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I have always told my son (29) that he needs to see Star Trek: First Contact on a big screen. When they say "Sir, a ship is dropping out of warp, it's the Enterprise!" That is ship is enormous compared to everything else trying to hold off the Borg.
Well, also the scene with Worf saying "Prepare ramming speed".
Good times.
 
I have only seen three treks in the theater, and First Contact was definitely the best of them. Worf and the Defiant were my favorite part, but I think it's my favorite thing ever done with the TNG cast.
 
Schizm said:
One of Hollywood's many missteps is not really utilizing the history of fantastic movies playing in theatres regularly or with celebration.
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Given everything is digital in terms of projection, the past financial limitation of having to make new prints for a rerelease isn't there. So it is odd to me that they don't put a classic film in theaters every week. If I was Disney or WB I would have a weekly movie series of curated films and see if people would embrace it.
 
Yep, I’m not a huge Trek fan (I do not dislike it at all, other than William Shatner/Kirk being absolutely odious to me) but I loved First Contact. Well, except for the Farmer Hoggett parts, but Night of the Living Dead-meets-Moby Dick in space was very cool. Alice Krige is fucking legendary and her Borg Queen does not disappoint.
 
Wrath of Khan is way better than it should have been and is a genuinely great film - if it hadn't been so good I think Trek might have ended as a cultural thing, given the reaction to the first film, but it gained new fans and managed to stay like Trek while competing in the world of Star Wars.
 
fac said:
Wrath of Khan is way better than it should have been and is a genuinely great film - if it hadn't been so good I think Trek might have ended as a cultural thing, given the reaction to the first film, but it gained new fans and managed to stay like Trek while competing in the world of Star Wars.
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William Shatner has called Harve Bennett "The man who saved Star Trek."

No question Wrath of Khan was a great film. And it came out in 1982, perhaps the greatest year ever for genre movies.
 
Lots of bigger cities have cool movie revival scenes. As gross a company as Alamo Drafthouse is it’s one of their good influences on the business. Maybe I’m spoiled living where I do.
 
Wrath of Khan was the best Star Trek movie. In fact, if it was the only Star Trek movie ever made, I'd have been just fine.

I believe firmly that Star Trek TNG should have ended after season 7. None of the movies did anything to further any of the characters. Blow up the iconic Enterprise D needlessly, give Kirk an unceremonious death, "one more fight" with the Borg, kill off Data, those are the key elements (not sure what the point of Insurrection was). The best of them is First Contact, it's fun, but I could have lived without it. The worst has to be Nemesis which left the fans with such a bad taste in their mouths that they had to revisit the TNG cast 20 years later in Picard season 3 which finally gave the crew the proper ending it deserved. Seeing as how the final scene of Picard season 3 had the cast sitting together enjoying each other's company just like the final scene of TNG season 7, it makes you think that if they never did any of the movies, they wouldn't have needed to do Picard s3 at all. They rode off into the sunset together at the end of TNG, they rode off into the sunset together again at the end of Picard. I love all those characters, but I hope that's it for them.
 
I think First Contact is underrated - I liked it from the standpoint that Picard needed a real win over the Borg, Data had some growth, and I liked the "history" of seeing the Vulcans/Warp Drive. But really the only good TNG film I think.

Still don't know what they were thinking with Kirk in Generations...
 
joshsquash729 said:
Unless Netflix changes their stance on physical media reeeaaallly fast, I don't know if it's something I'd welcome. They seem to be allergic to releasing their shows and movies on physical media; every now and then we'll get something, but it feels like somebody had to pull teeth and single-handedly shoulder responsibilities. Even then, a lot of times it's barebones.

I'm still just so confused on if Netflix is profitable or not. I don't even know if they know at this point. They keep swearing- or at least used to- that they don't turn a profit because of the lack of ads and things, but then keep spending tons of money for films rights, original content, etc.
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The amount of companies that claim to not turn a profit is fucking -staggering- considering none of them ever actually go away. It's always 'trust us, bro, we're just as hard up as you guys are, please pay our increased prices.'
 
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