hey guys i want to show you something:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0&feature=related

haha you fucking guy!

i was watching this video and i thought, hey, maybe this topic of MOVIES ON THE GO could (hopefully) produce a pretty interesting discussion!  there are too many HEY GUYS THIS IS A MOVIE topics in this forum which isn't really a bad thing except for the fact that the replies are usually little more than YEAH I LIKED IT TWO THUMBS UP, unless the movie in question actually sucks like The Man From Earth in which case somebody will come in and say SORRY GUYS TURNS OUT IT SUCKS HERE'S WHY.  but, i mean, that's not the point.  the point is that this forum is pretty boring.  so i'm going to try to spice it up a little bit.  maybe?  i don't know we'll see how it turns out.

ANYWAY:  What do you think about David Lynch's claim that you can't truly experience a movie on your FUCKING telephone, or, for that matter, your PSP? 

IN MY HUMBLE OPINION: i don't know why you would ever want to watch a movie on your iphone or, even worse, your ipod, and i really don't know who thought the UMD was a good idea!  yeah ok HEY ROMAN MAYBE I WANT TO WATCH A MOVIE ON A PLANE OR A LONG CAR RIDE (MAYBE YOU SHOULD GET OFF OF DAVID LYNCH'S NUTS (YEAH I SEE YOUR AVATAR)) and that's cool and all but it's just not the same as watching it on your TV or, better yet, THE BIG SCREEN, with better sound quality and all that shit.  i know im not making a compelling argument so hopefully someone will come in and say NO YOU'RE WRONG HERE'S WHY and then we can get something going right.  HERE'S TO A GREAT DISCUSSION huh.

actually i can see a lot of substanceless posts coming out of this oh well do your best guys

I really think this guy is pretty badass and makes really good points and such.

But at the same time I think he's like those guys who are hardcore oldschool jazz fans who are cursing out rap. It's a new concept that people refuse to accept as credible.

David Lynch is fucking awesome btw.

the real issue is that you can't say you watched the movie really.

the musical equivalent of watching a movie on an ipod is like listening to a muffled 64k rip of something you can tell is supposed to be clearer.

HOWEVER: if the movie does nothing, and there's no reason to watch the movie as opposed to listen to it or if watching it is completely worthless as opposed to hearing it, I guess I don't care but who gives a fuck about that anyways, that's like listening to Nickelback in 64k its still shit.

i watch most movies on the TV or computer (idk if there's an argument about computers here...i hope not)

but there are a few things i've watched on my ipod. i watched Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima on it, both very deep/great movies. i still have them though, and plan to watch them again some time.

also, i watched the whole dexter season 1 on my ipod. i don't see what's wrong with it. i agree it might not be better than TV etc, but it's just another way to watch them.

i watch most movies on the TV or computer (idk if there's an argument about computers here...i hope not)

but there are a few things i've watched on my ipod. i watched Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima on it, both very deep/great movies. i still have them though, and plan to watch them again some time.

also, i watched the whole dexter season 1 on my ipod. i don't see what's wrong with it. i agree it might not be better than TV etc, but it's just another way to watch them.

I have to disagree with saying it's just "another way". it's an inferior way, and I'd have to argue a vastly inferior way.

like, look at the screen of the videoipod; it's 3.5 inches. and that's DIAGONAL. so a medium that should live and die by its visual component reduced to that small strikes me as pretty bad!

When I worked at a branch of a massive chain electronics store for a while, I had a special face for people who came in for UMD movies for their PSPs.

edit: just to clarify, it wasn't a friendly face

i couldn't imagine watching a movie on an ipod/whatever unless you were on a long trip or something.

If I'm in a boring store with my mom or something, I might pull out my iPod to watch episodes of things or something, which is fine, but I can't really watch an actual movie on things like that.  If I need to watch movies that bad, I'll bring my laptop.  Before I sold my PSP, I only had one movie for it, and I never watched it.  I tried two or three times, but I could never make it through the first few minutes before I got tired of watching it that way.  Also I remember there being a TERRIBLE glare on it because I was in a car at the time.  From then on I just spent long car trips listening to podcasts, because at an hour or so for each one the time goes by pretty fast.

Portable movie devices are bad because:
+ bad quality
+ small screen

They are pretty great because:
+ you can watch a movie anywhere

that's why I'd like one just for long journeys. I can live with a small screen if it gives me something to do for an hour and a half on an otherwise boring journey. For any other use they're pretty much useless, though.

i dont think this tv argument works too well. tv is about 20 minutes. you can also pause tv and pick it up whenever, because it has to conclude in 20 minutes. long plot threads dont exist.

for me, and for many people, film is an experience. I think that a screen that small already makes the experience rather lackluster. I also think something like an ipod or iphone are very interruption prone. I mean, in one case, you are watching ON YOUR PHONE, if it rings, the movie is disrupted.

it just strikes me as so unnecessary, unless you are watching a shitty movie or one that doesn't require attention, to watch on the iphone. would I watch Mulholland Drive or To Kill a Mockingbird on an iphone or an ipod? hell no. and that's Lynch's argument, really. good movies are almost proportional to the medium they are viewed in.

if you're watching Anchorman or Next or something, who gives a shit. you dont' experience shit in those movies, you watch them for entertainment (much like the majority of tv) and visual acuity plus just the factor of not being disturbed in front of the tv or computer monitor doesn't matter so much. but for movies (dare I say FILMS) it seems like a completely terrible experience.

I think the idea of watching a movie, a tv show - whatever - on any of these handhelds is pretty juvenile. It's this whole idea that you must have this convenience, and you must have it on the go because you are such a busy go getter! It's a load of corporate bullshit, and really it's just not that cool once the novelty of HEY LOOK JACK BAUER HE IS KICKING ASS IN MY HAND wears off.

If you're watching things on a handheld for the first time, you don't really give a shit and that's fine for some things i.e. say you had some clips of The Colbert Report or something and you are sitting on the train flick it on oh ha ha good joke okay moving on! Because it's just a quick little bit of entertainment, some fluff to distract you during one of the day uneventful moments.

I have heard about UMD, but I never thought twice about it. Now that I have it just seems gross, to pay for such a stupid format of movie. If you've done this, jeez you were totally cheated. And if it were me I would be pretty pissed off about it. It's another way brands are trying to exploit people. Just because everyone wants life to be as convenient, simple and unobtrusive as possible, the brands keep succeeding with bullshit no-one really wants.

For all those people that are bored commuting... why don't you just read a book?  A paperback novel is pretty damn portable.

Back in my day, we didn't have all these fancy-schmancy portable media players!

Man who needs to watch a movie to occupy their time

I guess MAYBE on a vacation but usually I just look at the scenery or think about fractals or something

For all those people that are bored commuting... why don't you just read a book?  A paperback novel is pretty damn portable.

Back in my day, we didn't have all these fancy-schmancy portable media players!

that's a salient point actually. people already argue that those ebooks aren't the same as paper books and you deny yourself the pleasure of the real book.

and here you have that "real" aspect, plus the whole screen being tiny as shit!

edit: bleh forget all this. i barely know what i'm talking about.

bazookatooth - i'm not saying i think you're right. i think most of your argument is totally irrelevant, and you are also acting like a big prick for no reason, even if my post was really hacknyed, it's not like i'm trying to impress someone.