I reject the idea that one should support things they don't like simply because it says Transformers on it. I have seen TF1 twice, ROTF and DOTM once, and will never watch them again. If you want to see how a live-action adaptation of a 30yr old cartoon should be done, seek out the 2010 Space Battleship Yamato movie.

 

Ya know, doing 21m+ your THIRD weekend against the largest. Opening. In. Movie. History. Is nothing to sneeze at.

 

WTF!!

shit was just thrown in rotf to make it a good movie,..i loved it, but..there was no actual freaking story line,..dotm there was...and it was the most bad ass transformers movie to date...the first movie was killer[with a bad ass game to match,the 2nd was kool[the game..ehhh!!..not so great],the third was,..like i said bad ass[with a damn good game too match]..

 

Ha-ha! They were very pleasant surprise! These scenes are done pretty well. Ukrainians were with a good accent (my friend from Ukraine also confirm it). And Russian cosmonauts were played by Russian actors. Chernobyl certainly was different from what it actually is, although due to a dozen awesome shots with Optimus it can be forgiven!  
Do not forget, Michael Bay said that his grandparents were Russian  

 

I wish we got a Transformers movie with as much care and detail as the Harry Potter films (even the weakest film, #5, blows away the TF films)... and I'm not even anywhere near a hardcore Potter fan! I saw HP7.2 and was blown away. More action than TF3, fantastic good vs evil story, all without pantyshots and course robots....

Oh well... Bays gone now, so hopefully some real talent will take over the TF franchise. These car commercials were fun, but in no way was it remotely competition for the HP franchise.

 

Story-wise, they're good. Probably because they're adapted from seven novels that revolve around story and character development. In terms of cinematography and sheer spectacle, DotM surpassed HP 7.2. The worst part of HP7.2 was how poorly-lit the whole film is; a cheap trick to convey the dark tone. Plus you have to have watched all the other films or read the books to understand any of what happens in the movie, whereas anyone can just walk into a TF movie and enjoy it. Also, HP7.2 was a bit boring up until the final battle part. And it deviated a lot from the actual book, which is frustrating to an old-school HP fan who's read the novel several times.

 

That's cool. I know Hollywood movies can often seem a bit phony when they set things in my locality. But I don't think anyone expected them to location shoot in Chernobyl for the sake of authenticity. I suspect they might've used locations in Detroit as a stand in. There was some talk that the Chinese were unhappy with ROTF showing dirty industrial areas in the Shanghai opening scenes of that movie, so it's hard to know how things will be perceived by foreign audiences.

Of course US Astronauts like Buzz Aldrin got to meet Optimus Prime, whereas the Cosmonauts were shown in some dive bar. Just the same I was glad the whole Russian side of the space race wasn't shown as some sinister plot. I suppose they balanced things out a bit by having Dylan as the American baddie.

 

HP was way better. sad there won't be anymore

 

All I can say is "fuck yeah!"

 

come on TF3 fans we have to help to beat it to the 1 billion dollar mark before any sumermovie does!!!!

 

Is Dotm still the fastest to hit $500,000,000, or did tDH 2 beat it out? I ask because I cant seem to find a listing online.

 

All that we need is for it to be in Japan and China for a few weeks and bam, we have 1 billion. Meaning that, it doesn't even need US viewers to make 1 billion.

 

Transformers, Fuck Yeah!!!  

 

These movies are a fucking juggernaut. You cannot stop them.

 

you got that right ramjet DOTM is incredible!!

 

Why the hell is Japan getting so late. If anyone should have gotten to see it before us it should've been them. What a load.

 

1 billion is within sight! Will be interesting to see what numbers China and Japan pull in.

 

At least with them coming out so late in these countries and the fact that they are at practically at 900 million, we can be 99.99% sure that it will reach the 1 billion mark.