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Originally posted by: 88keyz
@ 3RA1N1AC - The point is really that we've all grown up with the full frame version of the film, not the widescreen one and to take away the top and bottom of the picture now when its considered a modern horror classic is the same as George messing the O-OT. Just like the recent "widescreen" release of The Sting, its always been available as full frame and now we have to suffer with the cropped version, just a shame. I hate that they are now altering the aspect of some classic movies only to fit widescreen TV's. Its the exact same crap that we put up with for years with Pan & Scan versions of films on VHS (and to some extent still on DVD), removing information from the frame for the sake of the masses. Utter B.S. if you ask me.
i hear that... to a certain extent. people want to see whichever version is considered the "original" one, whether that means the theatrical aspect ratio or otherwise. just sayin', anchor bay's dvd is 1.85:1, it's claimed that sam raimi prefers 1.66:1, so it's not a huge discrepancy from that p.o.v. but if you consider "the real evil dead" to be 1.33:1, then yeah you've got a case for comparing it to pan & scan. it kinda depends on whether you place more stock in the theatrical aspect ratio or in the director's preferred aspect ratio (in cases where there's a difference).