Posted by Joshua Zyber on 06/09/06 23:16
"Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> wrote in message
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>> '"Full Metal Jacket" is a welcome but odd choice for Warner's
>> first wave of HD DVD releases. It's a lightly grainy film and was
>> originally released in Kubrick's preferred mono soundtrack. The disc
>> is a visually perfect rendition of the film and the HD encoding
>> captured the soft grain of the photography and its various scenes of
>> low light and smoke without digital artifacts or macro-blocking.'
>>
>> Read full review:
>> http://www.avrev.com/hddvd/revs/0606/full_metal_jacket.shtml
>
> Wait, this release is in WS? Whatever happened to "Kubrick wants all
> the
> home video releases of his films in 4:3"?
The OAR for the film is 1.85:1. The fact that Kubrick was a black bar
hater and died before he could change his mind shouldn't be held against
everyone who'd like to see his movies as they were actually composed.
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