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8 minutes ago, grim22 said:
Wonder where the Transformers series goes from here. They already somewhat rebooted the series in the previous movie with a brand new cast so another reboot won't make much of a difference. Bumblebee might end up sub 100M domestic.
The writers room they had assembled was very talented, can't believe those names cranked out this movie that we watched.
"Writers room"
And that's why it failed. 29136281389274927489 chimps on typewriters and they clearly couldn't agree and gel to make a coherent film.
Also, Age of Extinction was NOT A REBOOT. SAME CONTINUITY. SAME VOICE CAST. SAME DIRECTOR. Geez, do people not even know what a reboot is anymore?
Where will the series go from here? Hopefully mothballed for 10 years, but Paramount has such a thin bench I expect Transformers Origins: Skids and Mudflap in about 2021 right before Viacom mercifully dies.
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14 minutes ago, baumer said:
Good to see you don't think Transformers literally originated as a franchise for seven year olds and trying to pitch it as some kind of hard-R action film (which Bay clearly wanted to do) is the stupidest idea on Earth.
Casuals have fled this franchise, at least TRY to make something that might generate a few new real fans.
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2 minutes ago, tribefan695 said:
That plus all the other mediocre franchises putting up underwhelming numbers. It's nice to see Hollywood reaping what they sow and hopefully being encouraged to take some more risks on new stuff.
Except the new stuff will also lose them boatloads unless it's cheap horror at this point.
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9 minutes ago, tribefan695 said:
We've known since April that this summer (first two months anyway) was going to be pretty mediocre. Strangely, watching it actually happen has been more enjoyable than I thought it'd be.
Only because Transformers 5 superbombed.
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4 minutes ago, PatrickvD said:
Very good to see audiences not rewarding Illumination and PIXAR for DM3 and Cars 3. No one asked for these movies.
DM3 is still quite profitable. It's not even really in Pirates 5 "only foreign can save this" territory yet. Maybe by DM6 it will be, but not now.
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1 hour ago, teardropmina said:
seriously, how the mighty have fallen just the perfect description for TF5 in Taiwan. TF2,3,4 are on the all-time top 10. but this one performs just like another standard Hollywood summer flick. as if all of sudden, Taiwanese just abandon the franchise~
They started using review aggregators/social media?
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Y'know, if they hadn't insisted on using Bay in every single installment, I'd say this was prime material for a reboot 10 years down the road...
But what nostalgic parents are going to take their kids to a reboot of a franchise infamous for BOT NUTS, I WANT YOUURR FAAACCCCEEEE and Bay's brilliant legal analysis of how Texas pederasty laws work? Bayformers went so "hard adult" that it didn't create any new fans...it just brought out old ones and a generic "rock em sock em robots" audience. Nobody will care about these things in 10 years because we'll have video game systems that can emulate Doom 2016 on a toaster, and the writing was crap since Revenge of the Fallen. Good job flushing hundreds of millions down the toilet Paramount!
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Y'know, I don't like Efron at all, but even I don't feel like making a "white privilege" argument for him when the kind of roles he's getting consist of second billing to the Rock in a terrible Baywatch movie.
This movie sounds about as fun as a root canal, that's not a great "privilege".
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25 minutes ago, Biggestgeekever said:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/baywatch-review-1005980
http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/baywatch-review-dwayne-johnson-zac-efron-1202428442/
Well, glad I was leaning towards Rough Night anyway.
Oh boy, looks like CHiPs redux
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1 minute ago, kowhite said:
Ok in all fairness...
Who's Daniel?
I did like Shia though...no arguing that.
The annoying twerp from the cartoon who should've been squished any Decepticon the moment he debuted.
I also wish that would've happened to Shia and would consider awarding the Decepticon that did so the Nobel Prize.
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Well, I'm not bothering with reserved seating. If I had only reserved seating theaters I'd just not go to movies period.
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1 minute ago, kowhite said:
Well, the articles are good.
Besides, pornhub is for wanking.
No, I clearly don't know what your point was.
But hey don't get me wrong...that's probably my fault. Or the booze.
Your favorite Transformers are friggin Daniel and Shia LeBeoeuf. You should be barred from this fandom for life.
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2 minutes ago, kowhite said:
Name this kaiju movie that made anywhere near Transformers money. And those kaiju movies had lots of humans in them, might I remind you.
Geez, you're actually gonna go to the "I read Playboy for the articles" well, aren't you?
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26 minutes ago, kowhite said:
I honestly don't think a movie with wall to wall robots is the path to bigger box office. The mainstream isn't really dying for that. Give Shia credit.
Ah yes, the beloved "mainstream" that somehow hates giant robot movies while readily watching kaiju movies won't buy a franchise about wall to wall robot fights, even though Transformers literally is the franchise based around a millions year robot war!
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Who the heck does reserved seating? You'd have to be a total pathetic loser to bother with paying for reserved seating for a movie!
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9 minutes ago, Noodlebug said:
People didn't watch the movies initially because of Shia, but audiences grew to love him. His departure didn't stop me from seeing AOE, but I imagine it lowered the general interest in the film for a lot of people. Not to mention franchise fatigue as well.
No they didn't. Most people hated Shia. That's why he doesn't get roles outside the franchise.
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Just now, ChipMunky said:
Well... I'm gonna slightly disagree on this.
MIDNIGHTS have always been included. But then the TDKR shooting happened and midnights stopped, and we now only have "early previews" which usually take place between 5-8pm. It would be kind of silly to separate them now, but gosh, it annoys the hell out of me.
Meh, the early previews are basically a replacement for midnights. I don't like them either (mainly because they allow bad buzz to spread and further depress Fridays for movies that suck, making the early sales argument iffier).
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Wasn't there an actual argument somewhere about free screenings decreasing King Arthur's opening though? If that somehow happened to Covenant...
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1 minute ago, Alli said:
Critics will murder it. its better to not release the reviews
If critics murder it it's likely to get poor buzz anyway. Better to dump on Fri. and hope that maximizes.
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Just now, aabattery said:
Guardians 3-day > Alien 3-day.
Previews ruin the box office.
You mean the actual paying Thurs. viewers, or some sort of "free screenings" like King Arthur got?
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Just now, Alli said:
Even if it opens ok, it gonna drop like a rock next weekend. I don't think people are prepared of the WW onslaught
They're prepared. I honestly don't think there'll be much to salvage though. If this had any sort of buzz Paramount would've dropped the critic embargo by now.
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1 minute ago, TwoMisfits said:
Isn't that what you pay your stars (especially in a comedy) to do (only half kidding:)?
Basically, and the Rock doesn't come cheap by this point
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Most people won't be seeing an r rated Baywatch remake period
5-day Weekend #s: DM3 99M, BD 29.97M, WW 24.07M, TF5 24.05M, Cars 3 14.2M, House 11.9M
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Lord and Miller suck. Don't use comedy directors for serious films.