OK please no body add ANY spoilers in this thread - this is a spoiler free zone.
I just saw on E! News daily - well yesterday that the new J-Lo pic slightly beat Nemesis at the box-office!! WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE DOING!?! That's terrible!
I'm guessing that is just opening weekend stuff? or is that for the whole week - I'm guessing weekend.
Get out there and see it again and again. Why does Australia have to wait until Jan 16 - that's DISGUSTING.
Andrew
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Well, see, I *would* have gone to see it, but they weren't showing it at the only nearby theater for me, and being without affordable or convenient motorized transportation I wasn't going to go to extraordinary ends just to hand over my $8 a few days early.
Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
I have exams!!!!
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Excuses, excuses. I saw Nemesis Saturday afternoon while coughing, congested, and running a temperature with a sore throat thrown in for the hell of it. I did my part. And I'll do it again (probably Thursday or sometime next week).
Posted by Raw Cadet (Member # 725) on :
quote:Originally posted by Siegfried: Excuses, excuses.
I share your sentiment, Siegfried. My brother returned from college on December 13. I had not seen him in four months, but the first thing we did was see "Star Trek: Nemesis." Had the rest of you done your part perhaps the film would have had a more respectable opening.
I have a (bad) feeling "Star Trek: Nemesis" will be the lowest grossing Star Trek film since "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier." Hell, maybe it will not even earn that film's domestic gross. I guess it really will be the last "Next Generation" movie.
Posted by Starship Millennium (Member # 822) on :
It's depressing, that's for sure. But at least I enjoyed Nemesis... it could have been much worse.
Hell, maybe this will actually be a sign to Paramount and force them to get some fresh blood in the creative department and actually invest money in advertising the next time around.
Posted by Dax (Member # 191) on :
I know I'll be seeing it ASAP.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Was planning on seeing it on Friday, but..incarceration, inability to get home, & then work. MAYBE on this Friday. Maybe.
Posted by newark (Member # 888) on :
Rotten Tomatoes, a site dedicated towards the collection and dissemination of movie reviews, listed the following tabulations for both Nemesis and The Two Towers.
Nemesis Total Number of Reviews: 104 Fresh: 45 Rotten: 59 Rating: 43% rotten
The Two Towers Total Number of Reviews: 73 Fresh: 72 Rotten: 1 Rating: 99% fresh
I don't have an adequate explanation for why Two Towers had less reviewers than Nemesis. Anyhow, this shows that critics don't have a thing against sci-fi/fantasy. They are looking, as well as the general audience, for a quality film.
If the critics are proven correct in their opinions on the TTT, Nemesis will fade as word of mouth spreads and people will want to see this other film. As a criticism of Paramount, I have been asking myself this queston, "Why did Paramount release this film five days before TTT?" I don't have the answer, but I feel from reading opinions here and elsewhere by fans Nemesis will be the first even film cursed by low returns.
Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :
If they released Nemesis before TTT in the US, then why is TTT coming out over here so long before nemesis? (TTT came out today, Nemesis is coming in Jan)
Posted by TheWoozle (Member # 929) on :
There are more non-trek movie goers then there are rabid trek fans. Hell, even Waterworld made a profit (eventually), so don't lose heart. Paramount knows how to market Trek pretty well, so they don't really even try to market to the general audiance. I noticed that the previes where pretty much marketed to fans, like the line about it being the final voyage of a Generation.
Posted by Austin Powers (Member # 250) on :
Strange thing I never even saw a trailer for Nemesis in the cinema!
Anyway, I don't think TTT will pose much of a problem for Nemesis here in Germany. The release date has even been pushed back from 2 January to 16 January as in Australia. So no hard feelings, dear friends from down under - we are united in our plight.... ;-)
Posted by newark (Member # 888) on :
I saw the film TTT. Many in the cinema liked the film and some were applauding at the end. Did people applaud at the end of Nemesis?
Posted by Raw Cadet (Member # 725) on :
quote:Originally posted by newark: Did people applaud at the end of Nemesis?
Not in the cinema where I saw the film.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
They applauded at the end of Nemesis where I saw it. So some have enjoyed it.
Posted by Raw Cadet (Member # 725) on :
It has been many, many years since I have been in a cinema and the audience clapped at the end of the film. I guess movie-goers in my neck of the woods are less clap-happy than other folks.
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Actually, the last time I was in an applauding audience was for Star Trek VI.
Sulu: Target that explosion and fire!
Excelisior: Wham! Wham!
Kirk: Fire!
Enterprise: Wham! Wham!
Enterprise and Excelsior: WHAM! WHAM!
Bird of Prey: Ouch! Ouch!
Enterprise: FINAL WHAM!
Bird of Prey: BOOOOOOMM!!
And the audience exploded into cheering and applause! One of my best movie experiences EVER, I must say.
Mark
Posted by Warbadden Hawkins (Member # 905) on :
I saw Nemesis twice.... and a grande total of 6$ americain, i love nowheres ville USA
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Last time I saw a theater audience applaud a movie was when the words "EPISODE I:" scrolled onto the screen...
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
those poor misguided bastards...
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
quote: Hell, maybe this will actually be a sign to Paramount and force them to get some fresh blood in the creative department
Hell yes! Like, they should get a writer and a director who have never had anything to do with Star Trek! Maybe they could have recieved praise for earlier, popular films they participated in! But I doubt those total idiots at Paramount would EVER agree to such a plan.
Posted by Starship Millennium (Member # 822) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sol System:
quote: Hell, maybe this will actually be a sign to Paramount and force them to get some fresh blood in the creative department
Hell yes! Like, they should get a writer and a director who have never had anything to do with Star Trek! Maybe they could have recieved praise for earlier, popular films they participated in! But I doubt those total idiots at Paramount would EVER agree to such a plan.
That's not what I meant. No matter how much Baird and Logan tried to be different, Berman could have (and probably did quite a few times) veto any of their decisions. And from what I've heard, he played a major role in the editing problems.
To a lesser extent, this applies to Enterprise too.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
quote:Originally posted by Starship Millennium: That's not what I meant. No matter how much Baird and Logan tried to be different, Berman could have (and probably did quite a few times) veto any of their decisions. And from what I've heard, he played a major role in the editing problems.
To a lesser extent, this applies to Enterprise too.
Could you posibly set up a meeting between me and your friend the cricket that lives in Berman's office wastebasket? We could meet in a shadowy bar in Burbank and discuss his internal management style over single-malt scotch. Could be engrossing. Insects are quite attentive, you know.
Posted by Starship Millennium (Member # 822) on :
quote:Originally posted by The_Tom: Could you posibly set up a meeting between me and your friend the cricket that lives in Berman's office wastebasket? We could meet in a shadowy bar in Burbank and discuss his internal management style over single-malt scotch. Could be engrossing. Insects are quite attentive, you know.
*Sigh...* I give up. You can't win with some people, I guess. Especially when they don't want to grow up...
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
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I give up. You can't win with some people, I guess. Especially when they don't want to grow up...