2.35:1 format sometimes pisses me off exquisitely. The problem is that directors decide they want to fill up the screen with something, but the format is horrible for closeups. You want a closeup of someone's face and you either use a long enough lens to fill the whole width of the screen and chop off most of the actor's head, or accept that you can't get a close up shot without including some of the background in the scene as well. The reason to use a 2.35:1 format is so that you can use a wiiiide lens when trying to make scenes of really big scope look really big. The problem is that most directors end up using the wide format for a couple of action sequences, and then all of the more "normal" shots end up being done with not quite wide enough of a lens. Argh!

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