I guess I WON'T be buying the LOTR special DVD!

[Guest brokentusk16]

You know, I was really looking forward to this DVD. 30 minutes of new footage, it was gonna be great! But apparantly the widescreen it automatically comes in will be the 2.35, the type with the bars that take up HALF THE DAMN SCREEN!!! Don't get me wrong, I love widescreen, but the 2.35 just takes up too much damn screen. Those big battle scenes are going to look terrible!

 

Anyone with me on this?

[The Dames 0]

Why would they change the aspect ratio from one DVD to the next? If it's like that on the new one, it most likely is that way on the old one.

 

Personal opinion, I don't mind the aspect ratio as long as it's widescreen and everything is still visible.

 

Dames

[Guest brokentusk16]

The only DVD version I've seen so far is the fullscreen version, I assume that the widescreen is the 2.35. I first saw this version of widescreen when I bought Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and It's not that great unless you sit about two feet from the screen! The black bars literally take up half the screen.

 

I know you see more with widescreen (that's why I like it), and I want to see the extra footage, but what's the point when everything will look twice as small?

[The Dames 0]

So you'd rather have a fullscreen version of the movie because the widescreen is too small for you? If that's the case, I'm sure that they'll be a fullscreen version of the 2nd LOTR disc. Oh, how I hate fullscreen.

 

Dames

[Guest brokentusk16]

No, no, no. I LIKE widescreen! I just hate this VERSION of widescreen more movies are using now. I like the old widescreen version they used to use (like what Monsters Inc. has on DVD) and what some tv shows are now using (like what Angel had last season, and what Babylon 5 uses now). Letterbox is what it's also called. In letterbox, the bars only take up about two inches of the screen. With the 2.35 widescreen, each bar takes up three times that much. It scrunches up the picture. I'm just imagining the big battle at the beginning of the film and just seeing the soldiers as little dots. LOTR is a great movie and I don't want to have to squint just to make about the characters.

 

Besides, the special edition will be available in ONLY widescreen.

[Guest GeneMean]

Copied straight from the back cover of my FotR DVD.

 

Widescreen Version: Presented in a "letterboxed" format preserving the 2.35:1 aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition.

 

Same thing as the special edition disc to be released and looks just fine on my 27" tv.

[Guest Angle-plex]

My Pulp Fiction DVD is 2.35:1, and it doesn't bother me that much.

 

I used to hate widescreen, too.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Good. I hate Pan & Scan.

[Guest El Satanico]

As long as it's the ratio it's meant to be seen in, I say the wider the widescreen the better.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

This is the dumbest, most ignorant thread ever.

[Guest El Psycho Diablo]

Widescreen looks just fine on my 65" HDTV..so I'm sure the new disc will be perfect on it, too.

[Guest Karnage]

So you hate when movies are filmed in scope...?

Not every film is filmed in 1.85:1 you know.

[Guest brokentusk16]

Let me try and make what I'm saying more clear: I like widescreen, I get it whenever I can. Unfortunately, I only have a 24" TV. My concern with the LOTR 2.35 widescreen is that the picture (particularly the battle scenes) will suffer because of that. That's ALL I'm saying! My Army of Darkness DVD has 1.66 widescreen and it's perfect. If they offered the LOTR DVD in that, there'd be no problem. I'm not saying anything bad about widescreen. I'm just saying that with the 2.35, it's difficult for me to watch the movies. Again, I don't hate widescreen, just that VERSION of widescreen.

 

Am I making sense now?

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

1.66 still isn't the original aspect ratio of LOTR, and you would still be missing a good portion of the film. It's not worth it.

 

If you can't see Widescreen on a 24", its time to get some glasses. 24" is plenty big enough to watch 2.35 on.

[Guest El Satanico]

But the problem with your "argument" is that the picture really isn't smaller no matter the ratio. It may seem smaller, but it's all in your head. You THINK it looks smaller when it actually isn't,

 

I've watched widescreen on a 7" in dash tv in my car and had no problem seeing the movie.

[Guest MDH257]

You lose almost half of the picture when 2.35 is in pan and scan.

 

Respect the letterbox.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

Let me try and make what I'm saying more clear: I like widescreen, I get it whenever I can. Unfortunately, I only have a 24" TV. My concern with the LOTR 2.35 widescreen is that the picture (particularly the battle scenes) will suffer because of that. That's ALL I'm saying! My Army of Darkness DVD has 1.66 widescreen and it's perfect. If they offered the LOTR DVD in that, there'd be no problem. I'm not saying anything bad about widescreen. I'm just saying that with the 2.35, it's difficult for me to watch the movies. Again, I don't hate widescreen, just that VERSION of widescreen.

 

Am I making sense now?

So Peter Jackson should go back and re-film it in 1:85.1 for people like you who don't like it in scope?

 

Dude, watching a movie in 2:35.1 on a 24" TV is nothing. Hell, I watch movies in 2:40.1 at work, and I only have a 15" there. Get used to it, or join the brainless masses who prefer fullscreen.

[Guest Human Fly]

C.H.U.D. would probably know this for sure, but it's probably in anamorphic widescreen and then you could make the picture a little bigger to you liking (if I'm correct in how anamorphic widescreen works. I just watch it in whatever ratio it is {fullscreen sucks})