Slamman Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Some of us, I included, are pundits for the home cinema experience, Fans of Home Theater. It often is better then the real theater, ok, maybe not , but certainly appealing. My query with this thread is "How do you feel about movie viewing with commercials, edited for content, edited for time, etc?" What's your opin about TV broadcast films? If you own a copy, would you still sit down to watch it on TV?!? haha Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434794-movies/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthYENIK Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 In this day and age of DVR and extremely inexpensive DVDs, I almost can't watch a movie with commercials, and edited content. If I watch something with commercials it's usually recorded on the DVR and I skip the ads. My attention span, due to the invention of the DVR, has been withered down to nanoseconds. So if I'm watching a movie that I can't skip the commercials to, then I lose interest real fast. As in a commercial comes on, and I change it. Damn this modern world and it's prison of technology. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434794-movies/?do=findComment&comment=1059673696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamman Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 I will tend to change the channel, see a movie I like, compare it to the other shows on at that moment and watch, but a commercial will force me to break away from it! haha Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434794-movies/?do=findComment&comment=1059673737 Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeshyft Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 I don't know how it is where you guys live, but our TV networks f*ck up the aspect ratio of films. They don't censor them anymore, but it sh*ts me when I watch a film with the sides cut off. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434794-movies/?do=findComment&comment=1059673778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fnorg Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 edited for content, edited for time - That's how I feel about it. Video related. First time I watched Lawrence of Arabia, I watched it on TV. Full aspect ratio, full time, DVD-like quality just without the ability to pause. Though I rarely watch film on the TV because of the poor quality of them (teen movies, bad comedies and action flicks from the late 90s, mass-produced sh*t from the 40s and so on), but when I actually do I get pretty much the same experience as a DVD, only instead of pausing you just go take a leak in the commercial breaks. Sometimes they do crop the sides of the movies, but this usually happens to Steven Seagal flicks and other movies from the time period, not to newer and much older movies. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434794-movies/?do=findComment&comment=1059674337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthYENIK Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 The edited versions of Die Hard, are gold. "Yippy ki yay, Mr. Falcon." Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434794-movies/?do=findComment&comment=1059675375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
makeshyft Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 Lawrence of Arabia Just as an aside, that has to be one of my favourite scores ever. Amazing music. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434794-movies/?do=findComment&comment=1059675400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanilla Shake Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 The edited versions of Die Hard, are gold. "Yippy ki yay, Mr. Falcon." I have to agree. I tend to stay away from movies on network TV. If it's on a pay-per-view channel and I'm interested in it, then I'll check it out. But I hate watching movies that are edited for TV, cut to commercials, etc. Annoys the piss out of me. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434794-movies/?do=findComment&comment=1059675405 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy... Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 Lawrence of Arabia Just as an aside, that has to be one of my favourite scores ever. Amazing music. Have to agree. Over here on Channel 5 it seems that they like to blow up the movies (not literally of course) and it really spoils the look of a film. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434794-movies/?do=findComment&comment=1059675517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fnorg Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 Lawrence of Arabia Just as an aside, that has to be one of my favourite scores ever. Amazing music. Have to agree. Oh yeah, definitely. The overture is my 15th most played song, I think. On-topic: The guy who voices McClane is pretty damn awesome. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434794-movies/?do=findComment&comment=1059675659 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arc. Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 I don't watch movies on TV. Seriously there's like a commercial every 10 minutes. Can't be bothered with that. I either rent a movie or just watch it on the internet. Even if there's a movie I like on TV I just watch it online. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434794-movies/?do=findComment&comment=1059675682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3minty3 Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 That gets me every time. I find movies on TV a weird situation. Even though I have all three LoTR movies on DVD, I will still watch them. I think I like the idea of it being live an lots of other people are watching it at the same time (in an almost virtual cinema). The adverts (if its not on BBC) gives me a chance to go get something to eat or go to the toilet. Another thing I like is when they show trilogies, with the first being one night and the second the next night or week...etc. I first watched the Die Hard Trilogy on around the new years era a few years ago. Even if I had the DVD'S I wouldn't have been able to watch them because I was away. Therefore movies on TV gave me the opportunity to watch 3 great movies when I wouldn't have been able to watch them anywhere else. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434794-movies/?do=findComment&comment=1059675868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Jensen Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 There are no edited/censored movies in my country. You get the full movie. The only downside are the commercials. On some channels they last so long you forget what you were watching. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/434794-movies/?do=findComment&comment=1059676317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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