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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.... ;-)
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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?
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