Wide screen or Full frame

[IDrinkYourBlood]

Which do you prefer your dvd's to be?
Personally I like wide screen, More authentic. Thats how a movie should be watched.

[The_Return]

Originally posted by IDrinkYourBlood
Which do you prefer your dvd's to be?
Personally I like wide screen, More authentic. Thats how a movie should be watched.

Agree wholeheartedly

[bwind22]

If given a choice, always widescreen. That's the way it was meant to be seen.

[urgeok]

i cant believe there is even a poll for it ..

what movie fan interested enough to post on a fan forum would prefer full screen ?

[filmmaker2]

Well, sometimes I like to have both. Some widescreen films are "cropped" versions that do actually slice part of the image off the top and bottom (the recent Harryhausen Sinbad DVD rereleases for example). On a really good day, I like to have both versions so I can compare them ("Hey wow! In the full-frame BLACULA I can see more of the burning candles and the candlestick in that shot!"). But that's being greedy...isn't it?

[urgeok]

Originally posted by filmmaker2
Well, sometimes I like to have both. Some widescreen films are "cropped" versions that do actually slice part of the image off the top and bottom


thats not 'true' widescreen though..

i guess we should specify widescreen-unformatted

[alkytrio666]

Widescreen of course, anyway...but it helped when about 2 years ago my dad bought an enormous widescreen TV...:D

[Vodstok]

Full frame is usually filled with "pan and scan" which is annoying and unnatural to watch.

I remember seeing Aliens for the first time in widescreen "i had ponly seen full screen for close to ten years) and was like "Wow! it's like watching a new movie!"

[Iniquity]

if Im stuck watching on laptop I prefer full screen, but when at home definitely widescreen.

then again with a projector and 13x20 clear wall painted flat off white you dont even notice the bars on top and bottom. Play SOCOM 1 time that size and you will be looking for walls all over your place to play on. lol

[zwoti]

widescreen

[meetthecreeper]

Jumbotron

[urgeok]

Originally posted by meetthecreeper
Jumbotron


you want to watch a movie projected on my 1st grade teachers ass ?

[meetthecreeper]

Yes, actually my media teacher in high school.

She had quite a large butt.
























and she was single.:D

[urgeok]

Originally posted by meetthecreeper
Yes, actually my media teacher in high school.

She had quite a large butt.


and she was single.:D


seems like a terrible waste of a perfectly good pushin' cushion !

[meetthecreeper]

Originally posted by urgeok
seems like a terrible waste of a perfectly good pushin' cushion !

I would be lying if I said I hadnt thought of it at that time.


Of course at that time I would fuck a snake if I could hold it down.

At that time....?

Wheres that snake?:D

[IDrinkYourBlood]

whats the deal with this "letter box" format. is that just full fram with just black bars on it?

[Gren the cake]

thers always someone that prefers full screen and they are CRAZY

[IDrinkYourBlood]

Originally posted by Gren the cake
thers always someone that prefers full screen and they are CRAZY Its usually people who dont usually watch or know anything about movies, or else they think there too cool for it like my friend is appairantly. "Full screens F*cking gay! ooOOoo I get to watch a bird fly in the corner. WOW!"

[urgeok]

Originally posted by IDrinkYourBlood
Its usually people who dont usually watch or know anything about movies, or else they think there too cool for it like my friend is appairantly. "Full screens F*cking gay! ooOOoo I get to watch a bird fly in the corner. WOW!"

a film was shot with a particular frame .. the aesthetic makeup of each shot is based on that frame ...

and then someone comes along and shears off over 1/3 of the picture.

it has a lot more to do with losing a bird in the corner.
you are losing the artistic vision of the filmmaker .. the balance, the composition ... everything ...

i'll have a full screen movie if i cant avoid it - but i'd rather avoid it .. snobbery has nothing to do with it ...

before there was a concept of 'formatting for the tv' you'd see older movies with the titles half cut off and more because no one thought it would be seen anywhere other than on a large screen.

[filmmaker2]

Everyone should bear in mind, of course, that films are shot in ALL KINDS of aspect ratios...from 1.33:1 (your TV set's ratio) to 1.66:1, 1.85:1, 2.35:1, 2.40:1 and god knows what else. Whether those black bars are hiding some details that were originally photographed or not, depends on the ratio that the film was shot in in the first place.

As a rule, if something was shot in Panavision or a similar process (2.35:1), it looks pretty yucky when it's finally formatted for TV...everything looks like a closeup, you can't see anything of the backdrop people are standing in front of, and so on. Most people agree that STAR WARS, JAWS, THE MATRIX and ZOMBIE all look much better in their original ratio.

Occasionally, a film shot in something more "square" like 1.66:1 will get black bars on the top and bottom to create a wider-looking frame, but you will lose stuff on the bottom, stuff that, if it is there, sometimes improves a shot. GROSSE POINTE BLANK features at least one moment (the scene in which Benny the Jet's body is thrown off the steps onto the floor of the boiler room) that I thought looked much better in the full-frame version, because you see more. The "widescreen" version featured a less interesting version of the shot, I felt.

Again, I can't always get both versions, but I try to, but that's just wackiness on my part.

[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by urgeok
i cant believe there is even a poll for it ..

what movie fan interested enough to post on a fan forum would prefer full screen ? Me...



I don't like the black bars at the top and bottom of the screen with the movie squished in the middle...I suppose if I had a different tv, one that was made for widescreen, it wouldn't have the black bars (is that correct?)...Anyway...No WAY am I gonna buy a new tv just to watch the same movies, in a widescreen format, when my tvs are all perfectly fine...Yeah, I'm a cheapskate...But, If it aint broke, don't fix it...I'm still watching the same movies you guys are :)

[AUSTIN316426808]

Doesn't really matter to me

[urgeok]

we could apply this same poll to 'how do you like your women' ?