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ElectricTriangle
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Info: Films re-color timed on video releases
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24-Feb-2015, 5:03 PM

TylerDurden389 said:

Top Gun was and always will be one of my favorite movies. Definitely watched it over 500 times over my life. Here's the problem though. The VHS tape aspect ratio was the entire image. So now the so called "widescreen" versions show less. Being the film is about about supersonic jets, I can't imagine why they'd cover up like 30% of the image. The image is so burned in my head that I simply can't watch any dvd/blu-ray release, regardless of how good it looks lol.

So as ridiculous as this sounds, the only preservation I'd like to see is the best picture quality possible from the "full scope" (or whatever) version lol.

And a release of Faltermeyer's entire score would be very nice to :D

Top Gun is shot in Super 35, so the frame is composed for the tighter widescreen aspect ratio, but can be opened up for home video transfers. The widescreen version is how it was presented in theaters. Of course, open matte versions are neat to see as well.