Lounge Camino

[Spider-Aziz]

I ordered a movie on Amazon and I got it in the mail today. It's the full screen version.

I prefer to have movies this way.

 

[Micromind]

I bought The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I realized that the version I bought did say full screen, so I should have paid attention to that. But it is very distracting when not all the characters are in the center of the screen. Like in one scene a character just hands a beer to someone off screen. It's been so long since I saw a full screen movie that I forgot they existed.

I have Jurassic Park 3 like this on DVD and I still don't understand why anyone thought it was a good idea.

 

[Morg]

well crap, lost power 2 hours ago and now it's back I noticed all my add on where missing

 

[Teelie]

I have Jurassic Park 3 like this on DVD and I still don't understand why anyone thought it was a good idea.

That was still back when we had square screens and people disliked seeing black bars above and below the picture. Obviously you should know that but sometimes it is hard to remember just how much people actually hated "wasted" screen space.

 

[squeekness]

In the "good old days" some DVDs gave us the choice of full screen or letterbox.

 

[Marvolo]

Prisoner of Azkaban had some of the worst fullscreen I've ever seen.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD: Widescreen -v- Fullscreen

Films shot in Super 35, like Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets, were actually not bad in fullscreen because they could just put the open matte version on the vhs and dvd which meant more was actually on screen than in the widescreen version.

 

[Micromind]

Some old dvds have better designed menus than most Blurays that are released nowadays.

 

[Marvolo]

Some old dvds have better designed menus than most Blurays that are released recently.

And some UHDs have worse menus than both bluray and dvd menus.

One of the big selling points of blurays marketing was that you could access the full menus without having to cut away from the film. Sony's UHDs allow you to pull up the menu but then you have to cut away from the film to access any of the sub menus like the audio options or chapters. Its clunky as hell. What's worse is Sony designed and developed bluray, it's their baby, so the full menu access feature came from them. Not sure why theyve abandoned it on UHD.

 

[Teelie]

I also remember when DVD was supposed to have this "revolutionary" way of watching a movie, being able to see alternate shots of a scene taken from a different angle or perspective. That never happened either. The best we got was outtakes and deleted scenes as bonus extras.

 

[squeekness]

I also remember when DVD was supposed to have this "revolutionary" way of watching a movie, being able to see alternate shots of a scene taken from a different angle or perspective. That never happened either. The best we got was outtakes and deleted scenes as bonus extras.

I think I'd find that way too distracting, lol. Unless it was something I'd watched a bunch of times already.

 

[Teelie]

It was meant to be something you could do during the movie, like press a button and you would see the scene from a different camera but it never happened. Instead they just made quick cuts of the action in the movie giving you no choice but to watch the same scene from 14 different angles.

Poking a bit of fun at movies who can't stay on an action sequence for more than one second, like Taken where they really did like 15 cuts of Neeson jumping over a fence.

 

[Iceman]

I wish action films would let you watch a scene properly without moving the angles so much. I really hate it!

 

[Micromind]

I wish action films would let you watch a scene properly without moving the angles so much. I really hate it!

I find the practice of constantly shifting camera angles for different takes on some action scene (which, if shot normally, would look rather unremarkable) quite tiresome.

CA: TWS had lots of fight scenes like that, the camera jumped all over the place, I would say the DoP was doing more action filming it than the stunt men themselves !

 

[Spider-Aziz]

That was still back when we had square screens and people disliked seeing black bars above and below the picture. Obviously you should know that but sometimes it is hard to remember just how much people actually hated "wasted" screen space.

Old TV sets weren't ready yet for this format, they were even less ready when a movie takes maybe 30% of the screen and more is black while brightness adjustment is an issue.

 

[Reek]

I believe my greatness is becoming a bit of a burden.

@flickchick85

 

[flickchick85]

That song's from the 2000's. That's not greatness!

 

[Reek]

s***.

 

[Perfect Cell]

Most of the songs I listen to are from 2004-2007. That's dripping in excellence.





there is way too much emo on this list what is wrong with me

 

[Reek]

i... failed you..... you trusted me.

and i failed you.

 

[flickchick85]

 

[Marvolo]

I find the practice of constantly shifting camera angles for different takes on some action scene (which, if shot normally, would look rather unremarkable) quite tiresome.

CA: TWS had lots of fight scenes like that, the camera jumped all over the place, I would say the DoP was doing more action filming it than the stunt men themselves !

 

[Marvolo]

That song's from the 2000's. That's not greatness!

 

[Perfect Cell]

The most important thing, above all else, is that this video exists:

 

[Morg]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!


nope!!!!

 

[Micromind]

Fennac fox or baby Yoda ?