Star Trek Rotten Tomatoes Rating
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Unbelievable.
Brilliant!
Wolverine is definitely going to make money. Part of the reason why Star Trek is blanketing all media now (besides to give me a massive trekrection) is to counter the built in advantage Wolverine has.At 17 reviews, Wolverine is now down to 53% fresh. So it's not as if the film critics association has decided to give everyone a pass this Summer.
An 18th review just knocked the percentage down to 44%. Not a good sign at all.
Too bad this is exactly the type of movie that usually transcends bad reviews. Even though the third X-men movie was in the 50% range, it still was the most successful.
Wolverine is down to 37%....muhahahaha
Well, we'll see what that means at the box office. The last Pirates of the Caribbean movie was only 45% fresh. It still grossed almost $140 million in the U.S. on its first weekend. One could say a "fanbboy effect" set in, though, because it dropped to only $44 million the next weekend, and took 17 weeks to end up at $309 million. But that's not a bad take.
I imagine the box office behavior for Wolverine will be similar, though not as lucrative. A very good opening from the fanboy effect, then a steep falloff because the movie just isn't good enough to gain any momentum from word of mouth.
Star Trek, on the other hand, may not open that strong (I'd say $80 million would be good), but will probably have strong weekends to follow as people hear that it is a pretty entertaining movie. That's why I wouldn't be surprised to see Trek surpass most estimates of its gross revenue. Especially if word of mouth for the competition is bad. Someone wanting to see an action movie who would normally gravitate to an X-Men-type story may give Trek a chance instead. Even Wolverine fans who don't care much for Trek may go see Star Trek out of curiosity instead of seeing Wolverine for a second time.
The stars seem to be aligned for a massive Star Trek comeback in the popular culture.
That's true...but in Trek's case, if the reviews are good to excellent for the most part, that and word-of-mouth might bring more people out to see it. It has an uphill battle for audience.
Wolverine is down to 37%....muhahahaha
Well, we'll see what that means at the box office. The last Pirates of the Caribbean movie was only 45% fresh. It still grossed almost $140 million in the U.S. on its first weekend. One could say a "fanbboy effect" set in, though, because it dropped to only $44 million the next weekend, and took 17 weeks to end up at $309 million. But that's not a bad take.
I imagine the box office behavior for Wolverine will be similar, though not as lucrative. A very good opening from the fanboy effect, then a steep falloff because the movie just isn't good enough to gain any momentum from word of mouth.
Star Trek, on the other hand, may not open that strong (I'd say $80 million would be good), but will probably have strong weekends to follow as people hear that it is a pretty entertaining movie. That's why I wouldn't be surprised to see Trek surpass most estimates of its gross revenue. Especially if word of mouth for the competition is bad. Someone wanting to see an action movie who would normally gravitate to an X-Men-type story may give Trek a chance instead. Even Wolverine fans who don't care much for Trek may go see Star Trek out of curiosity instead of seeing Wolverine for a second time.
The stars seem to be aligned for a massive Star Trek comeback in the popular culture.
For me, it's more that I'm hoping the shitty reviews for its Marvel properties will finally get it into Fox's heads to do these movies right.
Well it doesn't impact the US, but in the three countries that reports have been published WOlverine is performing worse then all the X-Men movies in France, worse then X-Men 2 & # in Australia, and at least worse then X2 and x3 in Germany (not sure if its lower then X-Men 1).
Of course that based of just that first day and could easily change, but I really hope it performs low.
Of course that based of just that first day and could easily change, but I really hope it performs low.
Yeah, considering the biggest opening (not accounting for inflation) was the $30 million that FC made, it's going to be crazy to see this movie make at least 2-3 times that much.
That's not really true. It's just that sometimes people just don't care because they want to see Will Smith, Bruce Willis, ect.
It's really a question of whether people want to see Wolverine/Jackman badly enough to ignore the critics. Reviews affect the people with ambivalence about it.
I haven't seen Big Momma's House, but I watch the other two a lot. They seem to be a staple on cable channels. I enjoy them a lot, despite their flaws and in fact found myself tearing up at the end of Armageddon the other day.
Now-The Black Hole, that's another thing entirely!
MRE
I haven't seen Big Momma's House, but I watch the other two a lot. They seem to be a staple on cable channels. I enjoy them a lot, despite their flaws and in fact found myself tearing up at the end of Armageddon the other day.
Now-The Black Hole, that's another thing entirely!
MRE
Personally, I was entertained by Big Momma's House.
I'd much rather have one good, critically acclaimed, low-grossing Trek movie than a new series of them based on the financial success of something that stoops to the level of Armageddon and Independence Day in mediocrity. It wouldn't be worth revitalizing the franchise if that was the price! But I think Star Trek XI will be critically and financially successful. Just want to point out that reviews don't mean everything in terms of performance, but reviews mean much more to me than box office success because I care about the franchise and don't want to sacrifice quality just to have quantity.
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