I just got my Guyver 2 DVD today, and I watched a few minutes of it.
Did they just cut off the top and bottom of the full screen version to make the widescreen version?
I remember a lot of the scenes being "taller," if you know what I mean. I remember being able to see more of the actors that, on my DVD, are either above or below the letterbox.
Nevermind. I found screenshots online.
Sure enough, that's exactly what they did: cut off part of the top and bottom of the frame to make a fake widescreen effect.
Jackasses.
I never would have shelled out 18 bucks for this flick if I knew they'd done that.
If you want to see the whole picture when you watch this movie, don't buy the widescreen DVD.
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Oh dude. And to think I was gonna buy that thing. Instead, I'll buy a VHS
copy of it. That is unless they did that too.
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It was probably shot in Super 35 and then cropped for theatrical release. For the widescreen DVD they probably cropped it the way they did for the theatrical release. Since films shot in Super 35 since the Eighties are usually shot in TV aspect ratio, the full screen version is the actual film, and the widescreen version is cropped.
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Dude, you get more picture in the widescreen version. For instance when they're driving the truck to find Sean you see almost the whole truck or at least half of it. In the foolscreen version, you only see part of the truck zoomed in and mainly the wheels, which is boring. I've noticed that the scene when Sean is watching TV shows more picture as well.
I don't know if it's for all scenes but those are two scenes I just remember well from the video version and after I've seen the DVD, I would say this is the most complete edition out there (better picture quality too of course, it has less dirt, really noticable in the scene where Sean is about to jump off the cliff and transform into the Guyver).
they proberbly used a 2nd rate cropped 4:3 beta master from the vhs era rather then forking out 50.000 dollars for a new telecine transfered from an internegative
Reading this, I'm glad my copy of the extended cut is 4:3.
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it was probably shot open matte so it being cropped isn't really a bad thing.
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