Advance screening report
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:29 amSo it's now just a bit before 10:30pm Australian time and I just got back to the hotel after seeing the movie.
So, where to begin? Well for starters, we're not allowed to talk about the movie until the 28th.
What we are allowed to talk about is the event it's self.
Sharkysparky (from TAAU) arrived at the Entertainment Quarter around 4pm. Mostly so I could find some decent bloody food! We met up with Crank (of TAAU) and his fiance. Eventually we were joined by Felafel (TAAU), the OzFormers crew (Griffin, Goktimus Prime, Dirge and a couple of others I didn't actually meet) and of course Seibertron's own Mulla, who'll pop on tomorrow for his version of things.
The red carpet was actually a "camo" carpet and the announcer made the comment "we've transformed this place into a junkyard, to make the Autobots feel at home" which gave me a bit of a chuckle.
What did get annoying though was him constantly referring to Autobots as "Autobarns", someone obviously corrected him though.
He kept handing out free tickets until the celebrities turned up, they also had music blasting away, and Lion's Transformers theme was one of them. It was the only TF related music they played.
They were also hyping the fact they had a Hummer there done up with the Transformers logo, nothing spiffy about that really but apparently we were suppose to be in awe.
A bunch of celebrities attended (Mulla can provide a full list after he swangled a Media pass and scored a media press kit), Megan Fox was the first to arrive and she did over the camo carpet. Michael Bay eventually turned up which is when things got a little crazy as we were told we could begin entering the theatre, except we had no idea where.
It was all quite a bit disorganised at that point but we eventually found our way in. There were two cinemas in use with Bay and the Rachel chick in one and Megan Fox in the other.
Bay got up and gave a speech at the beginning and stated that he had only finished the movie 19 hours ago (complete with one big error), then the movie got started and we were treated to one hell of a fantastic movie.
There's good points and bad points but quite frankly the good definitely outweighs the bad. I'll post more and some pics (provided they turn out) when I got home in a couple of days.
But i'll say this. GO AND SEE THIS DAMN MOVIE
So, where to begin? Well for starters, we're not allowed to talk about the movie until the 28th.
What we are allowed to talk about is the event it's self.
Sharkysparky (from TAAU) arrived at the Entertainment Quarter around 4pm. Mostly so I could find some decent bloody food! We met up with Crank (of TAAU) and his fiance. Eventually we were joined by Felafel (TAAU), the OzFormers crew (Griffin, Goktimus Prime, Dirge and a couple of others I didn't actually meet) and of course Seibertron's own Mulla, who'll pop on tomorrow for his version of things.
The red carpet was actually a "camo" carpet and the announcer made the comment "we've transformed this place into a junkyard, to make the Autobots feel at home" which gave me a bit of a chuckle.
What did get annoying though was him constantly referring to Autobots as "Autobarns", someone obviously corrected him though.
He kept handing out free tickets until the celebrities turned up, they also had music blasting away, and Lion's Transformers theme was one of them. It was the only TF related music they played.
They were also hyping the fact they had a Hummer there done up with the Transformers logo, nothing spiffy about that really but apparently we were suppose to be in awe.
A bunch of celebrities attended (Mulla can provide a full list after he swangled a Media pass and scored a media press kit), Megan Fox was the first to arrive and she did over the camo carpet. Michael Bay eventually turned up which is when things got a little crazy as we were told we could begin entering the theatre, except we had no idea where.
It was all quite a bit disorganised at that point but we eventually found our way in. There were two cinemas in use with Bay and the Rachel chick in one and Megan Fox in the other.
Bay got up and gave a speech at the beginning and stated that he had only finished the movie 19 hours ago (complete with one big error), then the movie got started and we were treated to one hell of a fantastic movie.
There's good points and bad points but quite frankly the good definitely outweighs the bad. I'll post more and some pics (provided they turn out) when I got home in a couple of days.
But i'll say this. GO AND SEE THIS DAMN MOVIE
Come on, July 2!