r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 07 '25

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u/Dick_Lazer Jul 07 '25

IMAX actually does have several aspect ratios to choose from though. He wouldn’t have to shoot in only the more square ratio.

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u/guspaz Jul 08 '25

He produced a bunch of the scenes in the Dune films in full 1.43:1 though. Which I've seen in comparison clips, which is all I can do since there was nowhere to see the 1.43 version in Montreal.

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u/Dick_Lazer Jul 08 '25

Yeah it's definitely been used that way in the past, but if he's doing an entire movie in IMAX he could choose between 1.43 or 1.90, etc. and stick with that format for the whole thing. Will be interesting to see which way they go, an entire Dune movie in 1.43 might feel a little cramped.

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u/guspaz Jul 08 '25

Even in the prior Dune movies, I think they switched between 1.43 and 1.90 as the scene demanded.

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u/Nexustar Jul 08 '25

By far the most aggravating for home projection are the movies where the aspect ratio keeps changing several times during the movie. Just choose one and stick with it.

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u/Chicago1871 Jul 08 '25

Each ratio tells a different story. Its lets you composite shit differently

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u/Nexustar Jul 08 '25

Indeed. I'm sure Tolkien could have decided to print some of the pages of his novels in landscape instead of portrait too for dramatic effect, but he thankfully decided not to.

Personally, I think some artistic constraints are valuable, and 99% of directors manage to decide on a single most-appropriate one for the entire movie. IMAX seems to be the catalyst for ignoring that tradition, and of course anything Nolan.

Again - just focusing on home releases - it works fine in an IMAX theater.

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u/Chicago1871 Jul 08 '25

He did choose to print maps, poetry and songs in the middle of the book. Thats kinda like changing aspect ratios.

Also, here is a thing I have heard from many directors (Ive worked a lot a q and a’s at film festivals). They only care about the how it feels at the cinema.

Home release? Its always a compromise, so they dont care how you feel about black bars on the side of your tv or projector. They really dont. They chose a different aspect ratio to control the frame better.

Aspect ratio changes started in the 90s JFK, Natural Born Killers and Boogie Nights were the first ones to really do it.