Star Trek: Generations at 30

[ananta]

Every time I see this thread title, I feel so…goddamn OLD. How can it have been thirty years—how?!

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Complaining of something looking/feeling studio-filmed seems odd, that's most of ST and a whole lot of Hollywood entertainment period, it may be nice to have some actual locations but being offput by studio-filmed feels like having too little willingness to suspend disbelief.

I thought First Contact's Earth scenes felt claustrophobic. The movie told us we were in our future (and Picard's past), but it never showed us any location that differentiated the Earth of 2063 from the Earth of 1996 -- a missile silo, a dive bar (complete with 1960s tunes), a moutain side field, a forest. That's what I meant by the "random studio backlot" comment. I didn't need location filming, I needed something that felt like I was not in 1996.