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Steve McQueef

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Not very good tbh. You're better off with the Ultimate Edition DVD.

Lies, the blu-ray knocks the bollocks off it! ;)

Anyway, with regard to a private showing in Belfast at the QFT:

It costs £399. That includes everything. Only catch, is that it has to be a daytime showing, as normal programming commences at 6pm. I have absolutely no idea how to fund this venture. I am inclined however to go for the smaller 88 seat theatre and keep it nice and low key. £399 divided by 88 comes to just over £4.50 a per head. It's all about what people are willing to pay, more than anything.

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incapable hulk

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One of my earliest memories is standing in the queue with my mum, to see an advance screening of this at the old odeon in nottingham. My mum had won us tickets, as I was like every child at that time, obsessed with transformers.

I still remember desperately wanting the movie poster they had (the one with prime and megatron wrestling, not the shitty one with the new transformers shooting upwards), and I couldnt take my eyes off it as we stood in the queue. I still remember it so clearly, and being absoloutely devastated when prime died.

My mum always decides to retell the stories to my girlfriend of how we went to see it 6 times, and each time I was convinced it would be different and prime would survive.

I still watch it quite often, usually when getting home from a night out drunk. Easily my most watched film of all time, and the animation is great.

Great, great movie :lol:

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This poster

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Orson-Welles-TRANSFO...=item56390d0069

You can only ever find it on ebay for massively expensive prices. I've never been able to find a reproduction of it on the cheap, like you find everywhere else for the other movie poster. That image was on the original vhs, and has only popped up on the cover of one of the dvd releases I believe. I want it in poster form.

Gutted :lol:

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SeanR

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Lies, the blu-ray knocks the bollocks off it! :lol:

Anyway, with regard to a private showing in Belfast at the QFT:

It costs £399. That includes everything. Only catch, is that it has to be a daytime showing, as normal programming commences at 6pm. I have absolutely no idea how to fund this venture. I am inclined however to go for the smaller 88 seat theatre and keep it nice and low key. £399 divided by 88 comes to just over £4.50 a per head. It's all about what people are willing to pay, more than anything.

put me down as a maybe :lol:

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Mad Gear

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Surely the difference would be more than "very slight"?

Not when your upscaling the remastered DVD. But anyway who cares as many peeps have pointed out, fans have already got it across various media (it's still one of my only remaining UMD movies along with the Goonies and Aliens).

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Reidles

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This poster

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Orson-Welles-TRANSFO...=item56390d0069

You can only ever find it on ebay for massively expensive prices. I've never been able to find a reproduction of it on the cheap, like you find everywhere else for the other movie poster. That image was on the original vhs, and has only popped up on the cover of one of the dvd releases I believe. I want it in poster form.

Gutted :)

It is, by far, the best poster/VHS/DVD cover associated with the film.

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Not when your upscaling the remastered DVD. But anyway who cares as many peeps have pointed out, fans have already got it across various media (it's still one of my only remaining UMD movies along with the Goonies and Aliens).

Provided the Blu-Ray isn't just an upscaled-DVD jobby, then your words are madness, dear sir.

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One of my earliest memories is standing in the queue with my mum, to see an advance screening of this at the old odeon in nottingham. My mum had won us tickets, as I was like every child at that time, obsessed with transformers.

I still remember desperately wanting the movie poster they had (the one with prime and megatron wrestling, not the shitty one with the new transformers shooting upwards), and I couldnt take my eyes off it as we stood in the queue. I still remember it so clearly, and being absoloutely devastated when prime died.

My mum always decides to retell the stories to my girlfriend of how we went to see it 6 times, and each time I was convinced it would be different and prime would survive.

I still watch it quite often, usually when getting home from a night out drunk. Easily my most watched film of all time, and the animation is great.

Great, great movie :)

*edit*

This poster

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Orson-Welles-TRANSFO...=item56390d0069

You can only ever find it on ebay for massively expensive prices. I've never been able to find a reproduction of it on the cheap, like you find everywhere else for the other movie poster. That image was on the original vhs, and has only popped up on the cover of one of the dvd releases I believe. I want it in poster form.

Gutted :(

I've got this as an A1 poster somewhere in the attic. Mine is a little different (although the image is the same) it was released by Marvel UK as an A1 folded to A4 poster/booklet. One side is the poster, the other side has shots from the movie and some background to it. It's a very good illustration.

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Chow

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I think I can inject some impartiality in the dialectic here, thus separating nostalgic value from actual quality. Or something.

I made a group of friends watch it a few months ago, they had never seen the film when they were younger, and even they agreed on how awesome the film was. Most importantly, they also agreed that Hot Rod is a complete and utter fanny.

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Kebabilicious

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Not very good tbh. You're better off with the Ultimate Edition DVD.

I have this :(

Lies, the blu-ray knocks the bollocks off it! :D

Anyway, with regard to a private showing in Belfast at the QFT:

It costs £399. That includes everything. Only catch, is that it has to be a daytime showing, as normal programming commences at 6pm. I have absolutely no idea how to fund this venture. I am inclined however to go for the smaller 88 seat theatre and keep it nice and low key. £399 divided by 88 comes to just over £4.50 a per head. It's all about what people are willing to pay, more than anything.

Man i'd pay up to a tenner for that. If we could organize 40 ppl that is. It's bound to be worth a tenner to see that on the big screen. i missed it first time round :P

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lordcookie

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I've never seen this since going to the cinema when I was ten or whatever. Maybe I should watch it as experiment, and report back whether this curious episode has blown LordCookie's cred forever or not.

In the words of the great Optimus Prime himself: NEVER!*

*then I have to deliver a two-fisted blow to your chest as you fall backwards off a cliff.

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Mr Cochese

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The most striking thing about the movie, apart from the wholesale slaughter of the old lines, was the dreadful 80s soft rock playing constantly over every scene, which frequently threatens to drown out the dialogue. Also, the bit I remember from the comic book version that explains how Cybertron and Unicron are old enemies from the dawn of time or something is missing, so it is never really explained why Unicron is trying to destroy Cybertron, or why the Matrix can stop him.

Also, Unicron varies wildly in size throughout the story, depending on whether he is eating a planet, shouting at Megatron, or whether people are inside him or whacking him on the bum, and also he is apparently piss weak after all the build up.

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