After watching Star Trek: Nemesis the other night, it occurred to me that, although the movie failed in some areas, it was excellent in others. To expound upon something I stated earlier on this thread, I believe that a good, central villain (notice how it's not plural) is crucial to a good story, Nemesis, with all its faults as a film, succeeded in having a great villain, Shinzon. Shinzon was intimidating, charming, hateful, vengeful, intelligent, dark, mysterious, articulate, and, above all, had ties in with some of the major characters in some crucial way... The villains from the PT lacked these. In my opinion, the only villain who came close was Dooku, but, with so little screen time, the guy had no time to show the audience who and what he was about. In other words, I would have loved to have seen a wonderful villain, such as was not given in the PT.

P.S. I know that mentioning Star Trek in a Star Wars website is a bit taboo; but hey, I enjoy all kinds of sci-fi.