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UPDATE: Fandango reports Transformers 2 with 2 weeks still to go before its release is accounting for 21% of all its online tickets sold today.
WEDNESDAY PM: As of today at MovieTickets.com today, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen already accounts for 13% of ticket sales. Male 68%/Females 62% intend to see the film opening weekend. Among under-25: 83% intend to see the film opening weekend, and among age 25-34: 81%.
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400 million domestic. Minimum.
Bay haters are going to have an aneurysm. He’s a guy film snobs relish detesting even though he has more talent in an eyelash than they have in their entire bodies.
He’s a veritable maestro of delivering, on time and within budget, high-octane productions of massive scale with his own personalized stylistic stamp. He’ll still be one of the foremost talents around in this field ten years from now while his detractors continue to be mired in message board oblivion championing obscure black and white foreign films about the human condition.
God I hope not! Michael Bay has been one of the worst things to happen to cinema in EVER. Studios will never stop making crap like this until they see that it won’t sell.
If The Dark Knight was the perfect smart and entertaining flick then bayformers is the antithesis of that.
Michael Bay (and his movies) are like the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion of moviemaking: he’s got no brains, no heart and no balls.
Judging by the trailer, it’ll be the biggest hit of the summer, at least.
michael bay doesn’t tip very good for making 75 mill on the last one.
and he drinks Heineken. WTF. Hopefully he’ll tip me more after the next installment. Who cares about plot…VISUALS!
It’ll open huge, then fall off a cliff.
Ha. jaysmack. Some people can hate on anything. They did a terrific job bringing it to the big screen and the trailers look AMAZING for the sequel. But I guess when you’re miserable, there’s no writing “cool, hope it does well!”, huh.
I’m sure Michael Bay is crying himself to sleep every night, “I’m doing okay, but I’m still no JaySmack.”
Good call JaySmack! Why would we want movie studios to make huge budget films that employ hundreds of people. Let’s stick to low-budget indie flicks where everyone can work for scale.
@Jay Smack
If that was actually true then you should be able to do better than him right? Then… please. By all means– do so.
Although I kinda wish that he had accepted Uwe Boll’s boxing match challenge! haha
What are you talking about JaySmack?! Transformers I was AWESOME!!!! And, Transformers II will be…take a guess…MORE AWESOME!!!!
I love when people hate on guys like Michael Bay. Is he a douche? Yes. Does he make good movies? Depends on who you ask. Believe it or not, there is actually an entire country between LA and NY that likes to be entertained by Michael Bay’s action movies and those people really don’t care about the fact that there is no “character development by the end of the 2nd Act.” I once met a guy in Iowa who said that “SPAWN” starring Michael Jai White was the greatest superhero movie ever made. Gotta love middle America. Anyway, Michael Bay probably won’t be up for any Oscars any time soon, he is still successful in his own right…making movies for America
JaySmack is ghey, and is talking out his ass. Movies like this make a lot of money which then allows the studios to make what he considers “good films”.
Also, it looks entertaining as hell.
Any takers on whether or not JaySmack goes to see Transformers in the theater, if only to bitch about how terrible it was?
This is one of the few films I’m looking forward to. JaySmack, I know why it’s easy to hate Michael Bay but don’t forget that the film industry is a business and the purpose of any business is to make profits not art. Bay’s movies may not be the greatest thing to ever happen to cinema but they (mostly) make money. And that’s literally the bottom line.
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen will be AWESOME.
I really wish people would stop expecting Transformers to be anything other than gourmet junk food. The first one was fun and i expect this one to be better.
@Jay – Not everything can (or should) be Iron Man or TDK, people want to see spfx robots fighting, stop hating, if you don’t like it, stay home, but don’t begrudge the rest of us. Btw, Bay for all of his faults does have balls and vision, he did fight for a TV actor to star in his first movie, when the studio resisted, lo and behold Bad Boys (one of his good films) and Will Smith.
Action is good
I saw Star Trek last month at the Arclight the day after it opened. The three trailers were Terminator Salvation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and G. I. Joe. During the G. I. Joe trailer a teenager behind me said, “Aren’t these all the same movie?”
People want to see this thing? Seriously? I’m not just Bay-Bashing, either… I’m legitimately puzzled. Isn’t this a “one-trick pony”? I can see that OTHER toy movie, G.I.JOE, spawning a franchise (questions of quality and taste aside, it’s an ensemble-cast action film…plenty of growing room there). But all you can do with THIS thing is try and make it bigger and louder. Is that really enough?
Can you conceive of the mind that would watch Transformers 2, much less book a ticket on-line two weeks ahead of the release? The human race is doomed … !
Hey Jay..go back to doing smack… which takes no brains, no heart and no balls…Those of us in the business realize the importance of delivering what the public wants once in a while…
@ cst
Obviously you don’t know anything thing about the multitude of robots in Transformers lore. Hell, the main reason half of the people was to see this is because they’re going debut the fan favorite “Devastator”, there are plenty of storylines that can use.
Yeah, I’m just not feeling it anymore. Its getting to the point where I’m just blockbustered out. Who cares? The only movie I’m hungry to see is Avatar.
But I have to say that it was so refreshing to sit in a packed house and watch the ‘Hangover’, a movie with no stars, no CGI jerkoff explosions, just win over the audience by its sheer confidence in telling a story on its own terms.
The first Transformers was goofy summer fun, but to repeat it is just that. Where else can you go with it?
Max -
Your story gives those of us who still love 70′s New H’Wood/90′s Indie films hope. The future of cinema is really up to the teenagers, since 98.9% of movies today are made for them. Every 10-15 years they rebel and chose a “Dr. Strangelove” or a “Pulp Fiction” over whatever brain-dead Cleopatra/Schwartzenegger movie was up against it.
Betting it all on tentpoles is dangerous. Sooner or later, they’re gonna get bored, and on that weekend the heavens will fall. It’s all up to you, kids…
The Dark Knight was hardly perfect.
A shambling narrative wrapped around an iconic supporting performance.
Transformers 2 will be a shambling narrative wrapped around stuff blowing up and robots.
Nothing inherently wrong with that. Nothing inherently right. I’m sure it will be fun.
c.s.t – GI JOE will not spawn a franchise. A movie with low test scores – and who’s the ensemble? Marlon Wayans, Dennis Quaid and Channing Tatum?
That’s not chemistry. Chemistry these days = the biology that created Megan Fox. And Shia is a more charismatic actor that Tatum hands down.
You know what DOES create franchises? Box office. DVD sales. Toy sales. TRANSFORMERS – and this is not up for argument – delivered the money. It looks like Part 2 will do well (if not flat-out amazing) and is poised to outgross STAR TREK by a hefty margin (even if it’s not as good).
That’s what makes franchises. Not Stephen Sommers (whether or not he’s locked out of the editing room).
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen is going to be a
FUN ACTION PACKED SCI-FI THRILL RIDE. I’ve heard
from some Japanese fans who have already seen the
movie. They all said it was AWESOME. Can’t wait till
JUNE 24th.
Oh, I’m not actually judging either film- I’m just saying that, CONCEPTUALLY,”team of supercommandos travel around world fighting international terrorists with high-tech gadgets” lends itself to sequels in a way that”Big Robots fight MORE Big Robots” doesn’t.(I can’t say I’m a fan of Bay OR Sommers, although Bay’s films I can ignore easily-I really don’t care if BAD BOYS 2 is any good or not.But I AM a fan of old-school horror, so Sommers DID piss me off with stuff like VAN HELSING…)