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[RobertScorpio]

When Star Trek XI comes out next May, on a Friday let's say, when will you first go see the movie....

(yes this should be in TREK XI forum..I didn't realize it was in this forum..so MODERATOR, can you move this over?)

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I'll see it on the first day.

No one stands in advance lines for any movie any more unless it's because they think it's an experience of some kind.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I'll see it on the first day.

No one stands in advance lines for any movie any more unless it's because they think it's an experience of some kind.

When I went to see THE MENAGERIE showing, I think its when I did that, it came out the same time BEOWOLF did...I went to a 5pm showing of THE MENAGERIE and there were people in line for Beouwolf at 5pm, about 100 of them, for the 12midnight showing, at 5pm..I was really impressed by that..

But I get your drift. I think the last time I saw people in line days before a movie came out was for PHANTOM MENACE..and boy, was that worth the wait or not?? WINK WINK

Rob
scorpio

 

[erastus25]

I'll see it on the first day.

No one stands in advance lines for any movie any more unless it's because they think it's an experience of some kind.

When I went to see THE MENAGERIE showing, I think its when I did that, it came out the same time BEOWOLF did...I went to a 5pm showing of THE MENAGERIE and there were people in line for Beouwolf at 5pm, about 100 of them, for the 12midnight showing, at 5pm..I was really impressed by that..

But I get your drift. I think the last time I saw people in line days before a movie came out was for PHANTOM MENACE..and boy, was that worth the wait or not?? WINK WINK

Rob
scorpio

I've noticed a trend in Boston (where I live) to put insanely popular movies on so many screens that it shows about every half hour and you pretty much don't have to wait in line. I'm not sure if STXI will get that treatment. Either way I plan to go to the midnight showing. The only way I wouldn't go to that showing is if the Portland Trail Blazers are playing a playoff game that night.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I'll see it on the first day.

No one stands in advance lines for any movie any more unless it's because they think it's an experience of some kind.

When I went to see THE MENAGERIE showing, I think its when I did that, it came out the same time BEOWOLF did...I went to a 5pm showing of THE MENAGERIE and there were people in line for Beouwolf at 5pm, about 100 of them, for the 12midnight showing, at 5pm..I was really impressed by that..

But I get your drift. I think the last time I saw people in line days before a movie came out was for PHANTOM MENACE..and boy, was that worth the wait or not?? WINK WINK

Rob
scorpio

I've noticed a trend in Boston (where I live) to put insanely popular movies on so many screens that it shows about every half hour and you pretty much don't have to wait in line. I'm not sure if STXI will get that treatment. Either way I plan to go to the midnight showing. The only way I wouldn't go to that showing is if the Portland Trail Blazers are playing a playoff game that night.

Yes..good point..where I live in San Diego there are, oh, fourty screens in a ten mile radius...not like the old days when there were maybe four theatres scattered around San Diego...

Which is another reason I dispute GONE WITH THE WIND's adjusted numbers...

1. There were not a many theatres in 1939, and or people.

2. Certainly kids didn't flock to the movies, nor even if they did, would they flock to Gone With The Wind

3. We were coming out of a recession, and Europe was already at War...

I have talked about this with my grandma and grandpa many times (Grandma passed away 10 years ago)..but my grandpa is a sharp 95. They both saw GWTW one time..and thats it. For GWTW to have made that much money, adjusted for inflation, then the average person would have had to seen that movie 10 or 11 times...in a reccession, pre WW2 time..I don't buy it..

I think when they are trying to decide the most popular movie of all time they should take the amount of tickets sold relative to the population at the time...

Anyway..back to the subject at hand...I went to both IRONMAN and INDIAN JONES the days they came out and had no problem because it was showing on four of the eighteen screens at the theatre I go too...so one was starting like every half hour or so..

Rob
scorpio

 

[Mr. Fergy]

Opening Day baby!

 

[Wonderlust King]

I'll be at a midnight showing fo so.

 

[Haytil]

I find that the trick to "Opening Nights" isn't so much getting the tickets before they sell out as it is getting a good seat before they're all filled.

I went to the midnight premiere of "Indiana Jones" in May in Chicago, where they had at least a dozen screens showing it. There were a lot of people, but you could still get tickets up to maybe an hour before it showed.

But the problem was seats - because every group is a different size, and groups don't like to sit next to other groups (there's usually an empty buffer seat in between), you won't have much luck getting a seat that's not in the awful front few rows unless you're alone. People go to sit in their seats and save them for friends at least an hour early.

 

[Anthony Sabre]

I see myself at this movie opening day. If I'm at work I'll be taking a long lunch.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I'll see it in the theater but will wait more than a week for the crowds to diminish. I hope I'll need to wait more than a week. The longer, the better.

 

[captcalhoun]

"Indian Jones"?

I'll see it opening weekend. depending on the situation, i might see it on the Friday if i can get time off work, else i'll see it on the Saturday.

i always go to the earliest available showing...

 

[Chuckling]

When Star Trek XI comes out next May, on a Friday let's say, when will you first go see the movie....

(yes this should be in TREK XI forum..I didn't realize it was in this forum..so MODERATOR, can you move this over?)

Rob
Scorpio

I'll wait for the reviews first. I like to consider what I'm watching but that's just the way I like to relate to a movie. I'm choosey about what enters the eyeballs.

Maybe I lose out by doing that but it has stopped me wasting a lot of time watching dogs.

Chuckling

 

[Michael]

Opening weekend probably.

 

[Orac]

I voted option 2, I will definately see it opening day hopefully in the afternoon and if it's any good I will probably see it again the next day.

 

[StolenThunder]

Zoom zoom zoom, as they say.

 

[Michael]

Welcome home, thread.

 

[Tralah]

At our movie theater you can buy tickets in advance, so I'll definitely be doing that for as early a showing as I can get! I will even schedule a vacation day from work for this, and in fact I'd probably already have it scheduled if I could, but I can't request days off for 2009 until it's closer to being 2009. I also I think it'd be a little embarrassing to explain why I want that day off so far in advance if I were asked!

 

[Dale]

I used to be a big one for the early movie line-up. Waited more than a week on Hollywood Blvd for Return of the Jedi when that first premiered and was first in line in Hollywood for the original Star Wars trilogy when it was shown together. But I'm 43 years old now... that just doesn't hold the allure for me it once did.

I'll see it at some point opening day. A nice midnight show at the local theater, which has been eclipsed by bigger and better 'plexes in the area, would be cool. That's how I saw Indy 4.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I'll see it sometime during the first week, but I won't go opening day I don't think.

 

[Nerys Myk]

When I went to see THE MENAGERIE showing, I think its when I did that, it came out the same time BEOWOLF did...I went to a 5pm showing of THE MENAGERIE and there were people in line for Beouwolf at 5pm, about 100 of them, for the 12midnight showing, at 5pm..I was really impressed by that..

But I get your drift. I think the last time I saw people in line days before a movie came out was for PHANTOM MENACE..and boy, was that worth the wait or not?? WINK WINK

Rob
scorpio

I've noticed a trend in Boston (where I live) to put insanely popular movies on so many screens that it shows about every half hour and you pretty much don't have to wait in line. I'm not sure if STXI will get that treatment. Either way I plan to go to the midnight showing. The only way I wouldn't go to that showing is if the Portland Trail Blazers are playing a playoff game that night.

Yes..good point..where I live in San Diego there are, oh, fourty screens in a ten mile radius...not like the old days when there were maybe four theatres scattered around San Diego...

Which is another reason I dispute GONE WITH THE WIND's adjusted numbers...

1. There were not a many theatres in 1939, and or people.

2. Certainly kids didn't flock to the movies, nor even if they did, would they flock to Gone With The Wind

3. We were coming out of a recession, and Europe was already at War...

I have talked about this with my grandma and grandpa many times (Grandma passed away 10 years ago)..but my grandpa is a sharp 95. They both saw GWTW one time..and thats it. For GWTW to have made that much money, adjusted for inflation, then the average person would have had to seen that movie 10 or 11 times...in a reccession, pre WW2 time..I don't buy it..

I think when they are trying to decide the most popular movie of all time they should take the amount of tickets sold relative to the population at the time...

Anyway..back to the subject at hand...I went to both IRONMAN and INDIAN JONES the days they came out and had no problem because it was showing on four of the eighteen screens at the theatre I go too...so one was starting like every half hour or so..

Rob
scorpio

I dont think you fully understand the role of the movie theatre in pre TV America ( and the world) it wasn;t just a place to watch feature films. You also saw serials, cartoons and short subjects.

Here is a quote from an article about the history and woes of the Theatre business:

Back in 1946, buttressed by the appeal of newsreels, movie theaters sold some four billion tickets in the U.S., at a time when the total population was 141 million. That's 28 movies a year, on average, for each and every American.