# You wanna know how to watch that DVD? Shove it up your widescreen ass. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 9, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213 "2004-04-09T19:38:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/21 "2004-04-09T20:51:16Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > I’m irritated when movies are released foolscreen only, like **Miracle Mile** and **Remo Williams**. Or ‘Death Becomes Her’. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/22 "2004-04-09T20:55:07Z")
I hate fullscreen because when it goes to close ups, it looks like everyone has the Giant Nose That Will Not Be Denied on my TV. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/23 "2004-04-09T20:55:32Z")
I really enjoyd the DVD extras on _Down With Love_. Maybe even more than the movie! (And I loved the movie) How about you? ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/24 "2004-04-09T21:04:02Z")
> [@I Love Me](#): > > 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. > > It’s just wrong. God - I detest geeks with every fiber of my being. YOU’RE RENTING A FUCKING MOVIE FOR FUCK’S SAKE, not going to the Louvre. The one that really slayed me was the guy in the other thread who bitched that Pan & Scan destroyed the artistic integrity of Ghostbusters. GHOSTBUSTERS? \*\*GHOSTBUSTERS!!!\*\*GHOST-FUCKING-BUSTERS? You can project that that on my hairy ass, and it is what it is. Don’t get me wrong; I enjoyed the line “Dickless here shut off the grid”, as much as the next guy, but c’mon. Makes me want to start watching movies taller than they are wide, just to piss you nerds off. ---
**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/25 "2004-04-09T21:08:20Z")
Wow, I’ve never seen anyone get this upset about DVDs before, and I’m friends with the kind of people who get REALLY passonate about things like region coding. **Philster** , maybe you should go outside. Unless I’m terribly mistaken, international law requires everything to be sunny and warm and covered with flowers and singing birdies and fluffy li’l bunnies this time of year. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/26 "2004-04-09T21:11:04Z")
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**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/27 "2004-04-09T21:19:06Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > **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. > > THE HORROR! Sorry I slept through part of that post, now, you were doing something with your hands in that dark movie theater, and someone screamed THE HORROR!? Paul Reubens is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/28 "2004-04-09T21:23:06Z")
**Warning: Quote was Panned and Scanned by Binarydrone** > [@blowero](#): > > etter yet, I think I’ll just > start posting like thi 😛 I kid! ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/29 "2004-04-09T21:23:30Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > Better yet, I think I’ll just start posting like this. Well, then, blowero: o rovide a proper compari t posting like this all the t ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/30 "2004-04-09T21:25:07Z")
Ahh! Nothing like getting off the smart-ass post milliseconds earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/31 "2004-04-09T21:25:56Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > Ahh! Nothing like getting off the smart-ass post milliseconds earlier. Shut up! Shut up! Mine was smart-asser. ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/32 "2004-04-09T21:26:41Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > God - I detest geeks with every fiber of my being. \ Makes me want to start watching movies taller than they are wide, just to piss you nerds off. I’d give you the finger but one’s pushing up my taped glasses and the other’s on the D key. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/33 "2004-04-09T21:35:17Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > I really enjoyd the DVD extras on _Down With Love_. Maybe even more than the movie! (And I loved the movie) How about you? After the Full Frame annoyance, I went out and bought the Widescreen edition. _Here’s To Love_. 😃 Great movie which lovingly lampoons the Rock Hudson/Doris Day movies. And you can’t go wrong with Ewan MacGregor in a towel doing the bossa nova. _DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOL_ ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/34 "2004-04-09T21:37:51Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > Makes me want to start watching movies taller than they are wide, just to piss you nerds off. It is so pathetic to see people voice the same bullshit we had to deal with in high school. These are the losers who compensate for their tiny non-functional dicks with red sports cars and trophy wives 20 years younger than they are. Cut off your nose to spite your face and watch the movie any way you fucking want. Some of us prefer another way. Suck it up and move on. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/35 "2004-04-09T21:38:29Z")
Just want to say, Binary, that was a pretty funny response. 🙂 Juanita, yours was funny too, but you get a mixed review for the stale “snip you ain’t missin much” comment. Other than that, I was laughing. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/36 "2004-04-09T21:41:09Z")
Ooh, Mockingbird gets the booby prize - Way. Too. Serious. Really took that “nerd” comment to heart. Having flashbacks from high school? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/37 "2004-04-09T21:41:41Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > 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. Maybe the labeling makes it hard to do this. Read much? > [@Philster](#): > > 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. Please point out to me the place where I did so. I specifically noted in a response to CanvasShoes that my rant (which, I must point out, was both funnier and easier to read than yours) was not directed at those who did not know the difference or actually had a preference. It was directed specifically at those who (a) understand the difference and (b) offer the rationale of “widescreen movies cheat me out of my TV.” ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/38 "2004-04-09T21:43:14Z")
BTW, my tiny dick functions quite nicely, thank you. 😉 When do I get that trophy wife? Sign me up. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/39 "2004-04-09T21:44:35Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > Ooh, Mockingbird gets the booby prize - Way. Too. Serious. Really took that “nerd” comment to heart. Having flashbacks from high school? 😉 Nope. Your response is more sophomoric bullshit which is intended to incense and offend so you can put people down for taking things too seriously and being too sensitive. To call you a child is an insult to children everywhere. Your bridge is somewhere, why don’t you return to it. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213/40 "2004-04-09T21:45:15Z")
This thread rules. Special shout out to **Philster** , for making me almost choke on my sandwich. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-wanna-know-how-to-watch-that-dvd-shove-it-up-your-widescreen-ass/239213.md?page=3)