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I was appaled at the beginning of Nemesis. The theater I saw it in showed probably 6 non-movie related commercials before starting the trailers... then went on to show 3 or 4 trailers before starting the movie. I'm down with trailers... they're a part of the whole movie going experience... but when the heck did they start using MY money to bother me with pointless advertising that I just get mad at? People all around us were going, "What's with all the commercials?" It's just irritating. It's my dime... why do they get to talk on it?
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I know that they show commercials (nontrailers) in theatres in the UK and Germany (where I've seen movies) and in Japan (where I live), but are they showing them now in the US? I don't think I've seen a commercial in a US theatre.
If they are showing them in the US, how do people act? Do they talk through them or sit in obedient silence?
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I can recall non-trailer advertisments as far back as, oh, six years ago here in Canada. People don't really seem to react at all.
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Yep we've started getting them here as well. Just means that you now have 15 minutes instead of 10 minutes of extra time to get to the theater and not miss any of the movie.
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quote:Originally posted by Epoch: Yep we've started getting them here as well. Just means that you now have 15 minutes instead of 10 minutes of extra time to get to the theater and not miss any of the movie.
I've started writing to the theaters and telling them that I'm going to take my business elsewhere if they don't stop the commercials. Luckily, here in the San Francisco Bay Area there are a lot of theaters, and one right up the street from me doesn't do commercials. AMC chains are amongst the worst for ads. If people voted with their feet and let the theaters know they were losing business because of the ads, they'd wise up.
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Looking at this week's results, Nemesis made just $4 mil, taking its total to $33 million. I'd say it's about to flop here in North America. BTW, Final Frontier made $50 million plus.
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Curiously, I didn't see a trailer for Nemesis before any film I've seen recently - a first. It's certain to be shown at several of the cinemas I've visited - maybe I just haven't seen any other Paramount films this year! Then again, I did see the whole trailer on TV this evening, so maybe it is getting some promotion. It'll need it. . .
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There was a trailer before Chamber of Secrets.
Apparently, it was also before The Two Towers, but that was replaced by the Daredevil advert this week.
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About commercials in US cinemas: I was on holiday in Columbus/Ohio back in '97, and went to see several movies - every one of them had non-movie-commercials as well as trailers. Anyway I didn't mind as they were quite funny - one was one of those infamous Coke vs Pepsi commercials! ;-)
And about Nemesis: I went to see The Two Towers yesterday. At our local multiplex there's always a huge oversize movie poster on the outside over the entrance to promote a future "highlight". And guess what it showed this time - Nemesis!
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I've only seen the Nemesis trailer once at the cimema, before Harry Potter. Seen it on TV a couple of times, though.
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quote:Originally posted by Veers: Looking at this week's results, Nemesis made just $4 mil, taking its total to $33 million. I'd say it's about to flop here in North America. BTW, Final Frontier made $50 million plus.
But is that a "real" comparison, or a comparison between a movie whose run has ended and whose video run has come and gone and might also have been counted, and DIDN'T come out at roughly the same time as HPtCoS and LotR:TTT?
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I think it was intended as a comparison between what is regarded by many (too many, IMHO, but that's another issue) as the "worst" Star Trek film and the latest one.
IMO having been released in competition with other films such as LOTR is not an excuse for lousy box office performance. If the movie was good, it would actually compete for audiences against such films. Nemesis is a pale weakling in the face of much better-constructed alternatives, plain and simple.
And with Enterprise ratings way, waaaaay down, I'm anticipating that the franchise is going to be left to die by Paramount/Viacom over the next several years. Unless ENT turns around and starts shaping up, that is. Which it still very well could. But this dog's had her day, I fear.
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