Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I have the one from yts. Stats are

• 1920x696
• 24 fps frame rate
• 2248 kbps data rate
• 2632 kbps total bitrate

It looks like they just went with an unusual aspect ratio to artificially make it seem “even more widescreen”, which isn’t unheard of. Lawrence of Arabia was 2.20:1 or 2.35:1 depending on 70mm vs 35mm.

If you look at this cheat sheet, 2.20:1 isn’t even on there, and 2.35:1 is an oddball 1920x817.

So, could be normal, or maybe not.

edit: the wikipedia page for it says

”To give the film the feel of classic Hollywood epics like Ben-Hur, the filmmakers opted to shoot the film in 2.76:1 ultra-wide aspect ratio.”

which also isn’t on that cheat sheet.

Lol, you know you're getting old when other people start questioning cinema aspect ratios.

The film uses an intentionally wide aspect ratio. It also has a lot of added film grain, also intentional. But the grain messes with low bitrate rips. Grab the 20gb+ 4K Web-DL rip to get it in the best possible quality.

It is in a super wide format, so perhaps you are not used to seeing that because it isn't all that common these days with a lot of big spectacle films moving back to taller formats

I just watched a bit on popcorn time and I see what you're talking about, but wouldn't it be more meaningful to ask if the broadcast looked similar? It just seemed kind of "antique" in a way to me, as though it was putting you into a different time or a different dimension.

If so it could be intentional.

I lost interest in it after 10 minutes. Really boring plot and bad actors..