Thanks. I know the reason everybody says, but I like the breakdown.

So do you think if they had released the film in November instead of the Summer, it wouldn't be the #1 movie of the year?

And while we're at it, why didn't word of mouth kill the take on the second weekend?

Re word of mouth: My guess is the core audience liked the movie, so they talked it up, and perhaps went to see it repeat times.

Yes, I think we all, or at least those of us with half a brain in their skulls, are mourning the loss of national taste and intellect when it comes to the public embracing the foul atrocity that is Transformers 2. And yet, as someone who writes screen scenarios, hopefully one day for a buck or two, I don't really let an anomaly like Revenge of the Fallen get me down too much. Simply because what WE do (write stories) and what THEY do (blow shit up REAL BIG, YEAH!) are two totally different things. As in not even mildly related to one another. I mean, sure, I suppose under all that CG hyperactivity there's a script buried somewhere (debatable, I know) but WORDS on PAPER mean nothing to bombastic schlockmeisters like Michael Bay.

And make no mistake. Bay is only, like, once removed from the hack directors who used to work for Roger Corman and Bert I. Gordon and the American International guy, whatzisname, Sam Z. Arkoff. He merely has louder and more destructive toys at his disposal. Those maniacs used to crank out sludge to play in Drive-Ins in the south and rake in the bucks.

Consider Transformers 2 the modern equivalent of southern drive-in fodder. Instead of mosquitoes and Chevy convertibles rocking back and forth, we got DTS sound and stadium seating.

So while I'm sorry that 2009 is the year of the badly written Autobot, I doubt that the obscene kind of haul for a film as lame and as BORING (to me, the biggest failing of all) as Transformers 2 will be the norm.

Let us not forget The Dark Knight was only last year and one certainly couldn't ask for a smarter blockbuster to sweep up the box office.

And, best of all, GI JOE, which was equally brain-addled and no less a whore for the nostalgic toy dollar, was, for all intents and purposes, a dud.

Yes, Emily, I agree, you'd have thought negative buzz would have shaved off some box office. Certainly everyone I know that saw it thought it was horrendous and me and my lame cronies are, God knows, the "core audience," as Scott says.

We grew up on this crap, after all.

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