Star Trek one year on

[Deckerd]

I have a theory that there just wasn't anything else for the kids to go to when Transformers 2 came out.

 

[Lord Garth]

Everyone I know went to see Transformers 2 but only a few of them liked it. It's one of those movies that everyone went to see to have an opinion.

I admit to being one of those people. Yes, I know I should've known better, having seen the first movie, but I couldn't help myself. I'm part of the blame. I wanted to see if the movie was really as racist as people were saying it was.

Plus I used to like Transformers when I was a kid, so there was some sentimentality that influenced my decision to to go see it. Ultimately, I wasn't going to not see it. I forgot to remind myself it's not 1985 anymore.

EDIT: And, yeah, if children are flocking to see a Transformers movie, then it's not just them. You've got one or both parents coming along and their siblings. In children's movies (of which TF2 is a bad example), for every one child who wants to see it, you're selling 2-5 tickets. How many of the parents would've really gone to see Transformers 2 on their own without the kids?

 

[Captain Robert April]

Not that it matters to the studio. All they see are the box office returns, so TF3 was essentially greenlit by the time the second week returns were in for TF2.

 

[Devon]

It's hard to explain why Transformers 2 did so well. It was eviscerated by critics and yet managed over 800 million, which was more than the first one.

It was following in the trail of its hugely popular predecessor which helped, but how it surpassed it is beyond me personally.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

One year on and I am still in love.. I think we will be getting married soon.