Preferred Aspect Ratio?

[Space Hunter M]

Here's a stupid question: While the general rule of thumb is that the majority of all Godzilla films and nowadays most action/sci-fi films are shot in 2.39:1*, would you still prefer something different for the film?

*Post 1970. Originally 2.35:1.

[Living Corpse]

Anything that is not Widescreen. I hate Widescreen and honestly have no idea why people love it, having two black bars fill up the top and bottom of the screen drives me nuts not to mention I wan my monsters to look tall not wide.

[Svitska Donkun]

The amount of speculation threads we can come up with for this non-existent movie have reached self parody level.

Anything that is not Widescreen. I hate Widescreen and honestly have no idea why people love it, having two black bars fill up the top and bottom of the screen drives me nuts not to mention I wan my monsters to look tall not wide.

Also, this is one of the most hilariously silly things I've ever heard said on a forum. Tell this to any filmmaker and they may as well laugh in your face. You clearly know nothing about the format and what it actually does. There's a reason EVERYTHING is in Widescreen. There is a reason Toho made Toho-scope, and the assertion that widescreen makes the monsters look wider is hilarious, because that's completely wrong. Anything filmed in widescreen is portrayed with a proper aspect ratio. Everything on screen is an accurate image of what was photographed, except that there's MORE of the image due to enhanced scope. Fullscreen cuts off the sides, while Widescreen adds more to each frame without losing anything. But it's an easy mistake for simpletons to make when some TV's cannot display a widescreen film in it's proper ratio without adjustments, so it's letterboxed, thus making the image look smaller on the most superficial of levels(Anamorphic Widescreen, I believe?). Widescreen works incredibly well on epic films(especially in a theater) because more of the image meets the eye, and the quality of the image is enhanced due to the larger print. Why do you think once Widescreen was invented, the greatest directors who ever lived used it exclusively(Kubrick, Spielberg, Scorsese, Kurosawa switched over to it, Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, and even every Godzilla film post GRA hs used a form of widescreen) ?



When a film is converted to fullscreen, it's actually the one being squished inwards. And you're "annoying black bars" comment makes you sound completely cine-illiterate; as on any modern day television, if you watch a show or movie in Fullscreen Format, you get the black bars on the sides to a MUCH worse degree than one for Widescreen. So, that argument is flat out wrong. There just isn't one. The only reason most TV shows and Made-for-TV movies, or movies converted to fit television format, were fullscreen is because there didn't used to be Widescreen TV's, and it was a lot cheaper, due to lower camera and film costs(worse quality) to shoot on, so it made sense. Now with the advent of EVERY TV being sold having Widescreen capabilities, and lower costs of Digital Filming(Widescreen without the expensive film or camera), more and more Television shows are making the move to widescreen format for that more "cinematic" feel. Watching a movie, in fullscreen, in a modern day theater, or on a modern day television looks archaic and horrible. And don't say it's unfair because you only have older TV's at home. The Film industry cannot halt progress because of some people who still haven't progressed with it. "Full-Screen" is a gimmicky lie that tries to convince people they are filling their TV screen when they are really getting much less image, and probably could get a widescreen film to fill there screen if they could calibrate the settings properly. And a Widescreen film DOES fill the screen in any theater. People are so mindless sometimes.

[G-Matt]

I'm a fan of the 2.35:1 (approx) ratio, so I hope the new movie will use that one. Now if only I could use it for my films...

[shinmattiathekaiju]

Now we're talking about Aspect Ratio!?

Please hurry Legendary, before someone makes a topic about what Gareth eats for breakfast.

[Gorosaurus Rex]

Our fandom is truly starved. How long until we get another thread about what happens to Godzilla's shit?

[Space Hunter M]

Anything that is not Widescreen. I hate Widescreen and honestly have no idea why people love it, having two black bars fill up the top and bottom of the screen drives me nuts not to mention I wan my monsters to look tall not wide.

"I know, right? What's this new "DVD" format anyway? Sounds pretty hilarious if you ask me. Some people are actually buying those expensive widescreen TVs, can you believe it? "
Come on Svitska, LC was obviously jesting. ...or was he?...

[Chris55]

Anything that is not Widescreen. I hate Widescreen and honestly have no idea why people love it, having two black bars fill up the top and bottom of the screen drives me nuts not to mention I wan my monsters to look tall not wide.

You're not supposed to look at the bars, you're supposed to watch the movie!

[Tyler]

I'm a fan of 1.85:1 myself.

[Living Corpse]

The amount of speculation threads we can come up with for this non-existent movie have reached self parody level.

Anything that is not Widescreen. I hate Widescreen and honestly have no idea why people love it, having two black bars fill up the top and bottom of the screen drives me nuts not to mention I wan my monsters to look tall not wide.

Also, this is one of the most hilariously silly things I've ever heard said on a forum. Tell this to any filmmaker and they may as well laugh in your face. You clearly know nothing about the format and what it actually does.

I know what it does.

I still skreeonk hate having two black bars on the screen because my eyes are gonna be drawn to them and not the movie. It's distracting. And I'm not alone in this, a few people I know personally hate it as well. Hell I'm overjoyed when a DVD actually gives me the option between watching Fullscreen and Widescreen.

Tell this to any filmmaker and they may as well laugh in your face.

You are aware Ishiro Honda and a few others who worked at Toho thought Widescreen defeated the purpose of making monsters look tall on TV right?

Oh and skreeonk the laughing ones who think it's "ridiculous" to hate it, who cares what they think, if the customer don't like it then they don't like it.

[Svitska Donkun]

I still skreeonk hate having two black bars on the screen because my eyes are gonna be drawn to them and not the movie. It's distracting. And I'm not alone in this, a few people I know personally hate it as well. Hell I'm overjoyed when a DVD actually gives me the option between watching Fullscreen and Widescreen.

You didn't read anything I just said, did you? On any TV you go out an buy now, the Black Bars for a Widescreen film are not an issue, however there WILL be bigger Black Bars on anything in "Fullscreen".

You are aware Ishiro Honda and a few others who worked at Toho thought Widescreen defeated the purpose of making monsters look tall on TV right?

Good thing this is irrelevant now that TV's don't do that anymore.

[Space Hunter M]

I'm overjoyed when a DVD actually gives me the option between watching Fullscreen and Widescreen.

Oh, so he was serious about it. Sorry Svitska.

The world is stunned to discover that prehistoric creatures exist in the 21st century.

[NSZ]

You are aware Ishiro Honda and a few others who worked at Toho thought Widescreen defeated the purpose of making monsters look tall on TV right?

Corpse, I don't mean to rustle your jimmies or anything, but I think the monsters being on TV in the first place defeated the purpose of making them look tall.

[shinmattiathekaiju]

I choose widescreen.

[Ethan]

2:35 is the freaking way to go! The greatest films in the franchise (minus 1954 and 1984) are shot in that format.

[Cimmerian Dragon]

CinemaScope forever!

Seriously, I'm a fan of the expansive long-shot, and nothing does it better than a truly WIDE screen.