FullScreen VS WideScreen?

[MurphyMan]

Good evening all,

What is everyones opinion of the different Screen types and Aspect Ratios of film?

Are you a VHS-aged Pan&Scan type? Or a New-Aged Widescreen type?
Do you rent FullScreen DVD's or Widescreen? What are your opinions on the fact movies are released twice to DVD because of this? Also, what do you think of viewers who like a Filled screen over the Full Picture?

I am interested in all your views. I still watch VHS's simply because I have a large collection of movies, in which the VHS is the larger part. I started it when I was younger and did not see any reason to buy a movie I already owned for a second time. I also have friends who find "Black Bars" simply too annoying to enjoy the film. Myself, I know that when it is Panned and Scanned they crop/Center Scan and fake Camera move with it. Thus, I know FullScreen you see less, unless filmed in Super 35 Format.

However, I was just wondering everyones opinion on the subject of Aspect Ratios and how they are presented.

 

[Speedball]

Fullscreen shouldn't even exist.
It's so f-ing pointless to even offer it.
If I ever get a film in Fullscreen as a gift, I ask the gift-giver for the reciept. I refuse to own fullscreen films.

 

[The Chairman]

I like both, but I usually prefer widescreen.

 

[Secret_Riddle]

Wide-screen...thats the worst things about dvd's, someone gets you a movie for christmas and its full screen.

 

[Bat Attack]

Widescreen all the way. Whenever I recieve a full screen dvd I trade it in for a widescreen edition.

 

[Bat Attack]

Pulp Fiction isn't even worth watching in fullscreen.

 

[JLBats]

Full screen looks like a flaming river of congealed monkey juices.

X 10000

Goodfellas was on tv the other day in fullscreen. I literally had to LOOK AWAY, man

 

[Bat Attack]

I hate whenever people are like "Oh no, widescreen cuts off the picture". Argh! What would be the point of randomly putting black bars there? Are people so stupid they don't realize that?

 

[Mister J]

Fullscreen is hideous.

 

[ShaneHelms]

Widescreen.

 

[Bat Attack]

I remember getting the fullscreen Spidey 2 DVD for x-mas in 2004 and I was so pissed.

 

[The Shredder]

I really hated going back thru some of the first DVD's I bought, and finding out I actually paid for FullScreen DVD's. Widescreen all the way, BTW. I learned from my mistake.

 

[Superman: Idols]

I have a (very) tiny "normal" TV, but I always go with Widescreen. Full-screen always crops the image and makes it look blurry. The director fills the frame with important details, and Fullscreen ruins that.

 

[Bat Attack]

I have an CRT 25'' 4:3 tv in my bedroom and I buy WS anyway. My eyes are so used to the black bars it's like they aren't even there.

 

[MurphyMan]

How about pre-DVD?
Anyone here buy Letterboxed VHS versions before the DVD versions arrived?

 

[CConn]

Widescreen.

But yeah, when it was VHS, all I bought was full screen. It really isn't that bad for movies that aren't shot in the really wide aspect ratio. Like B89.

 

[ShaneHelms]

I never really found myself caring or noticing the difference until DVD came out. Wait.. I take that back, I had Armageddon and Scream in Widescreen format on VHS.

 

[Lighthouse]

I always buy widescreen. Its astonishing how much fullscreen cuts out of the picture.

 

[Bat Attack]

My parents would buy letterbox VHS whenever we could, but most of the time we bought Pan and Scan. I have the first two Austin Powers on VHS that are widescreen.

 

[Bat Attack]

It seems the only way to get a clear picture and letterbox format before DVD was to buy Laserdisc.

 

[Joker]

wide-screen, I only buy fullscreen stuff if that's the only way it's available, or if that's how it was shot (ala most TV)

 

[Spider-Fan]

Prefer widescreen, but if the movie wasn't shot in a wide format, then I won't exactly throw a hissy if I have it in full screen.

 

[rashad]

Widescreen definitely.

 

[Backdrifter]

I shudder at the thought of watching Lawrence of Arabia in fullscreen...

*shudders*

It was filmed in 70mm. (Super Wide)

 

[Kable24]

foolscreen sucks. I only buy movies in widescreen.