Widescreen vs. Pan & Scan

Fullscreen and Pan and Scan piss me off. Unless you're paying attention, you might accidently buy the Full-Screen version.

Fullscreen shouldn't even exist, if it will, make it the other side, not it's own DVD. It's bullshit.

People who love Fullscreen and Pan & Scan deserve to lie at a rotten poison apple.

Widescreen is better! Widescreen wins the war!

i always buy the widescreen....but its hard to convince my parents....they get mad at the black bars. especially some movies (cant think of anything atm...300 possibly) that was shot with a super widescreen ratio.

the only mistake i did is buying the full screen version of final desanation 3

OAR is correct. Other manipulations away from OAR are WRONG.

People who like pan and scan don't like movies. They simply want to be entertained for 90 minutes. If they liked movies they wouldn't want to see a half-movie. (they'd also invest in a bigger tv)

So let me get this straight you're saying that

1. The director is wrong, it's not about what he wants.
2. People who accept the directors vision are wrong, because it's not what you want.
3. People who think zooming in is great are right because it's entertainment thus it's somehow correct?

Idiot much?

I made a picture explaining this whole thing to a friend of mine using a still from Carlito's Way (shot in Panavision 2.40:1). In the courtroom scene at the beginning, in the full screen, you only see Pacino, but in the widescreen, you also see the prosecutions side of the court room which is what De Palma intended.

He totally got it

Speilberg did Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull in Panavision again for the first time in 20 years; even Minority Report and Munich were in Super 35 2.40:1

HBO HD is already cropping 2.40:1 movies for HD as well as SD. A couple years ago, I watched Blood Diamond on HBO HD and they showed it in 1.78:1 when the movie was 2.40:1. What is wrong with HBO.

These days, even though I have HBO & Cinemax, I barely watch them because they chop all there movies to Full Screen. IFC (which shows there movies in Original Aspect Ratio) is pretty much the only movie channel I watch anymore.

Because 2.40:1 aspect ratio is preferred by many cinematographers and directors, and I think it looks better than 1.85 myself