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Post by legios on Mar 18, 2008 23:22:55 GMT
Well, for my part I am waiting for one version or another to come down to the magic seven pound figure before I pick it up. I'll probably go for the single disc edition on cost grounds I expect.
Oh and, as I haven't said it yet, welcome back to The Hub!
Karl
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Post by Rich on Mar 19, 2008 18:16:55 GMT
Cheers Karl, and as I don't think I've really said it properly, hello to everybody. Nice to see so many new (or at least people who seem to be new) members.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 20, 2008 9:04:54 GMT
Don't know if anyone's mentioned, but the single disk as no features what so ever. I personaly enjoyed the makings ofs, so maybe worth the extra squid for the two disk.
ian
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 29, 2008 18:39:12 GMT
The vanilla edition has dropped to £8 in FOPP.
-Ralph
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Post by karla on Apr 29, 2008 19:00:36 GMT
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Post by legios on Apr 29, 2008 19:35:28 GMT
The vanilla edition has dropped to £8 in FOPP. -Ralph Also currently in Zavvi's 3-for-£20/5-for-£30 and HMV's 3-for-£20 sales. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 26, 2008 15:33:56 GMT
Now down to £7 in Zavvi for the vanilla edition. I still found myself untempted.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2008 17:37:53 GMT
I think I'll pick it up at some point or other but It'll have to be the two-disc edition as, like Shockprowl, I enjoy watching making of documentaries of films and in the case of Transformers they will be interesting to watch (at least for me anyway).
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Post by legios on Jun 26, 2008 19:48:46 GMT
Now down to £7 in Zavvi for the vanilla edition. I still found myself untempted. -Ralph I picked up the single-disc edition in a five-for-thirty sale a month or so ago. I did the math and realised that the saving I was making on "Casino Royale", "Shooter" and a couple of other things I can't recall off the top of my head, "Transformers" was effectively costing me nowt. It'll probably get watched once or twice and then stowed away to be brought out a future date when we have gathered with suitable booze/Irn-Bru. Karl |
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Post by grahamthomson on Jun 27, 2008 8:17:52 GMT
I wonder if they'll do a Transformers 1.5 when the sequel comes out at the pictures.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 27, 2008 8:27:53 GMT
I would say the odds are high.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 27, 2008 12:12:56 GMT
I'd stick money on that happening.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 27, 2008 15:34:05 GMT
HMV now have copies of the 2-disc edition marked down to a tenner. I felt the terrible tug of temptation in the form of a spectral image of Andu sitting on my shoukder saying 'buy it' but I resisted on account of being stone cold sober so gave them a light dusting instead.
-Ralph
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Post by KnightBeat on Jul 3, 2008 21:02:02 GMT
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Post by KnightBeat on Aug 9, 2008 13:19:57 GMT
TFW2005 is carrying a news article that Bernie Mac has died. I can't find the news on the BBC or Reuters yet, but the Chicago Sun has a story on their web site. I have seen only a little of his comedy work, but it is a sad loss if the news is true. |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 16, 2008 15:48:07 GMT
I have now finally watched this on DVD, courtesy of Kaptain Karl. Er, glad my instincts were right not to buy a copy in all honesty. Just does not work (for me) on the small screen: the flaws are magnified (paper-thin characters, insipid plot, uneven tone) and the strengths (very well realised robots, score, sound design) lose a lot of impact outwith the cinema environment. It is indeed a cinema film, where it works OK in a big-screen/sound immersive environment and passes a couple of hours reasonably well. I'd maybe spoon out some coins for an IMAX showing again, but not for a DVD.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Nov 16, 2008 20:34:16 GMT
I have now finally watched this on DVD, courtesy of Kaptain Karl. -Ralph And thanks to you I have seen it on DVD a second time, several months after first obtaining it. I do agree that it loses a great deal when seen on the small screen. The fact that the first half is a collision between two distinct movies - teen coming of age flick and action film - feels much more obvious on the small screen, and outside of the theatrical environment some of the comedy stuff becomes excruciatingly drawn-out and I find myself just wishing for it to end. The film got away with a lot in the cinema because it was large and loud and threw splodes and huge giant robots at you every so often, but viewed in the home environment it is stripped of that turf advantage and doesn't fare as well. Seen in the cinema it is a competent enough dumb action movie, but it doesn't work anywhere near as well in the home environment. (I got the DVD in a 5-for£35 sale a while back with several films I had been planning on buying anyway, so I view it as having cost me the equivalent of No Pounds and No Pence. Having seen it twice now I figure I have got my moneys worth from it one way or another.) It'll probably sit there a few more months, and it I don't get the urge to watch it again in that time it might land up in one of the periodic purges Karl |
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