Transformers Earns $121 Million Worldwide

Tht's/... A lot of cash

We seem to just keep rolling out the news, don't we

Hot damn, that's sweet!

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: HELLS YEAH

Go Transformers Go!

"This means the film should make the $150 million it coast..."

Ummm...SHOULD? SHOULD? Congratulations! You just won the Understatement of the Year award! Past winners include the French government ("We surrender", multiple winner), Captain James Johnson from Pearl Harbor, HA ("I think those are Japanese planes", award given in absentia), and the crew of Apollo 13 ("Houston we have a problem"- trademark pending).

Ladies and gentleman, I do believe we have a smash hit on our hands...this movie is going to put every other movie this summer to shame completely. I'd wager on it even beating out Harry Potter...

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.

I sure hope it at leasts breaks even...although I'm surprised...the toys are not selling as well as I thought they would. In fact, they're starting to clog shelves and then some.

I admit everyone was right about them being available in abundance, and that I was impatient about finding them all, but...this is ridiculous.

June 2nd, I couldn't find more than one Scorponok and Wreckage each. (I didn't care about Wreckage then...) and now, I see Scorp and Wreckage all over the place, but we're inundated with Brawl and Bonecrusher. Even Swindle is starting to sell better than they are.

Not the way I expected things to go. Perhaps I was far too optimistic.

I haven't seen it...

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.

Thanks, that made me laugh.

And people said it would flop.

As far as the movie toys go, anywhere I go I cant find any of the core characters, so they are selling and selling good.

come on half a billion yeah moter fecking
ha

Autobot032 wrote:I sure hope it at leasts breaks even...although I'm surprised...the toys are not selling as well as I thought they would. In fact, they're starting to clog shelves and then some.

I admit everyone was right about them being available in abundance, and that I was impatient about finding them all, but...this is ridiculous.

June 2nd, I couldn't find more than one Scorponok and Wreckage each. (I didn't care about Wreckage then...) and now, I see Scorp and Wreckage all over the place, but we're inundated with Brawl and Bonecrusher. Even Swindle is starting to sell better than they are.

Not the way I expected things to go. Perhaps I was far too optimistic.

Hi, Im new here and this is my first post but the toys are selling very well here in upstate NY! Only a few shelf warmers here and Im still trying to find the Walmart 2 pack with Bumble and Barcarde.

blkbitcloud1

Okay, lets all go see it again !!! More money to Dreamworks and woot ever is behind all this

Ad about $150 to that, my plans for this weekend are taking 3 seperate groups of friends to see just how awesome TFs are(and maybe get alittle something-something to boot)

Add thirty bucks to that, as me and my mom went to see it today, and I'll be going to see it again tomorrow.

Oh, and haters, you want some "shut-the-hell-up" juice to go with that crow?

I think when all is told, the film will pull in $400-500 million worldwide.

Hey! Just because I did not love it does not mean everyone else won't. I know it will do very well, and the sequels are a guarantee at this point.

Darth Bombshell wrote:Add thirty bucks to that, as me and my mom went to see it today, and I'll be going to see it again tomorrow.

Oh, and haters, you want some "shut-the-hell-up" juice to go with that crow?

I'l go and see it on Monday, so you can add whatever price I'll have to pay.

And what's with the crow? I haven't heard of that expression. I thought they would've had a hore .

"Eating crow" = being forced to admit you were wrong when you make an absolute statement, like "Transformers movie will SUXXOR, kthxbai"

Me, I always said I hated the look of the movie characters. I still do. So what? The movie was still a lot of fun.

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.

On the other hand, this could be the start of Hasbro stepping up & saying, "Ok, we know know that this is going to be a big hit....& since we know the next one is pretty much in the bag, we'd like to have a few changes made to some of the existing characters to be more representative of traditional TF designs, such as Starscream not looking like a gorilla with chicken legs...that way the movie would not only be a big hit with your precious non-fans but also those that grew up with the orignial designs & those of us here at Hasbro that want Starscream to not look like a gorilla with chicken legs."






Disclaimer: The part about hasbro not liking Starscream's design I got from a recent interview with Bay where he said they had a "big f***ing problem" with Starscream's design.

I agree with Valandar. It took me some time to get used to the look of things, but once I got past it, I just hoped for a good movie. And while it wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, I didn't go into it thinking it would be. But it was a good start, and it truly was great to see the Transformers on the big screen. I will, however, have MUCH higher expectations for any sequels that are coming -- more robots, more transforming, less panning and zooming, and a much better story -- one that is based more on the Transformers war with each other than with their "invasion" of earth (does THIRTEEN robots really constitute an invasion???)

This is great cos the sequels are guaranteed which means the next 5 years at least it will be constant Transformers fun with new bots and new stories etc, everything will flourish from the attention, regardless of whether you liked the film or not, and I loved it.

No surprises there.

I wonder how it will go once it actually has some competition though. Harry Potter should do exceptionally well, and it then has 2 weeks in the SUn, like Transformers did, before the Simpsons cleans the floor with them both.

But $121 million in 10 days in Australia, and 4 days in the USA, with the European release still to come, thats good for any film.

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.

Autobobby1 wrote:This also proves the Geewunners wrong again. This movie made more money ALREADY than the G1 movie ever made in the theaters.

Especially when that amount of money was made on the first freaking day.

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.

I never understand the "haters" thing. We are not haters, we are lovers. It is our love of TF's that has us disappointed about the movie.

Thats great it is making the $$$$$$!! I hope it keeps it up!

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.

Well said Nemesis!

I never thought about the value of the original movie in helping create the fan base we have today. Heck, that right there is a contributing factor to the success of this current movie which goes by the very same exact name.

So for anyone to make a big civil war and divide the fandom over it is an aweful and short sighted thing to do to the fandom.

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.

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

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.

Wow, even your honesty is dishonest. Good job.

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.

QFFT!

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.

$121 million dollars worth of people (before opening weekend) trumps your "disregard". Which pretty much means not as many people care about your G1 perfection as you may think.

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

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

Yeah, but the amount they listened to the fans is somewhat equivalent to a parent making their kid a salisbury steak at home because the kid wanted a cheeseburger happy meal at McDonald's. They got the ground beef they wanted, but no bun, brown gravy instead of ketchup & mustard, no pickles, no fries, no soda, & most important, no toy. & even if the kid like salisbury steak...it's still not a cheeseburger happy meal.

And it hasn't even hit the UK yet. Dammit! Sorry. I rekon there will be plenty more money comming in from this cash cow.

And can we please stop saying things like world wide releases when it doesn't have world wide releases yet.

Yes, I'm a brit. Yes, I'm disgruntled. Yes, I feel cheated.

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.

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.

Common, I'm not that much of a bad guy.