destrekor
Lifer
This, and sorry, but if I had a projector setup and used masking for the edges just to make it look better, I'd be damn sure, if it couldn't be easily changed, to keep it at 1.78:1 permanently, as some 'black bars' on a projector isn't going to bother me since it'd be so large anyway.
But that's, as said, an exception to the norm anyhow.
My point I want to make:
all these complaints about the switching ratios are rather childish complaints.
Breaking the fourth wall? Really? As in, you are so immersed in the movie that you forget it is a movie being displayed on your tv? I mean, changing aspect ratios could be a problem, but one - going into this movie thinking it's not going to happen should prepare you for it, and all it's doing is at times filling in the black bars that display in the rest of the movie.
Yes you'll realize it happens, but how can that be a big deal? It's not like the dimensionality changes at all, and the scene where it changes from the imax scene right into the normal film, all right in the same scene, everything appears to be the same size on screen, minus top and bottom portions that are now black bars. Most of the scenes will be when it's night, and the top doesn't really appear to flash into picture all that much.
I find nothing wrong with it though. Like what happened in the theaters, and what happens on the DVD, there is loss of image data. I'm not sure if he filmed full imax frame or not, so there might be cut data anyhow, but it looked great on BD.
Oh, and anybody that claims to be surprised by it is retarded. It states right on the back of the case that aspect ratios change.
If it was changing aspect ratios and have imax film, or keep it all the same, either by cutting the imax frame (more?) or not having imax used at all. Personally both options are terrible.
imax is great and I want more companies to use them. But using imax film is a bitch and requires short film sequences.
