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Posted by elrous0 on 06/05/07 14:25
On Jun 1, 11:15 pm, "Jay G." <J...@tmbg.org> wrote:
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> > In the last few years, it seems even
> > independent and low-budget films have gone to 2.35:1.
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> And there's the important word: "seems." It "seems" that way to you, but
> you have no proof that it's actually so. You're letting a subjective
> "feeling" override objective assessment.
Okay, fair enough. I've been trying to figure out an objective way to
prove my point that has a large enough sample to be statistically
significant and can be easily replicated by anyone who chooses to do
so. So here goes.
If you go over to the IMDB (Internet Movie Database), you can look
under the "technical specs" for any film. Look up any 2.35:1 film,
click on technical specs, and then then linked "2.35:1" and you'll get
a listing of every 2.35:1 film ever made. So I went through the first
1000 entries of this listing (basically every 2.35:1 film ever made
starting with a number or the letter "A"), a sample that I think is
large enough to fairly extrapolate out to all 2.35:1 films.
Out of those 1,000 films, 349 (over 1/3) were made since 2000. Only
107 were made between 1990-1999. If that isn't a distinct trend, I
don't know what is.
Check it out for yourself if you don't believe me.
-Eric
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