Buy certin movies in fullscreen?
 

The fast and the Furious is one my favorite movies so I bought the tricked out edition in fullscreen. Now I usually buy in widescreen but I just had to for this one, with all the action I just wanted it to be larger than life. Anyone do the same?

Nope.

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<BLOCKQUOTE> • Quoth ctyler •<HR SIZE=1>The fast and the Furious is one my favorite movies so I bought the tricked out edition in fullscreen. Now I usually buy in widescreen but I just had to for this one. Anyone do the same? <HR SIZE=1></BLOCKQUOTE>

:hscratch:

It's one of your "favorite movies," but you "just had to" buy it fullscreen? Can you explain?

In answer to your question, no, not unless it's the OAR.

das

Yes, Fight Club is my favorite movie and I just had to get the full screen version. It makes sense to me.

K

Nope.

I just watched Mischief on FMC again last night. The weasel who mattes out the bottom of my screen on that film is going to die slowly. I'm gonna go to work on him with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.

People still don't realize that when you buy FULL-SCREEN you are getting LESS of the movie, not MORE.....

shame on you -ohbfrank-

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Not if they have any comprehension of what OAR is, and what happens to a movie when it is violated.

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:confused: I hope you're joking...

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So, you bought a cut up transfer to make it larger? No, I have never in my life done this.

i bought the gate and the wraith and trick or treat in the full frame versions, but only because there wasn't a readily available widescreen version of any of them. i don't mind for movies i've only seen fullscreen anyways.

but if there is a choice, and the movie isn't just 80's horror fluff, OAR all the way.

That's not always true though. With open matte, you're actually seeing more than you saw in the theatre. Although, this can sometimes include boom mics and such. Remember, it's not always about more or less picture... well, you know how it goes.

K

The only time I buy FF is when the disc is industry standard (before 1954) and some concerts that were filmed but not in widescreen. I stretch everything or if it's already widescreen the full format is what is used. This way my Direct View HDTV doesn't get any burn in, and my odometer is closing in on 20,000 hours of use since I bought it.

Sure, when I want to see the whole picture I always buy the version that cuts off both sides of the feature. Makes perfect sence to me. :brickwl:

Once you get a 16:9 TV, you will not even entertain the thought of buying a movie in 4:3.

I have been on the widescreen bandwagon since I got the original Star Wars Widescreen set way back in the early 90s. I remember having to really search for VHS movies that weren't chooped to pieces. I am SO glad those days are gone...

Only pre-"wide screen" films, i.e., classics made when 1.33:1 was the OAR or films only shot in the 1.33:1 format.

Larger than life?!?!? Compare AR here, P&S to the left and WS to the right.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall...tarWars2PS.jpg ----------------------------------- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall...tarWars2WS.jpg

I prefer films where I do not miss characters actions, and how could I mis Han Solo's amused facial expression? :)

Another week, another thread for people to parade thier dedication to OAR (er.. sorry, widescreen), and for me to complain that we heard it all last week, and the week before, and the week before..

I definitely agree that I'd never buy a film that was shot in widescreen in P+S format.

However, lots of movies are shot in 1.33:1 (notably Kubirick's films and lots of older/foreign films) and then matted down to 1.85:1 or even 2.35:1. That means, you're actually seeing less of the film in a widescreen presentation. I definitely still use my 16:9 TV's stretch modes when watching FF stuff, but I'd rather see what the director originally intended.

Just saw something neat. Deepdiscountdvd is selling the FS version of Daredevil for 21.96 and the WS version for 19.48. That's 2.48 difference in prices. Maybe J6P will finally start getting into WS if its cheaper. ;)

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I would never buy a movie I cared about in a format where the sides of the frame are chopped off. I t makes absolutely no sense.

Well, all who buy chicago in full frame are gonna see a few boom mics (it was matted a tad wrong at the theater)

double post... oops

The funniest part is that if you buy the widescreen version you can always zoom in to view it "Larger than life" or filling your 4:3 set at least... not that you should but you can. :)

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It's not always as black and white as that. Like I've already mentioned and everyone knows, there's open matte, which shows you more than you're "supposed to see". But, if I understand it correctly, panning and scanning isn't just chopping off the sides of the image. It's oftentimes the use of creating artificial camera moves/pans to display what is perceived to be the most important action in a widescreen scene so that it is displayed prominently on a 4:3 set. You know, panning and scanning. :D Okay, history lesson done. Neither open matte or panning and scanning are preferable, but I just don't like when people take the immediate argument of "chopping off the sides" as the focal point. Because if you start to show someone this on an open matte DVD, comparing the two will lose you that argument. Of course, I didn't know any better till I started frequenting here. ;) I always preferred widescreen, but mostly cuz I liked the way it looked (and of course I knew that it was the way it was projected in a theatre.) The real revelation of course was watching Ghostbusters on TV, a couple years ago, after having seen it several times on TV when I was a boy, and realizing just great a job someone can do taking a movie shot in 2.35:1 and making it fit a 1:33:1 screen. Magical, I tell you. Magical.

K

I don't get it. With fullscreen DVDs the picture is actually smaller, not bigger. The left and right edges are chopped off. Am I missing something here?