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[QUOTE]Originally posted by AndrewR: [QB] OK, I just watched Insurrection again yesterday, and I have some qualms that I think need to be addressed by the Star Trek team before they go into Star Trek X. Basically: A new director - JF is good, but Insurrection looked flat and dull... The sets looked just so... underlit and dull and we saw NOTHING of the Bridge - it actually looked quite disgusting... plain boring - lights dull - hardly any unique views of the Bridge or Engineering - except to close in on Riker or the Trill officer - nothin like First Contact - the bridge - and the whole ship in First contact seemed - futuristic and wonderous - yet the Bridge in Insurrection - seemed like just another room - with the light on. They have to can Lt. Daniels as the Security/Tac officer - he is COMPLETELY boring - even more boring that Lt. George Primmin from DS9's "Move Along Home". We need a new alien in there I think. The Trill officer again was BORING! The Joystick HAS to never appear on screen EVER again... errgh. Please fix up the departments sitting at the Conn and Ops. Effects - the company who did the Effects in Insurrection - did a CRAP job. The Enterprise looked dinky and dull. The Atmospheric ship flights looked horribly matted... i.e. the drones and the Son'a ships. etc. The CGI - basically looked lifeless and dull - I don't know if it was too RED being in the Briar patch - but it just didn't look as 'epic' as effects for past movies had. The Enterprise is a Big ship - it shouldn't be dipping all over the place and being thrown about like a smaller ship would. Trek effects have been pretty static and dull in the last 3 movies. The Undiscovered Country had beautiful ship shots... Even "Galaxy Quest" had better ship effects than Insurrection. Maybe its CGI - it's not up to scratch yet? In First Contact and Insurrection - we never had any beautiful sweeping shots - that lasted for too long. Even the first appearance of the Enterprise E was too quick. Its as if they don't want you to get a focus on the ship to quickly - which is frustrating. There has to be a good balance between soundstage and on location filming - Insurrection just had TOO much - out door stuff... First Contact probably did have a nice balance. What is with the Data/Picard vs. The rest? Have some more character pairings - like good ole TNG. The Soundtrack - Jerry Goldsmith did a fantastic job with First Contact - Insurrection though was just a rehash - a poor rehash. The soundtrack is uninspiring and tinny - and what is with all that synth!?! Its like his instrument du jour! We need a fresh perspective on the Soundtrack - and there are a lot of great composers out there. Over all the next TNG movie has to look... like it did in the earlier movies and First Contact - futuristic sharp - fresh and wonderous - not slow, washed out and pedestrian. You wanted to DREAM about being in space after seeing this film... not think - it could be a film set anywhere and in any situation. It has to provoke the mind to think of Trek as having a 'grand scheme' of exploration? of strange new worlds? of the 24th century? of WONDER... not cheap and nasty, looks, laughs and soundtracks. Andrew P.S. one thing i'll give Insurrection - was its powerful sound effects - some of those weapons firing - sounded like they'd rip you to shreds. Andrew [/QB][/QUOTE]
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