Comments on: ST09 Trailer Countdown: A Look At ST:Insurrection’s Trailer

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:11:13 +0000

I remember at the end of the movie when Rick Berman’s name came up on the screen. I gave it the finger. I never do that, but in that case it was highly warranted. After the promise of First Contact we got this drivel? You have to care about these people in order to care what happens to them. I remember thinking, “Thanks Rick, you just killed Star Trek.” It was all downhill from there.

Bad villain
Bad acting
Bad story
Bad movie

By: Star Trekker

Star Trekker — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:39:09 +0000

Well at least we know the actors weren’t exactly that inspired by the movie either. Marina dislikes this even more than Nemesis and said she nearly fell asleep at the premiere and Frakes was apparently unhappy with the script and story for obvious reasonns, I’m not surprised he wasn’t very enthusiastic about directing it.

By: CMX54

CMX54 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:08:50 +0000

A surprising, thoughtful, wonderful film. There are so many moments of sheer beauty, very rare in modern Trek. The best TNG film by far.

By: Dr. Image

Dr. Image — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:42:34 +0000

22 Phil- Yes!
The closest to the series. No one out of character, as with FC.
NOT depressing, like GEN. Did not blow, like NEM.
In the words of Frakes- wonderful film.
Above all, it was entertaining, not irritating, with and ending that’s actually positive. Kudos to Michael Piller.
Very underrated, IMO.

By: Yodaman

Yodaman — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:25:38 +0000

What is the music from the first 30 seconds of the teaser trailer? I feel like it’s from Generations or First Contact, but I’m not sure.

By: Peter N

Peter N — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:42:45 +0000

I enjoyed this movie as a big TNG episode, and I appreciated the moral conundra that this film represented. After having watched it a few times (Believe it or not, the first Trek DVD I ever owned! I can already hear the comments, “Get your money back”….) I don’t think that the gravity of the situation was played out as much as it could have been at the expense of action scenes. A showdown/post mortem of some kind at the Federation Council would have been very effective in bringing that point home. The action bits/FX were pretty good, but perhaps there were a few too many attempts at humor – although I still smirk at some (not all!) of the funny one-liners. Ru’afo never felt like a true match for Picard so the outcome of the film was written on the wall; maybe that is why it did not deliver on its premise.

By: DJ Neelix

DJ Neelix — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:10:57 +0000

@132 Paul:
“When I see an sci-fi movie and the VFX are not up to scratch that takes me out of the story.”

Well, I guess that should pretty much disqualify all three seasons of TOS and most of their movies then…

By: Chris M

Chris M — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:33:55 +0000

For me this is right down on the list as far as Star Trek movies go. It;s not a bad movie and has a pretty good story but feels more like it would better fit into a tv series than a movie.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:51:50 +0000

#123

If you enjoyed this movie as is I applaud you.

When I see an sci-fi movie and the VFX are not up to scratch that takes me out of the story. With this it did not matter much anyway as it woke me up from the boredom!!

By: gatetrek

gatetrek — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:43:49 +0000

I like the movie, but always felt it was more like a straight to video movie rather than something for the big screen. (Well…the production quality was very good, but the story wasn’t epic enough for a huge movie…do they really really care about 600 people…?