Movies should be presented in the format they were originally intended to be viewed. If it was shot on 16mm, it's full screen, If it was shot on super16, 35, super35 or anamorphic, it should be letterboxed aka widescreen. Pan and Scan is a travesty and an insult to both the director and the cinematographer.
yes, but which is better for the person watching
"the viewer"?
full screen is simply what? watch this persons head be emotional, watch the fat man stuff his face? look the funny lady is being funny
wide screen is what? more streched across the screen why?
i can't see more things like this. CGI looks more "believable" because why? its smaller?
I'm asking!
If you watch a DVD in full screen when it was intended to be widescreen, you loose information. The reason they have full screen in the first place is because people complain about the black bars that reformat the image. Some people think that using the whole viewing area of the screen is most important. But because the original image is so much wider than the screen your watching it the bars have to be there. The whole point of a DVD is being able to take the theatre experience and put it in your home. That's why VHS is dying out, there are no "widescreen" tapes and the quality is terrible. The thing that sucks about the home video system is that the TV is the lowest common denominator, ie if you're watchin the movie on a little 12" screen it's gonna look worse because it's so small. So if you are sick of looking at tiny pictures dancing on the screen go get yourself fullscreen dvds. If you want the real theatre experience, or as close as you can get w/o leaving your living room, go for the widescreen.
FYI- i own starwars eps.4,5&6 VHS Extended WIDESCREEN. they still look great, but,ya VHS is on the way out!
i'm a Sci-Fi fan and i bought EPS.3 in fullscreen(accident). i think the differance is huge and i don't understand why anyone would choose the full over the wide. So there is no black bars? whatever! So- if you take a typical movie that was not released as an effects movie, say one like-GardenState. was it even considered that a widescreen version might enhance it's DVD?(or would it?
no info lost, no info gained?)
as i watched my fullscreen version of Sith, i was like- i'm not watching an effects movie, i'm watching a movie about the character\acters. The worst was Mr. S.Jackson and his unattractive bald head.
So if WIDESCREEN can make the lamest of movies on DVD better, why format any movie in the fullscreen?
and don't give me that "freedonOfchoice\american thing", 'cause it's more of a "are you not paying attention to what you are doing thing".
-much like when i purchased that DVD, damn it
The thing that pisses me off about the whole fs/ws deal on dvd's is that sometimes I see the flick that I want and just grab it off the shelf and buy it without looking to see what format it is (they usually put it on the back of the case in very fine print). Then when i go to open the annoying sticker i notice that it's FULL SCREEN. I've gone back to the store several times now because of it, and as long as you don't tear that sticker they'll let you exchange it.
Now, the real reason why there is such a thing as full screen is because some people are used to seeing their screen full with the image, like when they watch a movie on any cable network, except for TCM which is pretty cool about preserving aspect ratios. All full screen is is a zoom on the frame till the top and bottom is filling the screen. But you loose some side frame area. Since most good compositons use the left and right third of the frames they digitally pan to those areas when necessary, making the viewer think that the camera is moving. After a while it gets to be like a tennis match and gets real annoying and it takes you out of the film. Whereas in reality that never happened and wasn't indended by the director but was done by some transfer geek in the bowels of some dungeon in L.A.
Bottom line is that it's got nothing to do w/ special effects or making it look better. When they started shooting the film they decided on what format to use. Hardly anyone shoots full frame and cuts it down to widescreen format. I have, and it's annoying. Widescreen is how it was intended to be viewed and in theory if you got yourself a jumbo projector and screen you could have the theatre experience. Full Screen is a misrepresentation, it was supposed to be an easy way for the home audience to see more of the screen, but in fact you see less.
widescreen totally rocks it makes you feel more into the movie if they pan and scan sometime everything is clutered yeah and pan and scan is actually re-directing the movie
