Patrick Stewart in "Star Trek: Nemesis"

Jennifer Lopez scrubbing floors, Rob Schneider swinging from poles and Captain Picard battling his clone — that's the new fare movie fans will have to choose from this weekend when "Maid in Manhattan," "The Hot Chick" and "Star Trek: Nemesis" hit theaters.

"Nemesis" is the fourth "Star Trek" film to feature the "Next Generation" cast and the 10th movie in the franchise overall. Several early reviews are already hailing "Nemesis" as a return to form for the series, which hasn't produced a film since the poorly received "Star Trek: Insurrection" in 1998. In addition to a plot involving Romulans, a vampiric half-Reman cloned from Captain Picard called Shinzon, and a plot to destroy Earth, "Nemesis" also features the long-awaited marriage of Will Riker and Deanna Troi.

"I think we did a wedding for many reasons," said Marina Sirtis, who plays Troi. "One, for the fans. [Two], it set up the movie, certain plot things. And three, it was a good way to start because it was the first scene that we shot. So we had a party for two days, and although we weren't drinking real champagne, we actually did have a real party."

Wedding scene aside, "Star Trek: Nemesis" is far from a sentimental film. The Enterprise crew, after all, has that pointy-toothed clone to contend with. To properly play Shinzon, method actor Tom Hardy spent a lot of time studying the real-deal Picard, as brought to life since 1987 by Patrick Stewart.

"I got every single tape from 'The Next Generation' that Paramount would give me, all the 'Next Generation' episodes and all of the films as well. And I watched those with scrutiny, scrutinizing his movements and how he talks, his slight moves, his shadow actions, stuff like that."

Whether or not Picard — clone or otherwise — will be seen on the big screen again after "Nemesis" is up to fans.

"The slogan says, 'A generation's final journey begins' — begins," Brent Spiner, who plays the android Data, pointed out. "So the gist of that is, if this movie doesn't make any money, we won't be coming back. It will be the final journey. If it does make money, it's just the 'beginning.' "

"The Hot Chick" is the latest Rob Schneider movie from Adam Sandler's production company and sees the "SNL" veteran playing a teenage girl who wakes up one morning as a 30-something man. Also opening are J. Lo's romantic comedy "Maid in Manhattan" (see " 'Manhattan' Gives J. Lo Newfound Respect For Maids"), the school marching band flick "Drumline" (see "Dallas Austin Making Film About This One Time At Band Class..."), and in select cities Jack Nicholson's "About Schmidt."

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Have you seen the trailer to this film?? man it looks awesome!

To everybody else ... see the trailer here. (Windows media 300kb/s)

Looks awesome! but feels a little unatural cause I haven't watched "Star Trek" for quite some time ... only "Star trek: Voyager"

Trailer looks real good. It is almost the same thing as the commercials on Sky. I can't wait for it to be released on DVD.

aparently its been leaked to the internet already

yea I saw it but will wait for the DVD. So darn tired of crap quality.

er.. most leaks are beter than vhs tape!

only lamo camera jobs that are bad

bleh... the film was a let down, shame - it could have been much much beter.

The origional star trek films where justthat... good films, but the next generation films are just like long episodes, predictable plot. the guy who plays picards clone is a bit naff too IMO.

Most of the time I get crap quality. Take ROF from ShareReactor. Plain Crap! The write-up said it was decent quality. It was a camera-in-theater job and a lousy one at that! Booger and I posted pics at TZ for comparison and they were all crap. Different sources and servers. This was not my first time downloading crap in recent months. I am totally tuned off and will not waste my time or bandwidth anymore.

This might change your mind on the screeners you download...

Watched it on big screen tv via laptop, was very disapointed in the movie, but the quality of the video and sound was just like a dvd!

Watch the size of your images mate.... it messes with the thread bondarys as well as increasing the page load time

Thankx

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Flier that is excellent quality. If I had access to that quality then yes I would change my mind.

thats a PROPER screener by the look. people confuse stupid camera jobs with screeners. a screener is the cd sent to companies before a film is released, NOT an id*** sat in the disbled isle in the cinema with his cam corder plugged into the mic socket.

Filer, try BSplayer out.. it owns, custom screen ratios, desktop mode (the movie becomes your wallpaper) and loads of skins.. like winamp for movies. it owns!

www.bsplay.com

oh yeah.. its free too

Tris: Yeah, tried some betas before, the desktop future is really awesome.

I didnt know it could also play dvd's. Thanks anyway, check it out later...

it has some problems with SOME types of SVIDeo, other than those it plays EVERYTHING.

most svids work.. i think its just some wierd codecs that it dont like on svids.

Reason i use it is so i can stretch movies out that are low res, so that they arent too letter boxed, without having to stretch the picture and make people look like peanut heads