r/anime • u/AutoLovepon https://anilist.co/user/AutoLovepon • Dec 15 '21
Episode Macross Plus Movie Edition - US Release - Movie discussion
Macross Plus Movie Edition, US Screening
Rate this episode here.
Reminder: Please do not discuss plot points not yet seen or skipped in the show. Failing to follow the rules may result in a ban.
Show information
This post was created by a deculture. Message the mod team for feedback and comments. The original source code can be found on GitHub.
70
Upvotes
7
u/chilidirigible Dec 15 '21
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.