Boycott Wolverine to help Trek?
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... wished I hadn't I had to go home and takre a shower to get all that damn retcon off me 
I got some good news and bad news... good news is that I agree with you about there only being a finite amount of money. The bad news is that I doubt that 87million represents most of that money. If Star Trek does poorly (which, based on the buzz, I kinda doubt), it won't be because everyone and their dog went to Wolverine and now they can't afford anything else. Movies have been getting more expensive over the years, but so long as people resisted getting a soda and popcorn this past weekend, Wolverine won't have cleaned them out. If people really want to go to a movie, they will probably make it happen.
You could tell this guy it sounds funny, but he's probably not going to be bothered by it much. (And no, it's not a boycott if you weren't going anyway.If I never intended to go in the first place, does that still mean I'm boycotting? and is it just me? or does the word boycott sound funny? Boycott, Boycott, Boycott!
)I don't think there's any way that Star Trek can open bigger than Wolverine, no matter how the reviews for the two films stack up. Wolverine is the fourth in a series of increasingly successful films made in the last decade, a period of time in which Star Trek has faded into obscurity and unfamiliarity for most younger moviegoers.
i just came back from Wolverine. was kinda disappointed. not too much character development and they were throwing in characters left and right. you'd have to be a comic-book fan to enjoy, IMHO. pretty good though, like maybe B- and entertaining but since Bryan Singer's retirement from the X-Men films, i think the production went downhill after that. i'd very very surprised if Wolverine made any dent in Star Trek's numbers next week.
I had a friend phone me this evening asking me what I thought of Wolverine, which he knew that I had seen on Friday night. I am fairly certain he was asking me because he was planning on going to see Wolverine tonight. I quite honestly and earnestly told him to skip it and wait for Star Trek, which he agreed to do.
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There was a boycott?
Hugh Jackman's prequel "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" leaped to the top of the box office with an $87 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates
160 million world wide.
Hugh Jackman's prequel "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" leaped to the top of the box office with an $87 million opening weekend, according to studio estimates
160 million world wide.
TNG or ENT?
I have been told, and I saw it in one clip that it has very poor CGI for a 2009 movie.
Honestly if I am going to pay to see a movie in a theater I want pristine CGI, I was going to go see it, but not anymore. Wolverine's claws even look fake in some shots. They looked more real in other X-men movies.
Look at this picture, and tell me what you think
http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/wolverine-claws.jpg
Looks like only 3 movies for me this summer
Star Trek
T4
Tranformers
Honestly if I am going to pay to see a movie in a theater I want pristine CGI, I was going to go see it, but not anymore. Wolverine's claws even look fake in some shots. They looked more real in other X-men movies.
Look at this picture, and tell me what you think
http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/wolverine-claws.jpg
Looks like only 3 movies for me this summer
Star Trek
T4
Tranformers
The CGI in Wolverine is pretty bad. For anyone who's seen it; the "ladder attack" scene should be a nice memory of this.
The "ladder attack" work was pretty lousy, the CG effect on a certain guest cameo near the end was pretty bad, and while there were some terrible claw effects, it's only really noticeable 2 or 3 times, with only 1 being genuinely horrible. Unless you're looking for perfect CG throughout, I would still say go see it. The terrible CG isn't all throughout.
both, but not the best eps. All Good Things is on in the evening, I think. check your local skiffy listings.
HAhahah. Yeah, wasn't that seem just AWESOME!!
I guess it doesn't matter how many bad reviews this movie got and it really did get "clawed up" *groan hiss* in every paper/review I've seen...yet it goes on to have a blockbuster weekend....so this brings me to the conclusion that the US market doesn't really care about story...they just want the bells and whistles...content is secondary....very sad indeed.
But why not fuckin TOS if they're going to have a friggin marathon...WHY NOT TOS??????????
I don't think they have the rights to show TOS..
I think it's again a situation where people will go see a movie if they really want to. I can't speak for everyone else, but I read reviews more for entertainment value than to help me decide about movies... if i had a dollar for everytime I've agreed with a major reviewer, I would have about $5. So just because folks don't listen to newspaper reviews doesn't mean that they want nothing more than bells and whistles.
Wolverine doesn't look all that interesting, anyway. And with reviews that bad people aren't going to see it. Luckily, Trek won't be going up against the new Harry Potter either (something I was originally worried about). I think we're in good shape to run the show.
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