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It temporarily frames the picture to 2.22:1.

It's like that on the Killer DVD and the blu-ray, with black pillar-boxing bars appearing for just this one zoom-in shot early in the film. All editions also showcase some speckling and slight film dirt that's never been cleaned.Ģ003 Lions Gate Killer DVD left 2007 Lions Gate blu mid 2018 Lions Gate UHD right.Ĭuriously, one shot is mis-framed. The edge enhancement also causes horizontal lines running along the top and bottom of the screen. All this, despite grain looking smoothed away. Like, even that shot of the business cards above has a clear and unfortunate haloing effect around all the edges. Unfortunately, that means it shares the same issues as the older DVD, with a sharpening/ edge enhancement effect that they just about got away with in standard def, but on the blus, leaves the image looking like it's been tampered with in an unflattering way. The Killer edition essentially found the extra picture by lifting the tiny mattes on all four sides and the blus seemed to use the same transfer as the 2003 DVD, though it naturally benefits in clarity and compression by being an HD disc. All the pre-2018 versions shown here are framed to 2.35:1, but the older DVD is zoomed in a little on all four sides, and slightly window-boxed. So now, I no longer have my original 2000 unrated DVD since I replaced it with the Killer Edition almost fifteen years ago but from memory, it was virtually identical to the French DVD, which used the same root master. But revisiting the film more recently, I'm impressed with how thoroughly they brought the novel it to the silver screen. I always appreciated that they nailed the look of the film, like Less Than Zero, and the performances. And it probably is that to a degree, and just showing off that they got Dafoe but now I can appreciate more that he just works as an extension of Bateman's inner monologue. Like beefing Willem Dafoe's character to turn the police investigation into a whole running subplot (there's even another one in the DVD deleted scenes), like a conventional 'will he get caught' thriller. But there were other little changes that made me feel like the filmmakers had possibly not understood the book. I mean, fans were all a little disappointed some of the most extreme scenes were left out, and I was too, but I also understood the filmmakers were trying to deliver something that could play in theaters.

I'd read the book before the film came out, so admittedly, I was a little 'where's Bombadil?!' about the whole thing. Did I mention issues I had with this film? Well, yes.

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