Transformers 2: It’s Not The Fanboys Fault | GFR

In light of the massive 5 day box office, check out this great post about what audience Transformers 2 was made for.

How to explain this impossible success? How to explain the determination of audiences to like something which is, so obviously, a pile of dreck? Never before has the divide between audience and critic been bigger, and that’s left us all looking for answers. The one landed on most frequently by pundits is this one, espoused by Roger Ebert: “It has little to no appeal for non-fanboy or female audiences.” The implication here is that the film made $60 million dollars purely on the money eagerly handed over by nerds who, of course, will watch anything featuring robots without discrimination.

This blogger’s experience in the theatre for T:ROTF was almost identical to mine. Families, Man-children (the bad kind), applause (during and after) and raucous laughter at every dog-humping turn. It was true lowest common denominator film-making at it’s evil worst, you have to admit - even if you dug the ‘splosions like I did. Have a read, this guy has some great points.