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by pinebox 1532 days ago
> The only real difference is that the aspect ratio of the film may change during some specific ‘Enhanced’ sections. To my mind that’s a mockery of being “as the director intended”; one must surely doubt that a director would choose to switch ratios mid-movie (unless part of the film design, a la Oliver Stone, say, or the extraordinary genre-busting Spiderman into the Spiderverse).

It is not unheard of for newer films to have specific scenes that were shot in IMAX (and for those scenes to change aspect ratio accordingly when presented in an IMAX theater). One of the first search results on the topic:

https://www.avforums.com/threads/aspect-ratio-changing-durin...

Wikipedia goes more in depth on specific films and the amount of IMAX time in each:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAX#Feature_films

As shooting in IMAX is expensive and difficult, we can presume this to be the director's intent.

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It's not just IMAX either, some directors change mid film for aesthetic reasons.
Natural Born Killers comes to mind