‘Transformers 2′ Tracking HUGE: 5-Day Weekend Closer To $160M Than $175M?

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• They better make Robotech a mature sci-fi movie and not one of these cheesefest teeny-bopper summer blockbusters

  Comment by Jeff — Wednesday June 3, 2009 @ 1:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The script for this film sucks, and it’s racist to boot. Aliens built the pyramids? Give me a break. I guess robots had to do it because ancient Egyptians were too primitive or something? Racist. Culturally bankrupt. Stupid. I bet thousands of stupid Americans walk away from this film believing that alien robots built the pyramids.

  Remember: this film was written in 2 weeks during the run-up to the writers guild strike. How good could it possibly be?

  Comment by Robot Hater — Wednesday June 3, 2009 @ 2:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yes, everyone who sees this movie is immediately going to think alien robots built the pyramids…that probably goes for the Great Wall of China as well. I hope your comment was a joke Robot Hater, or else you just proved yourself to be one of the world’s greatest morons.

  Comment by Candy — Wednesday June 3, 2009 @ 4:09pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The first movie failed even on the level of mindless summer fun – mainly because the male lead was about as appealing as a 2×4 to the face. I can’t imagine this one will be any better.

  Comment by BBQ Platypus — Friday June 5, 2009 @ 11:39am PDT  Reply to this post

• Why is it that you can’t criticize crappy moves like TRANSFORMERS without getting tarred with the “film snob” brush? I love giant robots and velociraptors and car chases and gun fights and huge explosions as much as the next geeked-out fanboy, but is it really asking too much to want some character development, good dialog, and a plot that makes friggin’ sense, too?

  I don’t complain about TRANSFORMERS because it’s not MY DINNER WITH ANDRE. I complain because it should have been an amazing summer thrill ride, but all it is is a grab bag of indecipherable FX, warmed-over ALIAS plot lines, gags about robots peeing, and shit blowing up. The main villain doesn’t even show his face until the end and then only has, what, five lines? And by character development, I’m talking about the ROBOTS, not The Beef and The Fox. Hey, the robots walk and talk and (are supposed to) have personalities. Maybe they can be characters instead of walking/talking props? Hell, even Jar Jar Binks had more going on as a character than any of the damn robots in the first film.

  TRANSFORMERS isn’t 1/10th of the movie experience of a RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK or even IRON MAN or SPIDEY 2. And I think that you don’t have to be a snob to realize that “mindless summer fun” does not automatically have to equal “shit.” No wonder nobody in this town cares about making action movies good anymore; we’ve given up asking. It’s as if I should feel privileged to pay my $11.50 for a two-hour VFX reel. But asking for a story? The scandal! What am I, a communist?

  Comment by Film lover equals film snob? — Monday June 8, 2009 @ 10:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• Ok i dont really mind if you lot miss it out or hate bay for ruining your childhood. Just leave out the film and move on if so. Meanwhile me and 9 friends are going to see it near opening day twice

  Comment by Scorpio — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 9:30am PDT  Reply to this post

• “All the self-absorbed SAG bacteria are just being negative because the robots don’t get residuals…”

  And why shouldn’t they? The animators/fx people should get residuals at least…

  Comment by ILM — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 10:14am PDT  Reply to this post

• TRANSFORMERS REVENGE OF THE FALLEN WILL BE AWESOME!!!
  JUNE 24th. THE WAR CONTINUES..
  Keep an eye on STARSCREAM in this one.
  “Transformers built the pyramids, I thought the Predators showed the humans how to build them, meh
  you learn something new everyday” LOL.
  I can’t believe people argue over why some people
  like certain movies, and some don’t. It doesn’t
  matter. It doesn’t bother me that some people don’t
  like Bay, or the Transformers movies. If Bay would have made the Transformers movies more serious like the Terminator films, everyone would be saying he copied the Terminator franchise. The Humor is just that humor, as the Joker would say “WHY SO SERIOUS”

  Comment by L.T. — Thursday June 11, 2009 @ 10:46am PDT  Reply to this post

• Right on, Film lover equals film snob?!

  Time was when audiences responded to big sci-fi/action movies that had memorable characters in between the action scenes (STAR WARS, RAIDERS, DIE HARD…) and storylines that were actually compelling. Now it seems that all you have to do is throw enough CGI at some people, and they won’t mind empty characters and dumbass plotting (hey, Shia, it’s vitally important you get to a rooftop…why don’t you go to the one building in the city WITH NO WORKING ELEVATOR). I heard a lot of people defending TRANSFORMERS by saying all they wanted was “nonstop mindless action,” forgetting they had to sit through an hour or so of flat acting and cheesy humor to get to the action parts.

  I have no doubt TRANSFORMERS 2 will be huge…and who knows, it might be better than the original. If not, it’ll be comforting that the two runners-up (STAR TREK and UP) are movies that value character and storytelling over pointless spectacle.

  Comment by Baya hata — Friday June 12, 2009 @ 9:57pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It won’t break the 5 days opening record which is currently held by non other TDK 203M

  It might have a chance to break ST3- Revenge of the Sith which is at 172M. Both Spidey3 and Pirates3 are at 169M

  It might have a shot at breaking Harry..Phoenix Wednessay opening of 44M or even Spidey3 Friday’s opening at 51M .

  All said, seems this Summer is not living up to expectations what with Wolverine, A&D being stinker. Thank god for Star Trek, UP and a personal fav Terminator Salvation.

  Here’s hoping for Transfomer to wrong the rights until Harry Potter comes along. Anyone wanna bet Harry will open huge?

  Comment by Armand — Saturday June 13, 2009 @ 7:15am PDT  Reply to this post

• @Warner Borg: Warner Bros made that movie. MATRIX REVOLUTIONS. Garbage.

  And people LOVE robots – how long has FOX used the NFL robots going into each commercial break? And the robo-turkey in November? It’s nearing a decade now.

  And I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited for TRANNY 2. Seat reserved at TheBridge IMAX, etc…

  Comment by The Business — Monday June 15, 2009 @ 12:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• the movies was crazey i loved it so much im big fan of transfomer from little im 28konw i even buy all the old dvds beucase i nevery got 2 wacth themm when i was younger beucase i move i watch the first movie and the 2 one woww
  so much beeter andthats hard 2 say that the 2 movie beeter then fisrst one im hopeing it make 5 moveis and not stop at 3 so im hopeing it kill in the box office so they well make alot more then 3

  Comment by ben — Friday June 26, 2009 @ 7:39am PDT  Reply to this post

• Some of you guys just can’t seem to understand the success of these movies. “It’s the audience, stupid.”

  Comment by ladyofargonne — Sunday August 9, 2009 @ 6:50pm PDT  Reply to this post