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I remember in the early days of DVD and when widescreen TVs were starting to gain in popularity, SHE released a number of 2.35:1 films cropped to 16:9.
I remember this happening with some martial arts films, including Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, released in 2000. http://dvdfever.co.uk/reviews/snakein.shtml |
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I remember this happening with some martial arts films, including Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, released in 2000. http://dvdfever.co.uk/reviews/snakein.shtml I particularly remember Kalifornia (starring Brad Pitt). I had to wait for a re-release by MGM to get it in its OAR. |
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I particularly remember Kalifornia (starring Brad Pitt). I had to wait for a re-release by MGM to get it in its OAR.
I remember it well.http://dvdfever.co.uk/reviews/kaliforn.shtml |
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That's like saying you could crop every part of the Mona Lisa except for her smile, because that's all people look at(!)
However, the reason her smile is enigmatic is because of everything that surrounds her. I saw No Country for Old Men earlier, and while I thought the film sucked, it was very well filmed, and even if people were in the middle of the picture, you couldn't crop it without destroying the visuals. Cutting off a piece of the background is hardly going to spoil your viewing pleasure, and will let the picture fill the whole screen in the process. Of course, if you are a die-hard fan full-widescreen films are good to see, but for normal people like relatives or your parents, they don't really care about that, and often complain about the black bars. |
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Cutting off a piece of the background is hardly going to spoil your viewing pleasure, and will let the picture fill the whole screen in the process. Of course, if you are a die-hard fan full-widescreen films are good to see, but for normal people like relatives or your parents, they don't really care about that, and often complain about the black bars.
And also slapped. |
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16:9 cropping is not as drastic as that - and film is definitely not art. Art is static, you admire everything about it. Film is where you focus on one particular part of the image, the one with the most action. When you watch the fight scene in Star Wars, you don't look at the background, you look at the fight, in the centre of the screen.
Cutting off a piece of the background is hardly going to spoil your viewing pleasure, and will let the picture fill the whole screen in the process. Of course, if you are a die-hard fan full-widescreen films are good to see, but for normal people like relatives or your parents, they don't really care about that, and often complain about the black bars. And film is precisely art when you're framing the picture right. |
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These people need to be educated.
And also slapped. (I'd probably slap you back!) |
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Wonder Boys on BBC1 in 2.35:1 (which I forgot was due to be on. Bah! Will catch it next time).
I saw them show it like that before, on BBC2, then the last time it was due to be on I checked and it was... 16:9. Oh well. |
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Cobra Mission one of a slew of Italian/German action movies from the 80s on Movies For Men is being shown 2.35:1
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4:3 can only be stretched as far as 16:9 though, it would look ridiculous stretched to 21:9.
I prefer to have the black bands at the side, rather than have everyone looking podgy. Round objects (wheels, clocks, planets etc) also look daft, when they're an oblate spheroid. |
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Hard to credit the kind of people who sit watching a distorted version of film/tv.
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Blade Runner
BBC3 are currently showing Blade Runner in OAR.
Slightly surprisingly they haven't removed the DOG, although it only just touches the top of the film image. |
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BBC3 are currently showing Blade Runner in OAR.
Slightly surprisingly they haven't removed the DOG, although it only just touches the top of the film image. annoyingly however the sound is dropping out every few seconds ![]() ![]()
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BBC HD are Showing the film too and have also put the DOG on.
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So much for BBC/1 HD controller Danielle Nagler saying she'd drop the DOG for films and dramas.
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ITV are showing a trailer for the premiere of Ocean's 13 on Tuesday, 9pm, in 2.35:1.
Well, Ocean's 5.2 at 9pm, and Ocean's 7.8 at 10.35pm, since they're too moronic not to try and schedule films that aren't going to clash with the news. |
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Wonder Boys on BBC1 in 2.35:1 (which I forgot was due to be on. Bah! Will catch it next time).
For those with Sky, it's on channel 973. |
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ITV are showing a trailer for the premiere of Ocean's 13 on Tuesday, 9pm, in 2.35:1.
Well, Ocean's 5.2 at 9pm, and Ocean's 7.8 at 10.35pm, since they're too moronic not to try and schedule films that aren't going to clash with the news.
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As is every James Bond film ITV have shown so far in HD. Granted the first 3 were in 1.66:1, from Thunderball in 1965 onwards the films were 2.35:1 and ITV are ruining their HD debuts by cropping them.
I don't understand their policy. They have shown films in 2.35:1 before, so what's the big deal? |
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I don't understand their policy. They have shown films in 2.35:1 before, so what's the big deal?
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Only after 10PM AFAIK, and it was possibly only new (non Universal) acquisitions.
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After 10pm? Do IQ's drop sharply at that point so people are less likely to complain about the black bars?
If true, what an utterly rediculous policy!
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Air America is on ITV 1 HD now, and was made in 2.35:1. I'm not near a TV, but I don't suppose ITV are broadcasting it properly?
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