"There really was nothing to it. I believe we were promised a film this time. Instead we just got yet another freakin Episode that wouldn't pass for a good Voyager episode."
Wouldn't pass for a good Voyager episode? Come in, Voyager had people evolving into lizards. ANYTHING passes as a good Voyager episode.
I constantly hear the tagline that it's just a "bigger budget episode" but I've yet to hear what that really means. I think it's just a nice little slur critics used that the general public naively disects. If we believe the episodes of TNG were top notch stories, WHAT CAN YOU DO BUT HAVE BIGGER BUDGET STORIES?
"He had these enormous lips, and his voice was croaky... and his nose was all to obviously prosthetic - but I gotta give them credit, he did tell Picard that he'd been savagely beaten in the past."
What actor would you have used? Did the boy playing Spock in Star Trek III really look all that much like Leonard Nimoy to you? Does any character picked by any film to play an older one (Young Indianna Jones anyone?) really like all that much like the older model? I think this one was closer than most, and he had talent too. This is just nitpicking.
"I lay blame squarely down on Berman! Yet again!"
A stupid thing to do since there is so much more involved with the ideas than Rick Berman, but . . . that's the risk of being at the helm of something. I wonder if we would give "The Inner Light" credit to Rick too, or "First Contact."
"But Trek is not these suger coatings. The Trek I fell in love with had substance. A deep underlying philosophy that seemed different, yet adding to the great overall view of the universe."
In case you missed it, this one was very much focused on being a human epic. We haven't had a film like that since, hell I don't know, six?
"Look at what Trek films have given us,
*TMP The almost destruction of the Earth by a massive entity that turns out to be a probe we sent out to search the galaxy for us. (Brilliant!)"
My God man. That was a fuckin' joke for a movie meant to be a comedy more than a drama. That's the only reason a story, which McCoy himself intutively noticed in the film, about a probe sent millions of light years to talk to a whale passed go.
Your "for us" comment admits you're a stupid whale. Why am I not surprised?
"*TWOK A device that can regenerate a planet and be the answer to saving billions of lives - but in the wrong hands, the ultimate weapon (Fuck-ing-A)"
A device that can regenerate or destroy a planet. Okay, I'm not saying it's dumb, but I bet plenty of kids in their backyards imagine toys like this.
You go on and on to list ideas, but none of them are keep from being cliche unless some amazing writing is doen. You want to critique writing, fine, but essentially Nemesis is about two people squaring off, a villain, and a hero, both with something to lose and game and sacrificing their friends and surroundings at all cost to win. Dumb idea? Maybe, but it should sound familiar because it was also Star Trek's VI and II, and a hell of a lot of other films as well.
Posted on Jun 3, 2003, 10:34 AM from IP address 65.102.71.111