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Originally posted by: bad_karma24
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bad_karma, today's king of cross-linking threads.
Just trying to keep one topic going
.And I do agree about fullscreen. Though as John Carpenter put it, "Have two releases. Let people who care have widescreen, and give the idiots their pan and scan" (yes, he really did call them idiots).
I really don't see how people prefer pan and scan over widescreen. It's obviously the superior format.
Saying fullscreen is a bit misleading too. Pan and scan is a better word. Fullscreen basically implies that it's 4:3, which is what all movies before the 1950s were. Pan and scan means that the image has been cropped from it's original release; even movies that are "widescreen" can be pan and scanned.
It all comes down to what the director prefers. Kubrick filmed most of his later films in 4:3 and cropped them for theater. He then released them in 4:3, as they were intended to be shown.