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by **Jim Ballard** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 8:48 pm

Well, I have to hand in a draft of my coursework for Film Studies tomorrow. This is what I'm writing about:

[b]How does editing and sound create meaning and generate response in the climax to
â€œStar Trek II: The Wrath of Kahnâ€

by **emeGoji** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 8:58 pm

[quote="James Ballard"][b]How does editing and sound create meaning and generate response in the climax to
â€œStar Trek II: The Wrath of Kahnâ€

by **anguirus23** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 9:43 pm

[quote="James Ballard"]Well, I have to hand in a draft of my coursework for Film Studies tomorrow. This is what I'm writing about:

[b]How does editing and sound create meaning and generate response in the climax to
â€œStar Trek II: The Wrath of Kahnâ€

by **Jim Ballard** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 9:57 pm

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by **goji2099** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 3:14 am

by **Jim Ballard** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:08 am

Nemesis was OK, but it could have been better. Apart from my dislike to the egotistical British director Stuart Baird, the film just felt empty, it was missing something.

For me, the biggest dissapointment of the film was the finale, I was quite disgruntled with it. Data's sacrifice was meaningless, because there was a duplicate of him sitting comfortably on the Enterprise. Oh, and godforbid, he had to give B-4 his memories at the start of the movie ala the "remember" sequence from Wrath of Khan. As Geordi said, "He's assimilating a lot of programming...we just don't know if his matrix will be able to adapt, we really need to give him some time".

If they do make another Trek flick, I'm pretty sure Data will be back. Main stars are constantly dying and coming back to life in Star Trek, so if they don't use this, they'll find some other means to bring Data back. If they were going to kill of Data, they should have done it properly, not had a cop-out-clone ready incase they make another movie.

Apart from that, the whole sequence was pretty emotionless. While I liked the short "goodbye", that was pretty much all we got. Data arrives, sends Picard out, blows up the ship. Afterwards everyone just stares, with a few tears coming from Deanna, and Geordi's eyes watering a bit. In Wrath of Khan, Spock's life long friends had to watch him slowly die in front of their eyes, the whole scequence, for me at least, seemed much more traumatic.

It's not the fact that Data died that annoyed me, in fact I completely loved the idea of Data's last act to become "truly human" was to sacrifice himself for his friends, but rather how the whole thing was executed, it seemed like there wasn't much emotion involved.

Apart from that, I quite enjoyed Nemesis. The Picard-clone story was played out well, in my opinion, and I thought Tom Hardy played his role perfecty. Jerry Goldsmith proved he still has a whole lot of musical talent up his sleeves too. I really, really like this "dark atmosphere" they are trying to create too. It works well in Star Trek: Enterprise, and I'm glad it was reflected onto Nemesis. It was also great to finally see the Romulans get a shot on the big-screen.

Overall, it was a decent Trek flick, though I enjoyed Undiscovered Country, First Contact, Wrath of Khan, and Search for Spock more-so.

by **goji2099** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 11:04 am

That was a problem. It should have been more dramatic, but wasn't. ANother problem with the film was they did not mention Lore. Why not? I always liked Lore.

by **Jim Ballard** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 11:56 am

by **goji2099** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 12:53 pm

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by **emeGoji** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:22 am

From

Just in from Paramount Home Entertainment is the announcement of the sixth and final voyage of the old crew of the Starship Enterprise. On February 27th comes a two-disc special edition of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, will at last complete every Trekkers collection. (Now how about reissuing all those Next Generation movies?) Presented in a newly remastered 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1, extras include director and screenwriter audio commentaries, the "Movie Making," "The Star Trek Universe," "Art Imitates Life" and "A Farewell" featurettes, extensive storyboards and production gallery and theatrical trailers. Retail is $24.95.

Well it's about damn time.

by **emeGoji** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:31 am

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