Rumor: Trek filming in bizarre aspect ratio
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Why would they shoot the movie in an aspect ratio that cannot be displayed correctly in just about any current movie theater, as well as require major pan & scan (or thick black bars in a letterbox format) even for HDTV? I guess they are doing it just for the heck of it.
3-D Imax like Beowolf? Or bizarre, as in washed out colour print, spaghetti western style? Badly dubbed over Vulcan with comedy sound effects? 
This is not just directed to Matt but to every "rumor" poster on this site whose veracity has been challenged: did you ever play Truth or Dare? If early on everyone doesn't reveal an embarrassing truth or do an equally embarrassing dare, the game quickly falls apart. If you don't pay up, nobody wants to play along.
As for Matt's rumor, for the money Paramount is sinking into this movie, it will need to be shown not only in every local cinemaplex but small movie theaters around the world. A overly wide aspect ratio would forbid that. They aren't equipped for it.
Therefore, I don't think so.
As for Matt's rumor, for the money Paramount is sinking into this movie, it will need to be shown not only in every local cinemaplex but small movie theaters around the world. A overly wide aspect ratio would forbid that. They aren't equipped for it.
Therefore, I don't think so.
adding to the list of things i used to know but forgotten..
is it possible to be filming both regular format and for imax at the same time.
i remember yes that there have been wide release films that have been done that way instead of the more often just putting a regular filmed movie into imax theatre.
I remember seeing 70mm presentations of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Clockwork Orange at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles. That big curved screen was awesome.
Next time I'm in Los Angeles I'm going to have to make time to see an Arclight presentation at that theater. I'm glad it's been refurbed and saved. At one point they talked about tearing it down. That would have been a shame.
Yeah, let's go back to that.
Next time I'm in Los Angeles I'm going to have to make time to see an Arclight presentation at that theater. I'm glad it's been refurbed and saved. At one point they talked about tearing it down. That would have been a shame.
Yeah, let's go back to that.
Regardless of the aspect ratio, I most certainly hope there is no "pan and scan" release of this film in any form of media. "Pan and scan" ranks as the second most vile atrocity to be perpetrated on films (the first is the cropping done to films before the invention of the pan and scan device). If the broadcast networks had simply shown films in letterbox from the get go, NO ONE would have cared about the 'black bars' and people would have seen the movie as it was intended to be seen. It was my fervent hope with advent of DVD that "pan and scan" would die a deserved death, but, sadly, it did not. I've not heard of a 'pan and scan' hi-def (HD DVD/Blu-Ray or broadcast HD) and I certainly hope never to encounter such an abomination. Similarly, I don't want to see classic "Academy ratio" films displayed in some sort of "stretch" format just to "fill the screen".
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I have reliable sources that confirm Trek XI will absolutely be shot in Todd-AO, as a push to resurrect this incredible format. I cannot reveal their names, jobs would be on the line. I can also offer no other evidence than my word, so you will trust what I say is accurate.
Further, if anyone deigns question the veracity of my claim, I will become indignant and defensive.
Todd-AO in 2008! You Heerd it here First!
Further, if anyone deigns question the veracity of my claim, I will become indignant and defensive.
Todd-AO in 2008! You Heerd it here First!
