Great choice guys, looking forward to this one! is it the European version you guys watched or the longer American cut?

Thanks, Terry. It's the shorter European version in its original 1:37:1 ratio (the importance of the ratio will become once you've heard the commentary)

I've no idea what your talking about.

Tom F at December 18, 2011 at 10:04 AM

Thanks, Terry. It's the shorter European version in its original 1:37:1 ratio (the importance of the ratio will become once you've heard the commentary)

OK cheers, I have the longer version on DVD and the shorter one on video, time to dust off the old VCR 

erm...yeah we didn't know what was the aspect ratio was. Seems a lot of people are confused about this. Just found this online:

What aspect ratio was The Shining filmed in?

"The entire negative was exposed, meaning that there was no in-camerahard matting so the film was effectively shot in Academy 1.37 but itwasn't intended to be shown in cinemas that way. The film was shot and conceived for 1:1.85 ratio screening (and the camera viewfinders had the 1.85 framelines marked on them) This is the standard ratio that widescreen films in the US are projected in. The 1:185 crop was achieved when the film was projected onto cinemas screens."

To make matters even more confusing, Kubrick apparently hated Widescreen transfers for home video and insisted that the earlier DVD releases (released in the late 90's shortly before his death) be the original open-mattes.  When they were re-released on DVD, they used the 1:85.1 ratios, but aledgedly Kubrick prefered the European favoured 1:.66.1 as it was less of a compromise between what the frame would fit in and what cinema screens would format.  There was a lot of fan backlash towards this, that was kicked back up again this year when Warner released the Blu-Ray set with the 1:85.1 ratios.  It would have been a great oportunity with Blu-Ray to feature every aspect ratio of each film on the Blu-Ray set, but that was obviously more than Warners' jobs worth...

I finally watched Fear last night...

This took about two and a half hours to download.

It better be worth it!

Yup, no iTunes. Let me have a look see what I can do.

Tom F at December 19, 2011 at 3:53 AM

Yup, no iTunes. Let me have a look see what I can do.

Just attempted to do it the old fashioned way - But Megaupload link isnt working now.

I don't believe you've actually done one ... Just messing with us!! Look at you - Acting like the prettiest girl at Collegel - Messing with all the nerds heads!!

Damn you Tom - You beautiful, beautiful creature you!

MAHONEY at December 19, 2011 at 5:02 AM

Tom F at December 19, 2011 at 3:53 AM

Yup, no iTunes. Let me have a look see what I can do.

Just attempted to do it the old fashioned way - But Megaupload link isnt working now.

 

I don't believe you've actually done one ... Just messing with us!! Look at you - Acting like the prettiest girl at Collegel - Messing with all the nerds heads!!

 

 

Damn you Tom - You beautiful, beautiful creature you!

We did and everything! It's got all the old favourites on there, Where are the people that didn't turn up, random crew member, my funny yet knowledeable insights it's all there.

I've had this problem with megaupload before (which is why I hate it!). It's there, it's a problem with their site and it wll return at random.

Hmmm, what else can I do? Any ideas how to get it straight onto iTunes? Anyone?

It's not Gremlins, but I will take it!!

If only I could get it grrrr

You can now also download the commentary via zarban.com

Ta

See my review of The Shining on my YouTube page. 

Good work, Sean. Thanks for the link!