I purchased this yesterday, it was released on Tuesday October 19th. As I was watching it last night, I saw that they used small white text for all locations, ie: the people would walk into an abandoned subway tunnel and the text would say "ABANDONED SUBWAY TUNNEL" in small white letters, within the body of the movie.
Later on in the movie, Hellboy speaks with a dead russian, and the dead russian doesn't speak English, so his dialog is subtitled. These subtitles were in much larger yellow letters and they were below the picture, in the black letter box bars!
Right now I am watching the movies on a 4:3 television, so I can still see the text, but eventually I plan on watching everything on a projector mated with a correctly aspect ratio'd screen. I will not be able to see that text.
I was disappointed that a director who puts as much hard work and thought into his movies would allow his directors cut DVD to overlook something as simple as this.
Later on in the movie, Hellboy speaks with a dead russian, and the dead russian doesn't speak English, so his dialog is subtitled. These subtitles were in much larger yellow letters and they were below the picture, in the black letter box bars!
Right now I am watching the movies on a 4:3 television, so I can still see the text, but eventually I plan on watching everything on a projector mated with a correctly aspect ratio'd screen. I will not be able to see that text.
I was disappointed that a director who puts as much hard work and thought into his movies would allow his directors cut DVD to overlook something as simple as this.