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Okay, I know I'm way behind the rest of the nation here, but I really liked this exchange in Star Trek: Nemesis (which I just saw for the first time, since my mother bought the DVD):
LaForge: You ever think about getting married again?
Guinan: No, twenty-three was my limit.
I gotta say, though, that overall, Nemesis was only okay, in my opinion. Pretty to look at, but awfully splashy, and like Insurrection, missing the unselfconscious campiness of the early Star Trek movies, and the heart that was in Generations (if tempered with cheesiness) and First Contact. Would have been worth $2 at the Oaks, and maybe $5.50 on an afternoon matinee if they were still that cheap, but fuck paying $9-11 to see that movie. I'm glad I didn't. (See, folks, this is part of the reason why I almost never go to see movies when they come out.)
LaForge: You ever think about getting married again?
Guinan: No, twenty-three was my limit.
I gotta say, though, that overall, Nemesis was only okay, in my opinion. Pretty to look at, but awfully splashy, and like Insurrection, missing the unselfconscious campiness of the early Star Trek movies, and the heart that was in Generations (if tempered with cheesiness) and First Contact. Would have been worth $2 at the Oaks, and maybe $5.50 on an afternoon matinee if they were still that cheap, but fuck paying $9-11 to see that movie. I'm glad I didn't. (See, folks, this is part of the reason why I almost never go to see movies when they come out.)
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Date: May. 29th, 2003 05:21 am (UTC)From:changes they should have made:
1) kill the trombone sucking dork
2) marry the klingon and the telepath
3) give the android his own situation comedy; a suitable premise would be "A tin man and his cat in the 24th century"
of course, that's just my reaction...
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Date: May. 29th, 2003 08:59 am (UTC)From:I thought Tom Hardy did an amazing job as Shinzon (though I did have a small irk of geekly annoyance when Picard looked at the picture of himself, or Hardy playing him, and young Picard has no hair)
I was amazed to see Ron Perlman's and Dina Meyer's (2 actors I really happen to like) names on the credits when the movie was over. I didn't even recognize them, but like their (admittedly limited) performances.
The dune buggy planet, in my opinion, was the worst part of the film. Wasn't that a violation of the Prime Driective or something?
I thought the radiation thing seemed a bit forced, but seemed to work out in the end (I DID think Data's end was fitting or appropriate or whatever...besides, Brent Spiner's getting a bit old and saggy to play an android who isn't supposed to change...physically at least)
So, yeah, not the greatest, but good enough. I liked it. And apparently, I'm the only one :)
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Date: May. 29th, 2003 12:37 pm (UTC)From: