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luthe ([info]luthe) wrote in [info]fandom_lounge,
@ 2006-11-30 23:10:00
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Current mood:full of schedenfreude

MetaFilter discusses good bad gifts


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[info]brown_betty
2006-12-01 07:44 am UTC (link)
Partly a nerd snobbishness thing. But you can safely guess that anyone who wants a DVD of the LotR films is geekish enough to want the widescreen, instead of the fullscreen which chops both edges off some really lovely cinematography.

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[info]keri
2006-12-01 07:48 am UTC (link)
Ah! All makes sense now. I just kept going "but...why would it be evil?"

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[info]brown_betty
2006-12-01 07:49 am UTC (link)
Someone did a version of this to my brother, giving him the theatrical release version when he was waiting for the extended version. It made him a bit nuts to spend that much money on for the extra thirty minutes of scenes.

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[info]zyna_kat
2006-12-01 11:02 am UTC (link)
Really? I have both theatrical and extended versions. So do all the LotR geeks I know. It was essential for us to get both versions. (And if another version comes out, we're going to get that, too.)

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[info]soleta
2006-12-01 10:45 pm UTC (link)
... you mean, the third extended edition they put out six months ago?

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[info]zyna_kat
2006-12-01 11:57 pm UTC (link)
Nah. Content wasn't different, so no need.

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[info]squib
2006-12-01 11:58 am UTC (link)
*shrug* I actually *prefer* fullscreen editions of things. My TV isn't all that big, and I'd rather miss non-relevant bits off the side than have everything squinched down from the top and bottom.

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[info]reeve
2006-12-01 02:17 pm UTC (link)
(ignore previous comment. Just woke up. And yes, us film snobs are the worst to buy DVDs for. Things were especially bad in the VHS era with subs and dubs.)

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[info]puipui
2006-12-02 12:19 am UTC (link)
Things were especially bad in the VHS era with subs and dubs.

YES.

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[info]reeve
2006-12-02 05:27 am UTC (link)
YES.

Most especially Streamline anime dubs *still remembers the painfully bad one for Akira*

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[info]puipui
2006-12-02 06:52 am UTC (link)
I got into an extremely heated argument with Carl Macek at an anime convention once. My friends had to make me leave. He never came back to that con again.

I am not at all ashamed.

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[info]nekoneko
2006-12-03 03:53 am UTC (link)
If you tell me you got into a fight with David Moo, you will be my hero.

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