I have a HUGE list of titles I'd like to own in their fullscreen versions ( again, I love BOTH open matte AND pan & scan ). When I watch a movie for the first time, I go for the intended aspect ratio, but from then on, open matte gives you more picture ( which can be fascinating ) and pan & scan is valuable not only for historical reasons ( that's how the movie was first seen by most ), but because it's interesting to see the "artistic" choices of the person doing the transfer, the segment they focused on. Not only that, I prefer grainy, slightly faded and scratched film to the overscrubbed, grain-free, color-tweaked, cartoony-looking product they put out nowadays. It's a joy when I come across some nice looking conversion of older prints, especially to full DVD. Among the titles in my wishlist:
Laserdisc:
-The Alamo - Uncut Version ( though letterboxed, it's the only way the longer version has been made available )
-The Great Escape ( Fullscreen unsubbed NTSC Laserdisc Available )
-1941 (The 1979 comedy)
-Amadeus
-An American Werewolf in London
-Society (The 1989 horror movie by Brian Yuzna. Unsubbed NTSC Laserdisc Available )
-Schindler (The 1982 documentary)
-Troll (1986) ( Fullscreen unsubbed NTSC Laserdisc Available )
-Hope and Glory
-"Zardoz" and "House of the Long Shadows" ( Fullscreen unsubbed PAL Laserdisc available ) (fullscreen DVD of "...Long Shadows" had terrible picture, dark and orange )
-All of David Lean's Epics: "A Passage to India", "Doctor Zhivago","Ryan's daughter", "Lawrence of Arabia"...
-Friday the 13th and Star Trek movie series...
-The 4 Superman films with Christopher Reeve
-A Room with a View
-Titanic, True Lies and Terminators 1 & 2... Why not?
-The Fearless Vampire Killers ( I want the animated opening made for the American cut, offered as an extra on the ld )
-Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead
-Dr. Phibes 1 & 2 ( Fullscreen unsubbed NTSC Laserdisc Available )
-Remote Control (1988) ( Fullscreen unsubbed NTSC Laserdisc Available )
-The Company of Wolves (1984) ( fullscreen unsubbed NTSC Laserdisc Available )
-The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) ( Fullscreen unsubbed NTSC Laserdisc Available )
-Best Picture Winners like "The Deer Hunter", "Ben Hur", "Tom Jones" and "My Fair Lady" ( for this last one, both pre and post 1994 restoration releases )
-Radio Days
-Miracle in the Wilderness
-Historically interesting material, including very early releases and discs like "Memories of Videodisc" ( an homage and farewell to the CED format ). Notices and logos would be specially interesting on these...
A few titles I KNOW were made available as fullscreen NTSC DVDs:
-The Sound of Music
-Jason and the Argonauts
-West Side Story
-Cat Ballou
-Back to the Future and Star Wars trilogies
-A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise
-The Amityville Horror (1979)
-Jurassic Park (1993)
-Animal House (1978)
Not to mention the aforementioned "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" open matte 16mm and basically every movie ever made... even the lost ones...
and it goes on, and on, and on...