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Exclusive : Leonard Nimoy Sends a Message to TrekWeb Users About New Movie

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By GustavoLeao / 09:46, 4 December 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy sent this exclusive message to the TrekWeb community, regarding some of the negative feelings expressed by some fans about the new movie in this website. Here is the message :

"About two months ago my wife,Susan, and I saw a near finished version of the new Star Trek movie. Some special effects and new score were not yet in place. Susan can be a very honest and tough critic. When it was clear that the story was wrapping up she turned to me and whispered, " I don't want this movie to end !!" There are some directors who can manage a grand scale and some who can deliver great personal character elements. Not many can do both. JJ Abrams is one of the few. He has given us a wonderful film."

TrekWeb wants to thanks Mr Nimoy for his kindness and his time to writing this brief message. Thank you.



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By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 14:58:44 on Dec 05, 2008

I gree. Star Trek V has very good character development and wonderful moments between Kirk, Spock and McCcoy. The movie presents their friendship in a wonderful way, and Mr Shatner does a good job directing, despiste the poor special effects and the anti-climatic ending. A good movie, in my opinion.

Gustavo

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RE: Slow it down by geepee16 @ 22:11:15 on Dec 06

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By: Chronic Harlot (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 12:28:40 on Dec 06, 2008

That may be. But Nimoy still hasn't ever had any "nice things" to say about it.

And, yes, there's some good moments. But Leonard is absolutely right: it's a bad film. And it's okay to say so. We dont cut any slack for any other movies that have "good moments", but are otherwise bad, so the same should be true of TFF.

We're letting nostalgia and our affection for the classic cast color our judgment, causing us to try and retcon any TOS "badness" into seeming not-so-bad by pointing out what little good there was in it. The original series has plenty of goodness (more than any of the sequels shows) to praise. We dont need to try and make the bad seem better than it was.

Look, Star Trek V sucks. We all know it. And, frankly, it had no choice but to suck because they were riding a bad script. Shatner's creative instincts were all wrong from the very beginning. This isn't a Star Trek Nemesis thing were a re-write could have made it better. The whole story was fundamentally flawed, and it was never going to succeed no matter how it was done. And Shatner bares the blame for that. It was his idea, his story, his baby.

Look, unlike Nimoy, Bill's just isn't a film-maker. And--also unlike Nimoy--he's not even an actor; Shatner is a "personality", a "movie-star". He never had any business behind that camera in the first place.

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RE: Slow it down by SuperDave @ 14:56:49 on Jan 12
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By: Kamen Rider Blade (Odo's file, contact) @ 21:06:56 on Dec 05, 2008

Indeed. Apart from the "singing" (if you want to call it that), that's the one aspect of that movie I truly enjoy.

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By: rassmguy (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:34:57 on Dec 05, 2008

"For all of it's flaws, ST V had some great character moments between Kirk, Spock & McCoy."

Absolutely. The weird thing about STV is that it had some of the worst moments in any of the films, and also some of the best. And the Kirk-Spock-McCoy interactions were the best thing about it.


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