Anyone knows if there is somewhere a print of Predator 2 for sale to check the format? Cos I think the movie was originaly 2.35:1 but always been 1.85:1 cropped on video. I'm certain I saw it on the screen in 2.05:1 or 2.35:1. All the trailers are about 2.35:1.
Back in 1990 some films like The Abyss were released on LD opened up due to perception that people wouldn't buy them on LD so tiny the image was in 2.35. I think this is what happened to Predator 2, but the format of the LD stuck after this and unlike The Abyss was never corrected.
Note that on the NTSC DVD as well as the LD you can see many times the microphones recording the actors on top of the image. The DVD is cropped a bit on the sides and extended on bottom when compared to the trailers and obviously opened a bit too much on top. It looks framed totally wrong.
I think the movie was 2.35:1 because the trailers all use clips from the first film, all reframed in 2.35:1 (including one shot not in the first film!).
Why would they reframe the first film footage to conform with the new one, if it wasn't 2.35:1? Since the first film was 1.85:1 and the home-video versions of Predator 2 are 1.85:1, then it would be logic that the trailers are 1.85:1. Except they are all in 2.35:1!
I have the NTSC SE DVD and it has the same framing as the BD, whereas the UK SE DVD looks to have all the horizontal info. I think it could be cool to reframe the UK DVD to the actual widescreen as shown originaly in theaters, using the trailers as reference to find the correct framing.
The Blu-ray is a piece of shit that reproduces the NTSC crap framing and is DNRed to death. Avoid.
And get ready for this, The widescreen VHS released in the UK in April 1998 had the very unusual aspect ratio of 2.05:1. This was the only release of the film to be framed in this ratio. If anyone can cap that VHS please post screencaps!
(This post was last modified: 2017-07-26, 05:05 PM by Stamper.)
Back in 1990 some films like The Abyss were released on LD opened up due to perception that people wouldn't buy them on LD so tiny the image was in 2.35. I think this is what happened to Predator 2, but the format of the LD stuck after this and unlike The Abyss was never corrected.
Note that on the NTSC DVD as well as the LD you can see many times the microphones recording the actors on top of the image. The DVD is cropped a bit on the sides and extended on bottom when compared to the trailers and obviously opened a bit too much on top. It looks framed totally wrong.
I think the movie was 2.35:1 because the trailers all use clips from the first film, all reframed in 2.35:1 (including one shot not in the first film!).
Why would they reframe the first film footage to conform with the new one, if it wasn't 2.35:1? Since the first film was 1.85:1 and the home-video versions of Predator 2 are 1.85:1, then it would be logic that the trailers are 1.85:1. Except they are all in 2.35:1!
I have the NTSC SE DVD and it has the same framing as the BD, whereas the UK SE DVD looks to have all the horizontal info. I think it could be cool to reframe the UK DVD to the actual widescreen as shown originaly in theaters, using the trailers as reference to find the correct framing.
The Blu-ray is a piece of shit that reproduces the NTSC crap framing and is DNRed to death. Avoid.
And get ready for this, The widescreen VHS released in the UK in April 1998 had the very unusual aspect ratio of 2.05:1. This was the only release of the film to be framed in this ratio. If anyone can cap that VHS please post screencaps!