Jun 29 2009
‘Revenge of Fallen’ Nearly Eclipses ‘Dark Knight’
Despite overwhelmingly negative reviews across the board (from myself included), accusations of not-really-even-that-subtle racism (check out green robot’s gold tooth in that picture) and just being a terrible movie all around, audiences flocked to Transformes 2 over the past five days, and the film hauled in $201M, just shy of The Dark Knight’s $203M five-day opening. Thankfully the record books are safe for now, and I think word of mouth will prevent the movie from surpassing TDK in any other categories.
But while fanboys, critics and general audiences alike agreed that The Dark Knight was an excellent movie, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such divisive reactions from a film. I’ve heard people say it’s the technological equivalent of The Happening (alright, maybe I said that), and I’ve heard others say it’s the best action film they’ve seen in years. And they’re being serious. While it’s obvious which camp I fall into, what about you? Did you really like this movie, and if so, how and why?
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I thought the Dark Knight was awesome. Watching the scenes filmed with the IMAX cameras at home on Blu-Ray is simply amazing. The movie had it’s flaws…cough…cough…Bale, but all in all was a really cool addition to the Batman franchise.
Also, it could have been 30 minutes shorter.
The fact that a movie like Transformers 2 can make so much money means that Michael Bay’s movies will continue to get dumber and less substantive. It’s a perfect for the collective shortening of everyone’s attention span.
move was awful but optimus prime fucking robots up was worth a one time watch.
Giant robot fighting and destroying eachother = good.
Poor plot, “goofy” twins, crappy addition of the Matrix of leadership as a key to a sun-exploding tool to harvest energon = lame.
I’ll watch it again for the fighting, as I did the first.
@ Drew
The goofy twins were the WORST. They made Jar-Jar Binks seem enjoyable.
i have to say what do you go to see Transformes for if your not a fanboy? EXPLOSIONS funny comments and megan freakin fox and if you thought this movie was going to be anything less then those three components well you have reasons to be mad. But i myself went for actiony scenes and megan fox and i wasnt ecstatic thought it could have been better but i enjoyed the movie
It’s just sad that a movie can have a 20% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and still gross hundreds of millions of dollars.
I haven’t seen it. I saw 1, hated it, and decided not to spend my money. The real shame is how some big nerd bloggers posted dozens of articles on how BAD this film was going to be. Then they went and ACTUALLY SAT AND WATCHED the BAD movie, then reviewed it on their site and, guess what, the movie WAS TERRIBLE. Then all their readers went and paid to see the BAD movie because of all the websites’ hype. Then those people went online and said, “I agree this move was AWFUL!” Is it any surprise this turd made $201M already? If a movie is going to be shitty, use common sense people, save your $10. In the end, it’s Michael Bay who wins.
Thinking about Topless Robot, not this site. I love this site.
Eh, it wasn’t the worst movie ever. It was entertaining at the time, I wouldn’t watch it again, but there are certainly worse movies I’ve also spent 10$ on.
Shia LaBeouf was sort of funny and Megan Fox was attractive, so that was alright.
I found the fact that there were giant children’s toys swearing a little strange and totally unnecessary.
I guess I wasn’t expecting much, therefore wasn’t that disappointed.
who goes to a movie like transformers 2 for anything more than ridiculous action scenes?! seriously. when you buy that ticket you give up all rights to a plot and seeing things that make sense. the movie is about giant fighting robots who hang out with a kid and his irresponsibly hot girlfriend. i dont go to the movies to see things that make sense in real life cause that shit is free. i go to see the absurdity of a robot with giant balls destroying a pyramid
@SUNCHIPS
I don’t necessarily disagree with you. The problem is that when the action scenes aren’t that great (really, was it anything better than the first movie? It looked like there were 12 Megatrons in every fight), there’s really nothing left.
@Madison
well when i read i some reviews, people were saying the action was even more confusing this time around so i went into the theatre hell bent on focusing all my brain power on the action scenes. but when i finally saw them they seemed way more viewable and not as confusing as the action scenes from the first movie. compare those action scenes in tf2 to the barricade vs bumble scene in tf1 and theres a hug difference. ive seen tf1 10 times atleast and im still clueless about what exactlky goes down in that fight besides a sweet shoulder toss. im going to see it again tonight just to confirm that i enjoyed it and wasnt just accepting it