Fandango: ‘Up’ 62% Of All Online Tickets

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• huh…Terminator: Salvation is beating Trek. ???

  By all the pro-Trek posters on this list over the last month, who would have thunk it. ya know??

  …especially with all the hate they have shown towards T4 & Wolvie.

  and yeah…I saw Trek TWICE, IT WAS FANTASTIC!! ….so dont even try to paint me a “pro-T4″ shill.

  ….Trekies…or should I say “nuevo-trekies” have been on a Trek promotion tear for a month now. Every other post by a “nuevo-trekie” seems to end with “ITS GOT LEGS” …ughh…how can anyone’s life be so wrapped up in the success of a flick.

  Films should’nt make people’s colons so tight but instead be a release from the stress of everyday life, even if films allude to everyday life.

  anyway. I intend to catch all of the tent-poles 2x this summer. thats the way to spread the fun that this year’s movies are providing. all of them are just terrific.

  I don’t mind someone having a favorite i just don’t like the “sales-pitch” by some of the movie-goers when it involves dumping on another film that is possible competition (competition in their eyes that is. I look at them as an array of fun or adventurous flicks).

  cheers & enjoy ALL OF THEM.

  Comment by lu-ee — Thursday May 28, 2009 @ 6:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• By default, this date does not include Movietickets.com (at last perhaps 70% percent of the rest of the online ticket market and 40%-ish overall– unbacked figures there, I admit– and a co-provider of AMC tickets) and a few chains which handle tickets independently of the two consolidators (not to mention the tickets taken from Cinemark.com, which competes with Fandango for most Cinemark tickets).

  Comment by C. — Thursday May 28, 2009 @ 7:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “By all the pro-Trek posters on this list over the last month, who would have thunk it.”

  Well, considering that this will be Trek’s fourth weekend in release- and Terminator’s second- a difference of 1% isn’t too surprising.

  But I agree that you don’t have to trash one film in order to enjoy another. It’s a silly mentality that is far too common these days- particularly online.

  Compare it to a decade like the 80′s, where kids would champion a new blockbuster just about every week. For example, you didn’t have to hate Temple of Doom back in 1984 in order to love Ghostbusters, Gremlins, and The Karate Kid.

  What’s really sad is we’ve developed this “only one can be the best” mentality, and the films themselves aren’t really worth it.

  Comment by Kevin — Thursday May 28, 2009 @ 11:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• a) I think Trek may be running into problems because it’s a love it or hate it movie. I think all the updating aspects were fine, but I thought the rest of the movie (the story and the bad guy) was awful.

  b) I asked my 6-year-old about Up yesterday. She normally only wants to see movies with girls (ideally, princesses) in them, but she said she wants to see Up. I asked her whether it’s OK that the movie doesn’t seem to have any girls in it, and she said, “I know it will be really funny.” I think her reaction is a sign that Up will do really well.

  Comment by A spouse — Friday May 29, 2009 @ 9:58am PDT  Reply to this post

• response to Comment by Kevin

  MY POINTS EXACT-EL-Y!

  thanks.

  PS true in regards to T4 vs Trek, but T4 had so much negativity thrown at it by anyone with an outlet to judge, and Trek was “beloved,” so I thought it was…shall we say…ironic to be leading in this one small sense.

  Comment by lu-ee — Friday May 29, 2009 @ 5:01pm PDT  Reply to this post