Widescreen vs Pan & Scan

I need to know who's an unwashed heathen and who appreciates movies in the proper format. Not that I'm trying to be biased or anything...

James

Widescreen all the way. It doesnt matter how small of a screen I'm watching it on.

WS only. Full screen is ass, I hate it, and anyone who prefers butchered screen formats.

WS.

"Pan and Scan" makes baby Jesus cry.

Anyone who prefers butchered P&S crap, does not deserve to watch movies, and should be forced to watch Ernest Goes to wherever for the rest of their lives.

Widescreen is the only way to go... but believe me, there are a lot those, as you said, "unwashed heathens" out there. I work in a video store, so it's pretty hard to stop from smacking them around.

You have to see things from the point of view of the director and/or cinematographer... The widescreen version, that's their vision, that's their art. Imagine you're an artist, in the traditional sense... paint & canvas, I mean. A museum curator says "I like this, very nice, we'll buy it... but we're going to have to cut off about 5 inches off the sides. Okay?"

No, not fucking okay.

And I use that same analogy for people, I show them a little comparison screen-grab from Dragonheart our store has; the P&S screen has Draco sitting there, talking to the corner of the screen, while the WS version has Liam Neeson (or whoever the devil starred in it) there in the bottom corner, and you can see Draco's scale relative to him. I think it's a bloody good example, by the by. But people will still say "I don't like the black bars on the screen." There's just no reasoning with these half-wits. I realize it's a bit pretentious to want everyone to see it from an artistic standpoint, but that doesn't change the fact that it's just wrong to mess with a piece of art... it just burns my hide that people don't care about not seeing half the damn picture.

What really ticks me off is seeing some DVDs coming out now as 2 seperate versions, the widescreen & the full-screen. If they want to do that, use a double-sided disc with one version on each side... don't give people a choice, because they'll ALWAYS pick the wrong one. I fear that if that trend continues, we may see a continuation of the VHS market; maybe 1/20th of films coming out in the widescreen format, being roped off in their own little section like they're the impure ones. Thinking about it makes me ill.

I don't like missing out on things, so, widescreen. I don't have a problem with people prefering a full screen view of the movie, as long as I don't have to watch it with them.

Has anyone answered widescreen?

I sure did. :bang:

And here I though I might be overreacting with my dislike for pan & scan. Or maybe we're all overreacting together, but somehow I doubt it. :)

James