nx1701g said:
The designs of the Remans were based on Nosterafu.
Yep, I believe the reference to
Nosferatu: Symphonie Des Grauens was even specifed in Logan's script. The design is very similar, for those who haven't seen the film - a bald head, pointed ears, long fingernails, generally grotesque appearance. Sufficeth to say, though, Count Orlock was
way cooler than the Viceroy.
Actually, that idea was one of my favourite in the film, though, in a sense, it was part of the film's cop-out: It's not a film where the Romulans are the badguys, really it's these vampire men. No, wait, actually really it's this clone doppelganger. It doesn't help that making your villains looking like grotesque vampires doesn't exactly make them very nuanced - in the end, the Remans are basically orcs, a bunch of monstrous slimy thugs doing the dirty work of an imported British actor. And I liked Christopher Lee better...
I think the wedding scene was okay if a little cringe-worthy, it was pretty much saved by the final line: Worf irritatedly mumbling 'Irving Berlin' before passing out. Yes, I liked his Gilbert & Sullivan gag in the previous film too, so sue me.
After that shaky start, though, the film went south real fast with the buggy scene, where Picard acts recklessly out of character just for the hell of it. The film never really recovers from that moment... threadbare characterisations, an incoherent plot, an overly campy villain: Even the best efforts of Stewart (and a lot of them are pretty good, as in his discussion with Shinzon) simply couldn't save the movie.
And the score, gaaaah.... most of it is either note-for-note from TMP, or lamely techno, and uninspired. I am looking forward to Giacchino's score for the next film, which, I hope, will be the best we've had since Eidelmann's TUC score.
