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Star Trek: First Contact (1996) - Drunk Monk - 04-09-2020
April 4 2063 will be First Contact Day, when humans first meet vulcans. On April 4 2020, we were sheltering in place and the forum was down, so I couldn't post this. I just remembered I watched it again in my SIP binging.
(01-21-2016, 01:44 PM)King Bob Wrote: The last good Star Trek movie was First Contact - which also had Picard quoting Melville. Yeah Melville!
I think you're too smitten by Sir Pat Stew reading Melville here KB. ST: FC doesn't hold up well. It feels more like a long episode than a feature film. Although I confess that I was never very impressed by any of the TNG films. The humor misses a lot, or at least it does now. Overall, it felt rather tepid. The only redemption aside from Melville was Alice Krige's Borg queen. I always thought that was an awkward character, somewhat deflating the whole Borg concept, but Krige is such a creepily seductive villainess that we'll allow it.
RE: Star Trek: First Contact (1996) - King Bob - 04-11-2020
I watched it as well (free HBO weekend), and also thought it wasn't as good as I remembered, but it really worked well on the first viewing. As Vonnegut said, "So it goes."
RE: Star Trek: First Contact (1996) - Drunk Monk - 04-11-2020
(04-11-2020, 09:50 AM)King Bob Wrote: I watched it as well (free HBO weekend), and also thought it wasn't as good as I remembered, but it really worked well on the first viewing.
Great minds think alike. I'm both amused and troubled when revisiting something I enjoyed decades ago only to discover that it's not nearly as enjoyable as my memory would have it. Sometimes it's just the dated-ness of it. More often it seems that it was my own immaturity of character upon first viewing.
That being said, I still liked the Borg Queen. Even though I still think the character spoils the whole Borg concept, Krige kills it in the role.