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 Posted by Joshua Zyber on 06/09/06 23:16 
"Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> wrote in message  
news:12z7y574zml4j.15r6j8rk1uacy.dlg@40tude.net... 
>> '"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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