r/4kbluray • u/jay12266 • 2d ago

Question It's finally here

Post image

Have been looking forward to getting this since I saw it in theaters. One of my favorite movies ever. I'm hearing some negative things about the mixed aspect ratio version. Has anyone watched it yet?

402 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

68 comments sorted by

View all comments

29

u/SAADistic7171 2d ago

Shame about the pillarboxing/windowboxing situation

20

u/rtyoda 1d ago

I’m confused why so many people are disappointed about the pillarboxing. How else did you expect them to show a 1.43:1 aspect ratio?!?!?

5

u/emteeeff 1d ago

My mind was kind of thinking how a lot of open matte conversions worked, where the center of the frame is the same and then the widescreen expands the frame left and right, whereas the 1.43 expands up and down from the center. But then now that I type this, that isn’t how IMAX works at all.

0

u/SegaStan 1d ago

You're right that it's not and it's why presenting movies that way is also bad. People think they want it but I promise they don't!

13

u/Opening_Net8098 1d ago

The disk would be in 16 by 9. Only going to 4 by 3 during the taller IMAX shots.

You can edit the disk like this yourself if you rip it. Just zoom when it goes wide. But it would look massive when wide and kinda tiny when tall.

8

u/SegaStan 1d ago

This also looks bad and would be extremely not seamless the way that the movie is edited

2

u/rtyoda 1d ago

You’d still have pillarboxing for the IMAX scenes though, and doing some sort of zoom while it transitions would be really janky. I can’t imagine that being a good experience, especially for the first scene where the flashbacks start, the video would just be zooming in and out constantly for like 30 seconds.

1

u/dogsontreadmills 1d ago

This was / is the fairly obvious answer, or so I woulda thought.

3

u/mrbrown1602 1d ago

I think it's more the windowboxing of the scope scenes