when did you know the movie was going to be a hit?

[RobertScorpio]

For those of you who liked TREK XI, at what point in the movie did your apprehension fade away, and you knew....YOU KNEW...this movie was going to not only be good, but be the SUMMER HIT of the summer kind of good???

For me? at the end of 'kirk's punnishment scene and they shift to the ship and up to when Sulu finally got the ship into warp..I felt then, based on the excitement of the crowd, that this movie was going to rock...

Rob

 

[jbrinegar]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

I think I was hooked from the opening Kelvin battle

 

[Squiggy]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

When I...WATCHED IT!

 

[Jeri]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

I was already agog at the Rotten Tomatoes rating before I went. Basically, my jaw was dropped the whole movie on that Thursday sneak-preview night.

I think I started to come out of it the next night when we went again. I started to know it was real. I'm still going (#14 tonight) and still infatuated.

 

[Tracer Bullet]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

I think I was hooked from the opening Kelvin battle

Yeah, this. As soon as the opening sequence started I just knew that this movie was what Trek needed and deserved.

 

[Benjamin Miner]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

My ears perked up when they first had McCoy mention the Kobayashi Maru test. I then realized somebody on the writing team really gave a damn.

That was the Moment when I first started to really trust the film. I was delighted at how it smoothly accelerated from there, until by the end we realized, "Damn! They have pulled this off!" I was grinning like an imbecile the whole way home. And yes, the audience did cheer at the Enterprise's first big shot, and gave a hearty ovation at the film's end. (And to think I was upset that they weren't using Alexander Courage's music! They came through on that as well.)

I'm more excited about Trek now than I have been in a long time...maybe since Troi's 2nd season makeover...

 

[EnsignRicky]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

I'm getting there.

 

[mythicdove]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

From the opening scene, powerful and dramatic.

That's when I knew the movie was going to be good.

 

[number6]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

When I first heard that JJ Abrams was going to produce and direct it and Nimoy was going to play Spock again.

 

[Phily B]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

Probably the third trailer

"JAMES T KIRK WAS A GREAT MAN, BUT THAT WAS ANOTHER LIFE!"

 

[Royal Fizzbin]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

Definitely the opening scene. It just screamed Star Trek to me.

Just thinking about it, now I want my Kelvin bridge playset. C'mon, Playmates!

 

[indranee]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

for me, it was this trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0xaCB2nLS0

two years of apprehension just... melted away.

I knew it then.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

When did I know it was going to be a good movie? Pretty much from the first scene. When did I know it was going to be good TREK? That's a little harder.

There were several points I was just dreading, based on the previews, trailers, etc. I got past each with a "ok, that wasn't TOO bad". It didn't all come together until the "final departure" scene at the end, when I could hear the "ghosts" of Shatner, Nimoy, Doohan, and the others behind the new actors' voices as they got Enterprise underway. And I COMPLETELY lost it during the monologue and first part of the credits...I couldn't stop crying.

I'm a little teared up right now in fact, remembering it.

 

[indranee]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

aww I did too.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

When the "Disease and Danger" clip came out. My biggest fear about the movie went away and I knew it was going to be okay. Might even be awesome. The reviews told me it was going to be awesome.

 

[Vicki]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

For sure? About 30 seconds into the movie.

But I was pretty sure as soon as I saw the last trailer. The music, and Kirk on the bike & in the bar & looking at the shipyard, and Pike's glorious "Your father was captain of a starship for 12 minutes ..." and Spock, and Sarek's voice, and Nero, hell, all of it.

I've watched that trailer once a day for the last month and it ~still~ gives me the chills. We've all seen enough good trailers for bad movies to know you can't rely on a trailer worth shit, but this was different. I hoped.

I've seen the movie six times (and going again tomorrow) and the trailer and the movie still whomp me just as much every time.

 

[Freman]

I knew as soon as I saw the movie and realized it was actually a Star Wars movie and not, in fact, Star Trek.

 

[Deckerd]

I was free of apprehension at any time.

 

[scottydog]

Re: when did you...KNOW!

I was already agog at the Rotten Tomatoes rating before I went. Basically, my jaw was dropped the whole movie on that Thursday sneak-preview night.

I think I started to come out of it the next night when we went again. I started to know it was real. I'm still going (#14 tonight) and still infatuated.

Wow, I feel like such a weenie having only gone 4 times! I kind of suspected it would be a hit after the Rotten Tomatoes score remained near 100 throughout the week leading up to the movie's release. Then I saw the movie that first Friday and it was obvious from the very beginning that this was a very special movie and was going to make a lot of $$$.

 

[clint g]

The whole Kelvin thing clinched it for me.

While I was watching it I was thinking to myself "there is no way the masses wont love this"