That's the thing about haters. You can make 50 different Transformers movies with 50 different directors & 50 different casts & they'll hate something about every single one.

 

Still a shit movie lol

 

That's your valid opinion, just not a fact according to the sales.

 

None.

 

That was sarcasm, just so you know.

 

My childhood, utterly intact.

 

Prepare to be unhappy. It MIGHT pass DotM's $1.124-billion, but no way it gets close to touching the over $1.5-billion "Avengers" raked-in.

 

"Guardians of the Galaxy" has a decent shot at hitting a billion, with how unexpectedly well it did in the U.S., this weekend. AoE won't be the undisputed highest grossing film of the year, though. It will be highest world-wide gross. "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" is the current #1 U.S.-domestic grossing film, and AoE is hemorrhaging too large a percentage of audience, each weekend losing over 50% of the previous weekend's viewership, to even get past the $250-million-mark, much less Cap2's over $258-million. GotG might knock Cap2 down, as might Hobbit or Mocking Jay, but AoE (if it holds off all the other world-wide tentpoles) will only get to say it's the world-wide #1.

 

If it had opened everywhere, I'm not sure it's even open in dadgum Japan.

 

Agreed...I doubt Hasbro/Paramount will pay much mind to the lessened domestic pull, when they can just make the second half of the next film also take place in China, guaranteeing record box-office #'s in that country. I hope you're right, though. And GotG was amazing, enough so that I just saw it a second time. A true, quality summer-blockbuster.

 

I'll pass on the Kool-Aid...
AoE is terrible, I don't care how much money it's made. Diehard TF fan, saw the '86 movie twice in the theater. No ill will toward Bay - he's made some good action movies. That being said AoE is awful. The TF cinematic franchise is 'meh.' The movies pale in comparison to Marvel's lineup, hell the 'Apes' movies bury them. It's just a bad movie....

 

It has yet to open in Spain and Japan. It will continue to make money, but--while I could be wrong--I seriously doubt it cracks the top 5 all-time world-wide, and will struggle to crack the top 10. ALL the films in the top 10 had U.S. grosses over $300-million, and that's no coincidence.

 

Congrats to Paramount, Hasbro, and Bay for AOE surpassing $1B. More money in Hasbro's pocket, more cool toys across the board for us, the fans.

 

Careful, you'll be labeled a "hater"...

 

^ Bay will be too busy swimming in dollar bills to care.   The rest of the fandom will be enjoying our cool new Generations and Masterpiece toys (paid in part by AOE's ticket and toy sales, by the way) to bat much of an eyelash at the AOE backlash. *shrug*

 

It's really not that close, at least to "Avengers." $500-million is a LOT of money.

 

Did I miss something, or wasn't there a significant part of the toy-buying fandom that found AoE's toys to be kinda shitty, on the whole? I know when I saw some in a Target, they looked pretty crappy, to me, compared to the toys for the first two films (didn't pay attention to the toys for DotM).

 

^ So.... anecdotal evidence is the best evidence?

 

Not at all, but I'm also giving my first-hand observations as evidence. Also, this isn't a trial.

 

Your personal first-hand observations = anecdotal evidence. No, it's not a trial but it's best to have evidence on hand that isn't entirely anecdotal when you're making broad sweeping generalizations. Even if AOE toys under-perform, AOE ticket sales will still help Hasbro pay for Generations and Masterpiece toys (supposedly what "true" fans want?), in the end. Not sure why "true" fans would be against that.

Oh right, Bay sucks and anything he touches sucks by association. Carry on then.