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Transformers 2 Tops $200 Million in Five Days

filmschoolrejects.com — Well, once again I am speechless at The Reject Report. I really don’t know what to say, or even where to begin with this Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie, which has set the five-day record for a Wednesday release with a total gross of $201,246,000. That’s based on the Sunday morning estimates. If we see a spike in the Sunday...

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  • Shaggy3, on 06/29/2009, -25/+354MOVIE WAS *****. I WAS EXPECTING A BEAUTIFUL ARTISTIC FILM ABOUT ADVANCED ROBOT SOLDIERS SURVIVING OPPRESSION FROM A DIFFERENT RACE OF ADVANCED ROBOT SOLDIERS. THE MOVIE WAS JUST BOOBS AND EXPLOSIONS. *****.
  • S2N336, on 06/28/2009, -68/+238I have never heard anyone bitch as much as I just read in that article. It was a movie about transformers what the ***** did you expect, I enjoyed it still.
  • wontonforevuh, on 06/29/2009, -7/+156BUT AT LEAST THEY DOUBLED YOUR ORDER OF BOOBS AND EXPLOSIONS. YOU ONLY HAD TO PAY SHIPPING AND HANDLING.
  • woofer1125, on 06/29/2009, -15/+124SPOILER ALERT!!!!










    You know it really pissed me off that they had transformer that was in disguise as a human?
    What the ***** was that all about.. i mean if i was optimus, and i could transform into a human, why the ***** would i be a truck?

    you see my problem?? it makes no sense.
  • durruticolumn, on 09/18/2009, -3/+108
    CGI effects are easy on directors. The guy who directed Order of the Phoenix had never done anything with CGI effects before, and he commented on how incredibly simple that part of directing the movie was: You storyboard the events, shoot the actors, and send it into a studio to add in the effects.

    What's hard is story and character development, not the action. Which is why Christopher Nolan did so well with Batman. He was known for his ability to tell stories.

    Imagine if the Transformers were given to a director who could actually tell a story.
  • NotYourProdigy, on 06/29/2009, -4/+105You only found one plot hole in the Tranformers sequel?
  • WraTH017, on 06/29/2009, -45/+134Good job America. Watchmen bombed, and this one is breaking the bank... Yup. Thanks!

    (***** Michael Bay and all his fans)

  • Cl1mh4224rd, on 06/29/2009, -21/+104> "The rest of us would prefer something with substance and depth."

    It's ***** Transformers. By Michael Bay, for Christ's sake.

    I dare say that anyone expecting "substance and depth" in a giant robot movie from Michael Bay is the idiot; not the people who went to see explosions. At least those people knew what they were going to see. They weren't under some kind of delusion.
  • inactive, on 06/29/2009, -9/+82BILLY MAYS!!!
  • mrpunman, on 06/29/2009, -5/+77BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
  • Sharky35, on 06/29/2009, -23/+92As a 37yo MAN...
    I grew up with the original Transformers. It was great to share this childhood memory with both my kids.
    Oh and Twilight was GAY! Take that fanboy bitches. That's right, Old School rules.
  • jrm125, on 06/29/2009, -16/+81More proof that crap sells.
  • SpeedSteamBoat, on 06/29/2009, -10/+73THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!

    *pukes*
  • NotYourProdigy, on 06/29/2009, -5/+62THERE WEREN'T THAT MANY BOOBS. I COULD HAVE DONE WITH MORE BOOBS. MAYBE BIGGER BOOBS.
  • inactive, on 06/29/2009, -6/+61robot girl was so hot.. what'd she have.. green panties?
  • aleksandar, on 06/29/2009, -23/+76I just came back from the theater. The movie is complete crap.
  • Falldog, on 06/29/2009, -0/+52I think Nolan should direct Transformers Begins.
  • jmdwinter, on 06/29/2009, -13/+62I'm so depressed. Your comment being dugg up means that we will be getting big budget Transformer movies annually for the rest of time.

    Meanwhile we will never see another inventive, big budget experiment like Watchmen. There was obviously too much story and characters inbetween the explosions in Watchmen. (Ok and maybe a blue dong)
  • Charlie1er, on 06/29/2009, -1/+50IT'S EASY AS 1,2,?,4!
    1) HAVE MEGAN FOX IN YOUR MOVIE
    2) SHOW SOME BOUNCING *****
    3)???
    4)PROFIT!
    YOU SEE!!
  • TrevorBelmont, on 06/29/2009, -8/+56I'm sick of the argument that I'm the one who is wrong about this film because I expected it to make sense, to be consistent and reasonably well written. "What did you expect?" Not to be treated like an idiot who will pay for three hours of bright, flashing colors and noise.
    Demand a little more from your films.
  • sexyflanders, on 06/29/2009, -5/+53Where is the MPAA crying about not getting enough money?
  • jmdwinter, on 06/29/2009, -9/+54This movie is going to be the worst reviewed member of the all time biggest blockbusters list. Pirates of the Caribbean will lose it's crown.
  • BradBrown, on 06/29/2009, -1/+43Green panties and a 36-inch barbed penis that came snaking out her ass and almost penetrated Shia's mouth!
  • DuneAdx, on 06/29/2009, -3/+41The reason Terminator 4 and Indy 4 didn't get a free pass is because those are 2 of the biggest movie series of all time. It's the same reason the StarWars prequels are ridiculed. They took amazing franchises that were universally loved and ruined them.

    Transformers, on the other hand, only had a relatively small following before the first movie (which didn't set the bar very high anyway).

    Say what you want about Michael Bay, at least he didn't ruin Indiana Jones, Terminator, or StarWars.
  • adamkparker, on 06/29/2009, -40/+77I'm a 80's Transformers fan, a G1 fanatic, and I loved Revenge of the Fallen. But what a lot of you fan boys need to understand is that both the first and second live action Transformers were never meant to be a recreation of the original Transformers.

    Sorry to break it to you but both movies were a re-brith of the Transformers franchise in modern times. Come on people, we've seen A LOT of Transformer re-births over the years that don't follow anything from G1, so why are all the fan boys getting pissed off about this one?

    Go ahead and digg me down, but I speak the truth.
  • alclone, on 06/29/2009, -1/+37She is a Pretender.
  • Banda7, on 06/29/2009, -21/+57Watchmen wasnt all that great
  • MindTrigger, on 06/29/2009, -14/+48There is a lot of this ***** lately. Too many people believe they are some kind of movie critic since they can post comments on the internet. Now they pick apart every movie they go see rather than just enjoy it for what it is.

    If you went to a summer action blockbuster movie and expected depth, you are off your rocker. I expected a better story out of the new Terminator movie, but certainly not from Transformers.
  • consonance, on 06/29/2009, -10/+43HI BILLY MAYS HERE. DO YOU LIKE ROBOTS? THE ANSWER SHOULD BE, "***** YEAH!" DID YOU LIKE TRANSFORMERS? HERE COMES TRANSFORMERS 2--MORE ROBOTS, MORE EXPLOSIONS, MORE BOOBS. BREASTS, BREASTS, BREASTS, AND ROBOTS. TRANSFORMERS 2: NO ONE GIVES A ***** ABOUT THE SUBTITLE, RIGHT NOW IN A THEATER NEAR YOU. HERE'S HOW TO ORDER.
  • vulpescry, on 06/29/2009, -8/+41It really was an insult to anyone's intelligence.
  • SpectreFire, on 06/29/2009, -18/+49I don't know about you guys. But I went to see ***** blowing up and giant robots fighting other robots. I left fairly satisfied.

    It's like every one who bitches about the movie has NEVER seen anything else from the Transformers franchise.

    Trust me! The cartoons weren't that much of a narrative masterpiece either! Of course it's a dumb mindless movie! It's based off a cartoon made to advertise a toy line!

    Why would anyone want Transformers to be a serious movie anyways? Look at GI Joe! They tried to make it serious and it looks like crap. At the very least Michael Bay realizes that the source material's pretty ***** ridiculous as it is, and he's just riding on that wave of mindless fun to the bank.
  • ZenMojo, on 06/29/2009, -1/+32Idiocracy. The tide is coming in.
  • Manchildcartoon, on 06/29/2009, -1/+30Like alclone said It's a Pretender.
    Which is a type of TF from G1.
  • FervinsUlterius, on 06/29/2009, -6/+34I cant believe someone would actually take the time to attack or defend a movie about a cartoon about... robots that turn into cars and trucks.
  • Jeepy, on 06/29/2009, -10/+36I guess that's what happens when you spend 100 million upfront on advertisement. I swear everything for the last 4 months has been sponsored by Transformers. They started showing teasers during the freakin' Superbowl in February and now it's every other product on TV. I'm surprised they didn't cut into a Michael Jackson story with Optiomus Prime doing the thriller dance. Anyone who tries to write this up to anything other than a marketing frenzy for a fluff fest of a movie is kidding themselves.

    Comment brought to you by Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in theaters June 24, 2009.

    *Bonersplosion*
  • WorfoSAUR, on 06/29/2009, -0/+24Biggest reason is Watchmen was rated 'R.' Parents see a movie is rated PG-13 and just let their kids go see it... But R movies require the parents to attend too and obviously that doesn't flow with as many people.
  • inactive, on 06/29/2009, -1/+24WORSE THAN THAT, WHY DID THE TRANSFORMERS DECIDE TO MURDER THEMSELVES IN A CIVIL WAR ABOUT WHETHER TO EAT EARTH'S SUN, OR JUST SKIP IT AND EAT THE STARS NEXT TOO IT. ITS NOT LIKE STARS ARE RARE OR ANYTHING.
  • jake1337, on 06/29/2009, -0/+21"Do you wanna know how i got these scars, Optimus?"
  • therealkid, on 09/10/2009, -55/+75We expected a well-done movie. You and everyone else that enjoyed it suffer from Splodey Syndrome, where any movie with lots of explosions and pretty colors satisfies you. The rest of us would prefer something with substance and depth. Special effects aren't enough to save a movie. It needs to be worth my time.
  • tgc1, on 06/29/2009, -2/+22Crap sells because people are stupid.
  • bigal590, on 06/29/2009, -4/+24Too much CGI? How, pray tell, would you have portrayed transforming robots from outer space in a movie that has these robots are its main premise? Marionettes? Card board cutouts? Costumes? Please share.
  • inactive, on 06/29/2009, -14/+33Proof that Michael Bay is the best director of our lifetime.

    Bad Boys II and Pearl Harbor were so crescent fresh that I KNEW this Transformers would just be a masterpiece.
  • Phasmorphage, on 06/29/2009, -0/+19"Imagine if the Transformers were given to a director who could actually tell a story."
    Oh god, it would be the best movie ever.
    It'd be like The Dark Knight, but with giant robots fighting each other...

    O___O
  • HappyScrappy, on 06/29/2009, -0/+18You just said crescent fresh. I wish I could dig you up 5 times for that.
  • Kannebas, on 06/29/2009, -3/+20jdecker21, I don't think MindTrigger means that negative criticism should be ignored or muted, but the way that it is voiced. There's a difference between believing something is crap and believing that something is crap and because of it, anyone who enjoyed it likes "crap". For example, those Pixar movies you're talking about, Cars and Finding Nemo? Those movies completely sucked, but maybe you like things that suck. You followin' me, camera guy? You (and this author of this article) are using YOUR taste in entertainment as a barometer in judging the character of others and some of us find that to be a bit douchey.

    De gustibus non est disputandum.
  • hoju7887, on 06/29/2009, -6/+23I find it hard to believe all these people bitching actually saw the movie, you know, since they were bitching since before the movie even came out.
  • cozinator, on 06/29/2009, -3/+20your mom.
  • MaxxBero, on 06/29/2009, -14/+30no you don't, you speak your opinion. And the problem with these movies isn't how they messed up transformers, its how they (michael bay and crew) turned the movies into cgi and sex jokes instead of quality film making.
  • Gizza, on 06/29/2009, -0/+16I think Michel Bay has watched a bit too much hentai.
  • RiverBelow, on 06/29/2009, -4/+19Just because you were expecting ***** that doesn't mean you should be satisfied when you get *****. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I actually WATCH movies and during this WATCHING of movies there is brain activity going on. I like to hypothesize future possibilities with the characters, learn more about cleverly mysterious characters' past using cleverly laid-out details, etc. Not the extreme like the Lost fantastics, but I do love Lost and I do love movies with character development and a narrative, as well as the "less is more" and having fights choreographed to be metaphoric to the characters' actual personality. What Transformers 2 gave me was nothing I was surprised about. It was a ***** ton of CG, a ***** ton of jump-cuts, explosions and ***** choreographed action scenes and storyline more basic than a children's book. There is no redeeming quality from the movie, there is no statements; it has nothing to say, there is none of the unexplainable factor that makes Pulp Fiction so ***** good, because when you actually get down to it Pulp Fiction is a fairly action-y movie cut up and minced about, yet actually the way it jokes about its extremes, and totally ***** your expectations up make it such a phenomenal movie. Like when he shot that dude in the car.

    /walloftextexplainingdislikefortransformers2
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