Re: Just saw "Nemesis"
Well, the tagline is sort of elusive “a generation’s final journey begins” which is about as ambiguous as the messages you find in a fortune cookie. Apparently, Paramount is sort of threatening for it to be the last movie (at least for a good long time) if it doesn’t get a lot of box office attention.
I would guess this is a result of the dismal box office figures that Insurrection did that resulted in them deviating from the every two year plan and retiring the movies for four years. Apparently, they didn’t realize that fans aren’t complete and total morons. Sure, they may be able to get us all to go out at least once to see just about anything but how can they expect good returns on a bad movie?..
It just totally baffles me how a series with as strong of a following as Star Trek has – a series that is flooded with scripts and ideas from so many fans could be mangled so poorly by their own writers and directors. They don’t seem to get that Trekkies aren’t tired of the series – they are tired of less than stellar movies.. In the NG series, it was ok for there to be a few stinkers thrown in there but with a movie that has a running length approximately equivalent to two episodes back to back coming out only once every two years or more – they apparently don’t understand the importance of not having room for error.
A lot of people were ed when it went off the air (I know because I went to the first showing of Generations the day it came out and the theater was full and a woman stood up and said “who else is as ed as I am that they took it off the air? And everyone started cheering.
). There were episodes of the series that I liked more than this movie but this definitely my favorite of the NG movies. I think that as long as they can make good movies, they won’t have a problem getting fans to support them.
That’s my 2 cents + on the subject.
Originally posted by Camelot
it is supposed to be the "last voyage" for the NG cast. I don't think so though, but if it is, I hope they move onto the DS9 and the Voyager cast...Why not, huh ?
Live Long and Prosper, ya'll
Well, the tagline is sort of elusive “a generation’s final journey begins” which is about as ambiguous as the messages you find in a fortune cookie. Apparently, Paramount is sort of threatening for it to be the last movie (at least for a good long time) if it doesn’t get a lot of box office attention.
I would guess this is a result of the dismal box office figures that Insurrection did that resulted in them deviating from the every two year plan and retiring the movies for four years. Apparently, they didn’t realize that fans aren’t complete and total morons. Sure, they may be able to get us all to go out at least once to see just about anything but how can they expect good returns on a bad movie?..
It just totally baffles me how a series with as strong of a following as Star Trek has – a series that is flooded with scripts and ideas from so many fans could be mangled so poorly by their own writers and directors. They don’t seem to get that Trekkies aren’t tired of the series – they are tired of less than stellar movies.. In the NG series, it was ok for there to be a few stinkers thrown in there but with a movie that has a running length approximately equivalent to two episodes back to back coming out only once every two years or more – they apparently don’t understand the importance of not having room for error.
A lot of people were ed when it went off the air (I know because I went to the first showing of Generations the day it came out and the theater was full and a woman stood up and said “who else is as ed as I am that they took it off the air? And everyone started cheering.
). There were episodes of the series that I liked more than this movie but this definitely my favorite of the NG movies. I think that as long as they can make good movies, they won’t have a problem getting fans to support them. That’s my 2 cents + on the subject.
