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(The Hollywood Reporter)   So the new Transformers movie badly underperformed in the U.S. this weekend. But let's see how it did overseas...oh my   (hollywoodreporter.com) divider line
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Mugato [TotalFark]  
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2017-06-26 10:25:28 AM  
Thanks a lot, China. You're a large contributor to our not having nice things.
 
gopher321 [OhFark]  
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2017-06-26 10:40:53 AM  
Producers: Here you go, China - a big dumb confusing CGI mess...swap out the english with your own language. In fact, swap out the story with whatever makes sense to your own people, since we film these deliberately without any context.

China: Thank you. Opium for the (dumb) masses!
 
BumpInTheNight [OhFark]  
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2017-06-26 10:56:36 AM  
I can't even remember how many of them I watched.  At least two, I think maybe three.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]  
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2017-06-26 11:19:41 AM  

BumpInTheNight: I can't even remember how many of them I watched.  At least two, I think maybe three.


You probably saw the one where robots are fighting in a CGI mess where you can't tell who is on whose side and the girl is hot and the dude stares blankly like an idiot.
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]  
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2017-06-26 11:21:35 AM  

gopher321: Producers: Here you go, China - a big dumb confusing CGI mess...swap out the english with your own language. In fact, swap out the story with whatever makes sense to your own people, since we film these deliberately without any context.

China: Thank you. Opium for the (dumb) masses!


Well, that's a first.
 
BumpInTheNight [OhFark]  
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2017-06-26 12:06:00 PM  

Mugato: BumpInTheNight: I can't even remember how many of them I watched.  At least two, I think maybe three.

You probably saw the one where robots are fighting in a CGI mess where you can't tell who is on whose side and the girl is hot and the dude stares blankly like an idiot.


I think that was the last one I saw yah, it had a lot of pro-americana type moments too right?  Also in that one they threw in some useless characters that were bluntly 'urban' to meet some demographic appeal too if I remember correctly.
 
Weidbrewer [OhFark]  
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2017-06-26 12:23:12 PM  
this isn't surprising at all.  This series is mainly made for China in the first place.  They know they're gonna flop stateside, but that's okay, because that's actually the secondary market for this kind of movie.
 
The Googles Do Nothing [OhFark]  
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2017-06-26 12:27:39 PM  
I tried to watch one of them with my kid, who must have been 8 at the time....it was terrible.   Could not hold my attention or his and coupled with the profanity I turned it off.  I think we saw about 20 minutes and I never want to see any more.  Awful.
 
brandent  
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2017-06-26 12:29:18 PM  

Mugato: BumpInTheNight: I can't even remember how many of them I watched.  At least two, I think maybe three.

You probably saw the one where robots are fighting in a CGI mess where you can't tell who is on whose side and the girl is hot and the dude stares blankly like an idiot.


I only saw the first one but that pretty much sums it up.  It was quite entertaining up to the last 20 minutes after which I have no idea at all what happened.  I made a general assumption the rest would be stupid.
 
justanotherfarkinfarker  
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2017-06-26 12:29:22 PM  
Yeah it's big in china till those people who saw and bootlegged it the first weekend start selling the copies with rendered subtitles.

/surprised I can't read any Chinese at this point.
 
clkeagle [BareFark]  
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2017-06-26 12:29:31 PM  

Weidbrewer: this isn't surprising at all.  This series is mainly made for China in the first place.  They know they're gonna flop stateside, but that's okay, because that's actually the secondary market for this kind of movie.


Then how about we just skip the domestic release of the Bayformer movies and send them straight to China, and meanwhile reboot the Transformers franchise in a way that is actually designed for American audiences?
 
peterthx  
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2017-06-26 12:34:26 PM  
Don't understand.
FARK told me American audiences are the stupidest on Earth and that audiences overseas had better taste.

So what is it?
 
Hickory-smoked  
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2017-06-26 12:37:46 PM  

peterthx: Don't understand.
FARK told me American audiences are the stupidest on Earth and that audiences overseas had better taste.

So what is it?


No Farker ever told you that, and you're projecting.
 
Random Anonymous Blackmail  
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2017-06-26 12:37:56 PM  
No wonder it failed, who wants to see a movie about a masculine looking woman that who would pick up on girls just to have strap on sex with them.
 
Telos  
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2017-06-26 12:39:40 PM  

Random Anonymous Blackmail: No wonder it failed, who wants to see a movie about a masculine looking woman that who would pick up on girls just to have strap on sex with them.


I'm pretty sure Pornhub has an entire section for that...
 
T.rex  
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2017-06-26 12:41:22 PM  
It doesn't even seem like they advertised this one.... I saw the trailer before a theatrical film, and also online because i sought it out, but i did not just randomly catch the trailer during normal TV viewing.  Its like they thought the audience was built in, why advertise it.... but i'm kinda with it, in terms of film and did not even know they were releasing it last weekend.
 
Hickory-smoked  
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2017-06-26 12:42:33 PM  
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The Hollywood Reporter genre-fiction column is named "Heat Vision", but all that logo says to me is "this movie is like a red-hot barbed hook right into your eye socket."
 
Mugato [TotalFark]  
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2017-06-26 12:44:06 PM  

Hickory-smoked: peterthx: Don't understand.
FARK told me American audiences are the stupidest on Earth and that audiences overseas had better taste.

So what is it?

No Farker ever told you that, and you're projecting.


Yeah, he does that. And he thinks the Star Trek movies don't suck.
 
Dear Jerk  
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2017-06-26 12:44:09 PM  
Some movies are made for people who don't speak English good.
 
Don't Lag Me Bro  
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2017-06-26 12:44:22 PM  

BumpInTheNight: I can't even remember how many of them I watched.  At least two, I think maybe three.


Sadly, I too, believed that the third movie would be better than the second thanks to Bay's assurances. (he blamed the second film on the writer's strike, I think) I didn't see it in the theatre, but I was duped into watching it.
Bay used to have fun movies e.g. The Rock, Armageddon. But I would say his quality has dropped substantially since then (nearly 20 years ago!).
 
Watubi  
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2017-06-26 12:45:13 PM  
Just means there are more people with ADD in China
 
Hickory-smoked  
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2017-06-26 12:45:13 PM  

T.rex: It doesn't even seem like they advertised this one....


I've seen it promoted on Doritos bags and Sonic hamburger wrappers, so there seems to be some kind of marketing involved.
 
MechaPyx  
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2017-06-26 12:47:02 PM  

Random Anonymous Blackmail: No wonder it failed, who wants to see a movie about a masculine looking woman that who would pick up on girls just to have strap on sex with them.


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rummonkey  
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2017-06-26 12:47:51 PM  

peterthx: Don't understand.
FARK told me American audiences are the stupidest on Earth and that audiences overseas had better taste.

So what is it?


Its the same reason why foreign films are a niche market here. Nuances of culture, language, pacing, you name it, give a particular nations' cinema a flavor that uniquely their own. Many of today's movies are being intentionally made without these idiosyncrasies so as to be more understandable to foreign audiences.  Instead of a well-crafted story with character progression, reliable pacing and internal consistency, we are getting a jumble of similar robots beating each other up for no really coherent reason at all. Correction; we aren't getting it, Chinese audiences are getting it and we have to suffer through it because the movie was profitable (but not memorable) in the end.
 
Weidbrewer [OhFark]  
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2017-06-26 12:48:16 PM  

T.rex: It doesn't even seem like they advertised this one.... I saw the trailer before a theatrical film, and also online because i sought it out, but i did not just randomly catch the trailer during normal TV viewing.  Its like they thought the audience was built in, why advertise it.... but i'm kinda with it, in terms of film and did not even know they were releasing it last weekend.


Must just be the things that you watch.  I've been seeing them constantly.  Each one reminding me that, no, I'm not gonna go see this.
 
Free Radical  
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2017-06-26 12:51:06 PM  
Is this a way for fanbois to claim victory like they did with the craptacular WoW film?
 
Hickory-smoked  
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2017-06-26 12:53:04 PM  

Mugato: And he thinks the Star Trek movies don't suck.


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Well, of course they don't. This is my sexual awakening we're talking about.
 
Pavia_Resistance [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2017-06-26 12:53:11 PM  

Weidbrewer: this isn't surprising at all.  This series is mainly made for China in the first place.  They know they're gonna flop stateside, but that's okay, because that's actually the secondary market for this kind of movie.


I read somewhere that with each new movie in this franchise the percent of revenue from the US has decreased.

I was really bored Friday so I went to see it. I had very low expectations so I didn't hate it. Didn't think that it was great either.
 
thornhill  
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2017-06-26 12:53:35 PM  
FTFA:

The film accounted for approximately 70 percent of all showtimes in China throughout the weekend...

Wow. I wonder how many other movies were playing at Chinese movie theaters. I wouldn't be surprised if the studios have deals with movie theaters to squeeze out competition.
 
Two16  
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2017-06-26 12:54:18 PM  
/weeps for what could be...

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Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy  
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2017-06-26 12:54:54 PM  
Why can't the Chinese just make their own big-budget CGI schlockfests? Everybody outsources the CGI to foreign studios these days anyway, it's not like any particular American expertise in making bad movies is required...
 
mr smart the great  
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2017-06-26 12:54:58 PM  
so long as bay stays away from the expanse series im happy.........
 
Intrepid00  
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2017-06-26 12:55:33 PM  
Chinese movies must really suck.
 
Weidbrewer [OhFark]  
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2017-06-26 12:57:25 PM  

Free Radical: Is this a way for fanbois to claim victory like they did with the craptacular WoW film?


Ding-ding-ding.
 
The Larch  
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2017-06-26 12:58:55 PM  

Mugato: BumpInTheNight: I can't even remember how many of them I watched.  At least two, I think maybe three.

You probably saw the one where robots are fighting in a CGI mess where you can't tell who is on whose side and the girl is hot and the dude stares blankly like an idiot.


Was that the one with the funny sidekick robots who show up periodically through the movie and do the wacky thing?

Or is it the one with the  funny sidekick people who make stupid exaggerated facial expressions for a few minutes about half way through the movie, but it turns out they have literally no reason to be in the movie?
 
biggamehickman  
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2017-06-26 1:03:42 PM  
Think of all the money to be made in China off of cheap knockoff merchandise though.

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The Larch  
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2017-06-26 1:03:59 PM  

BumpInTheNight: Also in that one they threw in some useless characters that were bluntly 'urban' to meet some demographic appeal too if I remember correctly.


It turns out that with just small changes to the dialogue and accents when you dub the movie into another language, they could stand in for literally any ethnic group you might want to either mock, or appeal to, depending on the decisions of the marketing department.
 
Farker Soze  
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2017-06-26 1:06:28 PM  

Mugato: BumpInTheNight: I can't even remember how many of them I watched.  At least two, I think maybe three.

You probably saw the one where robots are fighting in a CGI mess where you can't tell who is on whose side and the girl is hot and the dude stares blankly like an idiot.


Did it have gleefully jingoistic masturbatory profile shots of military personnel?  I think I saw that one too.
 
ChrisDe  
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2017-06-26 1:06:31 PM  

Mugato: Thanks a lot, China. You're a large contributor to our not having nice things.


You know who else likes to blame China for everything?
 
Representative of the unwashed masses  
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2017-06-26 1:07:19 PM  
Maybe they should dub it into Chinese, then bring that back here and dub it back into English. That'll help.

Transformers 5: Macho Donkey Business Wrestler
 
steve_wmn  
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2017-06-26 1:07:34 PM  

BumpInTheNight: I can't even remember how many of them I watched.  At least two, I think maybe three.


The last one I saw had Rose Huntington-Whatever in it. After that my son had grown out of them and didn't want to see them any more. I was always there just for him and to enjoy some eye candy.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]  
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2017-06-26 1:09:30 PM  

Hickory-smoked: Mugato: And he thinks the Star Trek movies don't suck.

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Well, of course they don't. This is my sexual awakening we're talking about.


Well the TOS movies weren't bad, a few were actually good.And the Borg movie was ok.
 
rummonkey  
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2017-06-26 1:11:38 PM  

Farker Soze: Mugato: BumpInTheNight: I can't even remember how many of them I watched.  At least two, I think maybe three.

You probably saw the one where robots are fighting in a CGI mess where you can't tell who is on whose side and the girl is hot and the dude stares blankly like an idiot.

Did it have gleefully jingoistic masturbatory profile shots of military personnel?  I think I saw that one too.


Did it have the slow motion pan across a huge American flag with helicopters/jets/whatever flying over and the main character watches them fly over in awe?
 
smd31  
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2017-06-26 1:12:24 PM  
A co-worker saw this movie over the weekend and he said, "yo man, it was off the chain." No, I didn't have much faith in his movie reviews before this and now he has 0 credibility to me.
 
SirEattonHogg  
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2017-06-26 1:12:57 PM  

Intrepid00: Chinese movies must really suck.


They do.  That's the big reason the government only allows a very limited number of US films to release in China.  If they didn't, nobody in their right mind would pay to watch a Mainland Chinese film.
 
viscountalpha  
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2017-06-26 1:16:25 PM  

Two16: /weeps for what could be...

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Hollywood would never produce something that might actually be intellectually stimulating.
 
TheReject  
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2017-06-26 1:17:09 PM  

Mugato: BumpInTheNight: I can't even remember how many of them I watched.  At least two, I think maybe three.

You probably saw the one where robots are fighting in a CGI mess where you can't tell who is on whose side and the girl is hot and the dude stares blankly like an idiot.


I totally saw that one
 
EdgeRunner [OhFark]  
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2017-06-26 1:20:07 PM  

smd31: A co-worker saw this movie over the weekend and he said, "yo man, it was off the chain." No, I didn't have much faith in his movie reviews before this and now he has 0 credibility to me.


Does your coworker commute from the early 2000s to watch present day movies? What a waste of time travel technology.
 
Merltech  
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2017-06-26 1:21:40 PM  
That's a lot of people with camcorders.
 
Best Princess Celestia  
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2017-06-26 1:24:49 PM  
I am ashamed of my countrymen.
 
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