Product: Moonstruck (1987)
Rating: 5.0
Wonderful movie, but is MGM still butchering the Blu Ray in Full Screen Format?
It's amazing or is it? Amazon lists one of my all time favorite movies as coming out on blu ray. I am thrilled and then I see the aspect ratio is 1:33 which is standard screen format. Remember the shape of our old tube TVs that's it; and how movies were edited either in pan and scan or, worse yet, the sides were merely lopped off, to fit. It seems this release may not be the 1:85 wide screen of the Deluxe Edition that I double dipped to purchase a couple of years ago, but the original issue 1:33 standard screen edition.Let's hope that Amazon has made a mistake and printed the wrong specs. Why, because this wonderful movie deserves to be seen without having almost a third of the picture lopped off the edges. I don't know about you, but I believe that the director shot it in a specific aspect ratio so we could share the same gorgeous framing he shot of the moon, the evenings and that special neighborhood.I don't know if MGM really intends to market this product in pan and scan or wide-screen, but I will be watching. I hope you do too. We should support products that respect the wishes of the directors and present their work as intended, not butchered by studios for some bazaar reason.So lets work on the assumption that it's just a mistake. Right?Do you hear me MGM?(NOTE: Since this was originally published, a comment has been posted indicating that the movie will be released in wide-screen format; let's hope so.)