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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.
I think that Jonathon Frakes is actually a pretty solid director, as is LeVar Burton. I look back on my favorite episodes and those guys did most of them...
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so it CAN'T be too bad. :)
besides, the romulans are, as they say, bad ass. Could actually be good!
(fingers seriously crossed)
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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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Finally.. we had to wait til the 10th movie to finally arrive at the one with the Romulans. They've been saving them as a plot for... forever. And, its an even numbered flick, so its probably inevitable that this movie is going to be very, very good.
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I beg to differ. Insurrection was very good. It made sense. It was entertaining. And watching Data's head float around was cool :-)
If you want a bad recent ST movie, try First Contact. Absolutely destroyed the Borg mythos in one fell swoop.
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."
You mean now the WHOLE 2 hour jouney of spock flying through V'Ger is in there? COOL!
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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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The plot, I read somewhere, is about a Picard clone trying to gain control of the Romulan Empire. No word on whether or not the stem cells will be used to help treat the obvious brain damage of the screenwriters of Insurrection.
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If they release a movie based on Enterprise, will they have to use negative numbers? Star Trek -1: The Klingon Wars
It was a Star Trek Episode, just like ST II-IV were. I actually felt that it was *more* of a Star Trek flick than First Contact, and right up there with Generations.
Of course, Star Trek alternates between "movies that are Star Trek" and "Star Trek that happens to be a movie." And that means that X will be like "First Contact", "The Undiscoveredy Coutnry", "The Wrath of Khan", and all the other even-numbered movies.
I look foward to it.
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.
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As always, don't forget to check out the plot on IMDb
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..... 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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However, I hope every scene is filled with Brent Spinner. After that "Ol' Yellow Eyes is Back" album, he deserves to spend the rest of his life having to listen to plot flaws while signing autographs for socially-retarded Acne cream test subjects. Also, I hope that they make Marina Sirtis cover up. At her present age, they must be bouncing off her knees now.
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According to imdb.com
6.4 Executive Decision
5.5 US Marshals
6.2 Tomb Raider
So it looks like we can't expect much from the next Star Trek unfortunately.
Since the next Bond movie is supposed to have a scene with female nudity, I'll boycott this one if it don't have a shower scene with Seven of Nine. Regardless if it fits in the story or not!
But seriously, what do you feel about nudity in ST movies? Does it belong there? Or does it make the movie anti-ST and/or lower the quality?
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It is, indeed, much better. What Robert Wise was forced to release in the 70s was infact a rough cut. Now he's had a chance to go back and finish it, and it really shows. And what other movie these days has the guts to have a several minute musical overture before even the title card comes up?
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Let's look at the brief history:
Star Trek I - Rather cheezy looking and overall not that good of a movie
Star Trek II - KHAAAAAAAAAN! Still one of the best Start Trek movies
Star Trek III - The search for spock. It had some good moments but overall kinda dull. Not bad, but not great
Star Trek IV - Okay, the environmentalism was layed on thick, but overall a very different style from the other movies (much more humor), and quite a bit of fun
Star Trek V - Today red shirted ensigns we are going to go find God on some funky planet in the middle of nowhere. Set phasers on CRAP!
Start Trek VI - My personal favorite. Lots of good drama between Federation and the Klingons. The big fairwell for most of the original cast.
Star Trek VII - a crossover between the old and new, and the movie clearly suffered for trying to force that.
Star Trek VIII - We get to see the old federation, a borg trying to seduce Data, and overall a fun and action packed movie.
Star Trek VIX - Ummmm.. what was this movie again. I know I saw it, but I don't recall it having anything worth remembering. Something about somebody rebelling I think but I forget.
So, back to an even number and so we can reasonably assume it will be good. It seems like they screw up, and then work hard to get the next one right. Then they rest on their laurels and screw up again.
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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
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And as annoying as Wesley might have been, he's no C3P0....
Actually, the correct formula for determining whether a Star Trek movie is good or bad was flushed out by Brunching Shuttlecocks in their review of Insurrection. Obviously, it's too long to repost here, but is highly accurate (or at least will at least make you smile).
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"When I did Weakest Link, I stood next to LeVar," Wheaton said on his website, in a post earlier this evening. "We were talking during the commercials, and I said to him that I really missed them. He said to me that I should be in the movie, especially since it's going to be the last TNG movie. I told him that I would love to be in it, but I really thought that Berman and company really didn't like me. He seemed surprised, and he told me that he was going to call Rick the next morning, and suggest to him that I be in the movie, at least as a cameo. I thought that would be really cool, and told him so.
"Last week, on Friday, my agent called me to let me know that there was an offer from Paramount to reprise the role of Wesley Crusher in Star Trek X. We just needed to work out the details.
"So we spent some time negotiating it, and --get this-- Rick Berman told my agent that he was 'very pleased' that I was going to be in the movie!
"I am really excited about this for three reasons:
* I am going to get to work with my friends again.
* Wesley Crusher will have some real closure, finally.
* For the last 5 years, at least, everywhere I go, fans ask me if I'm going to be in a movie, and what happened to Wesley, and I can honestly say that I'm doing this for the fans, because it will be so damn cool to see all of us together again.
"WHEEE!"
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Sorry I am spoiled, I want to have better action and more fun with this sort of movie and ST lacked in both departments. We all have got a little blase about SFX, they are good for spectacle but don't exactly help the movie develop. Some of the ST story lines were just plane lame, some showed promise, but were not well developed.
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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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It's a documentary about star trtek fans. Anyone who has seen it will remember and recognize a particular trekkie who was creating his own star trek movie called "Nemisis". This was quite a while ago, and the movie, I believe, was supposed to be about a star station, but what impressed me was the detail he and his crew put into designing their movie. Now, I would have written this incident off as coincidence if not for the information I just recently aquired, which is that this particular trekkie was seen on an episode of drew carrey. Now, this isn't exactly a "big holywood break", but I can't help but wonder if they're using any of his ideas in this new movie. Does anyone have any information about this?
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Why does /. give Star Wars its own topic but not STar Trek? Slashdotters probably waste^B^B^B^B^B spend far more person-hours watching Star Trek than watching Star Wars. Don't get me wrong... I love them both. It just seems to me that there is more discussion here about Star Trek than about many topics that get their own, um, topic.
1=2.5
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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.
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