There are elements of Generations that are pretty good, but I'd argue it's main failing derives from its third act. It never quite gets over what to do with the Nexus, and how to convincingly have Picard decide to get out, and then descends into a simple punch-up involving 3 old men. That they have Guinan announce that the heroes can return to any time they wish only makes Picard look awful, since returning to much earlier in the movie/story (as RedLetterMedia points out) would have saved lots of suffering and the destruction of the Enterprise.

A few months ago, I would have said that the movie marks a turning point in the way that Trek movies were made; in the sense that consistency with the show is thrown out in favour of explosions and whatever the story requires (film Picard is different to TV Picard for instance). But having seen about 30 episodes or so of the TOS, it seems that none of the movies really capture the exact feeling and are consistent with the characters as they appear on the TV shows. I can understand the move to cinema changing the style of the filmmaking, and the story becoming grander in scale/scope, but it seems that the characters are rewritten to fit that grander story rather than the story being written to fit the characters.

I'm not sure if you brought it up as I've not listened to the commentary yet (on my list!), but the scene with the killing of the jewish GI as his fellow soldier stands by on the staircase would appear to be an analogy for the rest of the world standing by letting the jews be killed. Of course, that's a pretty simplistic interpretation (especially since the Third Reich didn't really start killing Jews and other undesirables until after the war had started, by which time the allies were doing something about it).

I think SPR is a good film, but I'd argue it thrives on its portrayal of the D-Day landing. After this opening, it sort of becomes quite boring, following the steroetypical 'select few on a mission' format of virtually every WW2 movie. A Bridge too Far is much better overall too, and doesn't villify the Germans as all evil Nazis.

It also has some atrocious editing in the final battle, a moment where some paratroopers are frozen in time before being killed atop a German tank.

Well, I am a copyeditor by profession, though I work principally in the rather technical language side of things (medical writing) - what sort of editing would you need?

Did I get sent to the wrong video or something? Looks like another terrible parody attempt. (I have an extremely low tolerance for Star Wars fan films.)

He could be talking about the initial movie, which is pretty enjoyable. I'm a fan of the Clone Wars. I can't say for sure how much of that enjoyment is due to having been battered down by the prequels and seeing this as a welcome return to 'fun' Star Wars. It's all not great (what series is?), but the episodic nature of the show allows one to drop in/drop out as you please.

I think I read that in one of the EU novels, possibly one of Zahn's.

That was really moving, thanks WithKittens. I've not seen Tootsie for literally decades, and really want to now.

I'm glad not to be the only one who thought the second episode of Under the Dome was dismal. What could have been a fascinating, extended series version of an Outer Limits episode mixed with Jericho turned into yet another Lost/The Event/whatever.