ROTF Box Office Totals Discussion

Is nobody impressed by these numbers? For a Wednesday, that is amazing

well it must be a crap film for everybody to not see this.. lol..

It will prolly pull in $175 by monday. Big numbers, sure, its to be expected. But its the second weekend in open release that Hollywood watches closely. Thats when "word of mouth" starts takeing effect. And if it hasn't earned at least twice its budget by next monday, expect the budget on TF3 to be scaled down.

I am! This will top batman at this rate.

I think that's unlikely. I enjoyed ROTF (despite it feeling haphazardly thrown together...didn't flow very well, but fun to watch), but I don't see word of mouth carrying this one to the astronomical numbers The Dark Knight hit.

Tuesday night allone they racked in 16 million for the one showing i dunno if thats added into the 55 mill but damn i know im impressed by these numbers and its not even the weekend yet lol

I went to the 9:00 PM IMAX showing last night in a Baltimore Suburb. I met a friend there around 6:20 and I saw a lot of people come in and get turned away because the shows were sold out. We went to a local restaurant and got back to the theater @ 8:00. When we checked to see if there was a line there were already at least 150 people in line. Fortunately they let us in around 8:20. It was very clear to me that the Live Action Movie has hit the mainstream. For whatever reason the general public is very interested in this movie. The trailers looked awesome and most people expect for this movie to be fairly entertaining.

I think it failed though. I found the movie incredibly boring. The acting was either poor or dry. Leo, Alice and the Twins could have been spared. I don't think the word of mouth on this movie will be too great. If you asked me, I'd say wait until it comes out on DVD. Even my boss went out to see it last night and said he didn't care for it much. It doesn't sound like the kind of movie that a lot of people will want to go see twice. It may break records this weekend, but I will be bold enough to say that it might not make more money than the lat one simply because it wasn't as fun.

Yeah, as much as I'd love for this to make bank, word of mouth is gonna kill it. I can't endorse this movie to my friends. To TF fans, sure, but to the general populace...not so much. I didn't hate this movie, but I found myself squirming around my seat a lot towards the end. I just told a friend, that this is a good summer popcorn flick. Do not go seeing this expecting any kind of incredible story. And honestly said that if you're not into the big IMAX experience(glad I did see it on IMAX), then you can probably best save it for home DVD/Blu Ray. I know I'll enjoy it waay more at home then having to sit stationary in the theaters for 2 1/2 hours.

I don't know where this 'word of mouth' is going to sink it is coming from... While word of mouth from the fandom seems to be full of poo-poo and unrealistic expectations, there were loads of real-life humans with real opinions who loved the shit out of the movie all over the country the past 2 days.

Word of mouth is everywhere. They talked about how awesome it was for an hour on the radio this morning and people calling in basically said everything 'hated' on these forums was the best part of the movie for them. They liked the balls and the twins, the Humping was hilarious to them, Sam's Mom was jokey and funny and Prime's death was a huge blow to the audience and left people stunned with audible gasps. They loved it. It boils down to "Robots fighting and Megan Fox" that is all people need to want to see it.

I have yet to meet a single person in real life who has not been positively 'word of mouthing' this movie. And selling out like it has been adds to the word of mouth as selling out makes it NEWS so the NEWS people interview the people in line and they come out and all over the 10pm news "WOOOO! ROBOTS TRANSFORMERS IT WAS BAD ASS!"

Maybe it is just the media and people in my geographic location.

Edit: Whoops! The news story tricked me into thinking this thread was in the NEWS forum... I thought this thread might actually be a legit conversation. Silly me.

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