Actually, most of the best films of all time, bombed at the box office.

If you guys want a movie to look forward to, go check out the trailer for Shutter Island, and never mention Transformers 2 again. God...Michael Bay is my nemesis, I swear.

I have to completely agree with Esmore up there, this movie dissapointed. The Transformers themselves are relegated to being supporting characters, Optimus prime himself has something line twenty lines of dialog in the entire two hour movie (and that's a generous estimate). They introduce a nice handful of new Trasformers, but instead of focusing on the interesting ones (Arcee and Sideswipe), they choose to focus on the racist stereotypes that talk in ebonics (Skids and Mudflap).

This movie was supposed to be about one thing: Giant robots fighting. Unfortunately, there are only three fight scenes in the entire movie, and between those three are long stretches of drama that's as predictable as my next bowel movement, and humor that falls flat on its face as often as it succeeds, yet feels out-of-place in both instances.

I've already mentioned how the Transformers were supporting characters; well, they don't even show in the film enough to be title characters. A better title for the film would be "Shia Ladouche saves the earth: and also there are explosions and sometimes giant robots fight." The fighting is the only reason to see this film, and Bay even manages to mess that up. The otherwise spectacular fight scenes are edited so badly that after five seconds you won't be able to tell who's who, and are forced to resign yourself to watching large hunks of metal colliding on screen with little rhyme or reason.

Watching this movie is a bit like having intercourse with a diseased, but experienced, hooker. It's amazing while it lasts, but after the fact, it dawns on you that the bad parts seriously, seriously outweigh the good.

Domestic: $214,931,195 51.3%
+ Foreign: $204,419,025 48.7%
= Worldwide: $419,350,220 source boxofficemojo.com

The film is absolutely huge, but then again it was always going to be and with a budget of 200 million (which doesn't include advertising expenses) this film has most likely already broken even overall.

I haven't seen it yet but I hear its a disappointing film but beyond that bay and spielberg are laughing all the way to the bank.

God I can't stand Bay as a director...

HP should still probably top this WW though, I certainly hope the latest potter isn't a dissapointment as we were spoilt last year with the dark knight. Its not often the most successful film is one of the best films of the year.

I think it's just bay laughing this time. IIRC, Speilberg had nothing to do with ROTF; Bay was just sort of left to do his own thing. If that's true, it would certainly explain all the claims I'm hearing of how the first movie was better than this one.

And how dare you say that The Dark Knight was the best film last year? We all know that honor goes to WALL-E. (No, I'm not biased, why do you ask?)

I am really regretting my decision to go see ROTF instead of hitching a train to NY to see Moon.

I didn't say tdk was the best film last year I said it was one of the best films last year.

I also put wall-e above tdk (and slumdog millionaire) but lets not get into semantics about what was the best film last year. What I meant was, it was great that the top grossing film last year was also really awesome. Which hasn't happened yet this year considering how disappointing angels and demons was etc.

Also Spielberg is laughing all the way to the bank considering he's one of the executive producers. It matters not that he mightn't have done a days work for the film.

Worldwide, Harry Potter will probably be the top grossing film. Domestically, here in America, Transformers 2 will probably be the top. Harry Potter is successful, but I just can't see it pulling the kind of numbers that Transformers is.

I actually enjoyed Revenge of the Fallen. Most of the values in it reminded me of the cartoon from the 80's, though that's more in terms of racial stereotypes than the sexual humor and so forth.

Like I said before in another topic: very, very stupid movie. It's kind of like a modern equivalent of an action movie from the 80's, a Commando with robots, if you will.

My biggest complaint, given that I went into the movie expecting exactly what I got, is that Bay still does that thing where the camera is way too close to the action, rendering it incomprehensible from time to time.

I dont know what people are bitching about, this one was much better than the first one.

Did people forget it was an action movie?

Was anyone really expecting a great story?

If you wanted to see a movie with a great story, and you went to see Transformers 2 expecting that, then the only thing you guys should be upset about is how stupid you were for expecting that.

Aparently, you completely neglected to read any of the detractor's posts.

We know that it's an action movie. Given that, we didn't expect a great story (although would it kill Bay to make a plot with less holes than a mexican highway?), we expected an action movie. That's exactly what ROTF did not deliver. Bay spreads the fight scenes out with long stretches of predictable drama and unsuccessful humor, makes each and every one of the Transformers completely interchangable, and spends more time on the question of when Ladouche's character will say "I love you," to Fox's character than he does on any single one of the transformers. I'd love to know what criteria you base your opinion that it's a better movie on.