With a home-video industry that badly needs a boost, some robots in disguise gave it just that. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen destroyed any and all competition on the home video charts this week, sweeping all three charts in its first week.If a clean sweep wasn't enough, it only took a week for the Michael Bay film to become the highest-selling disc of the year, with a staggering 7.5 million copies sold in the first week. 1.2 million of those sales were in the Blu-ray format, making it the top-selling BD disc of the year to date. The film also set year-high marks with 2 million units sold in the first day of sales, with 500,000 of those units sold in the BD format.
The blockbuster faced hardly any competition this week, knocking last week's top seller and rental The Proposal down to second place on both charts, and the top-selling BD disc for the past two weeks, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, down to second place in BD sales also.
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Avian
The movie has one of the worst plots not in just movies, but in pretty much anything. Just because it's based on an 80's cartoon doesn't excuse it for having a terrible plot. It could've been great, but Bay is a terrible director, basing a movie called Transformers on a boy's growth to becoming a man. Those were Bay's own words.
2 years agoby @avian005Flag
JonSpidey07
u guys have strong points
plus Michael Bay intended the movie to be silly
I didnt even count on them making the sequel b/c what more of the story could they tell and it's based on a toy for crying out loud
let's face it: summer flicks are never safe from criticism
2 years agoby @jonspidey07Flag
kingbrady
zaraki so true, plus they robots, there has to be heart ache, love and comedy even in a serious thriller there is a comedy bit
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Zaraki_Kenpachi
Revenge of the Fallen could have done without the juvenile humor, but it amuses me to hear all the complaints about plot when the entire premise is based off a 80's cartoon.
2 years agoby @zaraki-kenpachiFlag
cnote
Didn't think the 2nd film was all that great...
1st one is still the best
2 years agoby @cnoteFlag
Buriblazing
bring on the third!
2 years agoby @buriblazingFlag
kingbrady
i dont see why they even bother posting such articles when its common sense, #1 movie in the box office, will obviously be #1 on video rentals and purchases because of dumbasses like myself buying it on Blu Ray lol
2 years agoby @kingbradyFlag
Avian
Star Trek will top the charts in two weeks, thank god.
2 years agoby @avian005Flag
GK
This was so obvious.
2 years agoby @indianajonesFlag
JonSpidey07
Wolverine's been topping the charts for over a week
glad ROTF knocked it off, there hasnt been any real competition for DVDs
I really wish a DVD worth buying would come out every week
2 years agoby @jonspidey07Flag