They did a little social promotion last week, but if I'd not see the post on a Transformers Facebook page I think I would have missed it.

There was a fairly good crowd for the showing. The programmer came out and said he'd been looking to do this for a while and uncertain about if there'd be an audience and seemed pleased with the turnout.

Most of the audience was men in their 30s and 40s (like me and Demonac) and some women and children scattered around.

I'm not sure what source they were playing the movie from. I presume the blu-ray, particularly as there were a couple of shots that looked worse than I expect them to and I presume it's because of retouching/upgrading for that release. It was the original print - so no opening crawl, no closing narration, and the foul-mouthed Spike. On the big screen I noticed a few minor details in the art that I've never noticed before, but just little things mostly. The sound was just a bit too loud for my liking but it added to the effect.

The audience dropped off noticeable for the screening of the G.I.Joe film, but despite less people the audience reactions were louder. TFTM was watched in pretty much quiet appreciation (although Spike's cussing got a reaction) while some of the more questionable moments of the JOE movie got big laughs.

I've never see the Joe movie before, I've never seen a full episode of that cartoon either, so I stuck around to watch it. It's definitely the lesser, felt cheaper and more made-for-video than for theatres. I kept getting thrown by the movie using so much music from the TF cartoon - I presume both cartoons shared music? Seeing a big G.I.Joe vs Cobra battle start while Transformers fighting music was playing was odd each time. Also the Cobra Commander I know from the Marvel Comics is so different from his cartoon version, I can't believe that's the voice that so many people have in their minds for him.

Before each film they showed some of the PSAs and toy commercials from each franchise (those looked shocking on the big screen, particularly those TF PSAs that were never broadcast. A couple of new movie trailers were in the mix too but it seem a real missed opportunity that they didn't show the Rise of the Beasts trailer. The audience would have loved that. Instead we got the new Indiana Jones film which is also of course going to resonate with the kids of the 80s but there's a whole new Transformers movie trailer just sitting there!

I think there's a chance they will do this again, maybe in a year or two. Will keep a look out.