What the fuck, ‘people’. Let me introduce you to the concept of personal accountability.
If you get all jazzed up over a movie, maybe when you are buying said fucking movie all that jazzed up hysteria will enable you with the personal accountabilty to look at the product your buying and ensure you have in your clutches the precious little move you think you do.
Don’t jump in here and bash fellow dopers who couldn’t give a rat’s ass about letterboxes, widescreen, pan this and pan whatever.
You cherish movies so much, then check the fucking product when you buy it.
Full screen movies exist on DVD! RUN FOR YOUR FUCKING LIVES!
Some humans even prefer the full screen version. They prefer it! OH THE HUMANITY THE FUCKING HUMANITY.
You might even lack the brainpower - yes YOU, the movie loving person that you are - to notice that you are puRchasing a full screen version, or ** A DVD THAT OFFERS BOTH VERSION!!!** AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! THE HORROR!
** THE HORROR!!!**
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU NEXT TIME YOU BUY A DVD, NUMBNUTS!
All movies should be released in widescreen format, both as a service to movie buffs, and a nudge to non-widescreen-TV-owning folks to get their asses in gear and update their hardware.
I am watching a movie on my PC in all it’s SQAURENESS!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I think I missed something over on the right! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
FUCK IT! I’ll buy a projector and watch it on the side of my S-U-FUCKIN-V!
Sorry-- if you prefer a version of someone’s artistic work that has parts of both sides torn off then you are a moron.
As someone pointed out in the other thread about this, it’s like buying a great painting and then cutting off parts of both sides so you can fit it in your frame (buy another frame).
Why moron? Because you are shitting all over the work that hundreds of people spent months making. I don’t care if it’s Fellini or Kevin Smith.
News Flash When I am at the movies, I actually sleep through parts, ignore entire stretches or ponder about how to build something with my own hands that some others could look at and ignore.
No, it means a television screen built for widescreen films and 5.1 means 5 directional speakers with a subwoofer to give the extra LFE oomph to explosions and space battles.
If people want to watch Pan & Scan, fine. If they don’t want to watch a movie with me because I only do Widescreen when it is available, also fine.
When my fucking video store doesn’t mark the DVDs and I get home with a copy of ‘Down With Love’ and it is Full Frame, I AM PISSED OFF.
They decided at the video store I patronize to only get Full Frame(Pan & Scan) copies of ‘Down With Love’ because it was so much cheaper. They didn’t mark that on the racks.
I also resent that Universal and a few other manufacturers don’t put Widescreen and Pan & Scan on the same disc.
They also often do not use a clear and obvious banner to distinct that it is a Widescreen or Full Frame version. I made that mistake ONCE years ago, and others I have known still don’t look closely to make sure they are getting the right version. It should be more obvious. Perhaps a hunter orange or toxic green sticker.
