b0bafett

Can anyone fill me in on why the runtimes are different between the various releases of this title? The upcoming release from Shout! is listed as 84 minutes. While the UK release is 85 minutes and the Australian Region A/B/C import, from Madman, has a runtime of 86 minutes.

If you click on the Shout! release on amazon, then check out the other 2 under "Additional Blu-ray options" and look at their runtime, you'll see they're all different:
https://www.amazon.com/Transformers-...=UTF8&qid=&sr=

I emailed Shout! and this was their response: "Our version is complete. We’re verifying the run time upon delivery of the final master."

Josh Z

Early VHS and TV broadcast versions of the movie replaced the Superman-style opening credits with a Star Wars text scroll (and also censored some profanity later in the movie). It's possible that this resulted in a slightly different run time, which the UK and Australian studios are mistakenly citing.

As far as I'm aware, 84 minutes is the correct length for the theatrical cut.

b0bafett

Cool, thanks for that info Josh! I wasn't sure if it was a cutting/censoring issue or some kind of PAL speed playback vs NTSC or something else entirely.

Josh Z

PAL speedup would make the movie shorter.

Honestly, this is probably just some misinformation or a couple of typos.