My favorite was First Contact, least was Nemesis. But as a whole, the TNG movies just felt like a big budget TNG episode. I felt like the TMP movies were more of an event.
Which Next Generation Movie was the Best?
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Generations
Insurrection
First Contact
Nemesis
My favorite is Generations, partially for sentimental purposes...but I find it to be by far the most enjoyable TNG movie...
Insurrection is a movie I actually really like, everytime I watch it I end up enjoying it more than I thought I was going to. Its not as good as Generations or most of the TOS movies, but I never really got the hate for this movie...
My unpopular opinion of the day, Insurrection is better than First Contact! (I said it lol) First Contact to me has always been overrated, its generally thought of as the best TNG movie and often thought of as a top 3 Trek movie...but Im not feeling the love, unlike Insurrection, everytime I watch this movie, I like it less than I thought I was going to....and I can't quite pin point why, but I dont
and Nemesis is easily the worst, I still hate that they killed Data and left the B4 thing kinda untied up. Other than the end of the movie where Picard rams his ship into Shinzon's, this movie more than less bores me
Insurrection
First Contact
Nemesis
My favorite is Generations, partially for sentimental purposes...but I find it to be by far the most enjoyable TNG movie...
Insurrection is a movie I actually really like, everytime I watch it I end up enjoying it more than I thought I was going to. Its not as good as Generations or most of the TOS movies, but I never really got the hate for this movie...
My unpopular opinion of the day, Insurrection is better than First Contact! (I said it lol) First Contact to me has always been overrated, its generally thought of as the best TNG movie and often thought of as a top 3 Trek movie...but Im not feeling the love, unlike Insurrection, everytime I watch this movie, I like it less than I thought I was going to....and I can't quite pin point why, but I dont
and Nemesis is easily the worst, I still hate that they killed Data and left the B4 thing kinda untied up. Other than the end of the movie where Picard rams his ship into Shinzon's, this movie more than less bores me
First Contact is hands down the best of the TNG era movies.
I would say Insurrection is my second favorite of the TNG movies because it's the closet in tone to the TV show.
Generations and Nemesis are tied for last. I feel like Nemesis needed one more good rewrite and it would have been a much better movie.
I would say Insurrection is my second favorite of the TNG movies because it's the closet in tone to the TV show.
Generations and Nemesis are tied for last. I feel like Nemesis needed one more good rewrite and it would have been a much better movie.
First Contact is not only the best, its the only good Next Gen movie.
First Contact by far. The rest are awful, especially Generations. That's easily the worst Star Trek movie and one of the worst movies I ever saw in general.
1. Nemesis (my personal favorite)
2. First Contact (the best objectively)
3. Generations (not as bad as people say)
4. Insurrection (as bad as people say)
my 2¢
2. First Contact (the best objectively)
3. Generations (not as bad as people say)
4. Insurrection (as bad as people say)
my 2¢
First Contact is definitely the best one.
Second for me is Insurrection, I never realised it was so disliked until I started visiting this site. I really liked it (still do). It's a nice change of pace from FC, and I like the fact it feels more like a TNG episode in tone. I see a lot of complaints that the movies aren't enough like the TV shows, that they're too action oriented, and then there's a movie that is very close in tone to the show and everyone hates on it for it (though that's not necessarily always a good thing - TFF, I'm looking at you).
Third would be Nemesis. I hated it at the time, though I've warmed to it in recent years. I watched it about 6 months ago and I certainly didn't hate it as much as I remember I used to.
Generations is an absolute mess of a film.
Second for me is Insurrection, I never realised it was so disliked until I started visiting this site. I really liked it (still do). It's a nice change of pace from FC, and I like the fact it feels more like a TNG episode in tone. I see a lot of complaints that the movies aren't enough like the TV shows, that they're too action oriented, and then there's a movie that is very close in tone to the show and everyone hates on it for it (though that's not necessarily always a good thing - TFF, I'm looking at you).
Third would be Nemesis. I hated it at the time, though I've warmed to it in recent years. I watched it about 6 months ago and I certainly didn't hate it as much as I remember I used to.
Generations is an absolute mess of a film.
Alonzo deserves absolute praise. He did amazing things in that movie, and yes it is by far the most cinematically lit and shot of all four of them.
FC was probably the best. Felt like an 'event' (new Enterprise and new visual look for TNG, the Borg on the big screen, shows a pivotal event in the Trek timeline), reasonably well made, nothing massively wrong with it per se.
Making Generations a crossover film was a bad idea, and shows a lack of boldness or creativity.
I never liked what they did with Data in the films. He's as annoying as **** in Generations, and barely seems himself as we know the character from the television series, possibly apart from some scenes in Insurrection.
All four films have pretty terrible and/or annoying villains.
Generations feels the most TNG like of the films, and not just because it features the Ent-D. The Action Picard trope didn't seem as bad or forced in that film for some reason.
Making Generations a crossover film was a bad idea, and shows a lack of boldness or creativity.
I never liked what they did with Data in the films. He's as annoying as **** in Generations, and barely seems himself as we know the character from the television series, possibly apart from some scenes in Insurrection.
All four films have pretty terrible and/or annoying villains.
Generations feels the most TNG like of the films, and not just because it features the Ent-D. The Action Picard trope didn't seem as bad or forced in that film for some reason.
I thought they got Data mostly spot on in Insurrection. His learning to play with the Baku children was classic TNG, as was the whole Gilbert & Sullivan bit. His response to Riker's "smooth as an android's bottom" joke was great, and showed he was getting the hang of emotions (and had a good sense of comic timing). "Saddle up, lock and load" was a bit OTT though.
I don't have a problem with Generations being a crossover, but I would have like to have seen it done in a different way. Maybe something that brought Enterprises -A and -D together, though maybe that would have ended up being too similar to Yesterday's Enterprise. At the very least, more than just Kirk should have met up with the TNG crew. And they shouldn't have killed Kirk.
FC is the only TNG movie that I own. N'uff said.
First Contact was excellent, definitely the best of the Next Gen movies. Insurrection is my least favourite of all 13. Nemesis I really liked, even though most loathe it. And I like Generations, despite it's massive plot holes.
First Contact is the best of the worst. However, Nemesis probably has the most rewatchability--in the sense of if I had to pick one.
Looking back on everything now and how the film industry unfolded, it's pretty amazing that a non-Kirk/Spock Trek movie ever got made. Much less four of them. It really showed the success of TNG within popular culture.
With that said, First Contact is easily the best TNG film in my book. I disagree with many of the critiques toward FC, such as "angry out-of-character Picard." Re-watch the Borg narrative across the series and his actions in FC are the culmination of a beautifully executed personal arc. Data was at his best. The B-story on Earth was entertaining and significant to the larger franchise. The walk across the exterior hull and fight on the saucer section was greatness. Lilly was a believable one-off fish outta water character. And the Borg are just fun....and FC visually represented them very well, for the first time. There's a reason FC is highly regarded within the entire film franchise in general. It's a good flick.
The rest of the TNG movies are either disappointing or disastrous, but GEN will always hold a special place for me personally, despite all its flaws.
But in hindsight, it's amazing TNG had a film run at all. It happened right before the reboot craze, and it'll take a major shift within the industry for another non-TOS version of Trek to ever hit the big screen again.
With that said, First Contact is easily the best TNG film in my book. I disagree with many of the critiques toward FC, such as "angry out-of-character Picard." Re-watch the Borg narrative across the series and his actions in FC are the culmination of a beautifully executed personal arc. Data was at his best. The B-story on Earth was entertaining and significant to the larger franchise. The walk across the exterior hull and fight on the saucer section was greatness. Lilly was a believable one-off fish outta water character. And the Borg are just fun....and FC visually represented them very well, for the first time. There's a reason FC is highly regarded within the entire film franchise in general. It's a good flick.
The rest of the TNG movies are either disappointing or disastrous, but GEN will always hold a special place for me personally, despite all its flaws.
But in hindsight, it's amazing TNG had a film run at all. It happened right before the reboot craze, and it'll take a major shift within the industry for another non-TOS version of Trek to ever hit the big screen again.
I agree with most of this, except for calling the space-walk sequence "greatness". I was kind of impressed the first time I saw it, if only because it was a "first" for Trek. But now it's a bit too slow, stiff and small-scale, and the zero-G stuff isn't great. "Assimilate this!"
Picard's arc was good. Actually, I think both Picard and Data had good arcs through all the movies except INS.
To me it's "First Contact", no contest.
