Today, Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen will break $300,000,000 Domestic box office

[DainBramaged]

And over $607,000,000 worldwide, and that is in 14 days. This is spite of the uptick in Michael Jackson CD and music sales. It is estimated the total box office could exceed ONE TRILLION DOLLARS when the theatrical run is over.

I for one had a rollicking good time seeing it this past Sunday, and will return AGAIN to see it.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. LOL

Fucking garbage.

[DailyGrind51]

2. With ads like that one, I bet the audience is 90% male!

Do you think President Obama can get Megan Fox to go out on the stump for single-payer?;-)

[DainBramaged]

4. Nopers, On Sunday night at 6:05 PM I'd say the audience was 50% young nubile females

Shia LaBeouf is greatly appreciated by young women.

[DailyGrind51]

6. Let's get both Shia and Megan to stump for single-payer then!

[DainBramaged]

9. OK COOL and lets get Billy Mays, oops, he's gone too darn

everyone forgot old Billy has left for that big promotional commercial in the sky.

[blue_onyx]

10. I don't get how

Shia LaBeouf is in any way an action star. I don't understand the fascination with him.

[DainBramaged]

12. Who else is out there other than that Vampire guy.............

Slim pickings for chick heroes now a days..........




:sarcasm:

[blue_onyx]

15. An unknown actor in need of a big break

[DailyGrind51]

13. I don't either, but if he must have an audience to do that kind of box office.

[blue_onyx]

19. I doubt most people are actually going to see him

There may be a small percentage that go to see Shia but I think the appeal of the movie has more to do with the special effects.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. I think he's doing Speilberg.

[dsc]

25. He is seriously cute

age has done well for him.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. Ugh.

[elehhhhna]

5. LOL Megan 'tox

can't move my face but who's looking at that, anyway?

[DainBramaged]

7. Let's ask a question, just because YOU don't like her, but millions of

pre- and pubescent boys do, why is it a problem. If you really think it's all about Megan Fox, go see it, you'll be very suprised. Oh and her large boy magnets don't pop out once during the movie.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. I don't consider them stupid...

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/07/i_am_a_brainiac.html

[NeedleCast]

11. Megan is Hawt

I expect that Megan Fox will be hot, Shia Labouffe will act zany and strange and that big robots will blow up lots of things. Sweet.

[DainBramaged]

14. But it's OK today to praise Michael Jackson for his contributions life

why he's the King of Pop dontchaknow......


It was a lot of fun. Worth the price of admission.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

17. Did you really like the movie?

Or just all the GM product placement?

[NeedleCast]

18. Don't make this an MJ thread, I'll have to 39 it.

[DainBramaged]

20. OH OK, Michael Bay Michael Bay Michael Bay

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[NeedleCast]

21. Thanks! Much better

[madrchsod]

22. even my wife liked the first transformers movie

i`m waiting for the dvd release...megan fox is a cutie.

[Xithras]

23. My 12 year old son convinced me to take him yesterday. 2.5 hours I'll never get back.

I thought the original was a bit cheesy, but it was OK overall. This sequel merely proves that bigger isn't always better. Gratuitous ass shots, cursing robots, a plot so thin and ephemeral that even the director seemed to forget about it at times, and a climax that was so stupidly edited that I heard several other people in the audience openly wonder whether Bay failed basic geography (since when are the freaking pyramids in JORDAN?!?!!)

Guns, explosions, tits and ass, and rah-rah militarism. Woo.

And can someone tell me why a couple of 40 foot tall cybertronic robots capable of transforming into death machines and destroying entire populations can't outrun an 18 year old kid in a freaking footrace? I mean....seriously!

[taught_me_patience]

24. Depressing this has made so much

but confirms my theory that Americans will buy pure shit. Last summer, Dark Knight, at least had some depth of character. This movie looks completely and totally vapid. Expect Hollywood to turn out more of this shit in the future.

edit to add that it's at 19% on rotten tomatoes.

[Scout]

26. i could barely stand it sitting through the previews....

this is one i will be sure to miss, as i missed the first one

YMMV

[Joe the Liberal]

27. I have yet to see it....

I didn't even go see the first one in the theater instead I rented it when it came out on DVD. I'm a fan of transformers but the first movie just wasn't all that great imo and from what I've read in the reviews neither is the second one. I don't know what it is but I just didn't enjoy the first one, the characters were just too silly. Something about it just turned me off to the film and I don't think the second one is worth it.

[Mrs. Overall]

28. (Putting on flamesuit.) I hated this movie for several reasons.

I did not see the first Transformers.

My two teens (son age 13 and daughter age 17) and Mr. Overall wanted to see it because they liked the first one. I went with them because I didn't want to spend the evening alone.

The opening scene is half of Megan Fox's naked ass straddling a motorcycle, then we move to dogs humping each other and humping other items. The main male character's mother is a bumbling dimwit.

Then there are two robots mimicking African American dialect that borders on racism in my opinion. They are also bumbling and dimwits.

Obama is mentioned as being the President and the "intellectual" guy the president sends to help out the military against the bad robots is ridiculed and dumped from a jet in the desert.

The majority of the action is in Egypt and the Middle East and it's like an hour of watching ancient Middle Eastern things exploding and being destroyed while camels are running around and Middle Easterners are looking dazed and confused.

The aircraft carrier fighting against the robots is called the USS Stennis (which is a real aircraft carrier), so all of the military scenes felt like "join the army" propaganda. There were also references to how the pentagon knows more than the president's office about how to really get the job done destroying the bad robots.

There were lots more boobs and asses flopping around.

I just hated it.

Ok, beat the shit out of me.

[DRoseDARs]

34. I grew up with the toys and loved them: 1st movie was just OK, this movie was awful.

Michael Bay REALLY ratcheted-up the violence, language, and 12-year-old boy humor. I mean, really, "I'm underneath the enemy's scrotum." is right up their with "Oh, it's you." and "I have a bad feeling about this." for pure cringe-inducing dialogue. And the racist "rice-tuner" twins? At one point, I turned to my friend whom I went to the movie with after we were shown a close-up of one of the Ghettobots and asked him, "Wait, did that one have gold bling in it's mouth?" Yes, yes it did. Ugh. This movie was sloppier than the first, and that's saying a lot. Oh, and if 5 robots swim to the bottom of the ocean, kill one of their group for parts to revive another, who many swim back to the surface? 5-1+1 = 6. Don't believe me? Watch the submarine scene again. Sure it's a blooper, but bloody fuck it's simple subtraction followed by addition. NO ONE caught this in the script? All the dialogue in this scene was probably on one page and everyone involved missed it? What, was Bay humping Megan Fox's leg on-set?

Like you said, there were many things wrong with this movie, too many to bother listing. I honestly regret having seen this in theaters. My good ear is still ringing. Lots of flashy-flashy boom-boom, usually a good thing in an action flick, but this was just a mess. I should have just waited for it to come out on DVD. :thumbsdown:

[Statistical]

29. Likely to break a trillion? Not likely. Likely to break a billion maybe.

Even if the entire planet was it 7 billion people at $10 ea = $70 Billion.

Every person on the planet would need to see it 15 times to be $1T. :)

(It does show how screwed we are w/ national debt & deficits & bailouts).

It would take 1000x transformer 2 movies to equal just one $1Trillion and we would need 11x that to pay off the national debt. So if we nationalized paramount and the movie was free to make and all of the revenue went to pay down the national debt, in 11,000 years of blockbusters we will have paid it off.

[rcrush]

30. I cant wait for Rifftrax.com to tear that movie apart

Also that isnt really the poster for the movie is it?

[rcrush]

31. Michael Bay somehow learned to orgasm in CGI

And created this piece of shit. The next movie is just going to be nothing but Robots with Boobs blowing up other robots with boobs. No dialog whatsoever!

[timeforpeace]

32. Two words: Stim Ulus.

[slampoet]

33. In Rhode Island HOME OF HASBRO this movie still got one star reviews.

It must suck worst than the blurry first one.

[DainBramaged]

35. (sigh) as I always observe about DU, mainstream movies are shit, and Michael Jackson is god.

Oh well folks, thanks for your wonderful assessments of the film, especially those of you who haven't even gone to see it. And for those who can't just suspend your disbelief and enjoy something that doesn't have 18th century clothing and English actors, OH WELL.


This thread proved one point, DU basically just hates everything.

[Mrs. Overall]

36. Oh my god, now I feel like I need to apologize for giving an opinion about this movie up above.

I tend to love action movies--even some crappy ones.

I didn't mean to rain on your thread.

I thought I was going to be the one to leave pouting, since the majority of people seem to have really liked the movie.

It's been a weird day here on DU.

[burning rain]

38. I don't hate everything.

If I saw Megan Fox at a bar I'd definitely try and make out with her.

[anigbrowl]

37. ONE TRILLION DOLLARS

Are you sure about that? A TRILLION?

[MrSlayer]

39. Not my cup of tea but good for them.

I'd love to have a couple of points on it.

[Canuckistanian]

40. So, from now on...

The big cinematic question will be:

"Citizen Kane, Casablanca or Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen?"

[JANdad]

41. Heres some love

i thought it was better than the first one and my son and I enjoyed it tremendously!

BTW...the little leg humping robot was hilarious!

[mmonk]

42. My youngest son went to see it and didn't like it.

He said it made Obama look weak (about negotiating). I haven't seen it but he was pissed.

[Iggo]

43. Nice poster.

Looks like they figured out who the star of their movie actually is.