abintra

Both have only been released with modified aspect ratios.

darkhawk

Does anyone know if Kevin Bacon's Quicksilver was ever released in WS? Thanks.

Flicker

Brousing through the $5 bargain bin at Walmart and seeing so many titles in [I]full screen[I] I asked an associate about them and she said most of their customers didn't like the 'black bars".

I guess that means maybe Walmart customers don't have widescreen? LOL

drak b

Okay, after a few years I finally understand this strategy of re-releasing titles as full screen only. Clever…

darkhawk

Remember when everyone was looking for the OOP Wildthings WS/FS flipper at Big Lots? You can get it in WS in a 2-dvd pack with The Craft. I know Ross has it for $4. I own both. Sony re-released Wildthings and did to it like they did Ghostbusters. I've compared the two and the 2-pack Wildthings is missing about a half inch on the right side and a quarter inch on the left. Not much to notice.

njwiv

Ha! I returned them all, of course, upon opening them to discover that they were mislabeled.

Jay

Spottedfeather

Has anyone here ever bought a dvd that was fullscreen, knowing that it was fullscreen, when there was no widescreen, but you just had to have it because it was a movie that you really love ? For me, that would be Matilda Special Edition (there is no R1 widescreen. Why ?) and Stand And Deliver. I have no idea of why there are no widescreen dvds of these movies, especially since Matilda is moderately popular. There a few bonus features on the dvd that show clips of the movie in widescreen and it's unbelievable how much of the picture is cut out. But Matilda is one of my favourite movies so, even though I hate fullscreen cuts more than peanut butter, I still had to get it.

dbduece

Two instances in which I had no choice but to go fullscreen.
1) Nighthawks...for the original soundtrack with "Brown Sugar"
2)Just one of the Guys...well, simply because I didn't know any better at the time.

I just simple went R2 for Doc Hollywood instead of waiting for a US release.

TV show sets...well, you just gotta accept them as they are

darkhawk

Matilda and Wholly Moses! are the only two from Sony I know of that was never released in a widescreen. There could be more. Warner Bros. did it alot.

Al_Tahoe

Arthur!

rw2516

All the time. If that's all there is.

MoviePhanatic00

I recently started going through my collection to figure out what was and was not Non-anamorphic in the hopes of doing some upgrades. I found this site out there which has feature comparisons. It doesn't have every movie ever made, but hope it helps:

Ok, so I can't post links because of some less than 30 post rule for links, but it is called dvdcompare (dot) net. It has been dead on accurate for WS/FS/Anamorphic or non.

Flicker

Thanks! I'll check it out.

TheMovieman

As someone who's been catching up on 1990s thrillers, on the hunt for the widescreen version of Mortal Thoughts. So far have struck out.

I can only hope the full screen re-releases will get the proper widescreen transfers maybe through a MOD program...

orangerunner

This one is hard to find in the old widescreen/full screen DVD-10 version.
It is 4:3 open matte (I think) which means you can zoom it to create the widescreen effect.

I thought Mill Creek might release this in anamorphic widescreen.

TheMovieman

Are you sure? When looking it up on DVD Profiler, the Full Screen version side was Pan & Scan. If it is open matte, I guess it's better than nothing...

orangerunner

Usually people just use the term "Pan and Scan" to describe 4:3 full screen regardless of whether it really is pan and scan or open matte.

The film was originally 1.85:1 so it could be open matte or pan and scanned based on the open matte image.

TheMovieman

Ah, ok. The DVD is cheap enough I might chance it.

orangerunner

Here is a review from UK which includes screenshots in (I assume) 1.85:1. I'll compare these to my full screen DVD to see if it's open matte.

https://www.myreviewer.com/DVD/6036/...w-by-Chris-Cox

http://ca.ign.com/articles/2000/11/08/mortal-thoughts

**UPDATE - I had a look at the full screen DVD and there's definitely extra space at the top and bottom but it's only slightly trimmed at the sides compared to the widescreen screenshots posted on those websites. If you zoom the image to 16:9 you're going to more or less get the proper widescreen image.

Another thing I noticed is that when watching a Columbia Pictures film you can tell whether the film is pan & scan or open matte seems to be counting the stairs in the opening logo.
When watching a full screen presentation, if there are three stairs in the logo, it is "pan & scan", if there are a lot more stairs it is open matte.

TheMovieman

Thanks for the update. Today I did manage to find a widescreen/full screen flipper disc on ebay (w/ pictures of both the back cover and the disc itself) so while I paid more than I normally would for a used DVD, I figured it's better than zooming in.

orangerunner

The proper anamorphic version is always the best way to go. I'm still surprised at how good the picture quality is on most of those original Columbia/Tri-Star releases from 1998/1999.

WarnerBros.2001

They still continue with putting full screen DVDs on the market in this 3-movie pack, except for Madeline, that is widescreen.


And it is 2017.

Alan Smithee

Danny DeVito is a stickler for quality- I'm surprised he was OK with them putting Matilda out in foolscreen so many times.

thetao

It's also worth considering that Sony is still unloading old stock.

ntnon

Is there a widescreen MATILDA anywhere available in the world..?