Rypro 525

I read Thomas Spurlin's DVD review of Batman & Mr. Freeze - SubZero / Batman: Mask of the Phantasm at http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=32614 and...

I don't know if they eventually reissued it or not, but the version i have of Phantasam is an anamorphic 1:85 dvd. Came in a keepcase i bought from walmart for 5 bucks. i also remeber reading that laserdisc versions of Subzero were also in widescreen.

and i do remeber seeing Phantasam in theaters too.

kefrank

yeah, my MotP DVD is anamorphic and is one-sided as well. it doesn't have a flipside with a 1.33 presentation. it has a snapper case, so i *think* it's the original issue, but i'm not positive about that.

David Cornelius

All widescreen MotPs were anamorphic (mine's a flipper, by the way); later reissues were one-sided with either the widescreen or open matte full screen version.

gryffinmaster

Must have been that repressing in the keepcase David is referring to. Interesting - I could've sworn that the original edition was non-anamorphic. Then again, I did view that original snapper a while back using an older player which occasionally zoomed in on non-anamorphic DVDs automatically, so it very well could've been, and probably was, anamorphic at the time. I do remember the edition I viewed it with was a flipper, though. At any rate, this new DVD is fullscreen only.

As far as SubZero's OAR, I can't be certain.

A notation has been made, guys!

milo bloom

A few years back I tracked down the email for one of the folks that worked on Subzero and he replied with this:

I'm guessing they matted the laserdisc to 1.66 for the widescreen snobs that made up most of the LD crowd at that time.

David Cornelius

I remember seeing a lot of reports saying it was going to be, so perhaps that's where the memory came from.

And I'm with Milo on SubZero's OAR. Weren't almost all of Warner's DC product made in 1.33:1 until only recently? (Crummy non-anamorphic Justice League excepted, of course...)

gryffinmaster

I imagined so. Since it was released DTV in 1998, still during the VHS peak, I assumed it was framed for the standard at the time. It didn't feel cropped during the viewing, either, so that helped the assumption along.

kefrank

oops! i checked the disc tonight and mine is actually a flipper. my memory was playing tricks on me.