Wide Screen movies!

[Dani]

I'm sorry but what happened to Full Screen movies? you know the ones you could watch on a 13 inch screen without everything being cramped together? You practically have to have a wide screen television set or computer screen to watch anything anymore, it's ridicules really it is mean yeah I'm lucky to have a x19 w Computer monitor but still what's the use of having one if things still look cramped. Honestly IMO Wide screen is worse then letter box, I hate letter box always have always will.

So what's everyone elses take on wide screen movies? cause me I could care less about all the special features yeah their nice but I rather watch the movie myself, not have all this extra crap afterwards. A movies a movie, when you have all these deleted scenes and stuff it ruins the movie cause you realize a certain scene that was in the original cut of the movie isn't there etc.

[Loz]

I know it was a bitch but it belongs in movies

I buy widescreen editions where i can because its closer to a cinema print - which to me is important. With large TV's like mine (one an actual widescreen TV) it looks great. There is a thread in here about special features and i have to say i love them. If a DVD has lots or good ones that will often factor in my decision to buy it if i wasn't sure.

[Dani]

I like special features but when someone tells me a widescreen movie is ten times better, half the scenes from the original cut that appeared in theaters are cut out it often annoys the hell out of me. Take rent for instances there were alot of scenes in the original theater release of the movie that were deleted in the wide screen format, I hate deleted scenes mean what's the use of watching em if you already know what's in em? But all in all I prefer director's cut or uncut versions of movies cause that way I know there's nothing edited out or deleted, I have yet to find an uncut version of Rent.

[Lizzie]

Like Loz, I prefer wide-screen. And now that I've got a wide-screen, movies look awesome.

[Bre]

Just because a film is formatted in widescreen, doesn't mean any scenes were cut out of the movie. If anything is cut from widescreen, it would also be cut from the full screen DVD. I never buy full screen. It's stretched and leaves a lot of the image cut out. Like Loz, I have a bigger wide screen TV and widescreen films look awesome on it.

[Lizzie]

Yeah, I was confused by that - I've never heard of scenes being cut out from wide-screen versions only?

[shred]

I have no idea what the difference is or which is better!

All I know is that it's annoying to watch wide-screen movies on a regular TV screen as I don't get to see the full scene.

[James]

I dont like a widescreen edition if I watching it on a not widescreen TV. Dont like the black on the top and bottom it make the movie look smaller.