Listings for the re:release at Amazon and other sites say letterbox with various aspect ratios.

Another poster says new disc will be the same as the old.

The review here at (DVDTalk) for the previous release says it was anamorphic.

I'm confused. I love the movie, really want to get it, but...well, you know.

Has anyone seen the actual specs for the re:release?

Thanks, in advance!

i think its a rerelease and that was anamorphic

Which makes you wonder why they even bothered to take it out of release int he first place!

Damn studio exes need to lay off the coke.

I heard it was cause someone sued??? Or it was to set up a big rerelease of gods and generals.

There were legal issues that required Warner to remove it from distribution. Those issues have now been resolved.

I'm pretty sure that Warner would have LOVED to have this on shelves when Gods & Generals was a new release. But they were prevented from doing so. To my knowledge, cocaine had nothing to do with it.

Faaaascinating. But has anyone seen actual specs re: whether or not the disc being released is anamorphic?

DVDfan -- the original DVD was anamorphic.

Everything seems to indicate that this 'new' release is exactly the same. They're just putting the same discs back on the shelf.

But... even if this release is different in some way, Warner isn't going to downgrade the image. That wouldn't make any sense. It'll be anamorphic.

Thanks, bboisvert. That's what I was thinking, too.

Still...I wonder why it is listed as letterboxed. They're not even listing it as enhanced for 16:9 TVs.

Your thoughts?

here's the back of the box courtasy dvdempire.com

Question, it says "the battle of gettysburg is presented in a scope..." why would a documentary be in 2:35:1 while the movie is only 1:85:1. (and isn't Leslie Nielson a bit of an odd choice for a narator)

"Letterboxed" and "anamorphic" are not contradictory terms, even though "letterbox" is often mis-used to refer to non-anamorphic.

Thanks for the reply, Josh Z. But how is one to know if the term is being used correctly? If the case says Enhanced for widescreen TVs, or anamorphic, you know it is. But if it says matted, or letterboxed, I thought that meant it was not enhanced and non-anamorphic.

How do you know when letterboxed means non-anamorphic and when it doesn't?

Thank you for the info. I'm still a little bummed though. If they were going to rerelease it they could've at least offered up the extended version. Oh well.

And in my twisted worldview, any particularly wierd/stupid studio decision is usually related to someone with a drug habit.

Not necessarily. It just means that the studio didn't bother to specify whether it was anamorphic or not.

In a case like that, you can't tell from just the packaging. You'll have to look up a review.