Well, Love Actually is a Christmassy movie, so we held off on watching it until this last weekend. Pressed Play only to find out...
They'd given me full-screen. When I'd taken up the wide-screen box to purchase the movie, they gave me full-screen.
This strikes me as very strange. Aren't video store employees usually some of those who are most militant about explaining to idiots the difference between widescreen and fullscreen? So wouldn't you think that they'd give their patrons credit for caring, or did they think I was a dumbass who didn't know the difference? It's too late to return the movie, and I paid $6 for it and the store is an hour and a half away, so there's no point in returning it anyway. But dammit, they did not give me the movie I paid for, entirely due to either the clerk or whoever boxed up the previewed movies being a dumbass.