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I just came back from the movie and yup.

Hands down the BEST Transformers movie so far. Everything clicks, everything makes sense, and not a single cringe moment, nor forced current day "message". This will make TF1 TIMELESS. It will be as good in 50 years as it is right now.

Proabably some franchise fatigue have something to do with the slower start?

Some "fans" that can only accept a TF media in a narrowly defined "acceptable" way might also have hurt the box office?

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:I just came back from the movie and yup.

Hands down the BEST Transformers movie so far. Everything clicks, everything makes sense, and not a single cringe moment, nor forced current day "message". This will make TF1 TIMELESS. It will be as good in 50 years as it is right now.

Do you also think the badassatron joke paid off? Because i was surprised it did

"Who wants to get cut?"

Also, I do hope y'all stayed for the post-credits scene.

Bumblevivisector wrote:

cloudballoon wrote:Proabably some franchise fatigue have something to do with the slower start?

Some "fans" that can only accept a TF media in a narrowly defined "acceptable" way might also have hurt the box office?

Well, seeing as there was a TF movie in theaters last year, a lot of more casual fans probably find it odd that there's an origin movie so soon after, if they assume origin=reboot.

And to clarify, RotB is my third favorite live action TF film after AofE and Bee Movie, so please don't assume I'm implying its quality (averageness) was the problem. I think it is partly recent film frequency and not necessarily long-term franchise fatigue.

Oh no, I'm not targetting you specifically. I meant the casual general population might have the franchise fatigue that's hitting the Star Wars, MCU, DC, Ghostbusters franchises these few years. Likely for the reasons you said. Also, some might no longer be interested in TF anymore after AOE/TLK.

You got your bum in the theater, that's not the type of "fans" I was talking about. Those won't even go to see TF1 "on principle" because of their negative reception from the trailer(s) or their perceived plot points (eg. hating OP & Megs as "brothers" pre-war, believing Elita-1 a "woke girl-boss" without knowing the nuance, etc.) or whatever.

People have their valid/invalid resons to go see a movie or not. I respect that and rather not judge, I do like to analyse and try to understand their reasons though.

Even if TF1 is underperforming, I'm already very happy the TF movie-verse changed direction for the better(IMO, of course) by going with animation and rooted in Cybertron and not Earth (for now). Going with animation brings down the production cost and help with the TF movie franchise's longevity. I really hope whatever its final officebox numbers will be, it's enough to warrant sequels.

I'm terms of ranking, it's '86 as the "forever #1" because I'm biased towards trad hand drawn animation. BBM & '07 is kind of tied as #2 (objectively I think BBM is a better movie, but '07 started the modern TF movie franchise so that get the nostgalia/respect credit, so I go back and forth between betweem as the "best" of live-action films) and ROTB comes after. The other Bay don't really get much of a rewatch for me (I'd rather YouTube the action sequences than pull out the discs).

Sabrblade wrote:

Dino-Snarl wrote:Won't watch it in theatres. Don't go anymore. Bought the DVD.

You're only hurting the movie's chances of box office success by doing that.

Can't be helped. We haven't seen a movie in theatres for 7 years. prefer being at home alone. Introvert thing.

Sabrblade wrote:

Dino-Snarl wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Dino-Snarl wrote:Won't watch it in theatres. Don't go anymore. Bought the DVD.

You're only hurting the movie's chances of box office success by doing that.

Can't be helped. We haven't seen a movie in theatres for 7 years. prefer being at home alone. Introvert thing.

When I saw it on Friday, I had the whole room to myself. No one else had bought tickets to that screening, so I was the only one in the theater room.

Heaven.

There wasn't much people in my theatre room either. But there was 3 or 4 LOUD toddlers.

In my neck of the woods, while the Friday screening I went to was empty, I looked up the Thursday night screenings the night before and many of those had very few empty seats left. And at multiple theaters on the Saturday before, the Early Access screenings were all packed full (I myself had to drive over to a theater near downtown in order to see it that day, since the Early Access screening at my closest theater was completely sold out). So it looks like more people went to the pre-release screenings instead of the day-of-release ones. That tells me that more people than normal were eager to see the movie sooner than later.

Sabrblade wrote:So it looks like more people went to the pre-release screenings instead of the day-of-release ones. That tells me that more people than normal were eager to see the movie sooner than later.

I dunno - that sounds to me like existing TF fans who were anticipating it went to see it as soon as possible, but the general public ignored it? That's worrying. I hope word of mouth picks up quickly, but there's no avoiding that the domestic opening fell well below what we (and presumably Hasbro/Paramount) hoped for - can't believe we were beaten out by the Beetlejuice cash grabsequel!

From what I can see, it should still be profitable - reviews are good and as a family film it hopefully has legs beyond the opening weekend - but not the smash hit we might have hoped for. I don't think it's brand "fatigue" so much as bad reputation from the tail end of the Bayverse, and a general lack of popularity in the kid market (insert rant about the biggest brand efforts of the last 10 years+ all being about chasing older fans, not attracting new ones).

As for me, I'll certainly be going to see it and adding my bit to the numbers... when it finally releases in another 3 weeks.

I unfortunately had a super busy weekend. My son went with about 5 of his friends, they enjoyed it, I didn't ask about how crowded the theater was on Saturday night. Definitely feels strange; my son is a moderate fan, but he was more into it when he was younger, definitely is more interested in other things, which is fine. But he has already seen the film and I have not. Ill hopefully get to see it this coming weekend.