Did you like Star Trek: Nemesis? (lemmy.world)

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I watched Nemesis again, for the first time in years. I thought Tom Hardy's performance as Shinzon was amazing but I thought the character itself could have been given more development. I thought the film itself was lacking. The film kind of seemed pointless to me. I do still like this movie and I like the character of Shinzon but I thought it could have been much better. I thought the film's themes of identity were fascinating but I struggled to find any meaning in it beyond that. Maybe there is no other meaning but the theme of identity could have been explored much more. Anyway, do y'all like this movie? Why or why not?

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 day ago

I didn't like it.

The premise was interesting and kind of seemed to be TNG's Undiscovered Country, so that by itself wasn't bad.

Tom Hardy as a Picard clone was dumb. I don't know what the obsession is with having Picard become a father when his character was written to have his lineage end with him. It would have worked better if Hardy was a Romulan who was manipulating the Remans for his benefit.

Outside of Worf, the crew felt oddly in status. Giving Riker the Titan in this movie could have justified shaking up the crew. Bring in Crusher and La Forge as technical experts instead of crew because going to Romulus it's going to be a big deal and the two have credible experience with Romulan biology and technology.

Ditch the whole daddy/son thing and focus on the Enterprise and a small fleet trying to establish better diplomatic relations as invited guests and get attacked given how the sneaky Romulan politics is.

The final ship battle was cool.

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