Star Trek Nemesis (A look back)

Star Trek Nemesis (A look back)

Here are the rest of SF Debris' video reviews for the film.

This is the Trek movie that pretty much killed the franchise for the studio.  After getting beat at the box office by Maid in Manhattan, a subpar J-Lo film, Paramount pretty much shut down the Trek movie franchise.  Nemesis was a box office bomb, becoming the lowest grossing film in the franchise. 

When a J-Lo movie beats Trek film, you know something is wrong. 

Their movie franchise was dead from 2002 until the Abrams remake/reboot/prequel/sequel Star Trek movie.  However, who is to blame for the lukewarm reaction from audiences for Nemesis?  I’d say John Logan and Baird. 

Truth be told, I actually liked Nemesis more so than Insurrection.  There were some huge problems with the movie that I can’t even defend.  I re-watched the film recently, and the problems from the movie become more apparent and glaring. 

I figured I’d go through some things about the movie. 

Notes of Interests

-Stuart Baird:  Paramount pretty much threw Nemesis into his arms as a gift for saving Mission Impossible II.  He knew nothing about the Trek Franchise, and seemed to rub the trek cast the wrong way, especially Jonathan Frakes and LeVar Burton.  I’m surprised that Rick Berman went along with this, because Baird seemed to have a lot of control.  Somewhere, there is a better, longer cut of this movie that has all the character moments.  Many of them are on the various DVDs.

-Bad pacing in the first two acts:  Literally, every bad guy goes up to Shinzon and says, “You’re wasting time.”  I mean everyone says it.  We get scenes of Tom Hardy sulking about and talking to Picard.  When the big space battle finally happens, no one really cares. 

-The third act space battle was pretty good:  I really like the pounding the Enterprise takes during the battle with Shinzon’s ship.  At one point, the Enterprise runs out of torpedoes and the auto-destruct program stops working.  I have to agree with Debris that there should have been Star Fleet ships helping out in the battle too.  I also liked that the bridge gets ripped apart and the helmsman is blown out into space. 

-Writer John Logan:  I think he was too much of trek fan, because everything is a strange “remake” of previous episodes of TNG and the trek movies.  The B4/B9 plotline is too similar to Lore stuff and the Telepathic rape comes from a TNG episode.  All the different plot threads really don’t mesh well together.  What exactly did the B4 plot bring to the overall story? 

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Here are a few deleted scenes

Wesley Crusher scene