Deadpool 2

[Yash Lucid]

I just watched Deadpool 2 in the cinema, for the second time. (I won't post spoilers)

And it was cropped.

Cropped so badly.

There are intro titles that show funny titles as expected.

These were cut off, people were not laughing because they couldn't get the joke.

There was a scene that scaled so badly, you could not see the character talk.

When they showed a Breaking News TV snippet, the Breaking News title read eaking News.

Guys this was so bad. I remember reading that Tarantino stood up at Cannes and said stop the effing movie or something because they showed the wrong aspect ratio, this is crazy.

[Yash Lucid]

There was a right moving tracking shot that revealed a funny character, this did not appear because of the crop.

 

People didn't laugh - they didn't see it. I have never seen a cinema experience be executed so poorly. Is this not... breaking the rules somehow?

[Adrian Sierkowski]

Sounds like you should've informed the theater and demanded a refund.

[Yash Lucid]

Sounds like you should've informed the theater and demanded a refund.

 

Will be doing that when I'm there again, it was the late show so no key staff really was there to care.

[Max Field]

Sounds like you should've informed the theater and demanded a refund.

Theaters actually take this seriously? I'm pretty sure whoever did it would be like "huh what's cropping? like an iphone?"

[Adrian Sierkowski]

Eh; refund is worth it.

[Bruce Greene]

I have seen cropping in cinemas where the angle of the projector to the screen is too steep. To avoid sloping sides of the image, they bring the curtains in so the window looks rectangular . This results in cropping the sides quite a bit sometimes.

[Mark Dunn]

I understand that there used to be people actually in cinemas whose job was to get these things right. They were called "projectionists" IIRC. I think they all eventually died of acetate deprivation.

Edited May 21, 2018 by Mark Dunn