^Well then watch it on DVD and change your mind.

I literally have never seen this movie. So I clicked on it on my Showtime channel to see what the fuss was about the movie looked so cheap and strange that I immediately came to the message board for this movie and low and behold, you guys are talking about it! This looks like a cheap christian movie that we would have had to watch in sunday school. This is so bizzare!!! Why does this movie look so weird?!

Perhaps they were airing a foreign version. I believe the UK or Europe uses transfers. Over there they use 50kHz instead of our 60, and are more prone to using 50 fps instead of our 24-30.
When films are transferred as well sometimes parts of the color channel aren't saved which may cause discoloration.
As for parts being sped up and some not being, that's because of a variable bit rate and not a constant bit rate setting

Pardon the pun, but Thank God! When I watched it, I caught it in the middle and tried watching it for a few minutes before I had to switch it because it looked so horrible. I'm glad I started this thread because I thought I was going nuts!

I dvr'd it last night. I haven't watched it
EVER, thought I'd check it out since I get showtime.
30 seconds, that's all I could take. FTS
the coins in the jar are for charity,
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I dvr'd it last night. I haven't watched it since the theater. So disappointed!
The version had a high Frames Per Second rate. I absolutely hated it and found it unwatchable. I had to turn it off.
I hope this doesn't catch on.
Peter Jackson shot the hobbit at 48 fps (Normal movies are half that) and Ang Lee shot 'Billy Lynn's Halftime Walk': at 120 FPS! I haven't seen this one but I imagine i'd hate it. Everything looks like a stage play.

Same here. Watched it last night. Has like that 'shot on video' look, like when you watch those cheap movie productions on the religious channels. It looked gorgeous in the cinema and on Dvd.

Watching it now and totally agree. They did something to diminish it's effecteven seems like the scene speeds up at times and then slows back downweird.

Funny you mention a "soap opera effect". I didn't even know that was a term. Watching it now on Showtime myself, and first thing I said to myself was how much it looked like, "oh, I don't know, a soap opera or something." Very strange. Either way, nothing can take away the beauty that is Monica Bellucci.

Illuminati be damned with your cursed "Mandela Effect"!

Just watched the thrashing scene on YouTube. I'm going with aspect ratio. It should be wide-screen and/or letterbox but it's full screen, so zoomed and clipped on the sides. The color is off too, almost lightened. Like dude said above no post production filtering or whatnot.

Yes, it looks like what people sometimes refer to as the "soap opera effect". I don't recall it looking like this before.

Thank you! Something is definitely off. I even checked to make sure my TV's crappy LED Motion Plus garbage setting was off. Very disappointed, I'm not religious by any stretch but it was always one of my favorite films from a cinematography perspective. Looks like a bad 90's soap opera on Showtime. I'm genuinely curious as to what the explanation is Maybe aspect ratio or something?

Seems oddly zoomed in, too. Like unnatural camera movements. Maybe even a higher fps? Strange

Watching it nowyeah, I agreeit looks like it's a different edittheir is a music sound track that was not in the original release and it looks to be a copy that the 'filter' wasn't used on, kind of like one of those 'working copies' before post production effects.