Subject:
|
Re: Nemesis
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.geek
|
Date:
|
Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:16:37 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
695 times
|
| |
|
|
In article <H75759.C1y@lugnet.com>,
Rick Hallman <lego(SPAM)dude725@aol.com> wrote:
> Well... other then the fact the Enterprise-E has 24 decks, not 29/30... it
> was good. :) It could have lost the whole Shinzon/Picard connection, kept
> the Remans (Do these look like mutated Romulans to anyone else?) and
> Romulans, and the destruction of Earth, Lost B-4, and other annoying stuff.
> It would be good. VERY nice space battles, effects, etc.
I don't recall any movie stating, "And it has N decks," but I do admit
I'm trying my hardest to forget Insurrection. Okay, not quite my hardest;
people keep telling me there was a movie between _The Voyage Home_ and
_The Undiscovered Country_...
Space battles and effects are _not_ what makes a Star Trek movie. I thought
Nemesis was a pretty good blow-stuff-up-in-space movie. As a Star Trek
movie, though... ugh! It basically took any last shred of hope that
Paramount may one day figure out what Trek was and what Trek was supposed
to be and threw it out the window. The original series of Trek was
ground-breaking. They did stuff in that show, the movies, and to a
lesser extent in TNG that nobody ever had done before, in some cases not
just in sci-fi shows.
In Nemesis, though, they instead pay homage to Star Wars and other sci-fi
movies. Before this, you could just figure, "Well, ground-breaking is hard
stuff, you can't expect it all the time." Now, we know they're not even
trying, and are willing to simply emulate everyone else. Something of
the straw that broke the camel's back, I suppose.
But as a Hollywood special-effects-fest movie, it's not so bad. A few
issues, sure-- what's with a spaceship with more guns than good sense
that gets described as a "predator" having a huge cathedral-ceiling
on both the Bridge and some room we've got no clue what it's for but
you could serve a banquet there, with hallways so wide and tall you could
march a legion of halberd-toting Remans through it shoulder-to-shoulder?
But it's not too bad, and gets to leverage fun things like character
development from these folks having been in our lives for 15ish years
to make life easier on the screenwriters.
Sure, I enjoyed it... but dangit, I wanted more! I want a Star Trek that
realizes that spaceships and photon torpedoes are window dressing, not
drama in themselves.
-JDF
--
J.D. Forinash ,-.
jd@forinash.not ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: Nemesis
|
| (...) Well... other then the fact the Enterprise-E has 24 decks, not 29/30... it was good. :) It could have lost the whole Shinzon/Picard connection, kept the Remans (Do these look like mutated Romulans to anyone else?) and Romulans, and the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
|
5 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
