There is a difference between a 2 minute trailer and a 2.5 hour movie. The movie doesn't need the added 3D. There are maybe 20 minutes or so that look visually stunning in 3D, but that's it. It's not like Avatar which was stunning in 3D from beginning to end...

Warren theatre #7
seats like 350, full
Transformers 3 midnight

Trailers

Mission impossible 4 - looked very uninteresting
Captain America - I still like it

That's it...2 trailers. I couldn't believe that.

Film was very bleh.

Went to an 8:30pm LIEMAX3D showing, 500-750 seater(I think there are less seats than there used to be), was around 50% when we showed up at around 7:55, 85%+ when the film started, looked close to a walk in sell out. Midnight LIEMAX3D was sold out judging from the line that was waiting to get in as we were walking out of the screening room. 2D has sealed the deal in anchorage, every showing sold out with ease. 3D is selling out but in walk in fashion.

Film:
A-

excellent film, my favorite of the series.

film was very epic

Don't be selfish. You don't like it, watch it in 2D. Others loved it:

100% fanboy.

Yes, let's denounce everyone that doesn't agree with you.

This is one of the most disappointing films I've ever seen in the theater. It's so bad it might even be close to Eragon in terms of wasted potential. The audience, and I, was into it for about an hour. Then it started taking itself too seriously and when it came back to lighten the mood a bit the audience no longer responded to the jokes. Audience didn't seem too excited at the end.

2.5 seconds... With such an approach it could be easily one second. Who needs more?
should shoot every film in 3D... who cares what film and do it really needs 3-D
no shit...

Sounds like a very excited 12 years old. Please, be reasonable.

He shows a command of the technology that exceeds - no shit - that of James Cameron.... Cameron has made one film in 3D and it was far from perfect. It just came in a perfect time.

That's how my audience seemed to react. They were playing along a lot for awhile, laughing in the right places, and then around halfway through the room just seemed to go dead. None of the Chicago stuff got any reaction whatsoever.

One guy got the Not Another Teen Movie treatment, trying to start a clap when the end credits started, and nobody joined him.

imho, injecting opinion into perceived audience response.

Not really. They were really vocal for awhile (the Ken Jeong stuff killed with my crowd), then weren't vocal at all. No opinion whatsoever. I got the impression I dug the flick more than they did.

well that guy was a fewl, who would clap after watching a transformers film.

The crowds after I saw Transformers 1 and 2. (And a lot of stuff -- I'm in Omaha for the moment, and there's a huge geek community. Friggin' Green Lantern got big applause.)

lol, green lantern, damn man. In anchorage there is no clapping unless the film is phenomenal, TDK, Inception, ROTK. Transformers 1 I can understand some clapping, but part 2 was a ridiculous mess, part 3 I think is a good mixture of the badass action of the 2nd film, and adequate story telling of the first film, aka the best of the trilogy.

They'll clap for anything here. I wouldn't take it as too damning of a sign; I saw the first two with first showing audiences, where all the uber-enthusiastic fans may have gone to it at 9.

Yes, let's pick words out of context. You make a very weak case. Try harder next time.

what happened to crowd reports???

Transformers 3D tonight was probably 75% full. No reaction to any of the trailers (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Harry Potter, Mission: Impossible and a 3D trailer for Cap'n America)

I don't know if it was where I was sitting, but I thought it had absolutely phenomenal 3D (yes, better than Avatar) but the sound was a bit lacking. Maybe the theater just had all the speakers pointed towards the back? Either way, the movie was a blast from first frame to last. I'm an unapologetic Bay fan - he's the most consistent, audacious and skilled action director in Hollywood. Sure, the movie's ideology is downright evil - the plot is like the wish fulfillment of Bush-era warmongers - but it's just a more exaggerated form of the xenophobic reactions to aliens we've always gotten. Shia LeBouf is very shouty, and seems to be having an actively bad time, but the rest of the cast is good - even the Megan Fox replacement! As blockbuster extravaganzas go, Transformers 3D is the most bombastic of the summer. I had a blast, and couldn't believe how incredible the 3D was.

Nothing amazing about it. If you're ghetto you'll really love it. If you have any sense you'll realize it wasn't worth the time and wonder how they can't get back to the quality and freshness of the first one.

I say bring in Dinobots and gth off earth.

Yes, I'm extremely ghetto.

Well a ton of people must be ghetto because WOM is looking very good. Something that could not be said about the 2nd.

People were saying TF2's WOM was good until they saw TF3's first numbers.

TF2 was being trashed the first day. I was hear 2 years ago.