The Energon Pub

[megatron7]

I was just on yahoo movies and they are already saying that transformers' five day total is 200 million, and is second to dark knight's 203 million. Does today not count or why are they already making this "official" ?????

[Galvatron628]

The So-called "Experts" are looking at its past 4 day total and coming up with some mathematical estimated number. Its basically a "projected" amount.

[DevastaTTor]

The So-called "Experts" are looking at its past 4 day total and coming up with some mathematical estimated number. Its basically a "projected" amount.

They're usually extremely accurate, to something less than a million dollars. When the actuals come in tomorrow, it will definitely be north of 200M.

[karellan]

Holy crap. I knew the movie would do well, but with all the whining reviewers and people complaining about racism and too much foul language and violence, I didn't think it would do this well this fast. I wonder how it will compare to the 2007 movie in the long run.

[Robinson]

Seeing as its barely past 1 on the west coast I'd say this movies got a lil bit more money to be made this weekend.

[NuclearConvoy]

Looks like a third film is guaranteed at this point, eh?
Whaddya bet that the TF film franchise keeps going passed a third film?

[First-Aid]

Looks like a third film is guaranteed at this point, eh?
Whaddya bet that the TF film franchise keeps going passed a third film?

I agree...this may be a trilogy in Bay's mind and he may be done after the third one, but this is a HUGE cash cow now. It's not going away any time soon...much the same as the Spider-man franchise.

I actually have a theory as to how the writers can bring in Unicron for TF3...and perhaps even introduce Primus as well. My thought: SOMETHING had to turn the Fallen against his brothers. I think if you want a story, you base it on Unicron contacting the Fallen (as maybe a potentially corruptible target, different from the other Primes) with an offer of immense power; all he needs is the energon to repair him after his battle with Primus at the beginning of time. Primus would be the ones to create the Primes- the first of the race. Now that the Fallen is dead, Unicron contacts Megatron- as the Fallen's disciple- with the same offer. He needs energon. They salvage the machine from Earth- or reverse engineer it from the wreckage- and build it elsewhere, re-energizing Unicron. The Autobots race to do the same after Optimus (or Sam could work) is contacted by Primus with the warning of Unicron's rebirth. Unicron is revived and rewards Megatron with an upgrade (three guesses and the first two don't count). Prime and Galvy fight in space at the same time as Primus and Unicron do in an epic space battle.

Just my thoughts...

[Archanubis]

Amazing how far an $11 ticket goes. And that's just a matinee IMAX showing.

[Doubledealer93]

i just went to see it for the 4th time today! critics you suck!

[flamewavex]

*spoilers*

while it would be interesting to see unicron in a live-action movie, i really wish the TF movie story would go back in the direction of more character about each individual TF, rather than just adding more, bigger, and badder TFs. In this one, we get like 10 or so new bots, but in reality, how much screen time did sideswipe, jolt, arcee, long haul, rampage, etc really get out of 2 and a half hours? i mean i enjoyed the movie and all, especially some of the amazing fights, but the story was pretty painfully weak.

i'm just afraid that bay will keep trying to outdo himself with something bigger than before, but he's losing the backbone of what makes a good story, which is character development, as so far, it basically just revolves around sam, mickaela, optimus, and bumblebee. also, i think part of the reason why we are all such huge fans of transformers, is that there are two sides to transformers, not only the autobots, yet other than the decepticon leaders, we dont really get much out of any of the other ones.

i just dont want to see the movies follow like...an x-men path, where it starts off being about the x-men, and then towards the end its just watching the phoenix destroy everything and anything. i would rather watch sideswipe cut sideways in half 50 times over and over than watch a massive devastator get 1 hit KO'd by a railgun. Though, at this point, with TF2 making so much money and all, i doubt there is any way we can go back to focusing on TF characters, and we can probably expect around 60 TFs in the next film, most of whom dont have names, and all share about 20 seconds of screen time together while unicron sucks a planet apart.

[TFfan33]

yes , i knew it would break records and crush all other movies

[bumble_bee_68]

Holy sh*t indeed; I knew it would do well, but $200 million plus in the first 5 days?!
Amazing if you ask me, and I bet the so-called "critics" who bashed the film and us, the fans for being "stupid", are now eating their words!!

As for the story being a little weak in places, don't blame Michael Bay, he's just the director, blame the writers, who look loke ythey lost their touch after 2007's TF film and this year's surprise hit that they wrote "Star Trek" - so yeah, don't bash Bay so much as Orci and Kutzman, the writers of TF ROTF

Maybe they can come up w/ a great story and bring in Unicron for TF 3

[NuclearConvoy]

Why does everyone seem to think that Unicron would make the 3rd film better?
I'm fairly certain that it would make it worse...far worse.

[MYoung23]

The people have spoken and they have said "FU!!" to the critics.

[meshnut]

Added with the current foreign totals, the film has brought in a total of nearly 281 million worldwide

Actually the foreign totals bring it to $387,346,000 worldwide.

[Metaldud]

That's pretty cool.
At the movie theatre that I work at, it has been jam packed the last several days, especially today.
I was there for the midnight show last week, and it was packed to the brim (of course, I had already seen it earlier thanks to an employee only screening.)
Combine this with Monsters vs Aliens (another movie I really liked-Ginormica is hot!) and Dreamworks/Paramount have had a pretty decent year so far.

[First-Aid]

Added with the current foreign totals, the film has brought in a total of nearly 281 million worldwide

Actually the foreign totals bring it to $387,346,000 worldwide.

That seems like a good operating budget for the third movie. Whatcha all think?

Why does everyone seem to think that Unicron would make the 3rd film better?
I'm fairly certain that it would make it worse...far worse.

Depends on how it's done. EVERY movie depends on how it's done. I'm partial to my idea personally.

Holy sh*t indeed; I knew it would do well, but $200 million plus in the first 5 days?!
Amazing if you ask me, and I bet the so-called "critics" who bashed the film and us, the fans for being "stupid", are now eating their words!!

The general populace pretty much understands that critics are idiots and ignores them for the most part. The only movies they like are either 1) Subtitled, 2) French, 3) Depressing, or 4) starring someone died before the movie came out.

[Rodimus Prime]

I can just see the headline now:

"Michael Bay's $200m finger at the critics:
Transformers 2 devastates box office records."

[Just Negare]

i just went to see it for the 4th time today! critics you suck!

The movie was about 2 and a half hours. If you saw it four times in one day, that'd be what, ten hours?

You spent ten hours on your arse watching that abortion?

Kudos to your determination, though.

[Just Negare]

Holy sh*t indeed; I knew it would do well, but $200 million plus in the first 5 days?!
Amazing if you ask me, and I bet the so-called "critics" who bashed the film and us, the fans for being "stupid", are now eating their words!!

Its like the iphone.

It will go down in history as an example of a bloody good marketing campaign. There was so much hype over this, it made Obama's election campaign look like a ten dollar function for a church charity.

[D-340]

i just dont want to see the movies follow like...an x-men path, where it starts off being about the x-men, and then towards the end its just watching the phoenix destroy everything and anything. i would rather watch sideswipe cut sideways in half 50 times over and over than watch a massive devastator get 1 hit KO'd by a railgun. Though, at this point, with TF2 making so much money and all, i doubt there is any way we can go back to focusing on TF characters, and we can probably expect around 60 TFs in the next film, most of whom dont have names, and all share about 20 seconds of screen time together while unicron sucks a planet apart.

Unfortunately, Transformers didn't start off like X-Men. So far the Transformers' films have been about crude toilet humor, a lame boy wants girl love story, and the US military with the Transformers destroying things and each other in the back ground.

This is bittersweet for me. I'm glad it's a success, and a third film is guarantied, but unfortunately, this almost guaranties the third will be more of the same. I did enjoy most of ROTF, but I do agree with alot of the negative criticism. But the almighty dollar speaks louder than anything, and it has told the writers and director that we are just fine with getting a, what I feel, is a very sub par portrayal of the franchise. So ready yourself for more mindless action and more jokes about pot brownies, doggy "domination", and middle aged men in thongs.

[Rodimus Prime]

i just went to see it for the 4th time today! critics you suck!

The movie was about 2 and a half hours. If you saw it four times in one day, that'd be what, ten hours?

You spent ten hours on your arse watching that abortion?

Kudos to your determination, though.

I think he meant he saw it for the 4th time since it came out, not 4 times today.

And I saw it for the 4th time since it came out as well. Though I can do without leghumping and devastator balls, I went for the action. I can't get enough of Prime kicking ass. I've been waiting for this since I was a kid. In the cartoon and comics, prime was always a bit soft. Finally, now he shows us what he can do. And yes, I thought the Twins were hilarious. Megan Fox did look like she had some Angelina Jolie lips though.

[flamewavex]

you're right, it didn't start off like x-men, unfortunately too. x-men was good, x2 was great, so i guess already we're in the wrong direction

and yea, you are also right about the story not being written by michael bay.... didn't the same writers also write star trek, which did impressively well?

I think if transformers had better reviews from the critics, and from the masses like Dark Knight did, it easily would have earned a lot more at the box office. Obviously it would have persuaded a lot of people on the fence to see it, as well as a lot of people to see it more than once, since it was a 5-day opening. Still, regardless of how the movie was, I'm still glad to see it do well, because I would love to see another movie.

[Just Negare]

Megan Fox did look like she had some Angelina Jolie lips though.

I actually wondered if she's had them done. I watched the first one before I saw ROTF and her lips weren't as puffy. Not to mention they had that whole 14 year old girl over doing it lip gloss thing going on. Whether that was due to application of some form of medical cream post op or whatever, it made her look like she'd had a stroke or something.