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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by HerbShrump: [qb] But the casual fan won't pay attention to continuity point any more than they do on any other show. And the casual fan is where the big bucks are earned, not the hard-core ones. [/qb][/QUOTE]You raise many god points, Herb, but I don't feel this is one of them. That's where the bucks are for a MEDIOCRE film, as the hard-core fans either see it once and then stomp off in a huff, or stay away altogether. My parents are divorced, and each has remarried. My dad saw all three of the Lord of the Rings movies once at the cinema, with my step-mother and a couple friends. I rousted my mom and step-dad to out of the house to go see Return of the King (they had only seen the other two on DVD). For the trilogy? A grand total of fourteen ticket sold to six different people. I will leave my girlfriend and other friends I saw those movies with out of this equation. I personally say the three movies a grand total of ten times in the cinema. For six casual fans, they sold fourteen tickets. For one hard-core fan, they sold ten. Good story and good film-making get a response from the people who care about the subject matter. Even Revenge of the Sith, with all its continuity issues, I saw five times before it left theatres. If George had assistance with the script, and hired a better director, it probably would have been more. The only Trek movie I've seen more than once was TVH. Which I saw twice. I probably would have seen TWOK more than once, were I not seven at the time. *shrug* New Line and Twentieth-Century Fox took a gamble and decided to spend what they needed to get a quality porduct (LOTR, X-Men), and it paid off big time. Paramount cuts as many budgetary corners as it can, and ends up with an adequate (barely) product THAT WILL NEVER BRING THEM IN IN DROVES! You need to go balls-to-the-wall with science fiction or it will seem at least a little... off. I even saw Insurrection twice, despite my problems with it, because I liked he story and I wanted to support Trek at a time when viewership was flagging. My reward? They gave me Nemesis -- the only movie I've ever walked out in the middle of IN MY LIFE, and my movie-viewing life goes back to when I was two-and-a-half years old. So, to wrap up this rather-longer-than-I-intended post, make a movie that appeals to both the casual fans AND the hard-core ones. THAT's where the big bucks are -- not in alienating a potentially very lucrative minority. If my parents had been serious Tolkien fans like me... Six casual fans and me = twenty-four tickets sold to seven people; seven me's = sixty tickets sold to seven people. Seems simple enough... --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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