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Who saw this in cinemas back in 98/99?

posted 11 years ago by bozo_500
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Who saw this back in the day? What were your memories - the anticipation of seeing it in the weeks/days before, the actually seeing it and how much a big deal was it where you were back then, the crowds, audience etc and after coming out of the cinema what were your thoughts and in the days/weeks that followed..

after FC anticipation way very high (abit like after Trek IV)and as usual there were rumours of what it would be about on the net and in the pages of various SF magazines of the time (Cinescape, SF Universe etc as I still would buy those then) Heart of Darkness etc which sounded great (was big into Apocaylsye Now back then having recently discovered it)

UK didn't get it until January 99 (but I don't recall reading any major spoilers - maybe I avoided reading them) the actual film felt boring from start to finish. they showed the Phantom Menace trailer before and it just looked amazing and totally blew anything that followed in Trek IX away (this was obviously before anyone knew what TPM would turn out like - not much better than Trek IX LOL)

remember just saw it the once (which was a first for me as ever since Trek III id seen each movie more than once at the cinema even Trek V. and itd be the same for Nemesis - just once. I did see ST 2009 twice though)

still bought the stuff for the movie though – magazine, novel, making of book, poster. (no comic this time)

[–] Ohio9 9 years ago

I saw it back in theaters at age 16. I thought it was somewhat preachy, but I liked it's emphasis on pure action. In fact, I even liked it a bit better then "First Contact" since it didn't involve time travel, probably the single most overused theme in Star Trek. The majority of episodes and films that use time travel end up being horrible.

Looking at the films now, I think First Contact was a better, but I still think Insurrection is better then most give it credit for. It's certainly a lot better then nemesis

[–] Marbles86 8 years ago

I would happily call myself a Star Trek fan but very far from a Trekkie (haven't seen close to all of any of the series for a start), However, in my tween years I was something of a burgeoning Trekkie; seeing this in the cinema soon after I turned 12 probably took me off that path. A thin, unengaging, cloyingly twee film. I gave it another shot some ten years later and, if anything, it was worse.

Did see Nemesis on DVD fairly soon after it came out, and at the time at least I thought it was OK.

[–] residentevil6901 8 years ago

I did and was so disappointed with it, really quite a let down after First Contact. To me it's the dumbest of the 13 Trek movies they've made so far. Personally I wanted a DS9 movie or Voyager instead of this. Nemesis was okay but they peaked with Generations and First Contact.

[–] bozo_500 8 years ago

shame these reminiscing seeing in cinema threads will soon be no more 😖

[–] bozo_500 (13278) 6 years ago

20th anniversary of this today