Re: Weekend B.O. 'Transformers' on top with $387.3 mil

moviePig wrote:
On Jun 29, 5:17 pm, Derek Janssen <ejan...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You'd have to expect this sequel, unlike TRANSFORMERS 1, to get
terrible word-of-mouth. E.g., the first one got 7.4 at IMDb...
whereas this one gets only 6.7 (and likely sinking), and that
presumably from fans already so avid they flew past critics'
warnings. So, it *may* set the record for most precipitous weekend
dropoff..

Any movie can look good on pedigree, especially when you haven't seen
any of it yet.

(Yes, even I early on thought a TF2 looked cool, just from a few
incoherent trailers but faith in the first one being better than it
looked...I heeded the warnings at the eleventh hour, however, and
escaped unharmed.
The victims, however, will either be unforgiving, or shrug out of sight
and mind.)

(although Bay's leg-humping of the audience significantly
reduces any chances of the latter)

Well, I'm straining not to badmouth a movie I haven't any intention of
ever seeing ...but I did see the first one, giving in to the critics
who assured me that Bay himself had been transformed, and my resulting
viewing experience aborted any chance that I'd be sucked into this
one. (I do understand that youngsters and fans got some value from
it, but I'd be surprised if anyone who, like me, was neither did.)
Nevertheless and, I suppose, obviously, BoxOfficeMojo already shows a
listing for TRANSFORMERS 3. (I don't know what its subtitle will be,
but I'm voting for "A Sign of the Apocalypse".)

The first movie redeemed itself by being true to the original cartoon DESPITE whatever Michael Bay could do it (and don't think he didn't try *plenty*)--
If they had just gone for standard stuntcast celebrity voices for Optimus Prime, it'd have seemed like a big-studio Dreamworks-funded cash-in...But hearing Peter Cullen do his old squarejawed weekday-afternoon toytoon voice from twenty-five years ago gave the first movie a sense of old-school honor, and a cool-80's old-meets-new-generation feel of "Yeah *this* was how they did heroes fighting baddies back in our day, Junior, not with a lot of dopey rib-nudging comedy-relief scenes and trailer editing; learn from it!"

In the new sequel, however, from all reports Bay seemed to have staged a dopey-humor/trailer-editing coup, and made exactly the movie we were afraid the first one was going to be--Someone got a little overconfident. -_-

Derek Janssen
ejanss1@xxxxxxxxxxx
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