Star Trek: Into darkness

[Krystyan]

Re: Star Trek: Into darkness

in Argentina, we'll have to wait until August

[feather]

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What, that sucks!

[Highsteppa]

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I quite enjoyed this. It wasn't quite the revelation that the 2009 reboot was, but it was one of the fastest paced Star Trek films.

I had a couple of little points that bugged me, that are more tied to behind the scenes

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like them keeping Kahn alive, instead of killing him - to me this screams that they'll go back to him once the rebooted franchise starts to show signs of slowing down

Overall, though, good performances all around and good use of the characters. Chris Pine's Kirk goes on a great hero's journey going from self perceived Star Fleet rock star to being humbled to the point of apology. I'm kind of surprised that the Hollywood powers that be are a bit disappointed with the box office tallies in the U.S.

[feather]

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I'm kind of surprised that the Hollywood powers that be are a bit disappointed with the box office tallies in the U.S.

Didn't it do well at the box office?

[Highsteppa]

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Didn't it do well at the box office?

Approx $70 million on it's opening weekend, and they still consider that a disappointment. But then again, the movie's budget was pegged at approx $200 million plus.

Mind you when it comes to this kind of crap, it's a matter of how quickly you recoup your costs - not if your movie will recoup their costs - every movie makes its money back.

[Michael^Heaven]

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every movie makes its money back.

"Water World"

[Highsteppa]

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"Water World"

Made it's money back - not in the theaters (which most movies don't to begin with) - but with VHS/DVD/Blu Ray sales, broadcasting royalties and a ton of other means of revenue.

[Kamal]

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Also, if you ignore the fact that waterworld's budget doubled due to the original set drowning in the storm, the move made the money twice over.

[Highsteppa]

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Also, if you ignore the fact that waterworld's budget doubled due to the original set drowning in the storm, the move made the money twice over.

The insurance covered most of the costs of that happening, it's the environmental damage that was done to the coral reefs that they would have taken a bath on if the courts had ruled that Universal clean it up.