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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?"
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23 year old's don't command starships in ANY reality. Reboot, my ass. Die StarTrek, die......
Are you getting a cut of the profits?
just travel back in time and redo the script. keep doing that until you guaranteed a blockbuster
just make sure to save the whales, and that joan collins gets hit by a truck
tangential rant: time travel is the absolute lamest aspect of star trek. i haven't seen any good science fiction come out of time travel plots except perhaps the terminator storyline. if you can alter time, where is the tension in the plot? it lets the air of the tires, so to say, in terms of suspending your disbelief for payoff. time travel is a completely lame premise in all science fiction, and that includes the current start trek movie. i can't believe that star trek writers can't write compelling script without this lame crutch. please stop
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Many of us loyal fans are royally pissed off with how J.J. Abrams wiped his ass with Star Trek canon in this movie.
I was willing to give him lots of benefit of doubt, but now, having seen the movie, I believe that he fucked it up good. He fucked up everything he *could have* fucked up.
Maybe it's my personal experience, but every single person I have talked to has said it is not faithful in it's representation of star trek and was not worth viewing.
Maybe you and all your friend should go out more.
Go on and mod me a troll but where was the story in the star trek film ?
The 'film' was a set of shorts with the main idea being that this is what star trek could be if you give the creatives a decent budget and decent actors who can act post tng series.
I like what they did with star trek - but there was no story per say in the reboot, and time travel stories suck.
Go outside. Seriously.
Well, it has never been successfully tested.
How is it this movie is getting such great reviews? It's terrible.
I knew something was seriously wrong when the previews started. Night in the Museum 2 and Transformers 2 were the headliners. Every one in the preview set was a kids action movie. Uh oh...
And that's all this was, a kid's action movie. There was no plot, no storytelling, no character development. It was just one long (endlessly long) action scene. Many scenes were completely useless in terms of developing the movie (the stolen car, are you joking?). The bad guy wasn't bad, and spends what, 5 minutes on the screen? The action was almost completely soulless, just space-o-blasters shooting at this, then that, then the other thing. Actually there was one major exception, I thought the fight on the drill was well done. Scotty's arrival on the Enterprise was also amusing.
I guess if you're a 15 year old boy this is a great movie. If you're over 30 and like it, I think you're retarded.
Maury
You mean they will fuck-up that too?
The "rebooted" Hulk was a total joke. Straight out of the Hellboy and Fantastic Four world. From retards, for retards. (No wonder it ran so well. ^^)
The 2003 Hulk was just epic. Better than every Spidernerd, Plastic Fantastic Four, Superaverageman, Hellemogay, Bycicle Repairman and what ever you are offering, except for Batman and Watchmen.
Nothing beats hitting a tank with *another tank* ^^ Or the dialogs with his father. It came close to the best elements of a theater performance.
I'm sorry for everyone who liked the new Hulk movie more, because I can't just say we have different tastes. It's more a matter of still having a whole brain. Sorry. Can't say it in a more "sensitive" way...
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
The whole alternate universe/timeline thing sucks balls. This is a poor excuse for a Star Trek film. As an action movie it was sub par. It moved at warp speed. Never stopping to build suspense. It was like watching someone else play a video game. Aside from a few laughs. It was air, an empty horizon. Then an explosion and the credits.