The reason is that to have the movie fill your whole screen, they would have to chop off the sides of the picture. that's why you sometimes get bigger black bars than others. And there are other movies with sizes that vary between the two. This is more like the very wide CinemaScope size that came out in the 1950s. Stuff like Lord of the Rings is shot at 2.35:1.
The bars on the top and bottom are because many movies are wider than even your widescreen TV ratio. But if you watch old TV shows, you'll likely get black bars on the sides (unless your TV zooms the image, cutting off the top and bottom, or squashes it to fill the screen). Widescreen TV is still only 16:9, or around 1.75:1 (in film terms). Also, some movies like The Grand Budapest Hotel are designed specifically so different parts of the movie have different aspect ratios.Īs to why black bars "are still a thing", it's because of the size of your TV vs the size of the image. Consider yourself lucky they don't do this on the DVD versions. Latest Discussions Texas Chainsaw Massacre Uncharted Death on the Nile Roland Emmerich Jamie Dornan Robert Pattinson (2017)Īs mentioned, it's because some movies, particularly for IMAX these days, have shots at a different ratio. The Big List of Movie-Related Subreddits.
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