Canada Ranks the Star Trek Movies!

[kingpaul]

I can live with that...

Thanks Mark

 

[Mark]

Thanks Mark

Actually, thank you, your like-mindedness and initiative for saving the bloody stumps I loosely refer to as fingers from personally typing a list on my own...

 

[kingpaul]

On another note. My personal feelings for all the movies aside, I own all the movies (tape for all but Nemesis, which is DVD). I want the rest on DVD, and I do go back and watch them all from time to time...these coinciding when my wife is out of the house, as she dislikes Star Trek. I've watched IV and VIII the most, as those are the ones she will tolerate.

 

[Darrin Drader]

I'm not as thrilled with IV as a lot of people are. When I go to see a Star Trek movie, I really want to see the characters interracting with their universe, not ours. It was watered down scifi that was entirely too preachy. Trek VI was much more fun and ended things for that cast on a high note.

I would still be just as happy if they would have made a real TNG movie instead of Generations. I felt like All Good Things was the film they should have made and Generations was a weak filler movie designed just so the two casts could meet each other on the big screen.

edit: corrected movie number to fix contrdictory statement

 

[John Crichton]

I'm not as thrilled with IV as a lot of people are. When I go to see a Star Trek movie, I really want to see the characters interracting with their universe, not ours. It was watered down scifi that was entirely too preachy. Trek IV was much more fun and ended things for that cast on a high note.

I would still be just as happy if they would have made a real TNG movie instead of Generations. I felt like All Good Things was the film they should have made and Generations was a weak filler movie designed just so the two casts could meet each other on the big screen.

While I did enjoy 4 more than you did, I totally agree on Generations. That movie was terrible compared to the episode you mentioned (which is one of my favorite all time). One of my biggest complaints was that I feel they should never have had Kirk in it at all. His role in the film was a gimmick. There was no need to have a "passing of the torch" movie. The TNG cast was strong enough to carry a film all on their own. One mistake in a huge series of mistake for the franchise, in my opinion.

 

[Darrin Drader]

There was no need to have a "passing of the torch" movie. The TNG cast was strong enough to carry a film all on their own.

Besides, they passed the torch for all of what? 3 movies that all came out over a period of 7 years? Not to sound whiney or anything, but they should have left the last one more open-ended, that way they would be able to come back if they wanted. The franchise could have spun off in a different direction for a while, and then they could have done another one. Oh well, I agree, there have been a long series of mistakes that have diminished Trek. If Gene Roddenberry could see this mess, he would wring Rick Berman's neck.

I'm still trying to decide what I think of Enterprise. Its definitely better than Voyager, but that isn't very hard to accomplish.

 

[Welverin]

Why is that?! Just because someone didn't get a chance to either see it in the theater or hasn't gotten around to it yet doesn't mean that others can't be courteous and mindful and not give spoiler warnings. Especially if they are big one (not that this is the case).

Because you can't expect people to refrain from discussing something forever. See what Baraendur said for more. To sum up, after a certain point it's your resposibility to avoid spoilers and not others job to avoid giving them.

It is rude to give spoilers intentionally and it's a good idea to spoiler tag it in an unrelated topic.

Wow, a lot of people don't like Star Trek the Motion Picture.

I agree its not a very exciting Star Trek movie but thats because it isn't really a "Star Trek" movie. Its one of the greatest classic science fiction movies ever made, alongside 2001 and the Forbidden Planet. It just happens to be set in the Star Trek universe. If you think about the atmosphere the movie has, you'll realize it. The feel is totally different from all other Star Trek movies.

I don't like the uniforms, boy are thsoe things ugly. It's like bad art in a comic, they drag everything else down.

 

[John Crichton]

Because you can't expect people to refrain from discussing something forever. See what Baraendur said for more. To sum up, after a certain point it's your resposibility to avoid spoilers and not others job to avoid giving them.

It is rude to give spoilers intentionally and it's a good idea to spoiler tag it in an unrelated topic.

You'll have to pardon me if I think the "I don't care" doesn't hold much water with me. I always make sure to give a spoiler warning in a non-spoiler warning thread (and in general conversation when I don't know if someone has seen something) when giving away important plot elements to anything. I guess I can't expect others to hold the same courtesy. Oh well. If there was a surefire way to avoid spoilers without completely avoiding a certain topic (in this case, one out of ten movies) I and others would have employed it by now.

 

[Darrin Drader]

OK, Maybe I don't care is a bit harshly worded, but there comes a point where people should be able to post

Spoiler

Darth Vader is Luke's Father and the boy jedi kissed his twin sister.

Notice that I did go back and add spoiler tags anyway, just as a courtesy.

 

[Celtavian]

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I liked the Star Trek: The Next Generation T.V. series. It was very disappointing that they didn't do a better job on the Star Trek: Next Generation movies. First Contact was the best of the lot. Nemesis was very contrived. IMO, Data had already been ruined in the previous movies by overuse of the emotion chip. When Spock died in Wrath of Kahn it was emotional. When data died in Nemesis, I was unmoved. In fact, his death was almost laughable.

They really dropped the ball with Star Trek: The Next Generation. Very disappointing from the start to the finish with one good movie of the four made.