Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek? 820
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?"
Worst Case (Score:5, Funny)
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"Die StarTrek, die...what?"
It was German. He was really saying: "The Star Trek, the..."
Re:What Critics? (Score:5, Funny)
Critics generally like it. Fans generally like it. The public generally likes it. We're only one week into it and it's already being debated as if Apple produced it -- I half expect somebody to complain that the new Star Trek movie doesn't support Ogg or that it sucks as a smartphone. We all know that a year from now the movie will be raking in the dough from video sales, and a question like "What about the SECOND week?" will seem even stupider then than it does today.
Re:Time will tell (Score:5, Funny)
An Enterprise bridge designed by Apple
Wasn't it in The Next Generation? No tactile feedback on consoles, consistent UI everywhere even when it comes at the expense of usability, and no fuses anywhere (saves a bit of manufacturing cost and keeps the margins high). Sounds like an Apple design to me...
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Re:first post! (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm?
Maybe it's my personal experience, but every single person I have talked to...
There's a reason they're single, man.
Re:first post! (Score:5, Funny)
It did go by fast. I saw it with fellow fanatics and non-fanatics, and both groups liked it. If I had to say, I would say the non-fans liked it more than the fans. Which is good news for the word-of-mouth, after opening weekend crowd.
Frankly, it was a fun movie to watch. Lots of action, lots of flash. Enough old-school Trek to satisfy all but the unsatisfiable basement dwellers.
I plan to take my sons to see it this weekend. My 15yo thinks Star Wars has more action than Trek, he says Trek is just "people sitting around, talking". A viewing of the new movie and a few select Dominion War episodes should set his ass straight!
Re:What Critics? (Score:3, Funny)
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The premise is that this is an alternate timeline for Star Trek. So in this version Kirk can act, doesn't wear a toupee or a girdle, and Uhura doesn't do a fan dance.
Re:A Message From a Loyal Fan (Score:5, Funny)
Oh the humanity... ...seriously... you behave as if this were some actually important matter, like Peter Jackson's disgusting rape of Lord of the Rings.
Re:A Message From a Loyal Fan (Score:4, Funny)
And thank god he did.
Honestly the old start trek was ridiculous. Sanitized, clean, WE must do it this way because it is good and right to do....
God that made me sick.
I loved enterprise because it was gritter, the ship broke when anyone sneezed, and the humans got their asses kicked at every turn. Plus willing to cross the line into "kind'a-evil" in order to get the mission completed is very human.
The movie I really hope is a lot more of what enterprise showed it could be. I want kirk standing in front of the federation tribunal giving everyone a double middle finger and then runs out killing guards and vowing to make the endorians extinct simply because he hates their chowder.
Out of control, ruled by emotion, ready shoot aim... THAT"S humanity. and that makes for a better trek storyline.
Honestly, DS9 should have had a lot more crime and unrest, and voyager should have ended with cannibalism.
Re:A Message From a Loyal Fan (Score:2, Funny)
> Delta Vega being within sight of Vulcan? Please. Uhura being of a similar age to Kirk?
Okay, at this point you're grasping at minor details. Look, you can't do a reboot without breaking a few eggs. Thank your stars Uhura didn't end up becoming a white male in this reboot (*cough*BSG*cough*).
Re:first post! (Score:5, Funny)
an alternative universe
(in comic book guy voice) Ah yes. A precedence set forth in Star Trek, Season 2, Episode 33: "Mirror Mirror". Worst. Episode. Ever.
Re:first post! (Score:4, Funny)
So... you purchased an HD version of a series shot on 1960s-quality TV equipment? You're a trekkie alright!
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The premise is that this is an alternate timeline for Star Trek. So in this version Kirk can act, doesn't wear a toupee or a girdle...
George Takei, you're on /. ?!
Re:first post! (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, I'm glad I could make an appearance.
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Personally, my main problem was with the completely absurd idea that a ship swallowed by a black hole is transported through time, when everyone knows that you first have to realign the deflector array in order for that to happen!
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U-Matic: 1971
Betacam: 1982
Did they get betacam by slingshotting around the sun?