I have Jurassic Park trilogy, The Mask (1994), The Da Vinci Code, The Dark Knight (open matte for the IMAX scenes, pan & scan for the rest) and Apollo 13 in Full Screen DVD. Apart from these I have some more Full Screen ones through download, like Terminator 3 (The HDTV Rus version has more horizontal info than the FS dvd), Terminator 2 (from Myspleen), The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons on 16:9 open-matte without sound and of course Titanic. Quite a few Full Screen versions are often available for download.
Now I don't really like cropped pan& scan movies, be they in whatever ratio. I like the ones that are mostly open-matte (usually with a bit of horizontal loss).
The 16:9 version of Angels & Demons is selectively open-matte and pan-scan, and the values are not exactly absolute either. Titanic is also selectively open-matte and pan-scan on the 3D version. The World's Fastest Indian (2005) was released open-matte 1.78:1 from its original 2.35:1 framing on Bluray (shot on Super 35). Even Jurassic World was shot on 4 perf Full Aperture 35mm (1.33:1), Vistavision (1.50:1), Red (1.90:1), but finally cropped to 2.00:1. Jurassic World would've looked good on a larger ratio like 1.66:1 on a 1.44:1 IMAX screen. Plus, apart from artistic reasons, the 2.00:1 ratio did not make sense projection wise as the movie was shown in most scope screens window-boxed (black bars on all four sides). 1.85:1 would have at least utilised the full height of all screens (except 1.44:1 and 1.66:1). Theatrically it was supposed to look wider than 1.85:1 and ended looking smaller than that ratio.
Post #784416
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- Papai2013
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- Info & Discussion: Fullscreen Laserdisc / DVD Preservations
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- 10-Aug-2015, 8:50 AM