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Grimshock wrote:It is our love of TF's that has us disappointed about the movie.

Grimshock wrote:Actually, this is too bad. It means they'll never listen to our desires for future movies. They disregarded us with this one and there are no consequences.

Hot Rod wrote:

Darth Bombshell wrote:

Grimshock wrote:It is our love of TF's that has us disappointed about the movie.

And yet I'll bet you went to see it anyway.

A wise man who goes by the alias of Seibertron once told me that you can't give an honest opinion about something that you never saw. I said that I didn't want to support something that had complete disregard and disrespect for the fans, and that I had a major chance of not liking. So what id I do? (See sig). I paid my admission for Live Free and Die hard and in the very same visit to the Theatre, a Freindly employee allowed me to check out the Transformers movie. Problem solved. I can now be truthful and honest.

I also love this franchise and I only want the best for it.

Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:

Autobobby1 wrote:I'm not surprised by this, really.

This also proves the Geewunners wrong again. This movie made more money ALREADY than the G1 movie ever made in the theaters.

It actually proves nothing.

Hot_Rod in another thread pretty much summed up this argument in a nutshell:

Other factors need to be taken into consideration. Like how the original was a kids animated movie and kids have to beg their parents to take them and buy their tickets, and if you were a teen back then your would have been made fun of for seeing a children's movie. Now all those people are grown up and nostalgia has made Transformers a more acceptable hobby (somewhat). And then there's inflation. There's also the fact that most people going to see the new movie were children during that era and are now grown up with disposable incomes. Then there is also the fact that it is the first week out and is something entirely new and never seen before.

There are alot of factors to consider.

IMHO I'd say that no matter what you want to think about the success of the original movie or lack thereof, it was obviously popular enough to instill enough love of the franchise to create a fairly massive fanbase, which I would say would be a better deciding factor as to how popular the original movie was than just using the raw box office numbers. If nothing else, were it not for the popularity of G1 in the 80's this movie would have not been made...end of story.

Personally, When the original movie came out I wanted to see it, & probably would have multiple times, but I didn't even get to see it once because I was a penniless child & was dependant on parents that were so tight you could stick coal up their arses & 2 weeks later you'ld have diamonds. I didn't get to see it unitll college.

Grimshock wrote:Actually, this is too bad. It means they'll never listen to our desires for future movies. They disregarded us with this one and there are no consequences.

Spartanion wrote:

Grimshock wrote:Actually, this is too bad. It means they'll never listen to our desires for future movies. They disregarded us with this one and there are no consequences.

Oh yeah, thats correct since they didn't get the guy we all wanted to voice the only character in the film that talked a lot.

They listened to us a bit and I'll say the movie rocked. You can't expect everything to stay the same. We all grew up since we first started playing with our TFs and guess what TFs grew up into big bad live action robots

Loki120 wrote:Even in the face of defeat, "haters-for-the-sake-of-hating" still think that their opinion matters.

Darth Bombshell wrote:

Loki120 wrote:Even in the face of defeat, "haters-for-the-sake-of-hating" still think that their opinion matters.

You know, I think this is the first time we've agreed on anything. And personally, I find that a lot more scary than the accuracy of your statement.