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I HATE the fact that they redub all the people who are already speaking English! It sounds so fake! Just use the sync sound! I seem to remember Mr. Nice Guy and Rumble in the Bronx having this problem.


In those films though, they did that cause the original actors were pretty bad. I remember in Rumble in the Bronx for example, there was this one guy that dressed and was acting Hispanic but he had this thick Middle Eastern accent. The New Line dub gives him a Chicano accent and it totally works. Also, the tough men sent in to get the diamonds had really puny voices. The New Line dub looped them with voice actors that had tough guy voices and it fit them perfectly.

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Awhile back, Kozo told me something to the effect that the pan-and-scan edition of Time and Tide isn't really pan-and-scan.


Yeah....it's Super 35. On normal full screen methods, they simply take the widescreen image and just crop it to produce a full screen format. Depending how wide the image originally was, like 2:35, then the full screen version would have to resort to "pan and scan" methods. However, on Super 35 film stock, the print is pretty huge and it films a lot of picture information. So, when they are filming the director is able to get the framing he wants and when a full screen version is being produced, they take it from the original Super 35 film stock and are able to reframe it so that no important picture information is lost. So in effect, you are watching like a widescreen in full screen mode.

Tons of films did this like the first Matrix, Drive (the Steve Wang film), Ronin, Reservoir Dogs all are like this. The original full screen version of the films (the recent full screen version of Reservoir Dogs on the Special Edition DVD was not taken from the Super 35 film stock) were taken from the original Super 35 film stock and thus you aren't losing out an any important picture information. In fact, most of the time you are getting more.

A simple comparison with a wide screen version and the full screen version from Super 35 would reveal this. I believe on the original Terminator 2 Special Edition DVD, they have a section explaining this since I believe that film was also shot on Super 35.