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It's a shame the critics devastated it's box office


Not an amazing movie by any stretch but everyone I know agrees this is a pretty fun flick. And for sure it deserved to make more than its $65M for the US. This is definitely a case where the reviews got it wrong and ruined this movies chance at success.

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Don't blame the critics!

Critics also savaged Transformers 2 and 3 and they made hundreds of millions of Box Office dollars!

Blame the moviegoers who didn't even bother to go in the first place!

Or blame the trailer for not getting people excited to see it!

Or maybe it really is a dumb, stupid, badly written piece of crap and that is why it bombed!


You can't blame reviews for making a movie tank; because badly reviewed movies still make bank at the box office!

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So critics trashing this movie caused it to bomb? The original Star Wars trilogy (all 3 of them) were trashed by critics. Every Transformers movie has been trashed. Top Gun was trashed. They all made a ton of money. This movie just sucked. Point blank.

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