Transformers One Fails To Take Top Spot At The Box Office

The TJCS crew discuss Transformers One underperforming at the box office and failing to take the number one spot.
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[@spiders0420]

I am 46 and I took my 16 year old son. We both loved it. I think it is time for them to make a movie more for adults.

[@EnragedTofu]

In my opinion, I am blaming the marketing of this film and also the release date. This film should’ve been released during the summer when kids were out of school.

[@eastcoastshine2009]

Bad advertising…The trailers implied that all the Transformers will appear childish

[@ArtSawce]

Probably because many people thinks it's a kids movie, the 3d cartoony style didnt do it any favors even though its beautifully animated and the trailer also felt tailored to children.

[@jesserochon3103]

Trailers were hot trash. The movie itself is a masterclass of filmmaking. In my top ten animated movies of all time.

[@hopegalaxy]

That's giving animation a bad name buddy.

[@Jay-jb2vr]

True

[@XsCrib]

Transformers definitely has a young audience. Bayformers and Transformers Prime carried our childhoods. Blame the marketing, especially that first trailer.

[@jasonone8726]

Bay ruined the reputation of the Transformers ip with years of crappy movies.

[@XsCrib]

@@jasonone8726 those films were making billions of dollars. I’d say it was the last knight that began to turn fans away

[@jasonone8726]

@XsCrib Yeah, but it was poorly received. Great marketing is what helped those movies, as the trailers always made it look good. They hit a new low with the Mark Whalberg movie with how bad it was, and by the time we got to the next one, you could see the huge decline in the numbers.

[@arandomcollector751]

As soon as I saw the first trailer it looked like it was for toddlers I skipped everything from this movie after that heard from a friend it was actually good I’m going to see it tomorrow

[@tacobell4542]

I think you’re 1000% right about the first trailer. I only saw this because of the good buzz, I thought it looked awful based off the first trailer. I’m happy I ended up seeing it, because I completely loved it, but they really did drop it with the trailer. I cannot get some of my friends to see it because of the trailer

[@nikunjdixit1175]

The film is significantly more adult than the marketing suggested. And that may have been the problem. The core Transformers fans are adults now, but the trailers made it look like a kiddie film when it most definitely is not.

[@Jason-..-]

Despite not looking forward to this movie i went to see it just to support paramount since the reviews were great. What a WONDERFUL film it was, i truly hope good word of mouth does its magic.

[@AutisticAnimator10]

@@Jason-..- it’s really good!

[@byronkennedy7203]

Why would the public listen to industry people going "Guys believe me this movie is really good." They said The Flash was the best superhero ever. I trust my friends more than critics and pundits.

[@jacketernity4609]

1st trailer really hurt it in my opinion.

[@haloacevedo3178]

Me and all my hardcore transformers are going on Wednesday but sad I couldn’t contribute to opening weekend and that it’s underperforming i know this movie deserves the praise

[@Mark-zo1hs]

I actually think that animation is where the future lies for Transformers. Make good animated movies to make new fans and get the old ones back. And when they are comfortable enough, maybe they should make a few live action movies.

[@rmgonzalez23]

I am REALLY bummed about this, waited 20 years for movie like this from Transformers. They finally made a great movie.... Gets good reviews, but nobody went to see it. I guess if it had 60 million special effects budget, maybe someone would have came

[@ThePonderer]

I really hope this movie has legs. It’s the first transformers movie that feels completely like something made by passionate people with a story they really wanted to tell.

[@CreaturesOfTheMarsh]

The trailers are the problem. I saw this at the fan screening last week, but I had to basically be dragged to it by my wife even after the solid reviews. The trailers were awful and looked like Transformers for babies. Now that I’ve seen it and loved it, I’m having trouble convincing friends to go for the same reason

[@radishsam2966]

Great movies that flop survive through their fandoms despite initially lacking commercial success. Let word spread. Kids will talk more in school, and adults at the office. Still has time to catch on.

[@momotaro2488]

I honestly would’ve skipped this movie if I wasn’t a movie fan. The only reason why I changed my mind was because of the KZbinrs that explained how it wasn’t a kids movie like I thought it was. Someone who doesn’t watch reviewers would probably assume it’s a toddler movie based on the 1st trailer.

[@UntoldNightmaresPodcast]

I saw it today & one of the ushers came in during the 2nd post credit scene and asked me if the movie was actually good because he was really skeptical about watching it at first but after watching that post credit scene he said that his interest was peaked and might give it a chance. So I think promotion and tone in the trailers didn't do this movie justice.

[@taz-b5m]

You misinterpret the “it’s animated” stance. Specifically for TF, people expect it to be live-action now, and when it isn’t, the impression is that it’s kiddy. The first trailer obviously reinforced that. Adults go to watch and/or bring their kids to watch Inside Out and Minions because the former is known to have mature themes, and the latter is just a good laugh for all.

[@anyaaa2801]

Oh no. I hate when good movies/animated movies fail at the box office and we never see their full potential….ie Atlantis.

[@byronkennedy7203]

What's not to get? They lost the trust of the public a long time ago.

[@domrodriguex]

I’m one of the people that wrote off this movie after watching the trailer. It didn’t do a good job of showing the tone for what it actually was. I was surprised by your positive review and went out to see it. I LOVED THIS MOVIE! And you’re right most people don’t think transformers are cool anymore but if they would have shown some of the more serious scenes from this movie I think more of the older audience would have went out to see it. Pg rating was weird I agree, maybe that played a part in it looking more childish than it really was.

[@retloclive9118]

Marketing for this film was rough. That first trailer that had "Start Me Up" playing made it look way too kiddy.

[@bfgboy2]

100% due to the animation. If you weren't already a Transformers fan, you can only go by trailers, which, let's be honest...wasn't special. If I hadn't been invited to watch the movie with a friend, I would have continued to think of it as a kids animation. Really enjoy the movie, but it should have had a more unique style of animation pause more money into advertisement rather than its voice actors.

[@worlddd7777]

Agreed, to me, in terms of atmosphere and tone and animation, music Transformers 86 is still unmatched

[@MightyRantologist]

the animation is great, but the trailers dont really showcase it. in the actual movie its amazing

[@14exor]

Reasons I believe Transformers One underperformed: 1. That first trailer made it feel like it was strictly a kids movie, adults without kids felt it can be skipped or wait until digital 2. Parents that saw trailer and it as only a kids movie were going to skip out on this movie, because we are at height of the beginning of the school fall semester. Parent got their kids too busy with homework or extra curricular activities to drop all that money for a afternoon at the movies. 3. This was a summer block buster that was put in the dead season of movie watching for everyone, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse was put out in a similar time frame and got $35million opening weekend and I believe it got a bump in ticket sales cause of the popularity of Spider-Man Homecoming during the same summer blockbuster season year. Timing is everything

[@ParagonGoetia]

Add in a bunch of 40 year old that made families and the overall public not want to appraoch it because of their grown children cries. Truly, those "fans" are great at doing this to the franchise.

[@14exor]

@@ParagonGoetia i don't understand in what way are adult fans of the G1 cartoon, scaring away families from theater? The comment section? I dont know any casual fan with a family that are going through the comment sections of transformer one YT videos.

[@ParagonGoetia]

@@14exor People have plenty of access to the internet (be it families, children or the general audience) and the impression was that 1. The movie was going to be bad no matter what as a narrative pushed by them. 2. These grown adults act like they are 7 and throw tantrums that make the overall internet looking from outside choose to not give it a chance.

[@14exor]

@@ParagonGoetia I still don't understand where are you getting the idea that grown adults are making other grown adults not want to go see this movie? as an example, its clearly Not getting reviewed bombed. Rotten Tomato has TFone at a 98% of over 1000 audience reviews that are positive. 2%..roughly 20ish people are scaring the masses away? i dont believe that

[@dazza818]

Saw the trailer and said "nah, it's not for me" Heard the reviews and said "maybe I'll give it a try" Looked at the cinema times and realised it's not released in my country until next month. That's when I knew the numbers wouldn't be great.

[@kymerahYT]

It’s been 4 days. FFS. Plus, everyone who actually likes Transformers beyond the live action normie crap LOVES this film. I love Dark of the Moon, but I’ve always had to make excuses for why it’s my favourite. But with this film, I don’t have to, because it’s a genuinely great movie, I feel proud to show my love for it. People have a short memory. Having a darker tone and good marketing wouldn’t of done anything. Look at War for Cybertron (game) its serious, has a dark art-style, was riding on the popularity of the films and has the same setting as One. It was a commercial failure, but the actual fans supported it and it got a sequel.

[@ndnomar5640]

The franchise’s reputation is in the dirt. That’s it, pretty much. If you can’t get the kids to go, that means you’ve lost of a lot of cache. As a casual fan, it was Age of Extinction that killed it for me. Haven’t really been excited for a Transformers since.

[@protegemusic09]

I'll be honest here, i wasnt initially planning on seeing this movie. The trailer didnt really do anything for me, i was disappointed we werent getting original voice actors, and i thought it would be a really childish movie. It wasnt until i saw all the really positive reviews that i decided to go see it. And I'm glad i did and 100% agree with those positive reviews, absolutely loved this movie. I hope it picks up steam as word of mouth grows.

[@isacctavares1368]

Bad first trailer killed it. It looked super kiddie and super silly MCU humor. Hasbro and Paramount had no idea how to market it. Bad release date. That and some of the other movies killed it.

[@Kekkersboy]

Saying that Transformers hasn't been growing new fans is a bit odd to say. It's not as if they haven't had hit tv series near consistantly on air There's literally never been a time when a new generation of fans isn't being interoduced to kids.

[@moxleydev]

The first trailer really threw me off, but based on what you guys said and other youtubers said, I went with your words and booked it on opening night still. I almost skipped this movie. And now.. wow, what an awesome movie this was. I personally really blame the first trailer and their marketing. I'd love sequels to this.

[@drizzyfreckles]

Seems that first trailer was its own worst enemy.

[@ricardoman8018]

This was the best transformers movie since transformers 2007

[@widggman]

The D16's transformation into Megatron was the best part of that movie

[@Saiyan1229]

The marketing was bad for the movie. That first trailer was awful and made a lot of people including myself thing this was gonna be wayyy too kiddy. Obviously we were so wrong. But at the same time i wonder how much would have been given away if they showed that side of the movie too much in the trailers:/

[@Ultimate-Deadpool]

Poor marketing from studio making out its aimed purely for kids whats misguided as its a great movie probably more so for older audiences

[@studior2962]

John you’re completely and utterly wrong about Transformers not being perceived as cool anymore, I’m only 20 and Transformers has been my favorite franchise ever, I’ve made large friend groups of people my age because of Transformers, most of the people online who talk about Transformers now are people in their teens or young 20s and 30s

[@SPatel-hf9nt]

Yeah but it’s different because you have nostalgia for it. General audiences don’t that’s why transformers movies don’t make much box office anymore. The general audience don’t care. The first transformers movie did good because it was knew seeing these cool scenes and stuff. That ran its course for general audiences since the stories for them started to slowly become shit (talking about bays) Bays version basically last knight killed general audiences attention on transformers, that’s why ROTB did less then bumblebee and this one doing worse

[@singed8853]

The franchise is not as popular as it was years ago. I think most people who previously enjoyed the franchise consider it to be played out.

[@jinwu9423]

You're not the entire population nor every generation.

[@vincentsolis5149]

Michael Bay destroyed the franchise

[@manukau5271]

It definitely fell off

[@luisquintero7359]

I don’t understand why a fantastic movie like this underperforms, but when a horrendous film like Venom the Last Dance, people then wanting to see it. I just hope that positive word of mouth can save this movie.

[@thevagabond1314]

Venom will be peak

[@johncampea]

Part of the problem with today’s fans. Calling a movie that they’ve never seen and isn’t out yet “horrendous”.

[@WillHerren]

@@johncampeaJohn stop it, everyone knows Venom 3 is gonna be mid at best. The 3rd movie of the series is not suddenly going to be a Best Picture nomination.

[@申月営無営月無営有申]

@@luisquintero7359 People love dumb fun movies like Bayverse and Venom LMAOOOOOO

[@luisquintero7359]

@@申月営無営月無営有申 that doesn’t mean they’re good all of a sudden. They still suck.

[@Squiddlewheel]

I’m willing to bet a huge reason this movie isn’t doing well is because people probably assume this movie is another live action film that’s connected to the rest. Not helping is the fact that one of the producers consistently claims it’s part of that universe when it’s so obviously not. This is the most beginner friendly transformers film, but I bet most audiences think that you need a bunch of context for it.

[@SpiderHam]

Aww I’m hoping word of mouth gives this movie legs

[@AutisticAnimator10]

@@SpiderHam same it’s such a wonderful movie

[@adamcade604]

Let's hope it does the same as Elemental

[@thehacker4012]

I think the general public are used to Transformers films being live action, and the switch to animation may seem like a downgrade. I'm not saying that is fair, but animation doesn't get the same respect as live action.

[@eduardogalindo6065]

I’m from Latin America and a big problem was the voice cast, Paramount choose to hire a singer and a streamer with accusations of questionable behavior with minors instead of the actors that regularly do this type of movies, a lot of mans voiced those concerns and made campaigns to change the cast but Paramount didn’t listen, so the results speak from themselves.

[@wreckzc]

Ray is right, It was the poor advertising and marketing. They should have been in kids face everywhere. Should have been in Roblox, minecraft, and tik tok. I have older kids and they didnt care to watch

[@lssproductions3180]

This deserves to make way more than it is. It was so much better than the first trailer made it loom

[@infinite5069]

Transformers 1 was sooo good. Sad to see it underperform :(

[@TheAutobotPower]

I'd like to add a 4th and 5th reason. 4th: the toys are bad; they're so cheap nowadays they're not worth their high price. 5th: The nowadays "side dishes" also know as the TV/streaming series, especially the last one, it's more controversy than Transformers, in a bad way.

[@WhatamIdoinghere1]

Agree with Ray. The marketing campaign for this movie was not good. Definitely could have used more spots, trailers, etc.

[@jlopez3a]

I did not see one trailer for this movie until the day before it came out

[@chrisjhermanreacts]

To get to the point faster...bad marketing and a legacy of terrible films from Michael Bay. There you go.

[@David-ox7ps]

I think it’s about audience expectations. When I think of transformers I think of the live action films. So my first reaction is, I’ll skip it and wait for the movie. Between this, Bumblebee and rise of the beasts it feels very inconsistent.

[@rebelines]

My wife suggested seeing this today with the kids and I almost convinced her not to go. I’m so glad she didn’t listen to me. This was a really great film.

[@robertdickson9319]

Transformers One toys are all over the place - readily available at Walmart & Target. Most were out well in advance of the movie's debut. I think a big negative was the time slot it was put in - kids are back in school. This should have been out earlier in the summer.

[@stuartmortimer2058]

In the uk there was no marketing we didn’t even know it was out

[@BrikMason]

Glad i got out to see it this weekend.

[@dielugo10]

Jesus Christ does Campea ever just get to the point!!!!

[@chrisjhermanreacts]

He has to constantly provide a backstory to everything before he gets to the point.

[@princekeiii]

If you are a fan then go support this movie! i’ve seen it 3 times now!! We have to show them we want more of this new take on Transformers

[@nerdoholic3639]

I'm from the UK so I feel that it didn't help that it's not out here till October and people have filmed parts of it and put it online

[@fridengieger999]

I think you owe it to the franchise to give this movies time to grow. I have been a huge fan of transformers since I was a child. When TF One was announced, I was excited but the art style and first trailer definitely destroyed my enthusiasm. However, after your review and all the good press I have bought tickets for this upcoming weekend. This movie and franchise are not dead. I think this weekend will be a big deal for TF One.

[@stevemartegani]

I blame the design of the Transformers and the commercials for this. It made it look like a straight-to-VHS movie from 20 years ago. Regardless of how good the story/script is, it really killed a lot of interest. In contrast, TMNT Mutant Mayhem had a great trailer and amazing visuals that drew in more interest than expected for that movie.

[@Sketchcraft]

100000%

[@7472wayne]

I agree on the three points: 1. Trailer One was an immediate turn off. I collect Transformers and I was not going to watch this because of trailer one. Trailer two changed my mind (thankfully) 2. Marketing was lacklustre. 3. They just haven’t done enough to bring in a new audience. I’m also going to add one additional thing that would have had an effect and that was Peter Cullen. I know people that boycotted this movie because of the recasting of Optimus.

[@PHARAOHIC_CIS-HET]

The trailer for it made it look like childish garbage, to be honest. I only saw it after the good reviews, and it was pretty decent. Word of mouth just came too late for it, but I think it will have a strong 2nd week.

[@Redpmac]

Nonsense to suggest that this being animated didn’t impact the box office. This is a live action franchise now, most casual fans aren’t interested in it reverting back to a cartoon. I’d be very surprised if the War of The Rohirrim movie doesn’t suffer a similar fate. It’s not an apples to apples comparison to Minions or Inside Out which have only ever been animated. If a new live action Transformers came out with these reviews, I’d probably have gone to see it.

[@josephwoods5925]

There were toys in my local Walmart before the movie released.

[@johnmivule-novabow8143]

I think its safe to say that the Marketing team Destroyed this movie. They didn't cook! There has to be a way for them to salvage it.

[@bcatbb2896]

the price is too high for this. the voice acting from famous actors also inflated the budget for a movie that should be on streaming to start. this may be good, but its not a theater movie

[@timeoftheend7156]

The reason I think it didn't do good was because of those early screenings, someone recorded the movie and leaked it on the web, many people that could have gone watch it at the theater didn't because they already have with the leaked version

[@jesusnezahualcoyotlvazquez3942]

In Mexico and all of Latin America the film was dead due to the very, very bad decisions made in the Spanish dubbing, bordering on misleading marketing with the revelation of startalents a few weeks before the premiere when the trailers initially showed an impressive cast, this even alienated Transformers fans who now refuse to see the film because in most theaters there is no option to see it in English.

[@arlopear7136]

Top 3 Reasons in order: 1. Michael 2. Benjamin 3. Bay

[@rhashadcarter2051]

nah. he made them cool

[@JezzaBondiBeach]

Audiences have lost faith in the transformers brand

[@johnrazvaliaeff]

I'm in my mid 40s and grew up loving Transformers. I loved the first trailer and thought it was pretty funny. From what I read a lot of people said it looked stupid like a forced comedy and maybe that turned a bunch of people away. Hopefully they are hearing all the great reviews and decide to go watch it and make it a lot more money next weekend.

[@Saiyan1229]

That first trailer definitely didnt win people over. Didnt start winning people over till the second trailer

[@heroicgangster9981]

i hope word of mouth and people HAVING GOOD TASTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE gets the box office to be profitable for Transformers One

[@Tru7blue]

I work with a few transformers fans (80’s cartoon fans). And brought up Transformers One and they had no clue. None! That this movie was coming out. I told them you need to see it. When I told them it was animated, some of their reaction seemed non interested. I even had two coworkers say they’ll wait until streaming.

[@Mr.JakeSkywalker]

I don't see how this movie would need a PG-13 rating, it's animated robots.. and that one scene where someone gets ripped in half is barely shown.. the camera pans away from it until he's already ripped in half so it hardly shows anything

[@koopa3195]

I’ve not seen it but I’ve seen in the final trailer that someone’s arm (Shockwave I think) is ripped off by Optimus. That’s not gorey? Okay, sure mate.

[@Mr.JakeSkywalker]

@@koopa3195 do you know what gorey means? gore, as in blood. Hahahaha robots don't bleed lol what a looney comment

[@aljoe0181]

Hope they decide to make a sequel because I loved it

[@grimdicer152]

Transformers 1986 will forever remain the best feature length film

[@Mellow4all]

The first trailer went wrong

[@thealvinpodcast2024]

This is one of those movies that I hope that it would have good legs. I went into this movie has little to no expectations, and I came out with a big smile on my face, satisfied with what I got.

[@JoybuzzerX]

Saw it. I knew many who didnt even know about it. However when shown it, it looked childish. A lot of the looks did look a bit childish. I still think it's second to 1986 movie.

[@ninjagofire02]

The first trailer really made me think it was a kids movie and I was going to pass, but being a fan for years I was going to give it a chance.

[@matthewavenger7828]

I was born in 1994 and I am huge Transformers fan, I have seen every cartoon and every live action movie and I saw Transformers one and I loved it. Its sad that its not doing well because I would love to see more in this animation style. I know a lot people would of wanted a full CGI animated movie like the beginning of bumblebee. I would love to see that too but I would love to see a sequal to transformers one and see it continue but see the box office I don't know. People go watch it and make it have legs and earn more money in the next few weeks and it should make it

[@michaelvin8632]

Just speaking for myself, I didn’t wanna see this initially because the animation looked like it was targeted for little children. It wasn’t until later that I heard the story was actually amazing.

[@michaeljohnson8868]

My 2 reasons why TF One flopped: 1. It all started with TF4&5, the WORST ONES. Those movies particularly TLK were so bad they made so many people give up on the films regardless of how good they're turning out now since Bumblebee. I like Michael Bay but I admit that he killed the franchise's further potential. 2. The TF films just aren't the big events they once were. Back then everyone was highly anticipating the next one and now that energy is sadly gone. Not just from G1 fans but even my generation the Millennials who have enjoyed these films more than they have.

[@Mr49r1681]

I’m in my 50s and I still talk about the Transformers. My theories and facts of why Transformers One underperformed are; the first trailers are terrible and low marketed, Peter Cullen isn’t voicing Orion Pax / Optimus Prime; core fans aren’t watching, it looks like another alternate reality in the Transformers multiverse after Cybertron War, Combiners War, Prime and Beast Wars CG shows.

[@gianthand8130]

I see

[@jasonschneider7224]

Sadly, as much as I loved the movie, it's at an unfortunate intersection. I have a lot of friends who grew up on Transformers and loved them, but the trailer just turned them off. Those same people also commented that Transformers One is too much of a "kid's" movie, and THEIR kids aren't interested. So if your kids aren't interested, and you think it's going to be a goofy kids' movie you'd have to slog through, why would you want to see it? Sadly, I think if they had started with a more mature trailer, they'd find that kids not only like to be treated like they are more mature, but the adults would have more of a reason to want to take them to watch it. I also think there is a bit of a franchise glut right now - Transformers, Marvel, etc. - many of these brands have been dominant in the theaters for a long time, and I hate to say it, but I think people are bored of them. That means if the first trailer doesn't grab someone's attention, they probably are not in the mindset to give a second chance to a franchise that's had a ton of disappointing iterations. I hope word of mouth lets them catch up later - or they hit it big on streaming (I have to admit, it's primarily the cinephiles that are going to theaters, and they are more tired of these franchises than the rest of us - my area will not even carry this movie, I had to go out of town) so I think that's a genuine possibility.

[@Twin_Takoyaki]

I work in retail, and my job has had a huge store display of Transformers ONE and other Transformers products to promote the film. Many other stores in the US have, although I do think the Transformers ONE toyline fumbled in some ways that past Bay Transformers movie toylines haven’t. I think those films had a much better grasp on how to get kids interested enough in the toys to want to see the film. They used to do continuous waves of figures with character bios and eye catching packaging. Transformers ONE also did have a couple popcorn buckets as well. There was the Optimus Prime one that was also a cup, the AMC one that lit up, and a couple others. There was a transforming Orion Pax one that I think got cancelled that probably would’ve gotten more eyes on the film, but it hasn’t been spotted in about a year now.

[@kahtanalobaidi1550]

I feel like it was the first trailers fault

[@Saiyan1229]

For sure. Whoever thought that first trailer was a good idea should be fired cause it did zero justice to show how the movie actually was gonna be like

[@gianthand8130]

Agreed

[@juanluismendoza8655]

Regarding John’s animation argument, while it’s true that animated movies like Inside Out 2 and Minions are doing great at the box office, I will propose something else. Is it possible that maybe people might be turned off by the idea of Transformers being animated? I think audiences, for better or worse, have become used to Transformers being a live action franchise. Sure, there’s been animated Transformers content before but this the first time since the 80s that an animated Transformers movie was released in theaters. Going back to Inside Out and Minions, those were always animated franchises; it’s not like those were live action franchises and they suddenly decided to make an animated film. I’m someone who loved this film but even I must admit the idea of a new animated Transformers film was weird when I first heard about it.

[@TheActs2021]

I was actually excited hoping it would be like the 1986 film... that would have been EPIC.

[@JasonBebopp343]

Not sure about the US but in the Uk a lot of people I know, including me, have skipped it because the trailers looked childish and the PG rating confirmed this. When the powers that be are ready to make a Transformers movie like the Beginning of Bumblebee, wake me up 😊

[@laminypie82]

The parallel to the 86 movie are crazy. Also didn't do well at the box office but a cult classic now.

[@lamontmcfadden6642]

And John said this movie is better than the original movie that came out in 86 the movie that came out in 86 is a classic

[@RonsarLo]

Respectfully, Michael Bay did a big turd on our childhood. I hope he can support this for a chiu in that manner. But my understanding is we need to move on without him

[@3DSte1985]

Looks like it's upto EU to save the franchise after the American fans have let it down.

[@NUFC_Adam]

I’ve heard great things about this but the trailers just never did it for me and seems to be the case for a lot of other people as well.

[@MightyRantologist]

go give it a chance if you get the opportunity. its amazing. the trailers are actual dog water, they NEED to fire their marketing team

[@lochdedy8674]

Transformers One feels out of place for the franchise. It looks like it was catered to children ages 6 to 13.

[@heroicgangster9981]

but the irony is that transformers one is one of the most legendary transformers series that does go into the deeper themes of the franchise

[@maxpops8427]

You act like the Transformers was never catered to kids

[@MightyRantologist]

"looks like" if you actually watched it you would know its extremely dark

[@mattmobilee]

I loved it, probably didn't do good because it looked like it was for kids and kids just aren't into transformers anymore

[@ricardoman8018]

I hope they make a sequel

[@curtis4176]

Took my kids to see it in IMAX they loved it, great story hopefully it will have legs

[@jackiejupiter586]

I hate how Hollywood has become this thing where a movie has only opening weekend to judge its success. Let movies sit in theatres for a month or so and let them grow naturally. I will say though this should have been an early august summer movie, after inside out and despicable me

[@jfb3361]

It’s because it’s extremely rare to see long legs on a movie. And even if there is, you can estimate weekly drops from the initial box office to roughly gauge how much it’ll make.

[@NoFormalTraining]

The PG rating might be because they are robots, not people or animals and therefore, somehow the violence, no matter how gruesome might not be considered real? Supposedly to get a PG rating for the original 1986 movie, they had to add in a couple of lines of swearing, and just look at the kind of violence and death in that!

[@jasonone8726]

The trailer made it look strictly like a kids movie, and I agree that they didn't put much into the marketing. Animated movies usually have great legs at the box office, so with good word of mouth, it can do what Elemental did.

[@申月営無営月無営有申]

@@jasonone8726 bring back bayverse