Are you Going to See it On Christmas Day
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Lord Garth
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Opening week not opening day. I severely doubt I'll see Star Trek on Christmas.
I'm not religious, and if I were then technically I'd be Muslim, but it's still not how I want to spend December 25th.
I'm not religious, and if I were then technically I'd be Muslim, but it's still not how I want to spend December 25th.
I haven't planned on seeing it.
Alas, unless our current plans change, I won't be anywhere near a cineplex on December 25 so I'll have to wait until I get back in town in early Jan.
i will see it again xmas 2008
Yes. Yes.
If it came out on Christmas Day, I'd see it January assuming that the general buzz was favourable.
I can't think of the last time I saw a movie less than 2 weeks after it opened, usually because of timing due to my wife's work schedule. I generally avoid the malls from the 22nd through 28th of December in general.
I can't think of the last time I saw a movie less than 2 weeks after it opened, usually because of timing due to my wife's work schedule. I generally avoid the malls from the 22nd through 28th of December in general.
If at all possible, I will. It is the only movie I'd stand in line for to watch.
Though I hate long lines, here's hoping the line will be long...
Though I hate long lines, here's hoping the line will be long...
I plan to be there a couple hours early to avoid the lines, so I'll probably bring a Trek book to read while I wait (just in case I decide not to go in costume, I don't want anybody to possibly be able to miss the fact that I'm a major geek. 
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OK, I'll bite: How are you going to see it before the premiere?
All the ST movies were previewed to professional reviewers and selected Star Trek fans a week before the official release, although to see TMP you had to have an invitation to the Smithsonian Institute gala preview.
As a fan club president, I saw sneak previews of ST II, ST III, ST V and ST VI - all about a week earlier than the general release dates - and, for ST IV, I was lucky enough to see the incomplete work print and help to organize the huge Sydney gala premiere a few weeks later.
Chances are it won't actually come out on Christmas. Most movies that come out on Christmas Day are Oscar bait like Dreamgirls or The Aviator. In all probability, Paramount has no idea what day they'll release it on yet, as December 2008 is 15 months away, and most of the movies coming out then don't have their exact release dates announced yet.
Once we get closer, they'll take a look at the options, and schedule the release accordingly...probably some time earlier in December, which would be more consistent with when some of the other Trek movies came out. "Christmas 2008" is probably just being used as a placeholder, which we should interpret as "TBD December 2008". It happens all the time.
Once we get closer, they'll take a look at the options, and schedule the release accordingly...probably some time earlier in December, which would be more consistent with when some of the other Trek movies came out. "Christmas 2008" is probably just being used as a placeholder, which we should interpret as "TBD December 2008". It happens all the time.
Yeah for sure...made it a traditional with my friends to see LOTR on Christmas day after Christmas dinner. We saw Narnia on Christmas evening so we'll be seeing it Christmas yes!
Admiral Young
Admiral Young
I don't think I could get a ticket on the first weekend. And I don't feel like camping out like the star wars fans (besides, it's cold out in december). If it gets decent reviews, I see it for my birthday (jan 12).
And I'll probably drag my dad along.
And I'll probably drag my dad along.
Paramount has a standard practice of announcing release dates for the ST movies and keeping to them. That's what caused Robert Wise's problem with TMP. They were locked into a certain release date.
(I have a feeling one was moved up earlier: originally set for December but came out in the November. So its teaser poster had the wrong date.)
IIRC, it was TUC that had its release date moved up by a week at the last minute. And the Nemesis release date moved twice:
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/preview/1808406055
First from November to December 2002, then back a week from Dec. 20 to Dec. 13. I don't think the issue is that the release dates are locked down to an exact day. It's just that they have to be within a certain window. You can't just bump a December release into January, because you miss the holiday season. But the exact day within December is negotiable.
It's not just Star Trek. The release dates for any movie that comes out more than a year in the future should be taken with a grain of salt. The studios just don't know what the competition is going to be like yet, so all the release dates that far out are subject to change.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/preview/1808406055
First from November to December 2002, then back a week from Dec. 20 to Dec. 13. I don't think the issue is that the release dates are locked down to an exact day. It's just that they have to be within a certain window. You can't just bump a December release into January, because you miss the holiday season. But the exact day within December is negotiable.
It's not just Star Trek. The release dates for any movie that comes out more than a year in the future should be taken with a grain of salt. The studios just don't know what the competition is going to be like yet, so all the release dates that far out are subject to change.
