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KILLERS premiered OAR on C5 last night.
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Unusually, C4 broadcast a cropped version of BEAR ISLAND yesterday. Predictably, it looked hideous.
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I noticed Reservoir Dogs, was in friken 4:3!
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I noticed Reservoir Dogs, was in friken 4:3!
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It's a long held right to the film presumably, or it was thrown in as an extra with some other film rights they got.
What is even more disastrous is their positioning of their DOG on 4:3 content. They fixed it a while ago and then put it back where it was. Shockingly bad! |
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C5 has screened that one a couple of times, and it's always been shown the same way. I honestly don't know why they bothered.
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It's a Super 35 film so it's not as bad as if it had been cropped to 4:3 throughout, although there are a lot of shots which do look cropped (like Keitel and Madsen talking to Joe in his office), but at least it allows the "Who shot Nice Guy Eddie?" question to be answered without being cropped.
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But Tarantino normally hires good DPs who know how to frame properly, so any cropping is just plain wrong...
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I tend to notice some films are better in widescreen, some are better as 4:3 and stretched by the TV.
How come it's not the same for all? |
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It's a Super 35 film so it's not as bad as if it had been cropped to 4:3 throughout, although there are a lot of shots which do look cropped (like Keitel and Madsen talking to Joe in his office), but at least it allows the "Who shot Nice Guy Eddie?" question to be answered without being cropped.
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(Unless otherwise indicated, all films in the following list were projected at 2.35:1 prior to 1971, and at 2.39:1 thereafter)
* = May not be screened in all areas (check your local listings). Scope and 3-D movies across the Freeview platform for the coming week (12 - 18 October): Saturday (12 October) • 13 Assassins [十三人の刺客] (C4) • 17 Again (Film 4) • Backdraft (ITV 4) • Battle of Britain (C5) • The Crazies (Film 4) • Date Night (Film 4) • The DaVinci Code (5*) • The Eiger Sanction (ITV 1)* • Fistful of Dollars [Per un Pugno di Dollari] (C5) • G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (E4) • Glorious 39 (BBC 2) • The Hole (C4) [3-D] [1.85:1] • Horrid Henry: The Movie (ITV 1) [3-D] [1.85:1] • Ladyhawke (Film 4) • Lake Placid (Film 4) • The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (ITV 2) • Nim's Island (5*) • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (BBC 3) • Planet of the Apes (Movie Mix) • The Secret War of Harry Frigg (ITV 4) • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (ITV 4) • The Ugly Truth (More 4) • The Vikings (5 USA) [Technirama] • When a Stranger Calls (5*) Sunday (13 October) • Angels & Demons (C5) • Armageddon (BBC 1) • Blazing Saddles (ITV 4) • The Cave (Film 4) • Ever After (E4) • Gun for a Coward (5 USA) • Inglourious Basterds (Film 4) • Lassie (Film 4) • Men of Honor (Movie Mix) • Skyline (Film 4) • Superman III (C5) • Superman II (C5) • Vantage Point (C5) • La Vie en Rose [La Môme] (BBC 4) Monday (14 October) • 5 Days of War (Movie Mix) • The Bourne Identity (ITV 2) • Constantine (C5) • Crimson Tide (5*) • Death Drums Along the River (Film 4) • Dragoon Wells Massacre (Film 4) • D-Tox [Eye See You] (ITV 4) Tuesday (15 October) • Earthquake (C4) • Layer Cake (Film 4) • Mr. & Mrs. Smith (5*) • Payback (ITV 4) • The Siege (5 USA) • The Tall Stranger (Film 4) Wednesday (16 October) • The Art of War (5 USA) • Casino (ITV 4) • The Karate Kid (Film 4) • Monsieur Lazhar (Film 4) • Planet of the Apes (Movie Mix) • The Pursuit of Happyness (5*) • Sunshine (Film 4) Thursday (17 October) • 1941 (Movie Mix) • Blazing Saddles (ITV 4) • The Comancheros (Film 4) • Conan the Barbarian [3-D] • The Crazies (Film 4) • Damn the Defiant! [HMS Defiant] (C4) • D-Tox [Eye See You] (ITV 4) • Forrest Gump (Film 4) • Men of Honor (Movie Mix) Friday (18 October) • 17 Again (Film 4) • Angels & Demons (C5) • The Bourne Identity (ITV 2) • Dragoon Wells Massacre (Film 4) • G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (E4) • Inglourious Basterds (Film 4) • In Too Deep (Movie Mix) • Men of Honor (Movie Mix) • Murphy's War (C4) • Point Blank (BBC 2) • Poltergeist (BBC 1) • Runaway Jury (More 4) • The Runaways (C4) • Serenity (ITV 4) • When Eight Bells Toll (Film 4) |
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I tend to notice some films are better in widescreen, some are better as 4:3 and stretched by the TV.
How come it's not the same for all? I think your TV / set top box settings are wrong, you should look into fixing them if your getting 4:3 pictures filling the screen. |
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I tend to notice some films are better in widescreen, some are better as 4:3 and stretched by the TV.
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Can you give examples? I highly doubt anyone would find a 4:3 image streched horizontally to fill the screen would look better than a proper widescreen picture, or a 4:3 picture properly pillarboxed to maintain the aspect ratio.
I think your TV / set top box settings are wrong, you should look into fixing them if your getting 4:3 pictures filling the screen. Quote:
I have to disagree, since 4:3 and 16:9 versions of Super 35 films require extensive reframing of the image throughout, leading to cropping in some shots and 'opening out' in others. The aesthetic is altered to a significant degree, and is all the more insidious because the telecine artist goes out of his/her way to make it look 'invisible' to most people. I understand what you're saying in that it seems better than the cropping of an anamorphic image, but it's actually no less ruinous. So there.
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How dare you make the assertion that films broadcast OAR are better?!
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Reservoir Dogs was made with the video market and cable in mind, it was financed by LIVE Entertainment (a US home video label) the budget was well under $2 million. Like many films that period the theatrical release would have been used to generate reviews and publicity in the urban areas. If it made money theatrically it was a bonus and that could be used as leverage against cable sales and those figures could be used by sales houses at film markets.
Tarantino was allowed to produced a 2.35:1 cut from the Super 35 frame with full knowledge that the Super 35 negative would be used to produce a TV safe version and he had to compromise his final edit. The problem with Reservoir Dogs now is that the majority of TV screens in the western world are 16:9 and people STILL DON'T like black bars on their TV set and that means a panned scanned widescreen print or a zoomed/cropped full screen version has to come into play. I don't think Tarantino oversaw the creation of this new compromised version. |
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Shame he didn't hire anyone to crop out the last 40 minutes of Django Unchained. Christ, that went on!
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• Fistful of Dollars [Per un Pugno di Dollari] (C5)
Shown 16:9 of course this being Channel 5, so how ironic that the first Wonga bookend featured a reference to 2.35:1 widescreen! |
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The problem with Reservoir Dogs now is that the majority of TV screens in the western world are 16:9 and people STILL DON'T like black bars on their TV set and that means a panned scanned widescreen print or a zoomed/cropped full screen version has to come into play. I don't think Tarantino oversaw the creation of this new compromised version.
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I don't think Django Unchained went on as much as Inglourous Basterds. Although Inglourious got better on a rewatch...
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• Fistful of Dollars [Per un Pugno di Dollari] (C5)
Shown 16:9 of course this being Channel 5, so how ironic that the first Wonga bookend featured a reference to 2.35:1 widescreen! |
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(Unless otherwise indicated, all films in the following list were projected at 2.35:1 prior to 1971, and at 2.39:1 thereafter)
* = May not be screened in all areas (check your local listings). Scope and 3-D movies across the Freeview platform for the coming week (19 - 25 October): Saturday (19 October) • 1941 (Movie Mix) • Casino (ITV 4) • Die Hard (C4) • Frost/Nixon (BBC 2) • Hostel Part II (5*) • Loch Ness (5*) • Midway (ITV 4) • Moulin Rouge! (Movie Mix) • Never Been Kissed (E4) • Operation Crossbow (C5) • Pale Rider (C5) • Runaway Jury (More 4) • Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (ITV 1) • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (ITV 4) • Tobruk (More 4) • Tora! Tora! Tora! (Film 4) • The Way Back (C4) Sunday (20 October) • Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (C4) • Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (C5) [3-D] • Glory Road (BBC 2) • Gun for a Coward (5 USA) • Gunmen (Movie Mix) • Journey to the Center of the Earth (C4) [3-D] [1.85:1] • King Kong (Film 4) • The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (C5) • The Rock (C5) • Serenity (ITV 4) • Terminator: Salvation (Film 4) • Twister (ITV 2) • X-Men (Film 4) Monday (21 October) • Black Knight (Film 4) • The Bourne Supremacy (ITV 2) • Chaos (C5) • The Comancheros (Film 4) • The Final Destination (Film 4) [3-D] • Mr. & Mrs. Smith (5*) • The Tall Stranger (Film 4) • The Violent Men (C4) [2.55:1] Tuesday (22 October) • The Gauntlet (ITV 4) • Little Buddha (Movie Mix) [scope and Arri 765] • Moulin Rouge! (Movie Mix) • The Prince and the Pauper (Film 4) • Stargate (5*) • X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Film 4) Wednesday (23 October) • 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (E4) • Clear and Present Danger (Film 4) • Conan the Barbarian (5*) [3-D] • Is Anybody There? (BBC 1) • When Eight Bells Toll (Film 4) Thursday (24 October) • Demolition Man (ITV 4) • Everything Must Go (Film 4) • Huge (Film 4) • Law Abiding Citizen (Film 4) • Lethal Weapon 3 (5*) • Tears of the Sun (Movie Mix) • Tora! Tora! Tora! (Film 4) • The Virgin Queen (More 4) [2.55:1] • X-Men (Film 4) Friday (25 October) • Basic Instinct (ITV 1)* • The Bourne Supremacy (ITV 2) • Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Dave) • The Final Destination (Film 4) [3-D] • The Gauntlet (ITV 4) • Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (BBC 1) • Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (C4) • King Kong (Film 4) • Little Buddha (Movie Mix) [scope and Arri 765] • Moulin Rouge! (Movie Mix) • Never Been Kissed (E4) • The Sons of Katie Elder (Film 4) • Terminator: Salvation (Film 4) • Tobruk (More 4) • A Town Called Panic [Panique au Village] (Film 4) • Zulu (Film 4) [Super Technirama 70] [2.21:1] |
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Nice to see EARTHQUAKE finally getting its OAR terrestrial 'premiere' on Film 4 the other day (they have the 1976 version of KING KONG in the coming week, which - if it's OAR - will be the first time that's been shown properly as well). And SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE has also been screening OAR on ITV 4.
But not the 'biggie', ANGELS & DEMONS, which was resolutely 16:9, typical of the films provided to C5 by Sony TV. |
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Is it even worth wondering whether C4 left Earthquake intact for a daytime screening? There are quite a few bastards, bitches and shits bandied around, as well as the sights of some of the bloodier by-products of the earth-moving mayhem.
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Poltergeist was cropped again on BBC1 last night
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Is it even worth wondering whether C4 left Earthquake intact for a daytime screening? There are quite a few bastards, bitches and shits bandied around, as well as the sights of some of the bloodier by-products of the earth-moving mayhem.
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Nice to see EARTHQUAKE finally getting its OAR terrestrial 'premiere' on Film 4 the other day (they have the 1976 version of KING KONG in the coming week, which - if it's OAR - will be the first time that's been shown properly as well). And SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE has also been screening OAR on ITV 4.
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But not the 'biggie', ANGELS & DEMONS, which was resolutely 16:9, typical of the films provided to C5 by Sony TV.
And 4 years old, now, too. This doesn't bode well for when they eventually show 2012, which is at least a year late(!)
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