REAT MOMENTS IN CINEM
I went to see Jurassic Park 3D at Village cinemas in Doncaster the other day and I was very excited.
When the movie first came out in 1993, I was 15 and it was one of the most impacting cinema experiences of my life! I actually saw it 11 times at the cinema (a number I have never since beaten) and I have seen it many times since then. So you could say I knew the movie pretty well.
I realised something was wrong with the film when the tops of characters’ heads came dangerously close to the top of the screen. At first, I put it down to a possible necessity of the post-conversion process of turning a 2D movie into 3D, but then one of my favourite scenes came up and I knew someone had majorly stuffed up… and it probably wasn’t Spielberg.
The scene was the one shown above, where the first dinosaur we get to see in glorious CGI rears back and takes a chomp from the upper branches of the tree. As it reared on its hind legs, its head popped up past the screen and the above image shows exactly how it looked in the cinema.
After the film, I informed the manager of the issue and after checking he informed me that yes, the film had accidentally been showing for their entire season projected in the wrong ratio. To their credit, they immediately set about fixing the problem and gave my wife and I two complimentary tickets as hush money… I mean, as compensation.
I posted this story on Facebook and a friend, Roger McLean, asked the great question, “What other movies would lose their impact from bad cropping?”
Below is a few I have thought up.
See if you can pick all the movies as well as what has been cropped out. Leave your answers in the comments below.
Also, if you have any more suggestions, email me your cropped movie moments and if I like them, I’ll add them to the list!
NEW FEATURE!
If you can’t guess the movie, click on the photo and see the answer!
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1. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory – golden ticket scene
2. The Empire Strikes Back – “Luke, I am your father”
3. Singing in the Rain – title song
4. The Lion King – Simba’s presentation
5. don’t know
6. E.T – flying bikes scene
7. don’t know
8. King Kong
9, Um… an Indiana Jones film… I’m guessing the boulder scene?
10. From Here to Eternity – the beach scene
11. don’t know
12. Don’t know the title but the scene should show a rocket ship in the moon’s eye
13. The Wizard of Oz – “There they are, and there they’ll stay”
14. The Shining – “Here’s Johnny!”
15. don’t know
16. don’t know
17. Um… Psycho? The shower scene? (guessing from the water)
18. Titanic – where the ship breaks apart
19. don’t know
20. Spiderman – the kiss scene
🙂
Classic work there Simon. 🙂
5. The Matrix
11. Jaws. (Nice teeth in the background)
19. Two Face (or in this case, One Face) from a Batman film.
I’d like to see the following:
Thelma & Louise – the closing shot.
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly – Mexican standoff scene
Alien – where the alien is “in her face”
1. Willy Wonker (?)
2. Star Wars (one of them)
3. Singin’ in the Rain
4. The Lion King
5. The Matrix
6. Mary Poppins
7. Resorvoir Dogs
8. ?
9. Indianna Jones (?)
10. ?
11. ?
12. ?
13. ?
14. The Shining
15. ?
16. Psycho (?)
17. Titanic
18. The Dark Knight
19. Spiderman
20. Life of Brian
21. ?
22. ?
23. Something Disney
24. The Princess Bride
25. ?
26. ?
27. The Karete Kid (I suppose)
28. The Princess Bride
29. The Matrix
30. Les Miserables
31. ?
32. The Usual Suspects
Here’s proof I didn’t check the other answers here before I posted mine — I have no idea why I said number 6 was Mary Poppins and not E. T. (well, it’s because there’s something in the air, but I do know the difference…).