Ebert Reviews Star Trek Nemesis - Funny

[Despair]

Well here is the link:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert...artrek13f.html

" Fearsome death rays strike the Enterprise, and what happens? Sparks fly out from the ceiling and the crew gets bounced around in their seats like passengers on the No. 36 bus. This far in the future they wouldn't have sparks because they wouldn't have electricity, because in a world where you can beam matter--beam it, mind you--from here to there, power obviously no longer lives in the wall and travels through wires."



"I've also had it with the force shield that protects the Enterprise. The power on this thing is always going down. In movie after movie after movie I have to sit through sequences during which the captain is tersely informed that the front shield is down to 60 percent, or the back shield is down to 10 percent, or the side shield is leaking energy, and the captain tersely orders that power be shifted from the back to the sides or all put in the front, or whatever, and I'm thinking, life is too short to sit through 10 movies in which the power is shifted around on these shields. The shields have been losing power for decades now, and here it is the Second Generation of Star Trek, and they still haven't fixed them. Maybe they should get new batteries."

[Nick]

That was a good read. I hope I enjoy the movie a little more than he did, but he seems to be pretty sharp in his assessment of the series' flaws.

[haohmaru]

Yeah, as much as I love Star Trek and can overlook the obvious, the series is getting stale and most certainly more so to those who care less about it than I do. Still, it serves its purpose.

[StriderKyo]

You know what I never understood? Howcome when the shields get hit, the whole ship rocks? Isn't avoiding that the whole point of having shields that aren't attached to your ship?

And how did Data get old, kinda paunchy and wrinkly, anyway?

At least Patrick Stewart's cool.

[Cafeman]

I'm wondering if they'll try to explain Data's aging. He tried emotions, maybe he has his face altered to look the same age as everyone else? Or do they just ignore it?

LOL@ Ebert, I love his reviews. I'm seeing the film tonight and I have no expectations but it will have to be far, far, far, FAR more entertaining than what Enterprise has become.

It only took a couple of ST:TNG repeats on The New TNN to make me realize how much I miss TNG and how poorly written Enterprise is.