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the 'even good / odd bad' rule

posted 3 years ago by bozo_500 (12286)
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Imo this never held any water as I considered III to be one of the best films (after II imho) but me aside maybe its not that well regarded and the IMDB/RT scores are probably more in league with the lesser entries

The next anomaly would be Nemesis where the rule completely falls part as everyone considers it one of the worst. and again it falls apart with XI as everyone loved it and it totally rejuvenated Trek. then with XII - STID audiences seemed to like it but hard core trekkies seems to loath as it dared to remake II (so I guess you'd call that a win for the even = good debate). but XIII Beyond was a stinker to everyone but the hard core fans maybe and even they have to admit it wasn't that great (so back to odd = bad)

So really the anomalies in the even good/odd bad theory are III (as its good), X (as its bad), XI (as its good)... and sort of XII (as trekkies consider it bad but general audiences are ok with it)

[–] hootiehome (409) 3 years ago

Good Point. I'd say the rule held water when it was the the six films with the original cast. After that, you're right as the rule falls flat.

[–] brux (14666) 3 years ago

The bar is so low that it is hard to say any of the Star Trek movie are very good, or developed or rekindle the original Star Trek vision or are very good. These re-boots are pretty bad. If they were not I guess we'd see one every year or two like Star Wars, that are not even very good. When they set out to make movies for movie it seems like everything else falls by the wayside as they pander to all the checkmarks and focus group analyses. Always rubbed me the wrong way that they would pointlessly destroy the whole planet Vulcan.

[–] enriquesingh (1773) 3 years ago

Since this takes places in like another timeline I think the same rule applies but in reverse.

1 and 3 were good... 2 was terrible.