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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] Ok, I'll be more specific: I liked Jerry Goldsmith's music, but only the usual TMP music. Digital Domain did animate the Enterprise quite nicely, although it didn't quite feel real -- partly due to the excessively curvy ship design (think how the Batmobile and Batcostumes changed over the course of the movies), partly due to the excessive use of CGI. The drawback of CGI is that it allows an incompetent producer to make the visuals cool and cartoonish -- in fact, that's much easier than making them realistic. That's how we get the Star Wars disc-style explosions or the swirly green lights wherever you look. Remember how the first "Batman" was basically black with a few colors strewn here and there, while "Batman and Robin" became excessively stylish and colorful? It happened because Schumacher wanted to bring Batman from a real-world kind of setting (wasn't totally real-world, but very much so) into a comic book world. Nemesis wants to do the same with Star Trek. Things just happen for no reason, and I'll expand on this later. I liked some of the scenes between Picard and Shinzon, especially the part where he goes into his history. Those kinds of flashbacks are fairly new to Star Trek, and they seemed to have used a different style of cinematography for that and the desert scenes (which have an odd monochrome feel). Shinzon is portrayed as an utterly fantastical individual, completely larger than life. He can telepathically rape Troi, and all Picard says is "can you withstand more of these violations?" He can have somebody walk into the Romulan Senate and kill everyone with an unknown device. He can -- we're not sure how -- go from a slave to an individual with a huge warship. I want to know how he did it, but that's left to the imagination, or maybe a few lines I can't remember. First, we never hear of the Remans. And then they come out and do all of this? The few risks that were, including the gory details of senate killing and raping, felt like comic-book style transformations (remember Poison Ivy pumping the guy with chemicals and him expanding, the Super Shredder in Ninja Turtles?)and horror that are completely out of spirit for Star Trek, as opposed to genuine risks that expanded on the concept. A good example of the latter is First Contact, with Lily and Cochrane as outsiders questioning the basic premises of Starfleet -- "humans have evolved" and all that. That's expanding on the concept -- the former is just violence for the sake of showing that Shinzon can break every rule and go unquestioned -- i.e., he's some kind of a supervillian. It seems the movie was primarily concerned with introducing new items without bothering with the how's and why's. The Remans just rose up. Worf just came back. Wesley just was there. Starfleet just built a dune buggy (ok, it seemed clear that this could've been Picard's own Delta Flyer type of hobby vehicle). Data just doesn't have emotions. Rather than making this into a TNG movie, the idea seems to be "just do it for the sake of fun and coolness, and leave the explaining to the bothersome group of viewers familiar with the TNG concept". A few other concerns: 1) The opening. What's with the morphing logo and the inverted R? Why not the usual simple lettering? It reminds me of how we went from "B A T M A N" to the Bird & Bat logo in "Batman and Robin." It just takes the seriousness out of the movie. 2) The bland-humor injokes. If you don't have a sense of humor, stop trying. I laughed at Data's Blue Skies until they CUT IT AFTER A FEW SECONDS! Let's see, what's the other part I laughed at...something that wasn't meant to be funny...ah well. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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