John H Ross
Screenwriter
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Okay, this is going to sound rather anal, but it's been a slow news day!
I recently bought 4 new 2.35:1 films: Crimson Tide SE, Enemy Of The State SE, The Towering Inferno SE and The Poseidon Adventure SE. The image quality on all 4 titles is magnificent but I was slightly (and I do mean only slightly) irked that none of the 4 images are centred on the screen.
The two Touchstone titles (Crimson Tide and EOTS) are slightly below centre and the two Fox titles (Inferno and Poseidon) are slightly above centre.
Is there any reason for this other than sloppiness on behalf of the studio?
There are a couple of other titles that spring to mind as even worse examples of this phenomenon: the R2 Frighteners and Shaun Of The Dead and the R1 Lawrence Of Arabia. Grrrrrrrrrr.
Can this kinda thing be corrected on state of the art LCD and Plasma displays? I can't do anything to shift anamorphic images up/down on my CRT telly.
John
I recently bought 4 new 2.35:1 films: Crimson Tide SE, Enemy Of The State SE, The Towering Inferno SE and The Poseidon Adventure SE. The image quality on all 4 titles is magnificent but I was slightly (and I do mean only slightly) irked that none of the 4 images are centred on the screen.
The two Touchstone titles (Crimson Tide and EOTS) are slightly below centre and the two Fox titles (Inferno and Poseidon) are slightly above centre.
Is there any reason for this other than sloppiness on behalf of the studio?
There are a couple of other titles that spring to mind as even worse examples of this phenomenon: the R2 Frighteners and Shaun Of The Dead and the R1 Lawrence Of Arabia. Grrrrrrrrrr.
Can this kinda thing be corrected on state of the art LCD and Plasma displays? I can't do anything to shift anamorphic images up/down on my CRT telly.
John