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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] That's as gross a comparison as I'll ever see, I think. Anyway, I think [i]Nemesis[/i] was pretty good. [i]The Wrath of Khan[/i] is still my favorite, but I doubt anything will beat it in my mind. I think the political aspects of this film are comparable to [i]The Undiscovered Country[/i]. You have a catastropic event (the Praxis explosion/Dominion War) that wreaks havoc on the Empire, and the current government decides that peace may be the best option. Before peace negotiations can begin, the current government (Chancellor Gorkon/Romulan Senate) is assassinated by militaristic warmongers (General Chang/Shinzon and Romulan commanders). In [i]Nemesis[/i] they also laid out a dirty secret of the relationship between the Romulans and the Remans. However, I think that exploration could have used a bit more development. A lot more detail should have been given to how Shinzon came about. The only time the Romulans could have gotten his DNA samples would have been "Data's Day" (assuming the ambassador swiped a hair folicle) or "Unification." So far, we're left with a big ol' monkey wrench in figuring out when all of this supposedly happened. We should have also gotten a better idea of where B4 came from. Was he really a Soong prototype (which brings up questions of how the Romulans got him (did Soong sell him? did someone steal him and give him to the Romulans? did the Romulans raid a secret stash on Omicron Theta?)) or did the Romulans attempt to build a Soong-type android based on scans taken of Data in "Unification" (come on, you know they had to have scanned him). I think the action in the movie was nicely done. The Argo sequence started out a little campy, but I think it became a bit more serious as they started finding B4's parts (throwing B4's head in the glove compartment being an exception). The battle sequence between the Enterprise and the Scimitar as well as the Romulan Warbirds/Enterprise against the Scimitar were nicely done. I think the pacing and cutaways to other scenes was great. It was nice to finally see how capable a [i]Sovereign[/i]-class starship is during battle. I really don't think these action sequences were "overblown." I enjoyed the music; I think Goldsmith did an excellent job making it dark as well as incorporating parts of [i]The Motion Picture[/i]'s Enterprise theme. I liked the Reman makeup, but I wasn't too pleased by the Reman uniforms. They looked rather uncomfortable (especially on Shinzon). I think the acting was good, and the writing (for the most part) was good. I liked seeing the references in the movie; I think they were incorporated well-enough to not still out. Some of the inconsistencies really bug me, though. How could a positronic signal be detected by the Enterprise so far away? How come Picard is bald in his academy picture? Why the hell is there a Deck 29 and a deep tube to nowhere that does nothing? How could the Scimitar have simply backed up and unhooked itself from the Enterprise? And how could a transporter be squeezed down into something the size of a MicroMachine unless it were dependent on the Enterprise's transporter system (which was down at that point)? Other than all that, I liked the film. I'm probably going to go see it again sometime soon. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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