new movie-- thumbs up!
Dec. 13th, 2002 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockSaw Star Trek: Nemesis tonight. Didn't intend to, it was one of those situations where you come home and find out there's A Plan, and it involves movies. Weirdly, I liked the film a lot. Our newspaper (S.J. Mercury) gave it a so-so review (2.5/4 stars), but I actually would place it second to The Wrath of Kahn in the ST movie-verse.
I loved the interation with the Shenzhan, the younger Cpt. Picard clone. The actor did a very good job, and he had a lot of screen chemistry with Patrick Stewart (who still reigns as the best actor to appear on anything ST). There were high tensions, and the writers did a nice show of playing the two off each other, and the actors rose to the challenge to make it look even better. Shenzan, the clone/nemesis of Picard, showed a good blend of curiosity, sulky bitterness, and overcondifidence, and seemed to embody a lot of what were Picard's character weaknessness (even with a touch of the formality that made Picard so stiff in the early seasons of ST:TNG).
The only that didn't impress me much were the Romulans. They didn't serve much purpose in the movie, except being expendable for both sides. Personally, if I was Romulan, I'd want the semi-crazy Shenzan guy leading me over them simply because he was doing SOMETHING without having to be pushed into it by someone else.
They had a pretty darn cool finale. I miss Data. I liked his ending-- I found it one of the most affecting scenes for this cast/crew. I loved how Picard was so shocked at this point at witnessing [his own] death and by events in general, that he could only stare wordlessly at Data, and then instead of a flowery speech, there was just "Goodbye," very softly. I liked how this had less of the cute quippiness, and went more for the drama and subtle emphasis on characters, which was always what made TNG better than the other ST shows. Though there were some good quips. I liked "On screen." when the whole front of the ship was blown out.
Speaking of, the crashing ships was a damn cool sequence.
Anyway, I liked it. Better writing than the last ST movies I've seen in theaters.
Hm... I turned in my final essay in my Social Problems class. I'll put it up here later.
I loved the interation with the Shenzhan, the younger Cpt. Picard clone. The actor did a very good job, and he had a lot of screen chemistry with Patrick Stewart (who still reigns as the best actor to appear on anything ST). There were high tensions, and the writers did a nice show of playing the two off each other, and the actors rose to the challenge to make it look even better. Shenzan, the clone/nemesis of Picard, showed a good blend of curiosity, sulky bitterness, and overcondifidence, and seemed to embody a lot of what were Picard's character weaknessness (even with a touch of the formality that made Picard so stiff in the early seasons of ST:TNG).
The only that didn't impress me much were the Romulans. They didn't serve much purpose in the movie, except being expendable for both sides. Personally, if I was Romulan, I'd want the semi-crazy Shenzan guy leading me over them simply because he was doing SOMETHING without having to be pushed into it by someone else.
They had a pretty darn cool finale. I miss Data. I liked his ending-- I found it one of the most affecting scenes for this cast/crew. I loved how Picard was so shocked at this point at witnessing [his own] death and by events in general, that he could only stare wordlessly at Data, and then instead of a flowery speech, there was just "Goodbye," very softly. I liked how this had less of the cute quippiness, and went more for the drama and subtle emphasis on characters, which was always what made TNG better than the other ST shows. Though there were some good quips. I liked "On screen." when the whole front of the ship was blown out.
Speaking of, the crashing ships was a damn cool sequence.
Anyway, I liked it. Better writing than the last ST movies I've seen in theaters.
Hm... I turned in my final essay in my Social Problems class. I'll put it up here later.
