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I want the Blu-Ray from Walmart that has the exclusive IMAX scenes, but I don't want the screwed up switching from letterbox to IMAX fullscreen.

I was wondering if anyone who saw the IMAX version thinks it's worth having the new scenes. For what it's worth, the forest fight was my favorite part of the whole movie.

I would get the IMAX version. Anyone that saw The Dark Knight's tunnel/highway/tumbler chase scene will know why.

But for those that don't, that scene was shot in IMAX. I saw the movie in a non-IMAX theater. When that scene played, you could tell when the tumbler crashes into the garbage truck that there should be more picture, but it was cropped to fit widescreen so there was this awkward moment where the camera appeared too close but it really wasn't because the picture was cropped.

Look at it this way: with the IMAX version, you'll see the entire shot whereas with the wide screen version, they'll crop the IMAX shots and you may miss some little things or have an awkward moment. I saw the wide screen version, and I thought during the forest fight after Optimus said "I'll take you all on" when the camera panned to Sam on the ground before panning back up to Optimus was an awkward moment. It was like they did that deliberately to let you know he was there. It seemed to me that perhaps Sam and Optimus were in the same shot on IMAX, but because they cropped it for widescreen they had to pan down to show Sam. Thus we miss a little of the fight. Perhaps the IMAX version will have no pan since it shows the entire shot?

I am EXTREMELY anal about missing parts of the picture, so I would get the IMAX. It's why I buy widescreen over the full screen TV versions, where they crop the widescreen picture to fit a standard TV screen.

Kind of ironic to crop IMAX to fit widescreen, since IMAX uses standard TV screen ratios. Widescreen gets cropped for standard TV and IMAX gets cropped for widescreen.


tldr: GET IMAX.

Don't worry. It looks terrific. I just got the Walmart exclusive, and when it cuts to the Imax scene during the forest fight, it's subtle but effective. And still looks great.

I went ahead and got the Walmart version and am so glad I did.

I thought it was going to do the full IMAX ratio where it's practically a square, but it isn't like that, it's 16:9 regular widesreen.

See, this sucks.

Being stationed here in Japan, I have no wally world and for some reason they won't ship the movie here.

Just settled for the 2 disc special edition.... sigh....

Bloodlust: Seriously, you don't have any friends in the States or here on Seibs who would help you get a copy?

HK, friendship means paypal helps you do friends favors.... or something?

hellkitty wrote:Bloodlust: Seriously, you don't have any friends in the States or here on Seibs who would help you get a copy?

HK, friendship means paypal helps you do friends favors.... or something?

I do, however seeing as how my identity has been stolen before, kinda iffy on that whole aspect.

It's all good, I go on leave in Nov, so i'll just pick it up then and bring it back with me so i can save on shipping!

Having 2 copies is always better than one

I'd have to say no. The switch from letterbox to full screne didn't bother me in the forest scene, but in the Devastator scene it really bothered me. I was planning on only picking up the Wal-Mart exclusive version, but it looks like I'll be picking up another copy as well.