Star Trek (the original Star Trek)
is a great show, even though it has some pretty bad episodes. Even as a Star
Trek enthusiast (I don’t think I make Trekkie status), I am perfectly willing
to admit this -- some of the episodes stink. But, that doesn’t stop it from
being a great show.
On the other hand, it takes very
few bad scenes to make a bad movie. After all, the scenes are what make
up the movie, not so much like boards make up a treehouse, but more like links
make up a chain, or turns make up driving directions. You might think a scene
or an idea in a movie is good, while admitting that the movie itself is
bad, but it’s hard for it to go the other way, because the scenes determine the
movie as a whole. One can’t seriously say: “Fight Club is an excellent movie,
but the scenes where the sweaty dudes are beating each other are crap.”
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| ...Boldly to explore the burden of command, the proper harmonizing of intuition and deduction, and apparent dualities in the human psyche. |
