Originally Posted by DVDfever:
“The BBC are mostly okay at that these days, when it comes to a premiere, it's just older films that tend to suffer. (unless you were referring to an animated film itself being in scope format)
At some point I want to see Life of Pi, but I mainly have a choice of the Odeon in Trafford Centre or Manchester Printworks. The screen ratios in both cinemas are 2.35:1 and 1.85:1, respectively, so for a film that's mostly the latter, it'll be better to see Life of Pi at the Printworks, since if I see it at the Trafford Centre, there'll be wasted space on the sides, and then it'll look silly for the enclosed 2.35:1 clips where, as has been shown on TV, there are flying fish which zoom over the black bars, rather like some of the special effects in Mr Stink on Sunday.
However, when this scene just jumped from 1.85:1 to 2.35:1 *just* to apply this effect, it did seem rather pointless.”
“The BBC are mostly okay at that these days, when it comes to a premiere, it's just older films that tend to suffer. (unless you were referring to an animated film itself being in scope format)
At some point I want to see Life of Pi, but I mainly have a choice of the Odeon in Trafford Centre or Manchester Printworks. The screen ratios in both cinemas are 2.35:1 and 1.85:1, respectively, so for a film that's mostly the latter, it'll be better to see Life of Pi at the Printworks, since if I see it at the Trafford Centre, there'll be wasted space on the sides, and then it'll look silly for the enclosed 2.35:1 clips where, as has been shown on TV, there are flying fish which zoom over the black bars, rather like some of the special effects in Mr Stink on Sunday.
However, when this scene just jumped from 1.85:1 to 2.35:1 *just* to apply this effect, it did seem rather pointless.”
I wonder if Pi will keep that scene in 2.35:1 when it released on home entertainment or will be cropped, I know films like Enchanted and Brother Bear change aspect ratios.
I am referring to animated films done in scope, I notice Shrek Forever After was scope but not Tangled so it must be a choice for the film makers. I know Blue Sky only started to animate in 2.35:1 from Rio onwards and Dreamworks did with Monsters Vs Aliens onwards, not sure about animated films like Universal or Sony.
Speaking of Disney, does anyone what frame rate Mary Poppins was shot in? that film will look stunning in HD when the Blu-Ray comes out in 2014.





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