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01-11-2003, 11:32 AM
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Master of Disguise - Pan & Scan
Just wanted to let everyone who is planning on pre-ordering this movie (please don't if you were), Columbia/Tristar's DVD only offers a pan & scan version - unfortunately, no anamorphic widescreen.
As for the movie, I wish I had my 80 minutes (65 + 15 minutes of outtakes at the end of the movie) back.
On a happier family film-related note, "Free Willy: 10th Anniversary" only includes a very nice 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation.
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01-11-2003, 11:39 AM
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To be honest, that's probably Nickelodeon's choice, rather than the distributor. And isn't this a Paramount title?
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01-11-2003, 11:43 AM
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Did Nickelodeon have anything to do with Master of Disguise? It was produced by Adam Sandler's company and they've seemed to always work with Sony in the past, so I think it's strictly a Columbia decision and release.
Certainly, I have no intention of buying this unseen, but it's disturbing when a major studio release does this. Particularly, Columbia/TriStar who's never messed with new theatrical releases like this before.
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01-11-2003, 11:49 AM
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"Free Willy: 10th Anniversary" only includes a very nice 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation.
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The original Free Willy DVD included a good 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation, too.
Free Willy 2 is also anamorphic widescreen. Oddly, Free Willy 3 is full-screen only. |
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01-11-2003, 11:52 AM
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To be honest, that's probably Nickelodeon's choice, rather than the distributor. And isn't this a Paramount title?
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Master of Disguise is not a Nickelodeon film, all of which have offered widescreen presentations on DVD. The DVD is from Columbia Tristar.
Paramount has always offered at least the choice of a widescreen presentation on its family films, as it will do when The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2.35:1 OAR!) comes out on DVD. |
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01-11-2003, 11:55 AM
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Oddly, Free Willy 3 is full-screen only.
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Wasn't that one direct-to-video to begin with?
Never mind, I see that it opened in theaters with a whopping $992 K its first weekend.
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01-11-2003, 12:02 PM
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I thought this was going to be widescreen. At amazon.com it says widescreen. Is this from a preview copy, Aaron?
Man, if this is true I wish I would have seen it in the theater. I was going to go and watch it, but then I decided I'd wait and rent the DVD. Bummer, I guess I won't be seeing this movie.
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01-11-2003, 01:16 PM
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I thought this was going to be widescreen. At amazon.com it says widescreen. Is this from a preview copy, Aaron?
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I have a final version of the disc. The movie is full-screen only. The menus appear to be anamorphic widescreen, as does the trailer. The deleted scenes are non-anamorphic widescreen. How CTHV can justify this discrepancy (as Disney did with Snow Dogs) is beyond me. |
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01-11-2003, 01:23 PM
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Only "Perfect" and "Ishtar" have I hated more than this movie.
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01-11-2003, 03:14 PM
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Only "Perfect" and "Ishtar" have I hated more than this movie.
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I don't know about you, but I would watch Perfect and Ishtar any day over the piece of crap that was The Master of Disguise. I'm kind of happy that the film is in pan and scan as it doesn't deserve a widescreen transfer, but I would probably be happier if the DVD never saw the light of day. Then again, I'm sad as Columbia/Tri-star is not including a widescreen transfer either on the same DVD or as a sepereate release. Last time I checked, if the film was framed for widescreen, the DVD should be in widescreen.
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