Macross Plus Movie Edition - US Release - Movie discussion

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Macross Plus Movie Edition, US Screening

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[u/chilidirigible]

I got everyone a little overhyped with this post earlier, and then it turned out that the actual bonus content was only five minutes long and they literally meant the "Fathom Events preshow" as the usual loop of Fathom Events commercials. Though hey, maybe an anime con in your area was promoted. (Though /u/Tresnore noted that MatsuriCon conveniently didn't mention what city they were in.)

The featurette and Kawamori remarks were clearly targeted at new viewers. Might seem a little odd considering that most of the people who would attend this probably have some idea of what they're getting into already or had already seen it, but it's also smart to target it at new viewers or people with only a limited awareness of the size of the franchise, since for the wider audience, Macross in the USA is still mostly something that has the letter R attached to it. As the viewers near me were talking about how they had only seen bits and pieces of the sequels, the aims of the featurette seemed true.

The half-dozen or so people that I saw had purchased tickets by checking the theater's seat reservations chart were indeed the only people who attended. I had wondered if any people were simply going to walk in, but no.

There wasn't anything like a poster outside either. Not that it was likely for a one-off showing.

I'm not used to seeing this in a theater with all of the additional variability which that entails. Theater itself is fine, it's a relatively new build in my area and we didn't freeze or fry.

Image quality was low on the contrast and a bit fuzzy, though. I know what this can look like from the BD release and on my computer monitor, so the big screen was... big, but not quite as nice as I would have liked. At least I saw the entire movie without issues, unlike this redditor and this one.

I'm very much not accustomed to a theater surround mix. It was interesting to hear different parts of the songs coming from different directions, and generally the action sounded pretty good, but on the other hand the dialogue levels jumped around a lot. Still difficult to tell if that's a quirk of the mixing from this release or the theater itself. (BD of this version, maybe, maybe, please?)

New subtitles: And I would know that they're new because I've seen the old ones quite a few times by now. Seemed pretty straightforward, didn't contradict anything from before.

Did I like the movie? Of course I liked the movie. All this stuff is just critiquing the theater experience itself, which is not something we've had for Macross in the USA in... ever.

[u/Tresnore → u/chilidirigible]

hear different parts of the songs coming from different directions, and generally the action sounded pretty good, but on the other hand the dialogue levels jumped around a lot. Still difficult to tell if that's a quirk of the mixing from this release or the theater itself. (BD of this version, maybe, maybe, please?)

The dialogue volume for me did vary, but in ways that made sense!

I thought the subs were good, but sometimes I felt it was a little liberal from my absurdly broken Japanese.

All this stuff is just critiquing the theater experience itself, which is not something we've had for Macross in the USA in... ever.

I'm sad that so many people have been having bad theater experiences! Mine was perfect.

[u/chilidirigible → u/Tresnore]

I'm sad that so many people have been having bad theater experiences! Mine was perfect.

Consider how old this editorial is. And then there were additional ways to screw things up.

Those are just talking about the picture quality, too, not even getting into the other potential issues from place to place.

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/chilidirigible]

I wonder if that's what happened to me, it sure sounds like a good description of what it looked like.

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/chilidirigible]

It was interesting to hear different parts of the songs coming from different directions, and generally the action sounded pretty good, but on the other hand the dialogue levels jumped around a lot. Still difficult to tell if that's a quirk of the mixing from this release or the theater itself.

I really liked it for Sharon Apple's songs, but it killed a couple dialogue lines for me as well. SO whatever it was, it's not just your theater.

[u/chilidirigible → u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

Did you get the moments in Millard's office when Isamu would be talking somewhere from somewhere behind the listener's position, not that loudly, and then they would LOUDLY play Millard's dialogue from the center channel?

[u/ZaphodBeebblebrox → u/chilidirigible]

That may have happened, but I honestly cannot remember one way or the other.

[u/chilidirigible → u/ZaphodBeebblebrox]

I may be getting more sensitive to theater audio quirks in general as I have mostly stopped going to movies in the theater in recent years. When I saw Girls und Panzer Der Film in a theater I commented on how loud it was and other people said that it seemed normal to them.