sure, I appreciate it's attempt at recapturing the spirit of The Original Series (something that I feel is pretty unattainable at this point), but the film is for lack of a better word... weak. I mean, Insurrection... That's a pretty strong term to be applied to a handful of 50 year-olds with like two phasers and some bazooka thingy fighting about ten flying robot phasers-tag thingy's that look like those little oragami things you put your fingers in. And the space battle, come on! Note to Berman: Use ILM next time. Insurrection had THE weakest space battle of ANY Star Trek movie. They didn't even scratch the paint on the Enterprise. What ever happened to the Wrath of Khan-like battle scars? The villian (Ru'afo or something) was also weak. Heck, F. Murray Abraham was more menacing as a court composer in Amadeus! To sum up: Generations was good, First Contact was great, and Insurrection was pretty lame. Also, why does Paramount insist on making sub-standard DVDs? Do they not know what they can do with these disks, or do they just not care? Why didn't they make Generations anamorphic, are they that lazy? What about director's commentary? What a waste of three good disks. I guess they'll release Special Editions when they FINALLY get on the ball. Of course, like all Paramount DVDs, they'll be severely overpriced.
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Summary: Superb, right to the end!
Review: Star trek. what can I say. These films just say it all. Superb storey coupled with superb effects, everything for the Star Trek fan. The only thing missing was me in my Star Trek jump suit.
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Summary: This is phoney Star Trek.
Review: The last ten years and three Star Trek movies have been nothing short of a big joke and these three movies with their bad stories and pretty below par acting show that. Maybe when Scott Backula and the crew of the new ENTERPRISE show, take over the movies. these films may be back to being worthy to be called Star Trek films again. Until then the movie theater is closed.
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Summary: They were done by terrible writers....
Review: The scripts for these movies as done by berman, bragga, and moore. Were to put it midly terrble. They were poorly plotted, full of corny dialoge, and looked more like they were written as bad TV shows (which they were). Paramount can deney it all they want, but doing these movies has brough Star Trek to a very low point in it's popularity and we have poor writers to thank for it.
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Summary: They were done by terrible writers....
Review: The scripts for these movies as done by berman, bragga, and moore. Were to put it midly terrble. They were poorly plotted, full of corny dialoge, and looked more like they were written as bad TV shows (which they were). Paramount can deney it all they want, but doing these movies has brough Star Trek to a very low point in it's popularity and we have poor writers to thank for it.
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Summary: A Must Have for all Trekkies!
Review: These 3 movies are great. It should be in everyone's DVD collection. They all are OUTSTANDING quality (especially audio). Buy this now, you wont regret it. Generations and First Contact are excellent, but Insurrection was not so good. You will enjoy these 3 great movies.
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Summary: Mr. Spock would call the movies "illogical."
Review: These three Trek films made between 1994 and 1998 were among the most disapointing films made in the Star Trek movies. Made at a time when they were also making two Trek shows on television. So you had the same TV crew also doing the movies, and Paramount giving more and more shoe-string budgets to work with. So they were much more limited in their resources to make these movies. The productions looked a bit more cheaper. Herman Zimmerman's sets were not so impressive. Michael Westmore's alien make-up designs looked under-developed. The scripts as written by Rick Berman, Brandon Braga, and Ron Moore were under-developed and looked more like badly written TV shows, even Michael Piller (the best among the Trek writers) couldn't do an effective screenplay given the limited time to do these movies. So it's very difficult to watch these movies now because of the fast way they were produced. The movies could be a lot better, given bigger budgets, more time to work on them, and actually getting movie screenwriters to do the screenplays. They did this recently with Star Trek; Nemesis. A big improvement over the other three movies, because they treated it like a movie, made a lot of changes behind the camera in production personal, and had a bigger budget to work with. Not a bad way to start a new era of Star Trek movie making, and leaving these three jokes of Trek films behind. Just treat them like movies, not TV shows. I think more and more, Star Trek's future is at the movies. Not the limited format that is television.
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