Dark Of The Moon Overtakes ROTF in Lifetime Gross

Outstanding- all this means is we'll be seeing more movies in the near-future.

HOLY S#%T!!!!!!!!

suck it roger ebert, all your hate cant stop the people

I didn't think it would outdo RotF, I'm glad I was wrong.

Yes!!! I guess there is some justice in the world! Take that Harry mother...nevermind.

Hopefully DOTM will reach somewhere in the top 5s!!! WHOO!

Well... Yeah. This was obviously gonna happen.
Didn't expect it to happen this soon, but I expected it to happen.

That didn't take long at all. I'm quite surprised actually.

The biggest reason this is happening is actually quite simple, and you'll read about it in various articles about recent top-grossing movies. This Transformers movie, like many other recent movies, is in 3D, meaning they can charge a higher price. That means more revenue per person, so even if the same number of people see it, they'll pull in more money. In fact quite a bit fewer people could see it and they'd still make more, because 3D prices can be as much as 50% higher than normal prices. It's like inflation, except that you actually are getting some "value" added (not simply buying the same product, i.e. 2D, for a higher price), and you have to factor that in when making comparisons. Of course thanks to regular inflation, where the dollar simply becomes worth less and less over time, future movies will forever continue to break past records because it will cost more dollars to see them, regardless of their actual quality or how many people saw them.

dinojack86 wrote:Outstanding- all this means is we'll be seeing more movies in the near-future.

That's the FIRST thing I thought when I saw this article.


There is NO WAY the TF Movie franchise is over, my friends.

see it again? i've seen 5 times already

Brilock wrote:see it again? i've seen 5 times already

Holy S@#$!

Awesome more movies ok
1 Michael Bay revive Starscream give him his own team
2 revive megatron and turn him into galvatron
3 Bring on unicron
4 Have unicron planning to devour the earth
and the Autobots and Decepticons team up to defeat him and galvatron
These are my ideas for Transformers 4:Rise of unicron
Dosent that title make your head explode!

starscreamreturns wrote:Awesome more movies ok
1 Michael Bay revive Starscream give him his own team
2 revive megatron and turn him into galvatron
3 Bring on unicron
4 Have unicron planning to devour the earth
and the Autobots and Decepticons team up to defeat him and galvatron
These are my ideas for Transformers 4:Rise of unicron
Dosent that title make your head explode!

Change that starscream revived and he leads the Decepticons
While galvatron is with unicron

No surprise, just watched it for the 5th time today.

http://www.cooltoyreview.com/2011sdcc/h ... image4.asp
Unicrons got to be in. I think hasbros sending us a message by making so many unicrons they want to but he hasn't been in a movie yet?
That's what i think

joevill wrote:No surprise, just watched it for the 5th time today.

Holy S@#$!

Congratultaions, DoTM! Now parents - go buy your kids all the shelfwarmers so we can get some of the other stuff that we want in!

Neither Hasbro nor the movie studio is going to want to give us too much of a break with this kind of box office success. Numbers don't lie. This movie is a hit, and hasn't even opened in Japan yet.

I watched a 2nd time today, and was amazed that 3+ weeks later the theater was still quite full for this film. I think the 3D is as good or better than Tron:Legacy, but still not up to Avatar quality.

As for the film, I like it quite a bit. I'll need to rewatch the 2nd film now to see if I like it more than when I saw it in the theater. I hated it in the theater. Same thing happened with Indiana Jones 4, and then I liked it more when I watched it again as I tend to forgive many of the flaws on later viewings. The truth of it is these movies are hell of a lot better than I ever expected live action transformers movies to be. I don't think Bay is a good director, but I think he is perfect for something as corny as making a live-action Transformers movie.

DAAAAANNNNNGGGGG......

That's uber impressive. The Japan thing is really surprising. I thought ROTF made big money, this thing is crazy! Pretty much confirms a fourth movie.

Every movie has some flaws, but I think I liked DOTM the best. All things considered, it worked for me and I didn't even see it in 3D. LOL!!!

Impressive haul. Especially in this time frame. Amazing.

Brilock wrote:see it again? i've seen 5 times already

I'm one behind you. Have to go this week then..

Taking my Dad this week, so that's two more tickets to throw on the pile of money. I so happy I could cry!

I need to find an iMax theatre here in Atlanta. You do still have to use 3D glasses, right?

i know most people are not going to agree with this but i have to say that i was very disappointed with DOTM. i went to see it last night and almost walked out have way through it. I'll admit the new character designs were really cool but that's all this movie had going for it in my opinion. ROTF had a much better story and was overall 10x better than DOTM. by the time it got to the decepticon invasion all i could think was "oh look more explosions *yawn*".

Ok,

But apparently you're in the minority on that opinion, judging by the ticket sales for DOTM. For everyone who agrees with you, there are many many people who've seen it and do not agree. Now, had the majority of people who saw the movie hated it but the so-called Transformer fan boy crowd loved it, we'd be looking at different ticket sales figures. Apparently the move was designed for a more mainstream audience and it managed to achieve doing that in a rather big way.

Dr. Heavy B wrote:suck it roger ebert, all your hate cant stop the people

Taken from Wikipedia:

Roger Ebert gave the film one out of four stars, calling it "a visually ugly film with an incoherent plot, wooden characters and inane dialog. It provided me with one of the more unpleasant experiences I've had at the movies.

Visually ugly film? Wow. Maybe they shouldn't let people who don't have full control of their face critic (critique?) movies

Spleenzorio wrote:

Dr. Heavy B wrote:suck it roger ebert, all your hate cant stop the people

Taken from Wikipedia:

Roger Ebert gave the film one out of four stars, calling it "a visually ugly film with an incoherent plot, wooden characters and inane dialog. It provided me with one of the more unpleasant experiences I've had at the movies.

Visually ugly film? Wow. Maybe they shouldn't let people who don't have full control of their face critic movies

He's blind. Visually ugly? He must be one of the people who thought Avatar looked realistic. The characters weren't totally wooden, but the plot kind of was incoherent...too bad that's not enough to take this movie off my list of favorite movie of all time.

SlyTF1 wrote:

Spleenzorio wrote:

Dr. Heavy B wrote:suck it roger ebert, all your hate cant stop the people

Taken from Wikipedia:

Roger Ebert gave the film one out of four stars, calling it "a visually ugly film with an incoherent plot, wooden characters and inane dialog. It provided me with one of the more unpleasant experiences I've had at the movies.

Visually ugly film? Wow. Maybe they shouldn't let people who don't have full control of their face critic movies

He's blind. Visually ugly? He must be one of the people who thought Avatar looked realistic. The characters weren't totally wooden, but the plot kind of was incoherent...too bad that's not enough to take this movie off my list of favorite movie of all time.

Exactly. You can't argue with the amount of success the film is making, the numbers are right there. I love all 3 movies as a whole, even if all my favorite ones died in the end

Ebert needs to be put out to pasture anyway. He's dead wrong on this film. Thankfully, film goers don't base the movies they choose to see on the opinions of hack/critics like Ebert.

Cyberion wrote:Ebert needs to be put out to pasture anyway. He's dead wrong on this film. Thankfully, film goers don't base the movies they choose to see on the opinions of hack/critics like Ebert.

For real, what really puzzles me is is spite of his complaints of the Transformers movies he liked Cloverfield. That movie is the poster child of ugly visuals and incoherent plots.

That just lets us all know how out of touch Ebert is. I've never based a movie viewing decision on his opinion.

Rodimus Prime wrote:I haven't seen DotM in about 3 weeks. I think I will do so this weekend. Nothing good is coming out anyway...

That sounds like a good idea...though I was thinking about catching cowboys and aliens....