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ToliverChap
08-30-2005, 09:21 PM
So if I'm getting my information right, it looks like adult swim will air the compressed to fit your television (4:3 aspect ratio) version of the Cowboy Bebop movie? Also I was wondering since the movie clocks in at 116 minutes I don't see how it will run in it's entiriety. Since an hour of television is roughtly 44 minutes of programing (possibly a bit more for adult swim) I can only see them airing at most about 90 minutes. So will they air the movie without commercials but still in the conpressed format OR will they cut it?
LordByronius
08-30-2005, 09:52 PM
Metropolis is about the same length, and for that movie they simply spilled into the 2 a.m. Futurama repeat and filled the extra time with an encore of the Perfect Hair Forever pilot.
ToliverChap
08-30-2005, 10:25 PM
Oh that's right. Good point that's probably what they'll do but their website doesn't say for sure if they'll be airing it in the prefered widescreen format? Also a side question about the new 5.1 remix is any place selling it with a collectors box? It does include an English 5.1 mix aswell right?
Amazon seems vague about this last point.
Funkatron
08-30-2005, 10:39 PM
Why Fullscreen? InuYasha aired Widescreen
Temple Fugate
08-30-2005, 10:54 PM
Why Fullscreen? InuYasha aired WidescreenAs did Char's Counterattack and, if I remember correctly, Metropolis. This is quite unfair of AS. -pout-
Timmay
08-30-2005, 11:06 PM
First Inuyasha ran squash-vision though.
Nobuyuki sama
08-30-2005, 11:38 PM
Also a side question about the new 5.1 remix is any place selling it with a collectors box?

It does include an English 5.1 mix aswell right?
No.

Yes.
Lord Dalek
08-31-2005, 12:06 AM
Who says Bebop is airing in Foolscreen?
LordByronius
08-31-2005, 12:39 AM
It probably wasn't Adult Swim's decision to air the film pan-n'-scan.

But that's probably the only version of the film Sony sent them.
Killtacular
08-31-2005, 02:10 AM
It probably wasn't Adult Swim's decision to air the film pan-n'-scan.

But that's probably the only version of the film Sony sent them.
So why did Sony send a widescreen version of Metropolis?
Nin-Nin69
08-31-2005, 02:32 AM
Wrong tape perhaps?
beren
08-31-2005, 03:03 AM
The movie would fit if they axed inuyasha and futurama.
Swordfish_II
08-31-2005, 08:29 AM
So why did Sony send a widescreen version of Metropolis?
When Metropolis was on Encore, was it in widescreen? Because the version of the Bebop movie that aired on Encore was pan-n-scam, with some scenes appearing vertically stretched instead of cropped.
LordByronius
08-31-2005, 12:30 PM
When Metropolis was on Encore, was it in widescreen? Because the version of the Bebop movie that aired on Encore was pan-n-scam, with some scenes appearing vertically stretched instead of cropped.
Then again, I dunno.

The clip of the movie that's posted on the adult swim site is definitely widescreen. So who knows?

But that commercial is definitely from the pan-n-scan Sony tape.
Umino
08-31-2005, 01:40 PM
When Metropolis was on Encore, was it in widescreen?
I'm pretty sure it was.
SpaceCowboy
08-31-2005, 11:02 PM
It seems that Sony never bothered to make a pan-n-scan version of Metropolis, but every other anime they've released afterward seems to have been reformatted for TV airings (Cowboy Bebop, Tokyo Godfathers). I once caught Tokyo Godfathers on Encore and it was P&S and still subtitled.
beren
09-01-2005, 03:04 AM
I prefer letter box, but I was brainwashed by a commericial on TMC featuring how pan and scan totally ruins the point of half the shots in Laurance of Arabia. If you bought a painting you would not cut it to fit inside a particular picture frame, if you bought a vintage wine you wouldn't make a mixed drink with it.
Lord Dalek
09-01-2005, 10:59 AM
I prefer letter box, but I was brainwashed by a commericial on TMC featuring how pan and scan totally ruins the point of half the shots in Laurance of Arabia. If you bought a painting you would not cut it to fit inside a particular picture frame, if you bought a vintage wine you wouldn't make a mixed drink with it.True, but remember Lawrence of Arabia was filmed in Super Panavision 70 which yields an aspect ratio of 2.21:1. Compared to KOHD which is in "flat" 1.85:1, this is a much greater loss.

Of course I have the dvd, so this matters not to me. =P
Killtacular
09-01-2005, 07:46 PM
Yeah, the DVD's.. kinda.. been out for like 2 years now?
livingfruitvirus
09-01-2005, 11:22 PM
It isn't going to run too long. Futurama (2 AM) and Lupin the 3rd are being sacrificed to the schedule gods.
bishop083
09-02-2005, 01:40 AM
The clip of the movie that's posted on the adult swim site is definitely widescreen. ... But that commercial is definitely from the pan-n-scan Sony tape. Well, that's just a commercial. Commercials are weird by definition, and this is an AS commercial, so its even weirder. I'd say that these commercials don't really confirm or deny if its in widescreen.
ClockStomper
09-03-2005, 02:19 AM
As for it being to long for the slot, it could use some trimming, because it reaches a slow pace in the middle. The creators totally padded the story, especiall the endless Swordfish chase.
bigddan11
09-03-2005, 12:57 PM
The TZ schedule is wrong for tonight. The movie will be shown in it's entirety from 12 AM until 2:30 AM and then rebroadcast from 3 AM until 5:30 AM. As another member said before, the Futurama replay and Lupin the 3rd are pre-empted for the movie according to the AS schedule at cartoonnetwork.com and adultswim.com