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Entertainment Weekly Reviews The Star Trek Movies

BillJ said:
He types a lot, but I'm not sure he's saying much.
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Paid by the word?

I tried to read the article, I got about 2/3rds through before I gave up.

One particular thing I didn't like, the writer goes out of their way, for the 3rd time, to mention a completely unrelated movie that I like and say how horrible it is.
 
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wayoung said:
Maybe some people did, I can't speak for others experience watching a film. Frommy own perspective the earth sections came off as unnecessary and negatively affected the quality of the film.
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Opposite. For me, the Earth sections succeed as light comedy, whereas the space stuff strains to be action drama.

Given the reviewer is mostly restating conventional opinion (albeit in a very wordy way), he might make things easier on himself and just use pictures of turds for his last two reviews.
 
JonnyQuest037 said:
The Insurrection review is up:

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/24/star-trek-insurrection-age-hollywood

Once again, he spends about half of the movie review talking about a book. Do you get the feeling that ST books are what he really wanted to write about?
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But the book is about the making of Insurrection, and you can certainly make a case that the behind-the-scenes story is more interesting than the actual movie. :)

P.S. Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman is a great book . . .and much more memorable than Insurrection as well!
 
RAMA said:
Ironically, Patrick Stewart was right.
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If you read Fade In its horribly clear that Patrick Stewart, and to a lesser degree, Brent Spiner, are ultimately what bring down the remaining films from behind the scenes whilst thankfully doing their best in front of the camera.
Stewart for instance pushed for a new romance for Picard, which ends up with Anij in Insurrection and takes away a planned subplot where Picard (and possibly Beverly) knew the character who found the planet of youth. This means adding to the cast of the film, and giving poor gates yet another cameo (Stewart also referred to his relationship with Lily in first contact as a romance....I don't know whose idea it was to sideline crusher for the moby dick speech...it should be her appealing to Picard's reason after all.)
Then we get the scenes of the Argo in Nemesis.....
Picard is not an action hero and needed to share that spotlight a little more. Picard and Data become the Kirk and Spock of the late tng movies, and the rest of the ensemble become borderline cameos.
 
Beverly could have skipped most, if not all, of the TNG movies. I don't know why the entire cast of TNG were brought to the big screen if they weren't all going to be used. TNG was an ensemble. Beverly Crusher's story pretty much ends in the finale of TNG. Geordi didn't get a lot to do in the last 2 movies either. I barely recall Worf, Beverly and Geordi in Nemesis.
 
Terok Nor said:
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Galileo7 said:
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Get them yourselves! :p

Quite enjoying these reviews. Too long, some say? I read them on my Kindle on the bus, and would happily read much longer ones. You want short reviews, those are all over the web.

For me, reading Fade In on an aircraft carrier last fall pretty much confirmed what I'd suspected: that in spite of everyone's best intentions, there just shouldn't have been "TNG movies" past Generations. It was time to break up the cast, and do something new.
 
After my last rewatch of the films, I felt a bit surprised that I thought I liked Nemesis more than Insurrection. I would now only claim it is the third worst Trek film. ;)

It has a lot of good ideas, that overall were executed poorly. Wasted potential.
 
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Terok Nor said:
The Motion Picture, Insurrection, Nemesis and Into Darkness beg to differ. Give me Star Trek V over those movies any day of the week.
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There is a really fantastic Fan Edit of STV out on the internet, that trims it down into an episode/pilot structure, with classic cues and sound effects.... I have watched that edit more times then I ever dreamed of watching the movie, and feel like it is one of the best made TOS Trek Films ever made. There is a lot to like, buried in Star Trek V.
 
Gaith said:
Get them yourselves! :p

Quite enjoying these reviews. Too long, some say? I read them on my Kindle on the bus, and would happily read much longer ones. You want short reviews, those are all over the web.

For me, reading Fade In on an aircraft carrier last fall pretty much confirmed what I'd suspected: that in spite of everyone's best intentions, there just shouldn't have been "TNG movies" past Generations. It was time to break up the cast, and do something new.
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Or, do something really crazy - like keep Shatner in the 24th century. Considering TNG had already established Spock and Scotty as alive in the 24th century, it wouldn't have been hard to come up with some way to integrate the crews for some awesome team ups and adventures, with some great comedic bits mixed in. Of course, this would require better writers then any of the TNG movies ever hoped to have....
 
jaime said:
If you read Fade In its horribly clear that Patrick Stewart, and to a lesser degree, Brent Spiner, are ultimately what bring down the remaining films from behind the scenes whilst thankfully doing their best in front of the camera.
Stewart for instance pushed for a new romance for Picard, which ends up with Anij in Insurrection and takes away a planned subplot where Picard (and possibly Beverly) knew the character who found the planet of youth. This means adding to the cast of the film, and giving poor gates yet another cameo (Stewart also referred to his relationship with Lily in first contact as a romance....I don't know whose idea it was to sideline crusher for the moby dick speech...it should be her appealing to Picard's reason after all.)
Then we get the scenes of the Argo in Nemesis.....
Picard is not an action hero and needed to share that spotlight a little more. Picard and Data become the Kirk and Spock of the late tng movies, and the rest of the ensemble become borderline cameos.
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Heh. Knowing how much of TNG was influenced by past "ideas", this just made me wonder what the TNG movies (or even some episodes) would have been like in another universe, with for example, Admiral Kirk and Xon (Data) ....

God, damn, I would love to have watched the Shat and Nimoy take on the Borg or a take on Best of Both Worlds... or Spock as Sherlock Holmes, with McCoy teasing him about a hidden love of play acting human, or something. This could be a thread all by itself! ;)
 
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