Anonymous dbfe0121391e0cbae2bbdfdb50965ede started this discussion 3 months (2008-09-04 19:45:21 UTC) ago:
What the fuck? I don't know how they can afford this, or how it can even be logically possible, but if it's true, I'm scared. I really hope that they get some kind of permission to do this before they go loose on somebody else's masterpiece to censor out whatever the hell it is that they are censoring. And I hope that the customers are made aware of this.
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Anonymous 1574827ce1c0d4f61e1d3008bbe59d02 replied with this 3 months (2008-09-04 20:31:09 UTC) ago, 46 minutes later (#57,481):
It is true.
And of course the original studio has to approve it.
I'm assuming you're from outside the US, so here's another thing that will blow your mind: a lot of the CDs you can buy at Walmart are different from the ones you'd buy elsewhere because they've been censored. They also refuse to carry items they declare to be obscene or highly objectionable.
Anonymous 1574827ce1c0d4f61e1d3008bbe59d02 replied with this 3 months (2008-09-04 20:33:53 UTC) ago, 3 minutes later (#57,482):
> I don't know how they can afford this
It isn't expensive to do some minor editing to movies. A lot of studios need to do it anyway if they want to have their movie shown on airplanes.
> or how it can even be logically possible
Howso? Find the scene with nudity/profanity/gore, cut around it. If it's essential to the plot, just do some pan and scan or something similar.
> but if it's true, I'm scared.
I'm not sure why. It's not like you can't get the unedited version from somewhere else. To be clear: not all rental places do it, and a many that do offer both the unedited and edited versions to their patrons. If you find it so morally objectionable, go to a local place. In Austin there's a great chain of indie rental stores named Vulcan Video. They rule.
Anonymous dbfe0121391e0cbae2bbdfdb50965ede (OP) replied with this 3 months (2008-09-04 20:34:27 UTC) ago, 34 seconds later (#57,483):
@57,481Why do they do this? Are random "morals" more important than profits? That's very strange considering everything else that they do to make money…
Anonymous 1574827ce1c0d4f61e1d3008bbe59d02 replied with this 3 months (2008-09-04 20:38:05 UTC) ago, 4 minutes later (#57,485):
@57,483> Why do they do this? Are random "morals" more important than profits?Um…yes and yes? They know that people that are on a moral high horse won't see a movie with excessive violence and gore or sex scenes in it, so they recut it to make it more palatable to those people. If anything, it's
all about profit.
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