What's the point in buying a movie if you're just going to skip over scenes? If you're going to put in a movie, you have to watch the thing the whole way through, no exceptions. The director did not intend for you skip over scenes. If he did, he would have cut them out of the movie himself. This is raping the director's artwork and his vision is compromised when you do that. Who else would be in favor of disabling the option to skip through movies?

David Lynch feels exactly the same way. Check out some of his DVDs.

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Well for one thing sometimes I don't watch a movie all the way thru,so I watch some, restart it up later and pick up the scene where I left off. I'd be asinine to eliminate chapters in DVD's.

I totally disagree. One of the joys of having so many films at my disposal is the ability to be able to watch a favorite scene whenever I want. I do this all the time when I'm getting ready for work. Also, if the ability to jump to a scene is invaluable if you are studying a movie.

Hear that, everyone? There's a new sheriff in town.

I totally agree with you but what about pausing? I'm totally against that as well. If I have to pee during a film I just pee in my pants or in a cup. I really do perfer just going in my pants since I don't have to worry about drinking my own urine by mistake.

Also playing 2.0 audio tracks throught a 5.1 sourround system. I don't care that the other 3 speakers aren't being used. You should disconnect them and take them out of the room to protect the directors orginal vision of only two speakers in a room.

Actually I'm against DVDs as well since most movies are shot on film. If you don't want a reel to reel player in your house, tought shit, you can't watch the movie.

Technology is destroying art I tell ya. I was browsing the internets just the other day and decided to download a desktop wallpaper of Van Gogh's "Starry Night". I was so pissed because I know he painted that in CMYK and here it was on my desktop RGBing it up.

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If you really want to get it outlawed, I'd suggest calling your local Congressman

Yeah and tell him to forget about all that boring important stuff they do and get to work on this ASAP!

I take it that you don't like the fastforward button on VCR players either.

Actually, pausing is something I'm also against. I have valid reasons for that too.

Well, I disagree with his OP. "Scene Selection" allows me to bypass all that legal shit and start the flick.

Don't watch much porn, do you?

Wait...he has "valid" reasons against pausing as well? Like dictionary facts?

I can't wait to hear this.

I'm sensing he may become the "art" of the main forums!

Why stop there? We should outlaw dvds all together since most movies were conceived and created with the intention to be shown on a big screen in a theater with a large group of people. Most directors hate that their movies are being watched on TVs in homes - moreso than skipping through scenes.

And what about other works of art? How about not having song selections on albums? Shouldn't we have to listen to albums all the way through from begining to end without skipping songs? Isn't that the way the artist intended their music to be heard?

Amen!



And as for the original post. Yawn.

Sometimes I put a film on when I lay down for bed. If I fall asleep prior to the end, it is quite nice to start it back up at the last scene I remember.

Somebody needs to bitchslap David Lynch for NOT including a scene selection/chapter break option on his DVDs.

There's many times where I have to stop a movie for whatever reason. Scene selections are very convenient.

That said, I suppose I could speed through the whole movie at 64x speed and catch up on all my backlog in record time.

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hope so...

I do not believe protecting the intentions of the artist is much of a "joke."

You shouldn't be able to use it because it gives you the option to look at the director's art in a way he did not intend. People should not be allowed to view a movie any way they want.

If scene selection is outlawed, only outlaws with have scene selection.

One of the silliest things I've ever heard. Scene selection is one of the things that got me into DVDs.

Sometimes you just want to check out your favorite scenes, just like listening to your favorite song on an album.

Consider a film that merits viewing by an age younger than the rating suggests. Do you allow the director's message/vision to be seen but with a scene skipped or do you forbid viewing until the entire film can be watched?

How many directors have edited their works in order to obtain a sellable rating?

I can't say I ever pop in a DVD just to watch a specific scene, but there have been times where I fell asleep or had to stop watching or had the dvd freeze up and chapter stops are a necessity in those cases.