Title: DVD version disappointing--not really widescreen!
Product review: I'd give this film 5 stars, or 10, or 20! But this DVD version is a real disappointment, because as one other reviewer put it, they added "fake widescreen" when that's not the way it was originally filmed. If you compare a full screen version on VHS to the letterboxed version on disc, you'll see that some of the picture is missing on the DVD, covered up by the black bars. What's up with that?Criterion did this to "Time Bandits," too, and who knows where else it's been done. I don't get it. I hear they did it on a couple of Kurosawa films, too. It doesn't benefit anyone or anything to do that, it just means a flawed version of these films is the only one available on disc...
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