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(http://www.animeondvd.com/reviews2/disc ... s/2058.php)The flaw on this disc will be quite dependent on the viewer, but to me and my sensibilities having now spent so long in the “film” community over the years learning about the craft of filmmaking, this Directors Cut does something that I really don’t like. While the main intent of the show was to take the four OVAs and splice them together into a movie with some extra continuity animation added, they went beyond the limit (in my mind) by then matting the full screen show to make it faux-widescreen. Now mind you, this is what the Japanese did, not ADV, so no calls about editing and so forth. This show is being released just as it was in Japan.
And as much as I love the show, I had a hell of a time watching this version. So much of it just seemed unnatural in composition. You could feel the cameras restriction in what it was trying to capture by the way its matted. Some areas come off nicely, but for the bulk of the show, felt like I was watching a 2.35:1 movie on a network channel – where you can see where they added the extra panning movements in and it makes you more conscious to that instead of the show. Heck, that panning makes some people dizzy. From what I can tell, there’s none or very little panning here, rather just a simple matting that gives the picture a more cramped feel.