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Post by Nigel on Apr 15, 2024 13:28:46 GMT
I've booked a Sunday morning screening. Watching at that time, I think I'll be a bit disappointed when there's no Fun Factory ident.
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Post by Nigel on Apr 15, 2024 13:38:53 GMT
Oops, I was planning to check out a comic con in Barry that day. Well, I can still attend in the afternoon.
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Post by The Doctor on May 12, 2024 0:09:44 GMT
Going next Saturday afternoon!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on May 12, 2024 7:08:26 GMT
Me too!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 12, 2024 8:27:19 GMT
Wednesday evening for me.
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Post by Pinwig on May 12, 2024 8:31:13 GMT
Saturday afternoon here. Should be back just in time for the call.
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Post by Benn on May 12, 2024 10:08:05 GMT
Wednesday evening for me.
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Post by The Doctor on May 12, 2024 10:12:05 GMT
No spoilers from the Wednesday crowd!
-Ralph
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Post by The Huff on May 13, 2024 22:12:34 GMT
Wednesday too.
Can't wait to hear Huffer whine on the big screen!
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Post by Benn on May 15, 2024 22:10:50 GMT
My spoiler free review: I enjoyed that.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 15, 2024 22:21:24 GMT
{Spoiler}The read through was interesting, nice to see some of the lads in full flow. however, what it reinforced was just how much heavy lifting Wally Burr did to make that show sing.
Having the episode name at the bottom throughout all four epsiodes absolutely boiled my piss. No need for that Hasbro, nobody was going to this who didn't already know what the fuck they were going to be seeing!
It was fun overall, but cleary a cheap and cheerful budget for production. |
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Post by Benn on May 16, 2024 7:52:26 GMT
{Spoiler thoughts}I do think they'd have been better not showing Transport to Oblivion, as you can see the quality drop straight off from Arrival From Cybertron.
And if you insist on a fourth episode to bump the runtime, do a script read of an ep with Paul and Gregg's characters in it. Make use of the talent you've got around the table!
Would have loved to have seen more of the outtakes too, that stuff really sells how much fun it is for all these guys getting back together.
I loved the little exchange at the start between Megarton and Starscream with the actors looking at each other over the table, properly getting into it. More of that, less of the absurdly fast forwwarded end credits... |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 16, 2024 19:33:17 GMT
Non-spoiler thoughts.
I enjoyed it.
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Post by Hero on May 16, 2024 21:11:52 GMT
Spoiler Free Wednesday Feedback. - It RULES
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Post by Jim on May 16, 2024 22:39:01 GMT
I really wanted to book for this, but here in Germanyland they did what they always do and dubbed it all into German.
Even though one of the selling points is the original US voice actors doing their bit.
My German friends find this insane as well, just generally that everything gets dubbed apart from at specialist cinemas, but this one seems particularly crazy!
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Post by The Doctor on May 17, 2024 16:47:04 GMT
Wait. Have they dubbed the table read?? Are the original German dub actors involved from back in the day?
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on May 17, 2024 17:57:00 GMT
According to the cinema I contacted, yes, the whole thing was dubbed! No idea if it would be the original German dub actors.
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Post by Pinwig on May 18, 2024 13:59:44 GMT
Having negotiated considerable traffic chaos I am now set for the 3pm screening. There are nine other people in the cinema at the moment.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on May 18, 2024 16:16:39 GMT
Ralph and I saw this together this afternoon.
We were not amused by the surprise twist during episode two of the Dad two rows in front giving his kid a phone to watch loud videos on. What a twat.
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Post by The Doctor on May 18, 2024 16:50:13 GMT
{Spoiler}The read through was interesting, nice to see some of the lads in full flow. however, what it reinforced was just how much heavy lifting Wally Burr did to make that show sing.
Having the episode name at the bottom throughout all four epsiodes absolutely boiled my piss. No need for that Hasbro, nobody was going to this who didn't already know what the fuck they were going to be seeing!
It was fun overall, but cleary a cheap and cheerful budget for production. I concur and would just add that the tonal whiplash at the end of the presentation was...A Choice. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on May 18, 2024 16:52:38 GMT
Ralph and I saw this together this afternoon. We were not amused by the surprise twist during episode two of the Dad two rows in front giving his kid a phone to watch loud videos on. What a twat. Yeah, that ruined the rest of the experience for me. I could tell from his actions that if I went over to have a word he would get shouty and I really can't handle confrontations in a cinema. -Ralph |
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Post by primenova on May 18, 2024 17:22:56 GMT
Only under 15 in my viewing but no adverts for it being on in the vue cinema. ep1 read but rest being original then the bit at the end.
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Post by Pinwig on May 18, 2024 23:04:33 GMT
Enjoyable afternoon. I knew I was among friends when the two guys in the row infront of me chinked water bottles when the theme started. Just before the start a man came in with two young boys, one dressed as Optimus complete with mask. Made me smile.
Nothing to complain about except the burnt in titles as Andy noted. I'd understand that if it was a retrospective clip show, but that and the logo just detracted from the image. The picture itself wasn't great, the episodes didn't seem to have had any restoration for HD, and the soundtrack had the odd extra effect thrown in here and there that sounded like the Rhino DVDs. I left wishing it had been a double bill with TFTM.
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Post by Bogatan on May 19, 2024 16:44:48 GMT
Made it to the last screening. 6-12 people in there. Had a good time.
Agree the script reading was fun but a second episode that made more use of some of the VAs would have been nice.
Visuals suffered on the big screen but the audio coming through those cinema speakers was actually pretty impressive.
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Post by chrisl on May 20, 2024 10:46:48 GMT
Went to see it on Saturday. There was about 10 people in the cinema, but the experience was ruined for me by a group of five of the worst stereotypical fans (three female, two male) who just bitched throughout and behaved like complete and utter fandom gimps. "Oh you don't know who that is - you're not a true fan", "I bet nobody else in this room understands this lore", "I thought it would be more like MTMTE or the Movie". There was even an explicit and loud "Who can eat their snacks like Unicron" competition.
In terms of the presentation itself - I thought Peter Cullen, Frank Welker, Dan Gilvezan and Michael Bell were all great during the read through. I was disappointed that Greg Burger and Paul Eiding didn't get to voice their original characters, but I thought the voices they performed for others were fitting and performed well vocal wise - although if I was to be critical, some of the beat emphasis during the Hound and Cliffjumper scene was not really hitting it. Not in a bad way- it's just the stress on certain words in the original scenes is so ingrained in my memory. It was a shame that Corey Burton wasn't part of this though.
Of the newer actors, Arif S. Kinchen did a good impersonation of Scatman Crothers' Jazz - very good choice for the read through. Frank Todaro did my nut in throughout. He has a very good impersonation of Chris Latta's Starscream, but when he was delivering the other characters' lines (especially Sparkplug), his timing and emphasis was way off - almost like he was bored. Like Andy said earlier - the influence of Wally Burr on those original recording sessions was missing here.
I wasn't bothered by the burned-in captions so much - but I do think that the project would have benefited from the kind of upscaling work/colour correcting like the recent fan-remasters of Headmasters & Masterforce on YouTube.
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Post by The Doctor on May 20, 2024 14:06:17 GMT
Ugh. BAD FANS.
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on May 24, 2024 13:34:12 GMT
We didn't have any dickheads at the screening me and George went to.
There was a TF Nation rep who I'd have liked to have talked to, but left quickly after talking to others about the convention and who was going to be there.
There could have been a bit more to the finish, but tbh I was happy to watch G1 on the big screen and those episodes I watched in 5 minute segments on TV:AM decades ago. Transport to Oblivion is always a favorite!
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Post by Nigel on Jun 18, 2024 20:11:04 GMT
I went to a Sunday morning screening. I think there were thirteen of us and I was a bit surprised by the demographic of the audience (though too small to actually be a statistical sample). Slightly more women than men; no children, all of us being in our forties apart from two women in their seventies. (I was intrigued as to what exactly brought those two ladies to the screening but unfortunately didn't get to ask.) I'm not counting the one child - with another two women - who left a few minutes after the programme started: I could see that they were in the wrong screen, amusingly confusing the Imax screen 1 with our little screen 10 on the other end of the multiplex.
I found it quite a thrill to see the actors perform their roles, particularly when Soundwave's voice came out of Welker's mouth for the first time; interesting to see the physicality involved in performing each character; and fascinating to see the change in the performance when an actor spoke to himself. I didn't realise there were four episodes being shown, not three, so that was a nice bonus. This was the first time that I've seen the epsiodes with the ad break bumpers intact, which was an interesting surprise.
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