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Old 06-22-2005, 12:20 PM
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Old 06-22-2005, 12:22 PM
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you want to watch a movie projected on my 1st grade teachers ass ?
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Old 06-22-2005, 12:33 PM
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Yes, actually my media teacher in high school.

She had quite a large butt.
























and she was single.:D
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Old 06-22-2005, 12:43 PM
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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 !
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Old 06-22-2005, 12:50 PM
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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
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Old 06-22-2005, 03:19 PM
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whats the deal with this "letter box" format. is that just full fram with just black bars on it?
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Old 06-22-2005, 03:32 PM
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thers always someone that prefers full screen and they are CRAZY
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Old 06-22-2005, 04:04 PM
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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!"
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Old 06-22-2005, 05:35 PM
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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.
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Old 06-22-2005, 06:57 PM
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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.
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