Mods are asleep. Gonna watch the sixth best Transformers film and drink wine.

You know, I don't think I've ever watched the extra features on this blu ray? Always assumed that apart from the different US commentaries they were the same as the previous UK DVD.

But there's a US teaser trailer that's basically the Japanese sales pitch I've not seen before.

Yeah, definitely not seen the restoration feature before. I love this sort of stuff. Especially when it's a film like this, a comparatively minor cult classic with so many previous DVD releases it's probably only going to sell OK at best.

But it's still getting passionate work.

This guy.

That's the tweet.

This film is basically obsessed with moustache robots. Mostly on the characters that didn't get toys, so presumably Hasbro weren't prepared to support Floro Dery work through his kinks beyond Scourge and Wreck-Gar.

I'm surprised Arcee didn't have one.

(I get he's a bit full of himself, but I will never really understand the antagonism between the Wiki and Floro Dery over him saying he did the job he was credited for on the show and film. Feels like I missed something)

TRAUMATIC DEATH IN HD

You don't remotely need a 4K TV to see this, but I've never noticed before that YOU SEE THE LIGHT GO OUT OF PROWL'S EYES.

A detail you probably do need 4K for... they bothered animating the stars moving behind Megatron!

That scene really does sum up everything I love about this movie as it's clearly the worst idea they could have made to kill all the beloved characters (apparently there were drafts where the old guys lasted longer? May have made a smooth transition). It's reckless and brilliant.

It's really the painted backgrounds that make this especially good to watch in HD. Some of the character animation can be a bit more ropey under this much scrutiny, but those are just pinging out the screen.

Arcee when that sort of man replies to her tweets.

I don't know if it's all the fucking shit both women in the fandom and women characters get, but I'm much more onside with Arcee and her design than I used to be.

(Mind, growing up with the comics as my main media and that doing an entire issue about how awful the idea of Arcee was may have conditioned me)

I don't think they'll have animated any of the scripted deleted sequences (with the expense, a competent cartoon film won't have more than trims. Plus it's less than an hour and a half long), but have often wondered if the actors recorded the full dialogue.

So anyway, Megatron's pistol shoots purple lasers, but we see Prime also being hit by yellow ones. Like the colour of the ones that fire from Hot Rod's arm exhausts.

Hmm.

(And that's just a random bit of this fight paused for a gag and it looks great. The animators could not have had a burning passion to make a toy advert film. But they are throwing everything at this)

In the battle of the young hot celebrity voice casting as the rebellious punk between this and G.I. Joe The Movie, Don Johnson has finally beaten Judd Nelson thanks to Knives Out.

Bukkake Megatron.

TFW Soundwave superior, Constructicons inferior.

Saving this one for future use.

I don't know if it's the new TV or the new soundbar, but this the first time in 34 years I've actually understood a word Unicron has said without relying on being the sort of sad fan who knows the script better than Orson Welles clearly did.

Still, the amount of reverb and echo added to try and get the performance they wanted means basically anyone could be playing Unicron.

No one turning over channels and catching a bit of this film on TV would ever go "Is that Orson Welles?".

And this is still gorgeous. The sort of thing you could do much more easily now (it's trying to fake computer graphics with paint), but the design is still so striking it would be hard to top.

And as a of how no one expected someone like me to be watching a 4K transfer intently, the animators gave Megatron a dick. Probably as a little joke they had a laugh about to combat being paid insufficiently by an American corporation exploiting Asian labour.

And not cock related, but someone has clearly put s lot of thought into how the fusion cannon fires. Looks almost like a Death Star thing with the central beam and then the ones that merge with it around the edges.

You don't get to see Galvatron's schematic. But his cock is definitely bigger.

I do love this design. Often not drawn to it's full Bastard energy outside of the film though.

So that's Kickback, Shrapnel, Thundercracker and Skywarp (which one is which is harder to tell) and Bombshell.

Glad we've got that sorted.

The effect here (is it early CGI or glowing paint?) Is fantastic.

And bless them, no one now cares about this as much as the Megatron schematic, but the animators are not holding back.

If memory serves, @chrismcfeely says on his commentary that the script is apathetic on which Decepticons get turned into the new guys. Which is why most of them appear again in the rest of the film.

Which is either a failure of Flint Dille as script consultant (who should have been "hey, we should decide who this is and not use them later") or the Nelson Shin as animation director (who presumably finalised who the rebuilt were and should have kept on top on that).

THIS IS LITERALLY A MINUTE AFTER THUNDERCRACKER DIED