Sunday, December 15, 2002 |
02:33 - 'Cause we can't find reverse
http://www.mikesilverman.com/2002_12_08_log_archive.html#90051481
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I'd meant to see the Star Trek movie this weekend, if events hadn't conspired to keep me indoors most of today, and in a theater for a totally less worthwhile reason yesterday. But Mike Silverman has posted a thumbs-up, as well as his ranking of the ten movies.
I'd say his ranking is spot-on; and I'm glad to see that Nemesis apparently preserves the long-standing pattern of lame-ass odd-numbered Trek movies and quite good even-numbered ones. His succinct analyses of each film are dead right, especially for #4, The Voyage Home. I enjoyed that movie once, the first time. Nowadays I'd rather watch Short Circuit.
Personally, I wouldn't put The Wrath of Khan at #1, even though it's pretty universally accepted as the best by everybody who's registered an opinion. I dunno... I just don't find it all that enjoyable; that kind of pacing and staging doesn't do a lot for me. Sure, it's got all those great moments, the unmistakable memes; but the look-and-feel of the tech, the costumes, and so on just don't push my buttons. No, for my money I'd take First Contact. Its Borg are just so archetypical, to my mind; you get to see the post-apocalyptic Earth in one of those "rebuilding" stages that movies like Reign of Fire and Waterworld and <shudder> The Postman never get around to showing you, which is what pisses me off about most post-apocalyptic movies. You get to see the first cheesy-ass warp ship, blasting out of a missile silo with Steppenwolf on the radio. And you get to see a shirtless Patrick Stewart after what must have been a good year of pumping iron. Definitely one of the most testosterone-soaked of the series; and it has the epic scale that befits feature films, instead of the "overgrown episode" feel of dumb outings like Insurrection.
So I'm glad to hear that Nemesis will in all likelihood be right up there with the best of 'em. I'll swing by and see it this week. Hell, it's not like I'm going to get a chance to see The Two Towers until the weekend anyway.
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