Dienstag, Dezember 17, 2002

Nemesis

Uiuiui, da hat Rick Berman aber ganz miese Karten. Es ist ja nichts neues, dass die Star Trek Gemeinde ihm ja schon seit langem vorwirft, Gene Roddenberrys Ideen inzwischen nahezu alle vermasselt zu haben. Aber der aktuelle Film "Nemesis" scheint die miesesten Kritiken abzubekommen seit "Generations" oder diesem seltsamen fünften Film, an den sich heute niemand recht erinnern mag ("Alesia? Ich kenne kein Alesia"): CNN schreibt:

The 10th entry in the "Star Trek" movie franchise, and the third in which Picard has flown solo, is the dullest and drabbest of the lot.(...)Director Stuart Bairds (...) work is lumbering. And the film's murky look -- the Remans, we're told, prefer darkness -- violates a principle that has informed the best space operas: Keep it sharp and crisp. The audience needs to believe it's seeing a future world brimming with technology, and that's not possible if it looks like nobody's invented the 60-watt bulb.

Die Fans entwerfen inzwischen T-Shirts mit der Aufschrift "Rick Fucking Berman". Der Kritiker von USA Today schreibt:

As spent screen series go, Star Trek: Nemesis is even more suggestive of a 65th class reunion mixer where only eight surviving members show up ? and there's nothing to drink.

Roger Ebert schreibt:

Patrick Stewart, as Capt. Picard, is a wonderful actor. I know because I have seen him elsewhere. It is always said of Stewart that his strength as an actor is his ability to deliver bad dialogue with utter conviction. I say it is time to stop encouraging him. Here's an idea: Instead of giving him bad dialogue, why not give him good dialogue, and see what he can do with that? Here is a man who has played Shakespeare.(...)
Star Trek was kind of terrific once, but now it is a copy of a copy of a copy.

Filmfreak Central findet auch nichts lobenswertes mehr und meint:

Star Trek: Nemesis is abominable pretension draped in the sheep's frock of sci-fi pulp--pap of the first water invested in undergraduate doubling subtexts and ridiculous stabs at existentialism reminding of the discovery of the wizard of God in the fifth Trek flick.
(...)idiotic operatic melodrama shoved to the foreground at the expense of logic and interest, Nemesis, besides being a monumental boor, is a monumental bore.

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