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A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.

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Lyra Jane - Jan 28, 2005 5:53:33 am PST #8530 of 10001

Up with the sun

It doesn't sound like you turn in your DVD and get back another copy of the same film in the proper aspect ratio; you turn it in and get to choose from a list of 385 other MGM DVDs.

This bothers me too, JZ. Also, I'm not crazy about the "turning it in" bit to start with -- mailing the DVDs off and waiting to get the new ones back, at class-action speed, seems a bit excessive for a problem I've never noticed.

It's kind of funny that with all the film snobbery about aspect ratos and so on, nobody caught MGM for more than six years.

Jessica - Jan 28, 2005 5:54:15 am PST #8531 of 10001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Checked with DH, and we apparently own a lot (damn Virgin's 2-for-1 bin!):

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Annie Hall
Bull Durham (although I'm not sure if this list refers to the Special Edition or the original release. We own the SE)
A Fish Called Wanda
The Last Waltz
Sid and Nancy
Spaceballs
This is Spinal Tap
Yellow Submarine
Princess Bride

Crap.

sumi - Jan 28, 2005 5:54:37 am PST #8532 of 10001

Art Crawl!!!

Ghostworld

DebetEsse - Jan 28, 2005 5:56:00 am PST #8533 of 10001

Woe to the fucking wicked.

I remember seeing something about The Princess Bride a while back, so someone noticed on some of the movies.

Polter-Cow - Jan 28, 2005 5:56:06 am PST #8534 of 10001

What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I guess it's lucky I'm cheap and haven't gotten around to buying many DVDs. I'm with tommyrot on this one. This is just crap.

Steph L. - Jan 28, 2005 5:56:22 am PST #8535 of 10001

I look more rad than Lutheranism

(although I'm not sure if this list refers to the Special Edition or the original release. We own the SE)

Oh, good point. I have the SE, too.

Frankenbuddha - Jan 28, 2005 5:57:25 am PST #8536 of 10001

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

But it was released theatrically in 35mm. I'd be very surprised if it wasn't shot in widescreen.

Would it be any wider than academy ratio? Because if it's academy ratio then it's the same ratio as TV, but academy ratio is also 35 mm.

sumi - Jan 28, 2005 6:00:07 am PST #8537 of 10001

Art Crawl!!!

All the Bond films it looks like, Storefront Hitchcock, Stormy Monday.

Jessica - Jan 28, 2005 6:08:32 am PST #8538 of 10001

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Aspect ratio isn't format-dependent -- you can shoot 1.33:1 35mm or 1.85:1 video. The vast majority of theatrically released films post-1950's are 1.85:1 or wider, regardless of the medium they were shot in. (I didn't see 24HPP, so for all I know, it was released in 1.33, but I doubt it. The DVD details on IMDB say 1.85.)

Tom Scola - Jan 28, 2005 6:11:19 am PST #8539 of 10001

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

James Cameron sometimes shoots a movie at 1.33:1, and then crops it for the theatrical release, rather than for the video release.

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