"Sea of Love: SE" ,5/6/03 (MERGED THREAD) (1 Viewer)

[CraigL]

Nope....the Lorraine Bracco scenes were never released on any format.

The only thing I can think of is that they didn't get her permission (assuming they would need it).
Really sucks because it added another dimension the Pacino character.

As a side note, has anyone ever noticed how godawful the ADR is on this movie? It's so horribly obvious and there's even a terrible artificial echo added to the scene where Pacino and Barken converse in front of the fruit market. The worst part? It comes in halfway through the scene.

 

[Robert_eb]

I know the oar is 1.85:1 but was this a matted widescreen? I have the fullscreen LD and I just wanted to know if this was a pan and scan or a open matte.

 

[CraigL]

Matted.

 

[Angel Pagan]

Did anyone pick this up? I ordered it from Best Buy but it then got cancelled. No explanation as to why.

 

[Robert Crawford]

I have my dvd copy, but haven't watched it yet. It's funny to me how this latest release has a new anamorphic transfer and some extras like a commentary, deleted scenes and feature, but it cost five dollars less (MSRP)than the first release which was full frame with virtually no features to speak of.





Crawdaddy

 

[Dave H]

What I find even more funny is how there has been only one review of this disc and it is so much improved - just for having an OAR anamorphic transfer alone.

http://filmfreakcentral.net/dvdreviews/seaoflove.htm

 

[Robert Crawford]

There are just too many dvd releases for the reviewers available to do them. So they pick and choice which dvds to review. In the month of May there is a bunch of dvd releases and doing a decent review is so time consuming.

 

[Herb Kane]

Quoted from a review at Amazon.....

Beware - full screen version cropped to fit widescreen, May 9, 2003
Reviewer: from Tarzana, ca United States This version (Collector's Edition)
is worse than the previous pan & scan full screen version. Here the studio cropped the top and the sides of the full screen version to make it fit anamorphic widescreen format, so you lose more of the picture than the full screen version.
Universal is deceptive in not saying it is a matted widescreen version Buyer beware!
This is not a true widescreen and doesent even say that the original apect ratio was modified to fit 16x9 tvs.

What's the deal with the new version's AR? Is this guy wrong.... has anyone been able to confirm...? I'm interested in picking it up (although it is nowhere to be found in this area).

Herb.

 

[Michael Reuben]

The AR is correct. Like many people, the reviewer at Amazon just doesn't understand the common method by which movies framed at 1:85:1 are filmed. The full screen version does show additional image, but it's image that was never intended to be seen.

To answer an earlier question: The LD was released in two versions simultaneously: full screen and matted widescreen. The previous full screen DVD was, I believe, a port of the full screen LD transfer. The new DVD represents such a dramatic improvement in image quality that it might as well be a different movie.

M.