Transformers : Rise of the Beasts 3D Blu-ray (2023) [Region Free]

[dogofwar]

I am not really that interested in this but will go see it for the 3D. I didn't care to see Bumblebee but I went and I'm so glad I did, great 3D and it never got a physical release. If you missed it in the theaters, you pretty much missed out.

[Creed]

Definitely see it in 3D.

Starts off mild from the opening logos, but it got better from the DB logo. The first scene is high medium, to strong with

[Show spoiler]Unicron's introduction

.The rest of the movie has a fair balance of medium, high medium and some strong depth. Pop-outs include maybe some embers coming close to edging the screen.

[BluBonnet]

I don't really have anything great to say about the movie, but I would agree that the 3D was pretty sweet (especially in 3D IMAX)

[Just_Discovered_3D]

Originally Posted by Creed

Definitely see it in 3D.

Starts off mild from the opening logos, but it got better from the DB logo. The first scene is high medium, to strong with

[Show spoiler]Unicron's introduction

.The rest of the movie has a fair balance of medium, high medium and some strong depth. Pop-outs include maybe some embers coming close to edging the screen.

Thanks for the quick review. All set here to snag some tickets. I'm a little confused about the popout though, would you elaborate a bit on that?

Is there any 3D in this that you'd say is on par with the early scene in Guardians of the Galaxy 3 where Rocket walks into the bar?

[Creed]

Originally Posted by Just_Discovered_3D

Thanks for the quick review. All set here to snag some tickets. I'm a little confused about the popout though, would you elaborate a bit on that?

Is there any 3D in this that you'd say is on par with the early scene in Guardians of the Galaxy 3 where Rocket walks into the bar?

You know the sparks from fire? Those embers. In relation to GOTG 3, yes.

[Freakyguy666]

Originally Posted by BluBonnet

I don't really have anything great to say about the movie, but I would agree that the 3D was pretty sweet (especially in 3D IMAX)

Well your lack of enthusiasm for the movie is no surprise given the lack of musical numbers…

But clearly imax 3d is the best way to see this!

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by Freakyguy666

Well your lack of enthusiasm for the movie is no surprise given the lack of musical numbers…

But clearly imax 3d is the best way to see this!

C'mon, bruv, 99.99% of movies these days have no musical numbers.

And yes you should watch it in 3D IMAX by all means.

[kinkyqueen]

Liked it although is was a bit too woke for my liking

[BLMN]

Originally Posted by Freakyguy666

Well your lack of enthusiasm for the movie is no surprise given the lack of musical numbers…

But clearly imax 3d is the best way to see this!

And it wasn’t made by a certain studio either, if it was they would be singing a different tune here

Too bad we did not get this in 3D so I am SOL this time.

[BrandonJF]

Originally Posted by kinkyqueen

Liked it although is was a bit too woke for my liking

What in the world was "woke" about Transformers? I can't think of anything unless it's because it supports transformer rights?

[BluBonnet]

Originally Posted by BLMN

And it wasn’t made by a certain studio either, if it was they would be singing a different tune here

Has absolutely zero to do with anything.

[3dblurayofsunshine]

Considering I was recently banned for ‘politics’ (as in calling out someone else for threadcrapping with their politics) I’d love it if that rule was actually enforced across the board. It seems like (as I’ve seen complained about on Reddit by younger home media enthusiasts that don’t even bother with this site) this site leans older and a lot of the mods lean conservative so the actual ‘politics’ that are not allowed to be discussed is anything not conservative. People are free to thread crap all day long dropping in brain dead political buzzwords like ‘woke’, lowering the IQ of myriad threads, and they’ll never see even a glint of the banhammer. I’m over it. This is a hobby site and I’d love to not have to be faced dead on with the effects of propaganda and the vast dumbing down of society when I try and discuss my hobbies, hobbies being an escapism from that sort of nonsense for most people.

Regardless of where your political affiliations lie, I’m sure most people with a brain can agree it’s much better to not have politics constantly brought up, especially as a criticism for a movie, in a forum for stereoscopic movies. Imagine yelling ‘hurrrr tHiS iS wOkE’ in the middle of a cinema screening. Doing it here is basically just as obnoxious and cringeworthy. Nobody wants to hear your garbage political takes. We’re here for the movies.

[Just_Discovered_3D]

Originally Posted by 3dblurayofsunshine

Considering I was recently banned for ‘politics’ (as in calling out someone else for threadcrapping with their politics) I’d love it if that rule was actually enforced across the board. It seems like (as I’ve seen complained about on Reddit by younger home media enthusiasts that don’t even bother with this site) this site leans older and a lot of the mods lean conservative so the actual ‘politics’ that are not allowed to be discussed is anything not conservative. People are free to thread crap all day long dropping in brain dead political buzzwords like ‘woke’, lowering the IQ of myriad threads, and they’ll never see even a glint of the banhammer. I’m over it. This is a hobby site and I’d love to not have to be faced dead on with the effects of propaganda and the vast dumbing down of society when I try and discuss my hobbies, hobbies being an escapism from that sort of nonsense for most people.

Regardless of where your political affiliations lie, I’m sure most people with a brain can agree it’s much better to not have politics constantly brought up, especially as a criticism for a movie, in a forum for stereoscopic movies. Imagine yelling ‘hurrrr tHiS iS wOkE’ in the middle of a cinema screening. Doing it here is basically just as obnoxious and cringeworthy. Nobody wants to hear your garbage political takes. We’re here for the movies.

When you put it that way, it occurs to me that films themselves come close to doing this. Avatar 2 slaps the viewer with its message about whaling, but then there's Across the Spiderverse, which was packed with present-day political slogans and had characters shout out politically charged statements apropos of nothing. I enjoyed the film and laughed at those lines, but still, the film "started the conversation" about politics so discussing it inevitably comes up in discussing the film.

Especially funny was the irony of the film bashing capitalism, explicitly and by name, when it's expected to make megabucks.

Long story short, if filmmakers stop putting blatant politics into their films then folks won't be talking about politics in the film. It's probably best to do that anyhow as real-world politics can age like milk and really date a film.

[BrandonJF]

Originally Posted by Just_Discovered_3D

Long story short, if filmmakers stop putting blatant politics into their films then folks won't be talking about politics in the film. It's probably best to do that anyhow as real-world politics can age like milk and really date a film.

Sure, but we're in a thread about Transformers, which has none of this. At least, that I can recall, which is why I took the possible-bait and asked. There was a joke where someone was called racist for assuming a Transformer that had an accent could speak Spanish, but it was ajoke and the character even said something like "I don't see how that's racist...."

When I know what someone could be talking about, I would just ignore it, but in this particular case it's like.... Transformers? Or I can't remember. Climate change? No, not really.... Not unless someone saw Unicron as a metaphor for climate change with climate change being "planet devouring"? I have no idea. The idea that people and Transformers have to work together to solve problems?

I have a guess, but I don't even feel like putting it out there. And I hope that guess is wrong.

Oh - I think I popped into this thread mainly because I wasn't super impressed with the 3D. Then got distracted. It was OK, but I don't know if it was really a must-see in 3D. I thought Guardians 3 was a bit better.

[Just_Discovered_3D]

Originally Posted by BrandonJF

Sure, but we're in a thread about Transformers, which has none of this. At least, that I can recall, which is why I took the possible-bait and asked. There was a joke where someone was called racist for assuming a Transformer that had an accent could speak Spanish, but it was ajoke and the character even said something like "I don't see how that's racist...."

When I know what someone could be talking about, I would just ignore it, but in this particular case it's like.... Transformers? Or I can't remember. Climate change? No, not really.... Not unless someone saw Unicron as a metaphor for climate change with climate change being "planet devouring"? I have no idea. The idea that people and Transformers have to work together to solve problems?

I have a guess, but I don't even feel like putting it out there. And I hope that guess is wrong.

Oh - I think I popped into this thread mainly because I wasn't super impressed with the 3D. Then got distracted. It was OK, but I don't know if it was really a must-see in 3D. I thought Guardians 3 was a bit better.

No dumb-fun corny quips in Transformers along the lines of:

*characters stare into black hole*

"What's that?"
"It's a metaphor for capitalism"
"No, it's way worse than that!"

Admittedly I haven't seen the Wahlberg transformers flicks in a while but the popular YouTube movie parody series about for them claim that they had some political quips in them.

If only there were a way to get the 3D in films to be taken up a notch or three. Why can't a big dumb fun film about a robot gorilla and a robot truck working with a robot car to punch other robots in the face have big fun 3D?

[Interdimensional]

Saw this in Imax 3D.

What was a little strange was that before the opening credits, they had a disclaimer to say that the film had not been specially formatted for Imax presentation. I've never seen anything like that before. It was like Imax were washing their hands of it.

In spite of this, it really was an excellent 3D presentation, with multiple pop-outs, and a strong sense of volume and depth even in quiet scenes. It also made excellent use of the Imax sound system which felt truly immense, and was particularly useful in conveying the planetary scale of Unicron.

I thought it had one of the most promising setups of any of these films. The human characters are well integrated into the storyline. They also seemed to have more robot characters than previous movies, but they all had distinct designs which avoided confusion.

I don't know if it's a good or a bad film or what kind of critical reaction it's getting. I thought it started strong and ended strong, but in the middle it felt like something wasn't quite clicking. Some of the plot developments were perhaps a bit convenient, a lot was far-fetched. I'm not convinced that should be considered a fatal flaw in a film of this nature. On the whole I found it a lot better than expected, if a mixed bag. It's more of a B-movie than previous entries in the series. No star actors or director, no ILM. I don't think they even went with one of the established 3D conversion houses. The visual effects did the job, but suffered at times. The cargo plane transformer might be the single worst case of unconvincing CGI in the series.

The cinema I saw it in had some really young and inexperienced staff on duty, and I had to correct the girl who'd given me a pair of Real D glasses, instead of the linear polarized Imax glasses required. Luckily I got to the screen before they'd dimmed the lights, because the people sitting next to me had also been given the wrong glasses. Before the screening started I must've sent somewhere between 10 and 20 people down to get their glasses changed. I hate doing this, I'm not that sort of outgoing person to go up to strangers like that. Not the first time it's happened either. Considering the cost of Imax tickets, that's just not good enough. It would really ruin the screening, and that doesn't help the case for 3D either.

But the 3D was definitely worth it. There was a nicely executed popout when one of the trucks fired a missile, and there was an effective-in-3D scene where Optimus Prime picks up the main human protagonist. Prime looked believably massive. Definitely no miniaturisation effect there. I had a visceral reaction in another scene when one of the antagonist bots swung a ball on a chain weapon towards the screen. There may have been a minor conversion error in one scene where light reflections on a Porshe ended up looking like scrapes but it didn't really matter. 3D was a major enhancement to the film in every way. I haven't seen the other films in years so it's hard to judge, but I felt it might be some of the best 3D of the series. It's 3D with impact.

[russweiss1]

I saw this today and was disappointed with the 3D. Perhaps since I didn't see it on an Imax screen. Very few images popped and there wasn't much depth in almost any of the scenes.

The movie itself delivered with the effects. I would have enjoyed it more had there not been any people in it. For those that leave as soon as the credits start, stick around as there is a good cutscene.

[BleedOrange11]

What company performed the conversion? Anyone notice in the credits?

[Telegram Sam]

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

What company performed the conversion? Anyone notice in the credits?

According to Cinemablend's review, it was done by DNeg. (And their review was a rare 35/35: I'm not generally a fan of their 3D reviews, particularly their peculiar scoring system, but they certainly make it sound like a 3D classic, for whatever that's worth.)

[Just_Discovered_3D]

Originally Posted by russweiss1

I saw this today and was disappointed with the 3D. Perhaps since I didn't see it on an Imax screen. Very few images popped and there wasn't much depth in almost any of the scenes.

The movie itself delivered with the effects. I would have enjoyed it more had there not been any people in it. For those that leave as soon as the credits start, stick around as there is a good cutscene.

Thanks. I also wouldn't mind no humans in my giant robot flicks.

IMHO if the 3D only works at IMAX then it isn't strong enough.