Originally posted by PissedOffGoalie
whats the difference? its the same movie and it fills up the whole screen
Huge difference. Check this picture out, and see what exactly you're missing by watching movies in Fullscreen.
Fullscreen isn't the way the movie was intended to be viewed, it's not the way the director intended you to see it, and of course, it isn't the way you saw it/it was presented in theatres.
I only own 1 movie in Fulscreen on DVD, and that's Ginger Snaps, which I plan on upgrading to the Canadian release which is Widescreen. Trust me, once I saw the light, I realized what a big difference there was between the two. It certainly isn't the same movie.
Originally posted by PissedOffGoalie
whats the difference? its the same movie and it fills up the whole screen
Movies are shot in widescreen, so to make it fullscreen they have to either chop out part of the picture or distort it entirely.
After you watch enough widescreen, you start to notice how awful fullscreen is.
I like both formats..............some movies I enjoy better in widescreen, some in fullscreen. I could not fathom watching movies like Gladiator in full screen........you would be missing half of the movie.
That said.........Stanley Kubrick hated widescreen and shot most of his movies in the full screen format. When they wanted to release his "kubrick collection" on dvd, they tried they're ass of to get him to convert the movies to a widescreen format (to appeal to the wide screen tv people who loathe the full screen format). He refused.......
I believe after his death they did convert some of his films to widescreen (thus stretching the picture).......but not many were produced. You would have a hard time finding a widescreen transfer of The Shining or Full Metal Jacket, because they were not shot in the widescreen ratio.