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Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek?
brumgrunt writes "At first glance, JJ Abrams' Star Trek has won over audiences as well as critics as it stormed to a $72.5m US opening weekend. However, Den Of Geek sounds a note of caution. Can it hold an audience for a second week? How do its numbers stack up? And as Wolverine looks like its struggling to reach $200m off an $85m opening weekend, is Star Trek yet the huge hit blockbuster that some of the headlines are suggesting?"
Star trek will get the loyal fans from the earlier movies, Wolverine had less of a fan base
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Rotten tomatoes has it rated at 95%, which means that there are very few critics that don't like the movie. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_trek_11/
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Because the movie studio gets a bigger share of the ticket sales in the earlier weeks. As time goes on they get less of a cut as the theaters get more.
The opening weekend of any 'blockbuster' movie is really just a barometer for how good the hype was, how good the trailer is, and how much pent up demand there was for the adaptation. This is true for X-Men, X-Files, Watchmen, Batman, and our beloved crew of the Enterprise. That second week, and the subsequent weeks, is very dependent on the reviews. These are the people who waited for someone else to go see it opening weekend, and then wait to hear what they said about the movie. Star Trek is getting great reviews, and not just from the newspaper shills-- audiences generally like the film. This is different than the (lack of) buzz about Wolverine, and the outright confusion about the Watchmen. It's more along the lines of Batman Begins: your older sister asked you "Really? Another Batman movie?" to which you've replied "oh yeah-- it's that good." Expect a strong 4 week run on Star Trek.
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According to Entertainment Weekly, 70-75 million is how much the previous movies got in *total* income. So even if this new Trek ended right now, it still did as well as all the previous movies. That's nothing to be negative about.
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Space Admiral Farragut would strongly disagree. (the real wet-navy Farragut was given command of a prize ship at age 12, and attained a command of his own at age 22)
Yeah, but this one cost a whole lot more to make than any of the previous ones. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/StarTrek.php
At least the kirk from the other movies always fixes the timeline.
Are you suggesting The City on the Edge of Forever will have a happy ending? I know that Balance of Terror will be different. My only question is how George's crew knew they were Romulans and not just some crazy Vulcans...
Rotten Tomatoes: Trek 95% v Wolvie 37%
MetaCritic: Trek 84% v Wolvie 44%
'Nuff said.
"We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." --The American President (20.1.2009)
This was better then the last 3 movies combined.
I liked the way the characters were introduced (minus Kirk).
I liked the story line.
I liked the character development.
I loved the fanboy nods.
I hated everything else. The lens-flare was so horrible (in my theatre) that there were entire scenes in the film that I could not see due to the film being completely white-washed. I was tempted to leave within the first 15 minutes due to the lens flare.
The bridge: I have seen the future; and it is an Apple iMac inspired hell. The translucent glass was everywhere and it looked like ass.
The engine room: the scale was completely wrong, and was jarring. I liked the idea of having a 'mechanical' engine room, this looked more like a Detroit Big-3 factory then a nuclear sub.
In summary: The story was decent, the film was distracting. This is the last Trek for me.
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Come on, other Star Trek films & series have 'screwed up' their own canon plenty of times. Please try to learn to live with this, or you will go mad: they're not perfect!
Remember the outcry around Ron Moore's re-imagining of Battlestar? It was brilliant, yes, but it was different, and how dare he!!!
Yes, this is different to the Trek we know. Accept it as such, and you can enjoy it. Refuse to accept this, and you're denying yourself a whole new franchise. Those that refused to accept the new Battlestar denied themselves a series that was considered by many to be one of the very best things on TV. Personally, I loved the new BSG and I thoroughly enjoyed this Trek film, despite many plot points that just annoyed me, not least Delta Vega looking to be about 500'000 km from Vulcan, and Nero's poorly thought-through punishment for Spock.
Most of the time officers were from upper class families because they could read which was vital for planning, following orders, issuing orders, etc. That's not to say that good officers could not be found amongst lower classes if they demonstrated skill or bravery.
What you called "imbecilic, barking at the moon, rabid lunacy" was often times neccessary and practical.. You've captured a sloop while at sea. You need someone to sail it to the nearest friendly port. Most of your capable officers are either (1) sailing all your other captured vessels or (2) waiting at port after capturing other vessels as it may take weeks or months to get to that port. Your only available officer is a 12 year old. By the way, this is the 1800s most sailors were likely illiterate. So mostly likely you are going to send over the 12 year old who can navigate and read a map. Also if you are sending over a 12 year old, most likely you are not sending him to port alone. If you are down to that level of reserves, you will most likely be escorting the vessel back to port, but you need someone in charge that handle the daily tasks of sailing a vessel. While we can't know what the sailor thought, we do know that they did not mutiny when placed under the command of a 12 year old so they must have not thought the idea as too "insane".
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