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Dark Knight is fantastic on bluray, it really is. but did people notice the focus was well off in a few scenes?
Question about aspect ratio / The Dark Knight
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Looking forward to getting this on BR for crimbo but the shifting AR sounds like a pain in the neck for those who has invested a lot in front projection systems with screens to match. It's really gonna chuck a spanner in the works for people with anamorphic lens setups and fixed screens :/
Spose I'll have to see it for my self
aprox how much of the content is shown in 1.78:1?
Spose I'll have to see it for my self
aprox how much of the content is shown in 1.78:1?
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i guess 60:40 is about right? maybe even 50:50?
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Basically almost all the aerial shots (Gotham, Hong Kong, sky diving), and some action sequence (The Bank job at the start), and some quieter sequence like just after Batman saves Harvey from the oil drums. They are never longer than a minute long though.
You can clearly see the difference though, the images look so 3D, colours popping out of the screen.
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They also mention on the xtras something about dialogue scenes not working well on Imax cameras, even though I havent seen much detail as to why exactly
$400,000 per Imax camera (and indeed as JM said, they broke one during the filming of the garbage truck scene)
$400,000 per Imax camera (and indeed as JM said, they broke one during the filming of the garbage truck scene)
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Just watched it now, the last 2 min odd of the movie is actually in IMAX ratio, with quite a bit of dialogues too.
Its quite dark though isnt it when two-face dies etc, in one of the extras on the main feature disc Im sure it mentions dialogue as the main reason why they couldnt film it completely in IMAX
Also look at the bat-pod scenes where they change aspect ratio several times quite quickly (around the time of the 18 wheeler stunt)
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only on DVD (which doesnt have the IMAX footage)
I actually thought the same before seeing it, but actually its well worth seeing with this footage as its pretty spectacular
I'm lucky enough to have a high def projector and screen - the bank job sequence at the start and especially the bat pod section are absolutely stunning.
I went to see the Imax version too - the blu-ray version does capture the impact (obviously on a much smaller scale) of the action sequences when it switches to the Imax footage although I can see it could upset the anamorphic lens crowd.
If you have the kit then this is a must have.
Interesting info from the extras is that Imax film is much bigger than 35mm of course, but the frames are fed in horizontally rather than vertically with standard film projectors.
I went to see the Imax version too - the blu-ray version does capture the impact (obviously on a much smaller scale) of the action sequences when it switches to the Imax footage although I can see it could upset the anamorphic lens crowd.
If you have the kit then this is a must have.
Interesting info from the extras is that Imax film is much bigger than 35mm of course, but the frames are fed in horizontally rather than vertically with standard film projectors.
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That image don't do it justice, it is jaw dropping.
I wish all HD material looks that good. In fact, I might actually watch Planet Earth !
I wish all HD material looks that good. In fact, I might actually watch Planet Earth !
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I can't wait to watch this over christmas!!!
Well obviously it's a snap taken of a projected image
Looks fantastic in the flesh so to speak.
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I'm not disputing how worth seeing it is, I'm just saying it should be optional.
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Thanks for the answers everyone.
The iMAX scenes were incredible. The shows over the skyline in particular were incredible, and I am only on a 720p TV
The iMAX scenes were incredible. The shows over the skyline in particular were incredible, and I am only on a 720p TV
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This is what really irritates me - whats the point in widescreen televisions if we still have black bars?! Why cant they film in the correct aspect ratio so that on a standard widescreen TV it fills the screen? What is so difficult about it?!
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it's a compromise. If we had 2.35:1 TV screens folk like you would moan that 'everyones head is chopped off' when you watch Corrie or whatever or 'now i've got black bars at the side of my screen which are wider than the image in the middle of my screen!' ....
The only way is either distort the picture by stretching or squashing it to fit whatever screen you have, or changing the size of the screen. This is quite doable with a projection screen cos you just mask it off. Cinema theatres, use massive curtains to do this.
Have you ever noticed the ratio 14:9 on the broadcast analogue stuff? The point of that terrible ratio is a compromise for folk watching on their old 4:3 tvs, and the folk who have 16:9 tvs. The people on 4:3 get small black bars at the top, and an image which contains a little of the widescreen data at the edge of the frame. The folk on 16:9 have to press Zoom(to remove the black border, thereby making the aspect non stretched) so they get no black bars at the top, but thin black bars at the side, and a loss of resolution due to the zooming. i.e. both people lose out.
