Last night my Sweetie-Wife and I decided to watch a streaming film. The first couple of movies she selected from Amazon’s steaming library, we were going to Amazon because their catalog of foreign specialty films seems the best, were unsuitable because they were not available via our Prime memberships and in addition to a rental fee were sourced from 16mm prints. I am never going to pay a rental fee for a low-quality dupe from 16mm.

She advanced that she wanted to see a spaghetti western preferably one with Klaus Kinski a quick search turned up I am Sartana … Your Angel of Death. Okay we gave that one a try.

It didn’t look right.

The original aspect ratio was 2.35 to 1 but that was not the presentation Amazon offered up. In addition, the director or director of photography adored shooting through along zoom lens which magnified camera shake which was additionally magnified by the Pan and Scan alteration. On top of that fast camera movement and frequent transitions to ‘Dutch Angles’ made the experience not simply unappealing but actually headache inducing.

We switched over to Django Defies Sartana which is presented in its original aspect ratio, 1.85 to 1, and taken from a much better source.

In these days of high definition wide screen televisions there is no call for Pan and Scan at all and it should be eliminated.