Fullscreen rocks my socks. Who gives a shit if you see somebody's elbow on a widescreen image.....

i think the bottom line is, movies are meant to be enjoyed.

if you get enjoyment out of watching a movie, then you've done so correctly.

if that means you need tom servo and crow t. robot at the bottom of the screen to enjoy it, so be it. (man, it'd be so awesome having them at the bottom of modern movies.)

if you need it to fill up your 4:3 tv, so be it.

all the consumer wants is to enjoy it as they see fit. who are you to tell them how to do it?

you're welcome to say they should try watching widescreen over fullscreen. but liking fullscreen doesn't make them wrong.

WOW. I didn't realize that my comments would create this much bashing of fullscreen. Seriously some of you people are saying that i'm an idiot just because I like fullscreen. If that's how you feel fine but it kind of surprises me that some of you feel that strong about some one's preferences of movies.

No, but it makes what their watching...wrong.

Well, for someone who's username is "moviesaregreat" and who prefers fullscreen over widescreen is about as ironic as a black person who's last name is White or vice versa.

The point that you seem to be missing 'moviesaregreat' is that you are not watching the "correct" and "intended" image that the creators of the film want you to see, just because you want to fill up your "square-shaped" TV.

So tell me, when you eventually buy a widescreen TV in a few years, are you gonna bitch because your Fullscreen DVD won't fill up the entire screen...on the sides?

I respect your opinion Mike but I will always like and buy fullscreen no matter what. Believe me widescreen t.v's will not take over the world, there will still be a lot of regular t.v.'s around i guarantee it.

I'm not a fullscreen buyer, but I do like it when they include the open matte version in addition to the OAR version. Especially flicks with nudity.

preach it my friend...I wish everyone saw it this way!

Do you wish everybody to remain ignorant? Or would the world be better if everyone gets educated?

Someone once said, "Ignorance is temporary, stupidity is forever."

Yes, and a lot of the people used to think the world was flat too.

You know there are ways off filling up your 4:3 tv with the hardware. Most DVD players can zoom an image, thus cutting off the black area. Why must there be an entire DVD software sub-market that breeds ignorance and chops up films (pieces of art)?

Full Screeners dont bother me as long as there is a WS version,they can buy whatever they want.

everything you could possibly say to "educate me" wouldn't matter.

I get the difference between WS and FS.

if it's not a visually oriented movie (ie, stupid comedy or anything that's more dialogue driven than visually driven), I know what I'm doing and I don't care.

Don't assume I'm stupid.

http://www.rexer.com/cine/oar.htm

Click on the link to be educated.

Because they have no shame in life when they should.

I admit I have a few fullscreen DVDs, but that's because it's the only way to get them (ex. my David Carradine tai chi DVDs).

The reason full-screen was created was studios found out they had a market for it. They got so many calls in from irate people asking why the image was cut off. Someone realized that and ran with it. I guarantee people will be complaining when they start watching them on widescreen tvs once they upgrade. Then finally we will be in equilibrium.

One issue that hasn't been mentioned is that the reason we see so many fullscreen DVDs is that stores like Wal-Mart require them for their customers or they would not order these titles at all.

It's basically a political issue between the retailers and the studios. The studios give in since they don't want to lose any sales. Otherwise, we would see even fewer fullscreen titles.

if that's all it is to you, entertainment, i understand why you have no interest in or respect for the artistry of filmmaking.

This situation, while sounding logical, isn't likely. Fullscreen lovers will just put the TV in 'full screen' mode and stretch everything out to fill the screen no matter what they are watching. They are obviously not interested in how the picture is supposed to look, only how much of the screen being used.

And so the ignorance...or in this case, the stupidity, will continue.

I equate this kind of stupidity to why teachers pass through students who can't read just to get them out of the system.

If someone is unwilling to learn or in some cases, just care, then I have no use for them.

I don't have a 16:9 TV, and probably won't until 42" plasmas* get down to less than $1000. But I have watched WS movies since '93. The first one being the original VHS release of The Last of the Mohicans which only came in WS. I didn't like it at the time, because I just wasn't used to it and only had a 19" TV. But after a while when a few more titles came out that had WS as the standard option, like the 1960 The Alamo, and Lawrence of Arabia, it was then that I learned what was going on and by that time, WS VHS was starting to become somewhat popular and I begin building my VHS collection with WS and my TV was just a standard 27" deal.



*I say 42" plasma because I only have 43.5" clearance in my TV cubby space and most 42" LCD TVs are about 47" wide.)

Well, I offered this as a potential option in an earlier WS vs. FF thread . . .

If the 'art' of filmmaking is not entertaining, it is worthless.
Course, we could spend weeks arguing about what 'art' and 'entertainment' really mean.

Seems you are confusing aesthetic sensibilites with intelligence.

Well, it gives them a chance to demonstrate their superior taste and intellect. Doncha know?

I love it when people just blatantly invent stories and pass it off as history.

DJ