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Star Trek: Nemesis Gets the Go Signal
PatJensen writes "Star Trek TNG: Nemesis, the 10th Star Trek movie gets the green light from Paramount today. It will be directed by Stuart Baird, who did Executive Decision, US Marshals and Tomb Raider. Looks to be pretty action packed. Digital Domain
(LOTR, Titanic) will be doing the SFX. The movie seems to be based around Romulan conflict with the Federation. " Can't be as bad as Insurrection. At least, I hope not. BTW the first movie is out on DVD now and they did a pretty good job with the re-release.
That film was made by Simon "I haven't got a fucking clue as to how to edit a close-in action scene" West, the luminary genius behind "Con Air".
Note that he's scheduled to direct the feature-film adaptation of "The Prisoner" as well. God help fans of the original series.
He, Akiva Goldsman, and Nora Ephron should all be made part of the cast of the next "Survivor" series so that they can't do any more damage in Hollywood for at least a year or so.
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Although he was a producer and uncredited editor on the film.
BTW the first movie is out on DVD now and they did a pretty good job with the re-release.
All of the films are out on DVD (and have been for a while), they're just not worth buying because they contain no bonus features to speak of. Strange, considering Trek is a franchise that specifically caters to a crowd/fanbase that would love to see behind the scenes, technical, and "making of" documentaries.
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Coming Attractions - Star Trek 10: Nemesis
Just a warning, spoilers are present..
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Anyone else heard similar? They *are* just internet rumors, after all...
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"I can see my house from here!" - ST:
According to a statement made by Wil Wheaton at www.wilwheaton.nethe will have at least a small role in the movie. wilwheaton.net is down at the moment so here is what I can recal from his comments. When they taped The Weakest Link episdoe Wil made a comment to Levar Burton about wanting to come back and give the character some closure, but that he didn't feel like Rick Berman and the other producers liked him. Apparently Levar went to bat for Wil because they decided to give him at least a small role. According to Wil he has been fitted for a uniform and has possesion of a script with the confidential stamped in red on the top every page. I would provide links to wil's site, but for some reason Wil has had to put the moose back out front again.
"You can't fight in here! This is the war room" --Dr. Stra
As always, don't forget to check out the plot on IMDb
:-)
..... Of course, so do I.
... and here's something for the trekkies out there to wet their appetite.
The dialogue below should be considered a spoiler !
GEORDI
He just likes things the way he likes them..... (he looks at her, smiles)
He kisses her gently as Worf comes to them. Poor Worf is still suffering a bit from the bachelor party. He plops down beside them.
WORF
Romulan Ale should be illegal.
GEORDI
It is.
WORF
Then it should be more illegal.
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Sometimes refers to the suits at Paramount, who tend to make decisions based on their view of economic reality or business sense.
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I wouldn't be surprised. Even though Mr Stuart has gotten faim and acclaim for bringing back Star Trek (he basically launched an entire industry with that classically-trained voice: "engage"), he is a rather serious actor, and serious actors like to take on diverse, challenging, creatively envigorating roles.
Unfortunitely for the rest of us, playing the same space captain for 10+ years kind of takes the "diverse, challenging, creatively envigorating" out of it.
BTW: I caught his Prospero (that's from Shakespeare's Tempest) a couple years back in NYC. Brilliant. If anyone ever has a chance to see Patric Stuart perform anything live (esp Shakespeare), take it. His stage presence is unreal. I really hope he finds more projects to work on in the future.
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I know you have a boner for SFX companies that use Linux, but Digital Domain only did a few FX shots for LOTR. To list LOTR as one of "their" SFX films is a bit much. Here's a quote directly from lordoftherings.net:
Peter Jackson and his team not only created a physical Middle-earth, they also designed an entirely digital universe for The Lord of The Rings trilogy. This staggeringly intensive, behind-the-scenes work was carried out by WETA Digital. The New Zealand based F/X company assembled a crack team of computer artists, key frame animators, modelers, digital paint artists, motion editors, compositors and software engineers, among others, to devote years of their lives to creating never-before-seen effects.
"And like that
IIRC, it was either TVH or TUC...probably TVH, as I know they didn't do the FX for TFF (and that was one of the complaints I remember hearing leveled against that movie).
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what are you talking about? I don't think that site is real... or at least its reviews are subject to question.
If you look right below the ST 'review' you'll see one for 13 Ghosts, (which claims its good - as if that wasn't enough evidence to show its full of it)... but also it claims that:
"a Great finale where Maggie, Rafkin, and Kalina try to save Bobby from a glass elevator that is rigged to explode and destroy the house."
Well... after seeing the movie, I must have missed that part. Especially since "Kalina" died....
So anyways... disregard the above as a troll.
Bill
1=2.5
;)
2=3
3=3
4=3.5
5=2
6=3
7=3
So the average for ODD movies is 2.6 and EVEN movies it is 3.2
The WORST movie was an ODD (2) one and the best was an EVEN (3.5).
To top it all off there is NEVER the case that a ODD movie is followed by and EVEN movie with a LOWER score, nor an EVEN movie followed by an ODD movie with a higher score, so the curse exists.
-Shieldwolf
just = (My)Opinion.toCents();