• God is dead. He musta been killed in one of Bay's explosions. Awesome.

• The Dark Knight was too long, had unnecessary characters (two face), had a main character who couldn't act in any of his scenes (and in many had a laughable voice), and had one element that was clear and away better than all other elements combined (Heath Ledger). Transformers 2 was too long, had unnecessary characters, had a main character who couldn't act (and at times laughable), and had one element that was clear and away better than all other elements combined (the Transformers themselves). People need to get off their high horse. And go back and actually watch the original show/movie (not to mention the first movie) because clearly, they have no clue how silly any of it always was.

• Here's another thing I kept thinking while watching TR2, I wouldn't mind see the special ops guys as G.I.Joe members than what I've seen in the trailers for Rise of Cobra. I'm going to give it the benefit of doubt and go watch that as well, at matinee prices, but... ... molded mask for snake eyes? arrrgh why must they rape my childhood!?

• One other thing about Dark Knight is that people saw it multiple times because, even tho it had weaknesses, was still a great movie. How many will see Transformers again? For the record I went and saw it and tried to enjoy it as an action flick--ignoring it as a Transformers movie. After all I did like for the most part the first film, on its own away from the Transformers mythos. I just couldn't ignore the bad writing and plot holes big enough for Unicron to go thru. My own 2 cents, if while watching any movie, I get engrossed enough to forget i'm watching a film, then thats a good movie. This WAS NOT that.

• I wonder if people in the seventies went "Geez, the Godfather was okay, but it wasn't that good a movie. It's just some mob movie." Or, "I personally didn't like Jaws." "The Dark Knight" was a great movie, because it was a great movie. Not because someone died. The movie made a ton of money, because "Batman Begins" was really good. The people that were turned off by codpieces, didn't bother seeing it in the theaters, but saw it on DVD (It's why I think a 3rd Hulk movie will do better). It got fantastic reviews from critics. It had arguably the most popular hero in the world facing the most popular villain in the world (The Joker is one of the rare villains that can actually help sell a movie). It featured a performance on par with Anthony Hopkins in "Silence of the Lambs." No one died in the first Batman movie and that made a ton of cash too. Brandon Lee died in "The Crow" and that didn't come anywhere near the money "The Dark Knight" made (or the original Batman movie).

• "Well the thing is Transformers has always been just about making money, sad but true, and nostalgia covers up the crap of G1, like the stories that didn't make any danm sence, the poor and lazy animation, that fact that the Seekers were all just Starscreem recolors or Jetfire was really a battletech. " OH NOES RECOLOURS. In all seriousness - look further up the homepage at the type of cartoons that were contemporaries of G1. Does it look primitive compared, to, say, the DCAU stuff? Of course - it's from 1985! But the series was a much higher quality than stuff that was on the networks at the time, in spite of "merely" being syndicated. But it sure as fuck was more enjoyable than Turbo Teen and was a more enjoyable marketing exercise than Laser Tag. It didn't have the depth of Beast Wars or Animated (... and something tells me that even if the movie had been a flop, Hasbro would have had a cartoon back on the air within a year anyway - they'd just go back to dubbing the latest one from Japan rather than invest in a better series), but it had far better writing than virtually any other cartoon on at the time.

• I guess I'll skip this movie. Too many negative comments.

• I recently posted a comment on Youtube, say how theres no way anyone could think that TF2 was better TDK, I got 3 hateful, poorly written responses...

• Well the thing is Transformers has always been just about making money, sad but true, and nostalgia covers up the crap of G1, like the stories that didn't make any danm sence, the poor and lazy animation, that fact that the Seekers were all just Starscreem recolors or Jetfire was really a battletech. Don't get me wroung I love G1 (and the comcis), Beast Wars, and Animated (which only got made thanks to the movie) just maybe our expectations are too high. (kinda like how everyone though the Speed Racer movie was going to be Matrix with Car, inseted of well Speed Racer in all its camp) Should the movies be better hell yes, and in fact they could have been better. The humans, nothing can be done here really, transformer fans HATE the human cast. Although I do like the fact that the human army can at least hold its own. The design, while I do like them and have to give Bay the credit for making the Transformers look like what a gaint alien robot that can turn into stuff would really look like, but at least give them there G1 colors (like Starscream got his form for a stunt F-22 or a prototype which would be panted like his G1 color)

• So I saw Transformers on opening day. I found the emotional drama the movie tried to generate hollow, the humor painful, and the story confusing. Oh yeah, and the movie was at least 45 minutes too long. So yeah it was nowhere near as good as the first one. The weird thing is I've kinda liked these movies because my expectations were so low that they were actually exceeded. I walked in expecting to hate the movies, and didn't. I don't know I feel dirty liking the movies, I feel like my geek/nerd cred is hurt by it, but somehow with everything in the movie being wrong I still walked away not minding the money I spent on the ticket, the time I spent in the theater, or the ringing in my ears from the loud explosions. Michael Bay's plan is coming to fruition, I'm being dumbed down. Fuck, if I start liking country music next I'm shooting myself in the face.

• I was infinitely relieved when it didn't take the record, it's bad enough it made as much money as it did. I literally do not understand all the people going to see this. Honestly. I realize there are people who like it, the franchise, Michael Bay, or whatever, and that's fine. They should go see it. But I don't get the masses of people going even after such bad press. :\

• I'm not the biggest Transformers fan, so this is kind of a dumb question. Why the fuck do they called it NEST in TF2? Does it stand for something? Did I miss something? It's doesn't matter either way, just curious. Hated the movie but this has been bothering me.

• I was hoping for the largest weekend to weekend drop in history, but then I realized the only movies coming out this weekend were Ice Age 3 and Public Enemies - not exactly the same demographic (13 year old drooling idiots). Then again, from the Ice Age trailers, it looks to be the same type of fart and shit jokes (and semen!?) that the Transformers fans seemed to have enjoyed so much.

• See all posts upon posts of anger. See what you unleashed upon the world since last week, Rob. God bless you!

• Saw Transformers 2 on the weekend @ the drive in with Star Trek. I think it's safe to say: 1. I would rather have my testicles shaven by a 95 year old man with the shakes than watch TF2 again. 2. I would rather get a jalapeno enema than watch TF2 again. 3. I would rather make love to one of the 1972 Russian women's shot put team than watch TF2 again. Comparing TDK to TF2 is like comparing apples to oranges. Or, in this case, Brilliance in TDK to a festering piece of shit (TF2). Michael Bay should not be allowed to make a movie again. And Spielberg should feel a little ashamed.

• I honestly don't get the clapping. It's not like it's a live show and the actors can hear you. This is the only movie I've heard of where this clapping is so widespread, especially for a so called "summer popcorn movie". I can't help but think it's deliberate. People already know that the film is getting bad reviews so they're gonna tell you or tell themselves how great it really was. I really don't get it.

• I saw it this weekend because otherwise I wouldn't have gone at all. I really wish I hadn't gone at all. Granted I had too many bad reviews (including the one here) but geeks and "scholars" a like so I was a little biased. However, I was hoping that going in with 0 expectations would make it at least a little more enjoyable. I didn't gasp, I didn't laugh, I didn't feel anything except contempt for everything about the film. I was busy whispering "what the fuck?" to my friend every two minutes, smacking myself in the forehead and trying to uncover some semblance of a plot that didn't exist (and if it did it was too fucking confusing and inane for me to care). On the other hand, the people in my particular audience were crying with laughter I just simply did not understand. They even clapped at the end... twice. Once when they thought the movie was over (after the wonderful 2 second wrap up) and the other time when it actually ended. Basically this movie managed to destroy my faith in solid franchise/hero movies (unlike Dark Knight or Iron Man... hell even the new Hulk was better). It also destroyed the little faith I had created in a movie going public that had ignored stupidity like Land of the Lost & Imagine That this summer. Little did I know, they were saving the big bucks for the big explosions. *sigh* I got that out I'm better... Glad it didn't beat Dark Knight

• Without doing a straight-up review of "TF2: Revenge Of Absolute Lack Of Integrity And An Aggresive, Sociopathic Need To Inflict A Senseless Worldview On The Youth Of America", I link you to my article on Michael Bay in general: http://www.bamkapow.com/why-michael-bay-will-always-suck-3540-p.html

• "But Bay probably just shot the franchise in the long term" I honestly don't know if that's possible with the type of marketing campaigns Paramount puts behind these films. There's tie-ins everywhere, tons of commercials, entire theatres booked off... you're going to have people convinced it's an event movie and showing up on opening night no matter what. Again, I'm not sure if this'll even have the staying power the first movie did, but when you make sixty million in one day you've got a pretty good cushion to relax on.

• <i>if i was bay i wouldn't spend my time on the internet, i would be rolling around in a pile of money.</i> And if Bay were you, he would be the self-appointed defender of dumb movies on the internet.

• if i was bay i wouldn't spend my time on the internet, i would be rolling around in a pile of money.

• I know it's not hard to write a script, I don't know how Bay and his guys fucked it up so bad. Besides, you were the one calling people sheep and now you're getting pissed because we don't want to blindly like something. And yes this is the internet. We allowed to have opinions. Since it's not YOUR script and you said it's just a dumb popcorn movie, why the hell do you even care. McBay is that you?

• "lets see you do something better.Its not hard to write a scrip." Ah, the pathetic last fallback of the online defence squads: the "let's see you do better" approach. I don't have to know how to build a car to know that if a car gets horrible mileage and has poor performance, it's a bad car. Could I design a better car than the guys working at, say, GM? Of course not. Doesn't mean I can't say that they build bad cars. And if all you can say is "lol itz a popcrn movie", then what the hell do you consider a BAD movie? Did the point of The Incredibles just fly over your head?

• TF2 will probably make a mint. But Bay probably just shot the franchise in the long term and probably did himself some damage too. A movie has to be pretty bad for people to get on Facebook and rant about it, which I have seen. TF2 got a lot of people in who figured it was a decent popcorn flick. Those people are vehemently warning others to stay away. Of course it wasn't decent, really, despite what the Michael Bay nuthuggers say. TF1 was pure garbage, I can't imagine what the universally acknowledged inferior sequel is like.

• &#64;Grenadier: Do you laugh at the fart jokes or are you asking people to forgive the director for those?

• Oh and after you write that script put it on the internet so we can pick it apart and dissect it.

• &#64; joe Because i can't just let you all sit here and suck each others egos off. This is the internet, and where ever you go on the internet to voice an opinion someone will be there to disagree and say your wrong. Due to a lack of anything to do that matters, that person is me. And think all you "McBay"(HOLY SHIT THATS SO FUCKING FUNNY) haters, lets see you do something better.Its not hard to write a scrip.

• Ok, seriously there's no fucking way you can rationally say T2 is better that Dark Night, was DK the best film of all time, hell no, but it was intelligent, thrilling, superbly directed and acted, it was a through back to when blockbusters were also top notch films in their own right like Jaws, The Godfather, Star Wars(originals), Raiders of the Lost Ark. There is absolutely nothing wrong with turn off the brain f/x summer fare(it's usually what we get anyways) TROTF was an entertaining film, but exceptionally flawed. I m not a transformers fan, but i am a movie buff, while your entitled to your opinion as I to mine, there is no way you could look objectively at these two movies and say T2 is the better film.

• &#64; sykishi I'm sorry. Let me try that patented Michael Bay wit that you adore so much: "Wat up bitch's! I be humpin' yo leg now, then I fart cause the farts is wat the peeps like, Yo! and buck teeth, and hossa care cause Megan Fox is the foxy bitch Yo! I pimp smack that shit! I deserve da million dollars I get. As long as I donna need to count it cause I can't count whose in what scene yo mo. No matter what shit I make my peeps'll defend me. Dumb summer fae duh ee duh duh duh." There. Did I get it right? Well, I guess it doesn't matter because in the summer you just about like everything what with your brain off, and vegging out, popcorn movies, and lobotomized, and why the hell are you even here anyway. McBay's blog is right down the street.

• &#64; Greg Sorry if it seemed like I was directing that at you. I was actually agreeing which is why I quoted you. the "neener neener" was a people saying I'm wasting my time hating.

• lol granadier i couldent have put it better myself.

• Dark Knight versus Revenge of the Fallen? Okay, I'll play. Was Dark Knight good? Yes. Was it THAT good? No. Did the film owe a lot of its success to Ledger's death? You're an idiot if you don't think so. If anything, Revenge of the Fallen was fun. Say what you will about how goddamn stupid the world is getting, but sometimes I'd rather just see giant robots fuck each other up instead of take a trip into the tortured psyche of a clown-faced criminal. Hell, to be honest I ended up liking Two-Face more than the Joker. In a personal countdown, I'd put Revenge over Dark Knight, but if I were recommending films to someone, I'd flip them.

• Every time I see TF2 in this post and in the comments it makes me want to play Team Fortress 2 and not go see Transformers 2.

• WE NEED TO STOP MEGATRON FROM BLOWING UP THE SUN! $387 million!? Really!? I hate everything.

• Every time I see TF2 in this post and in the comments it makes me want to play Team Fortress 2 and not go see Transformers 2.

• Blinker, I think you mis-understood. I'll all for the hate. This movie deserves the hate. Good on you for getting paid to screw around.

• You guys are blowing TF2 way out of proportion. It's about fucking sentient robots from space. After seeing the movie I'd say it made about as much sense as the original Transformers movie. I was entertained the majority of the time, aside from the obligatory Whitwicky family moments, and honestly that movie was the kind of movie where your mood going in was going to dictate whether you liked the movie or not. The majority of you went in wanting to hate it, so you did. When the G.I. Joe movie comes out in a couple months take a look back at Transformers and I doubt you'll be able to complain as much (unless you just like bitching).

• There is no fairness in an existance that can reward this shit-heap with even more money - none. Thanks a lot General Public - thanks to you we can look forward to more movies with even less quality and even less reason to live than this Summer's offerings. Swine Flu is too fucking good for you, it really is. Still, never miss an oportunity to declare: Fuck Michael Bay and all who sail in her......

• damn joe, thats some grade A wit you have going there, i don't know if i can compete with that.

• "Bad movies don't make 300m+." I keep saying. McBay: Over a billion served. One crap movie with extra cheese please.

• My new secret passion: Watching how many people lurk around message boards and blogs and attack people for 'wasting time' 'hating on' this movie. Umm, asshat. You're wasting the same time as me. It's not like you're reading blogs while out hiking the fucking Yukon Trail or curing cancer. You're sitting in your chair eating Cheetos and drinking Game Fuel just like me. Actually, I'm at work and just surfing blogs in some free minutes. So I'm getting paid to hate on MB. Neener Neener. Also, I didn't plan on hating Revenge. I really was gonna cut Bay some slack as long as he gave us the robots, you know, being cool. That was before I saw 20 minutes of college nonsense, robots farting, and scenes directed by someone who obviously can't remember just where characters are standing in relation to each other.

• Those movies are all good in there own right. the Shrek movies are decent, but i haven't seen the third one so i wont speak on that. If you cant enjoy independence day then you have disease that prevents you from watch good popcorn flicks. Crystal skull i didn't like o much because tbh i don't really care about indy.The star wars prequels were awesome, but i can enjoy movies for what they are and not what people want them to be. Ill be honest, i bawwed like a baby when order 66 happened.(Plo koonn Nooooooooooo!) And spidy 3 is fun if you can turn your brain off and veg out. My point is all these movie made money for a reason and are good in their own right. Peoples un earthly high expectations are ridicules and unless you can stop tat you wont even be satisfied with any movie based on a fucking cartoon or comic book.

• What God would allow this shit to make $387M plus? Just and loving God my ASS!

• I might see it one day. I don't pay that much attention to critics. Hell, a lot of the movies I like have got really bad reviews, like Underworld, and even Van Helsing. Yes, I like Van Helsing, sue me. I think it was a fun movie. And it has, what a 13%? ROTF had a what now? A 21%? I think there's a decent chance of me enjoying this movie. I was never a Transformers fan, so I don't have any expectations. http://io9.com/5301898/michael-bay-finally-made-an-art-movie This review actually sparked my interest, however.

• "Bad movies don't make 300m+." Shrek 3 (hell, Shrek 2)? Independence Day? Did you like Crystal Skull or the Star Wars Prequels or Spidey 3? And that's not even going into inflation-adjusted figures.

• My new secret passion: Watching how many people lurk around message boards and blogs and attack people for 'wasting time' 'hating on' this movie. Umm, asshat. You're wasting the same time as me. It's not like you're reading blogs while out hiking the fucking Yukon Trail or curing cancer. You're sitting in your chair eating Cheetos and drinking Game Fuel just like me. Come to think of it, we all should get out of the fucking hours. When's it supposed to stop raining? Friday? Fuck it. I'll be here until then.

• After reading the comments...Wow. Some of you are saying the movie is bad and you haven't even seen it. Bunch of fucking sheep on here.

• Todd: TRANSFORMERS RISE OF THE FALLEN WAS EVERYTHING YOU COULD EVER WANT FROM A SUMMER ACTION FLICK IT HAD NON STOP ACTION AND AMAZING SPECIAL EFFECTS! CRITICS ARE JUST WORRIED THAT THIS COULD BE THE FILM THAT COULD COME CLOSE TO THE DARK OVERATED KNIGHT SO THEY HAVE TO GIVE IT TERRIBLE REVIEWS! $400M DOMESTIC IS IN THE BAG FOR THIS SEQUEL!!!! Comment by todd — June 24, 2009 @ 1:56 pm Wolf: Thank you Todd, for helping me end my faith in what is left of western civilization, Thank you very much. I saw it: Critics are so out of touch. This is a big fun movie. Heaven forbid people have a good time in a movie theater. I'm going again on Friday. Comment by I saw It — June 24, 2009 @ 2:33 pm Wolf: Nice... You guys are crazy I'm a general manager for a local small town theatre in south Florida and I have yet to hear anyone say anything bad about this movie. We have sold out shows all day long and nobody is complaining the only people I hear trash the movie are the people all over the internet and the critics. This is a 400 million+ movie. Comment by Justin — June 24, 2009 @ 5:25 pm Wolf: Florida eh? FuckyouallHATERS: FUCK all HATERS of this film.. Why don't you all watch some porn then fuck til you drop your daughters…fuckin haters…bet you can't even direct a 10mins clip in your backyard..lol (Michael Bay - Kick-ass Director, you did awesome for the movie, nuff said) This is for all the haters -> FUCK YOU!!!! Comment by FuckyouallHATERS — June 25, 2009 @ 3:39 am Wolf: You've read it, you can't un-read it.

• Well based on how much money its making i think its safe to say the people that hate it might only hate it because of unrealistic expectations. None of the people who talked shit about the movie before they saw it went into the movie trying to like it, they already decided they would hate it. so what im saying is this, when you decide a movie is going to be bad months before you even see it, how can you ever expect to enjoy it? Bad movies don't make 300m+.

• For me, nothing beats the Dark Knight. NOTHING. Except possibly Lord of the Rings. And maybe Hellboy (This is purely my opinion. Please refrain from trashing it.) So yeah.

• "Did Dark Knight open on a Wednesday or a Friday? Did Wednesday and Thursday count in TF2s count?" 1. Wednesday. 2. Nope - check BoxOfficeMojo. TF Made about $112 million on the weekend, well below TDK's $158.4 million. That's why the TF number is misleading - it looks like it's close, but it's already trending well behind Dark Knight. It's possible that ROTF could pass TDK overall when worldwide takes are taken into account, since comic book movies do much better in North America than overseas. And TDK seemed to be uniquely North American appealing - Spidey 3 outdrew it overseas by a fair margin.

• And yet, it still made more money than Watchmen. I'm sad that movie didn't make more money.

• thats a tricky question....sure, dark knight is an awesome move, but...i have spent a lot of time running about pushing karts...

• Did Dark Knight open on a Wednesday or a Friday? Did Wednesday and Thursday count in TF2s count? All these Wednesday premiers are annoying when they are just trying to inflate the opening weekend numbers.

• I would have wept man tears if this beat Dark Knight. Then I would have gone to Japan, steal that giant Gundam, and destroy Hollywood until I got my hands on Bay. I didn't see the flick. And I'm not planning to any time soon!

• On a quasi-related note, I heard Megan Fox blew that kid off again. Is that true?

• I didn't think The Dark Knight was as incredible as people say either, but I can at least tell they attempted to do some kind of justice to the character. They cared a little about quality. I don't think that's asking too much. James Carmeron used to do that with movies like Aliens and The Terminator. They weren't deep movies. They had a simple story but told it well. Bay and his apologists just think Action means throw shit together and be happy with it.

• Ah, heck no! "The Dark Knight" is awesome. Nothing beats it.

• I don't think that comparison is fair. You may not like Harry Potter but the story will be coherent, there will be plot and character development and they will adhere to their own rules. Bay can't be bothered with any of that and unfortunately TF2's success will just tell Hollywood "Make more movies for the stupid. They like pretty colors and things that go 'boom'."

• i thought the dark knight was an amazing film but in all honesty some of its large success was in part due to the hype surrounding the film due to the death of heath ledger. i think thats one big thing the dark knight had going for it. not only that but the film was a great work but it's a shame that a shoddy film like transformers 2 could make as much money as a film that was exceptionally well crafted and mapped out to near perfection shows how mediocre our society truly is. transformers is just a giant explosion a second film that was thrown together by michael bay. the question is what film has bay put together that was actually good? like real good? the first film was pretty good but as for pearl harbor and the other shit hes thrown out (bad boys was ok) he just the sad thing is that this film was the first of the shoddy summer blockbusters that we are gonna be getting in the coming weeks, just you wait to see how much harry potter does then you tell me that our culture has any taste whatsoever

• Yea but some of those 15 year old ass-clowns with too much of mommy's money went back and saw it 3-4 times with different groups of friends. Of course, most of the BO returns came from the same retarded demographic that think it's cool to have a car with a stereo so loud that the bass kills low-flying birds.

• "That they don't need encumbrances like 'plot' or 'character development' to get in the way of their visually-stimulated idiotgasm?" 30% of the gross was opening night - most people didn't KNOW there was going to be a nonsensical plot. This is a sadly typical marketing scheme: get as many people as interested as possible prior to bad press getting out.

• What does it say about the condition of the world's youth that all it takes to get them into the theater is 'splosions and Megan Fox getting humped by robot dogs? That they don't need encumbrances like 'plot' or 'character development' to get in the way of their visually-stimulated idiotgasm? Seriously. Somebody needs to do a study on what we did wrong as a society.

• "Would any of the teeny bopper girls have gone to see it otherwise? Nope. Ledgers death SERIOUSLY padded TDK's numbers." For the opening weekend, sure. But it was #1 for four weeks and in the top three for eight. The "let's see the dead guy" crowd had long since gone away and it was still pulling in big numbers based off the great reviews and Oscar buzz. Again, it wasn't Titanic in that department, but I doubt anything ever will be pulling 15 - 30 million weekends consistently for four months like Titanic ever agin.

• As I said in another post, I liked The Dark Knight, too. I think there's room enough out there for both that and a movie like Revenge of the Fallen to be equally successful.

• TDK and TF2 are 2 completely different movies. it's like comparing apples and oranges. I loved TDK. One of the greatest comic book movies ever put on film. I enjoyed TF2. People piss and moan about Michael Bay movies, yet you all go see them. I went in with the mindset of knowing it's a Michael Bay movie. Don't expect much in plot and be prepared to be dazzled by SFX and big huge robots transforming. I just think it's time for a new director on the Transformers franchise.

• I know I am in the minority, but The Dark Knight wasn't the greatest film ever made. It only has that aura about it due to Heath Ledgers death. Would any of the teeny bopper girls have gone to see it otherwise? Nope. Ledgers death SERIOUSLY padded TDK's numbers. And before anyone accuses me of loving the Bayformers, no I do not. MY Transformers movie came out back in 1986! Unlike many others, I have accepted that.

• "Also, it's more impressive that The Dark Knight opened in the middle of July. Sure, it was middle of the summer, but not near a holiday weekend, where people would take off from work early to get a jump on vacation trips (though I'm sure some people took off early anyway)." The catch there is that there was literally nothing of significance in the next three weeks following Dark Knight. As a result, between the good reviews and repeat business, everyone who wanted to see a movie for a couple of weekends all saw Dark Knight. If you look at Box Office Mojo's figures, it didn't take a significant hit (relative to other movies) until its sixth week of release, which is when it became obvious it wasn't going to be able to keep up with Titanic domestically. ROTF doesn't have that luxury.

• For those who say there's too much complaining about the movie. Go to some sites like Seibertron.com and read the blogs. It's an absolute love fest. I'm surprised people can still type with their keyboards as sticky as they have to be.

• TF2 should NEVER be even mentioned in the same sentence as The Dark Knight. I need a drink.

• I'm glad that I managed to subdue my geek need to watch something like that, even though I know it'll be horrible. Seeing horrible movies top good, and popular, movies is kind of sad. Especially when there's a ton of indi movies out right now that I want to see in the theater. But which don't have a chance, because night at the museum, land of the lost, and transformers are clogging all the screens.

• Well, both did involve deaths: the death of Heath Ledger certainly boosted audiences desire to see the film...and as for ROTF, it was the death of good taste. Also, it's more impressive that The Dark Knight opened in the middle of July. Sure, it was middle of the summer, but not near a holiday weekend, where people would take off from work early to get a jump on vacation trips (though I'm sure some people took off early anyway). The first Transformers took the July 4th week opening in 2007 in order to pad numbers, and here, they just opened a week earlier for practically the same purpose...just an early headstart. Luckily, Public Enemies seems to be getting good buzz, and the duo star-power of box-office blockbuster headliners Jack Sparrow and Batman should make a (Harvey) dent in TF2's box office, now that everyone's gotten their guilty pleasure out of the way.

• No worries - it'll drop by a precipitous amount this weekend now that word of mouth is out and people have better things to do in the US. As it is, Dark Knight beat it over the weekend by $36M (source: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/theateravg.htm?page=THTRWAVG&p=.htm). It had a huge opening day, but it's not being able to keep it up. It might hit $400M domestic, but something tells me it'll have a lot of work to do to get there even though it's in a similar position as Dark Knight with minimal opposition over the next couple of weeks (although Ice Age 3 is going to do HUGE business this weekend and certainly eat into ROTF's screen count, if nothing else).

• Nope. Michael bay again shit his pants, wiped with paper and turned this in as the script for this inane movie. I'd rather watch Yor again.

• Wow, was I wrong ... I thought 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua' would be the box-office hit of the year. ;)

• I don't know how a friend of mine (a female, non-Transformers fan, mind you) feels about The Dark Knight, but when I asked her how Transformers 2 was, trying to keep from laughing after remembering your posts, she said: "I liked it. It was a lot better than the first movie-had a lot more action". In those words. D:

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