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Author Topic: What aspect ratio was "Predator"? Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 10-06-2004 08:34 PM                        Reason I am asking is because I played around with the DVD to set up some DVD screenings and I wondered if it was originally flat or scope. I don't mean the recent "vs.Alien" thing, but the original starring the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 10-06-2004 08:44 PM                     Predator was 1.85:1  |  IP: Logged Dean Kollet Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 591 From: Florida State University Registered: Jul 2003 posted 10-06-2004 10:12 PM                     Predator was shot in 1.37:1 but blown up to 1.85:1  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 10-06-2004 10:41 PM                        How do you blow up 1.37 to 1.85? The only way I could see that being done would be by cropping top and bottom...which is basically how any 1.85 movie is shot.  |  IP: Logged Dean Kollet Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 591 From: Florida State University Registered: Jul 2003 posted 10-06-2004 10:56 PM                     my bad, wrong choice of words.... Shot in 1.37 Shown in 1.85  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 10-06-2004 11:06 PM                         |  IP: Logged

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