Forbes Article on Importance of Transformers: The Last Knight Box Office Performance

star trek has never made star wars money. never has. never will. get those massive budgets down. what are they thinking? tmnt 2 should have stuck with a august release date like the first one. if it aint broke dont fix it.

i have noticed for a few years now that the paramount box office has been brutal. soon at this point smaller studios will or already are doing better than paramount.

i expect a big opening weekend but worldwide is where the money will be at. also the following week will be the release of despicable me 3. this movie has a real battle on its hands.

good luck paramount.

SlyTF1 wrote:That's it. I'm not watching any more trailers or TV spots for this movie. It's going to kill me, but I have to save something for the actual movie.

I want to as well but it's my (self proclaimed) duty to chronicle any new spots.

But I am staying away from early reviews and rumors this time besides a couple of specific questions if they are not answered in trailers.

Deadput wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Some of those Japanese subs aren't quite translated faithfully.

Like, when Cade says "This isn't you, Prime", the subs instead say "Oputimasu dōshite?" which means "Optimus why?"

And the line where Cade calls Izzy "Little J-Lo" is translated into phrase that basically means "You're still a brat."

You can read Japanese? That's a cool and useful skill to have!.

A little. I took two semester courses of it. What I didn't recognize I used Google Translate to help, while recognizing any issues GT had in their translation.

Though, I can pretty much read Katakana, so the "Optimus why?" line was easy since his name was written in Katakana and I already knew what the Hiragana-written "dōshite" meant.

G1OPT1MU5PR1M3 wrote:The closer they would have stayed to G1, the more successful it could have been.

I'm not so sure about that.

Damn that japanese trailer is spectacular. I am so ready. Not even joking when I say these are my fave movies.

G1OPT1MU5PR1M3 wrote:This is what happens when you don't listen to the people that matters when it comes to movies... especially remade ones and that's the fans.
Especially a brand like transformers. The closer they would have stayed to G1, the more successful it could have been. Pretty girls, fast cars and explosions go so far.

The movies aren't made for the fans, they're made to make money.

They did that successfully.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:

Burn wrote:The movies aren't made for the fans, they're made to make money.

Doesn't that apply to pretty much any product, Transformers-related or not?

Mostly yeah. Difference with a franchise is they try to sneak in nods to fans but they're not the core target base.

Dunno why people are still expecting a fan-centric movie.

Burn wrote:
Mostly yeah. Difference with a franchise is they try to sneak in nods to fans but they're not the core target base.

Dunno why people are still expecting a fan-centric movie.

Because people always want things and because every person is the "main character" in thier own life they will feel that whatever they think is important based on what they want and "need" should happen and any strong or even small changes from thier opinion is wrong and not the way it should be.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Hm, would it seem weird for a 37 year old guy to take his voyager Prime and Megatron figures to the screening and stand them up on the lil table we get on the very comfortable reclining seats at that cinema?

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ooo err look at me with mah fancy seating!

Screw you! ( ) I'm going to wait a few more weeks after everyone else and go watch it at the cinema with the old canvas seats!

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Damn that japanese trailer is spectacular. I am so ready. Not even joking when I say these are my fave movies.

Same.