Saw it this morning with my six year old daughter, she loved it. I loved it too, everything what I expected and a bit more, certainly not a blueprint for future TF films though, but stands up very well on its own. Captures the emotion between human and bot similar to Terminator 2, I won't go on more than that for now.
I saw it with my son this evening and apart from technical issues (movie screen shutdown due to electrical storm for 15 mins) we loved the movie. My son was a little confused at the start when he kept saying "no daddy, that looks like Starscream not Blitzwing". If a 5 year old even thinks it was Starscream, I don't know what they were going for calling him Blitzwing.
Apart from that, there is definitely a lot of G1 love in the movie. My son loved it as he is used to the 80s cartoon so he recognised most of them. Big thumbs up.
My daughter said it was Starcream too. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Raider
Looks like Japan has an official release date now - March 22nd... a quarter of the year after the rest of us.
For those who know the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes, the sixth Transformers movie looks to end up with a "fresh" rating, with 94% of reviewers giving it "fresh" (and a number rating average of 7.1 out of 10)... compared to 15% to 57% for the previous five.
Event cinemas have a Bumblebee snack combo, with special popcorn bucket and drink cup.
http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2018/122302.jpg
The Bumblebee movie has been given an extension on its release in China. Usually western movies are only allowed a month in mainland China, but they can apply to have an extension of a month, and it looks like the Bumblebee Movie might have been approved.
DVD/BR release dates are now known, both here and America... but for some reason, it will be released digitally some two weeks earlier.
March 19th - digital release (might just be in America).
April 2nd - hard copy release in America.
April 3rd - hard copy release in Australia (according to the JBHifi website)
The contents of the US combo pack that might be released here as well, with these bonus items...
I like that they have included Deleted and extended scenes, as it gives us a look at some of the earlier workings or ideas... or painfully teased with something that we would have preferred have been included.Quote:
BONUS FEATURES ON 4K ULTRA HD COMBO, BLU-RAY COMBO & DIGITAL*
- Sector 7 Archive
- Agent Burns: Welcome to Sector 7
- Sector 7 Adventures: The Battle at Half Dome (All-New Motion Comic)
- Deleted and Extended Scenes
- Outtakes
- Bee Vision: The Transformers robots of Cybertron
- Bringing Bumblebee to the Big Screen
- The Story of Bumblebee
- The Stars Align
- Bumblebee Goes Back to G1
- Back to the Beetle
- California Cruisin’ Down Memory Lane
Still three weeks until the Bumblebee movie is released in Japan, and a restaurant chain has a special promotion, with a number of prizes and novelty items on offer.
It is also worth noting the Japanese Bumblebee Movie Page, as they have these sorts of promotions listed there... although, their cast page isn't up to date, as it still lists the American voice actors (the Japanese voice actors have already been announced).
That's becoming more of a thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
I'm guessing to try to combat piracy.
The Incredibles 2 was released digitally at least 2 weeks prior to the hard copy release.
The Movie opens in Japan next week, but they had a premiere screening during the week for the media, with guests on hand (director, producer, Japanese voice actors and the main girl on screen).
I thought it would actually increase piracy, as those people who were more likely to buy a physical copy (for them, or more importantly, their kids), would now go find a digital copy if they can't wait the extra two weeks, and prefer not to pay for that digital copy if they intend to get a physical copy. And then later maybe decide not to buy the physical copy now that they have a (free) digital copy.Quote:
Originally Posted by UltraMarginal
The blu-ray version of the Bumblebee movie in America comes with a "motion comic" (and printed copy it seems), that is said to follow on from the Movie (since the next movie is likely to ignore its existence, it will probably be contradicted or reduced to partial canon in a few years time).
The story is called - Sector 7 Adventures : The Battle at Half Dome.
A three page preview can be seen here, with Bumblebee (in Camaro form) taking on Soundwave and three of his cassettes (two of which we've seen on screen... and the other has appeared in one of the early comics).
The digital version of the Bumblebee Movie is now out in America (I'm not sure if there is region issues with it, or if it can be bought globally). The itunes version looks to come with a bonus extra of a "Bee Vision" gallery of several Movie characters, with some basic images and details. Some screenshots and a link to promo video can be seen here.
So has anyone heard anything about stores offering extras if you preorder with them? Sanity did cards for TF5, Amazon did a statuette for TF4 etc. So far all I've heard is if you buy the 4k Blu Ray that you get a ton of bonus features on the disks.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
More of the bonus features on the US release of the Bumblebee Movie (or some promo clips that relate to exclusive editions).
Deleted scene - Memo guesses that Bumblebee might be a Gobot (he was seen reading a Gobots comic in the released version of the Movie, which means that toyline is in this Transformers universe).
Outtake or shortened scene? - Agent Burns wanting a door blown up, but has to wait for a bumbling explosives tech to untangle the wiring first.
Deleted scene - Charlie and her brother washing Bumblebee, and then taking it for a drive.
Shortened scene - the chase scene when Bumblebee first came to earth.
Featurette - on Comic Book Resources website.
It doesn't look like it. It seems each TFs movie that gets released, we get less and less versions with bonus items. I ended up with several copies of the first movie because of the different bonus items or cases, but the last couple I've only ended up with one copy.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev
I guess the drop in numbers of people buying physical copies is a factor, as it wouldn't be worth producing bonus items under a certain quantity.
One extra deleted scene is one that had been rumoured for quite some time, but now we get to see it - the home appliances (TV, dishwasher, washing machine) in Charlie's house coming alive... with some rough CG animation, as it was obviously cut during post-production.
(most of the scene is actually in the movie, but re-edited in post-production to remove any hint of the appliances)
The exclusive release of the deleted scene can be seen here, while screen-grabs of the appliances can be seen here.
The Bumblebee Movie is finally out in Japan, and on youtube is a short 80 second animated intro to the movie... in cutesy chibi style.
Lol, I didn't say it was a good way to combat piracy, I just said I'm guessing that's why they're doing it, with the potentially misguided expectation of getting it out sooner to those who don't want or can't wait for the physical copy. :D:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
(move some posts to the Australian news topic that was also running with the same info)
My friend found this statue promoting Bumblebee on her recent trip to Japan.
https://i.imgur.com/0zre6xI.jpg
The Ultra HD DVDs in America appear to have an audio issue, and Paramount is replacing them (if mailed in).
I don't know if the Australian release has a similar problem though, as I haven't heard yet of anyone here having issues.
I haven’t noticed anything and I’m pretty quick to pick up on these issues
The DVD/BR release of the Bumblebee movie in Japan is July 24th (they had a really late release of the movie in cinemas), and some of the bonus extras noted for the Amazon listings include some Papercraft figures of Bumblebee, Shatter and/or Dropkick.