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• I don't understand the controversy - mvwine 11:15:32 02/03/03 (1)
  In Reply to: Editing and removing offensive content from DVDs posted by mishmashmusic on January 30, 2003 at 12:03:18:

  Hasn't the movie industry been supplying "cleaned up" versions of films for decades for Network TV viewing? And wouldn't this be a great marketing opportunity?

  I know there are certain films my five year old would love, if they were only cleaned up a little (Young Frankenstein come to mind :)).
  
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  • Re: I don't understand the controversy - TA 08:48:08 02/10/03 (0)
    In Reply to: I don't understand the controversy posted by mvwine on February 03, 2003 at 11:15:32:

    ignoring the legal issues and focusing on one moral issue -

    one difference with the edited airplane and network versions is that the filmmakers and the studios (that is, the people who authored the work) have a hand in making the edited product.

    some european countries have moral rights protecting the integrity of an artist's work. for example, you can't buy a painting by joe painter, then cut it up into five parts and sell them separately. part of the thinking is that even though you own the work, the artist maintains some rights to the integrity of that piece. i think there have been cases in france involving colorized films.

    to think about these moral rights from a "business" perspective for a minute, allowing someone to alter the presentation of an artist's work (without that artist's permission) can damage his reputation.

    also, think about how angry people get on this board when they think that their posts have been edited. or how you feel when someone tells you what they heard you said, and it's been altered a bit or taken out of context.

    i don't come out either way on this issue (yet). just presenting things to consider on the other side of the coin.
    
    

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• Re: Editing and removing offensive content from DVDs - Mr. Arnold 15:43:37 01/30/03 (5)
  In Reply to: Editing and removing offensive content from DVDs posted by mishmashmusic on January 30, 2003 at 12:03:18:

  If you're an adult watching a movie in your home with no kids around, and you want offensive content removed from that movie, you shouldn't be watching the damn thing in the first place... If you have kids in the room who want to see the movie, make them watch something else. This is like adding a pair of jeans to Michelangelo's David.
  
  

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  • Gratuitous garbage - DWPC 12:02:14 02/04/03 (0)
    In Reply to: Re: Editing and removing offensive content from DVDs posted by Mr. Arnold on January 30, 2003 at 15:43:37:

    I'd love to have garbage filter for dvds. I, for one, can live without the "reality" of hearing "f#ck" and worse in every other line, or watching and listening to the leading man take a leak.

    In recent years, I've seen many otherwise fine films completely ruined by pointless coarseness that has no relationship to the film's content. Language went south a decade ago, the urinal has become ubiquitous, and scenes of toilet activity are becoming more and common. Seems that writers and director have fixations on this crap (unintended pun), and insist we and our kids get immersed in it. And todays actors seem to genuinely enjoy showing how tasteless they can be. Just because one doesn't enjoy 5-channel bathroom sounds or adolescent overkill of the language, doesn't mean your somehow repressed.

    
    
    

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  • Me too, there's a few I'd like if I could edit out the grotesque..nt.. - late 16:13:59 02/01/03 (0)
    In Reply to: Re: Editing and removing offensive content from DVDs posted by Mr. Arnold on January 30, 2003 at 15:43:37:

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  • Beg to differ. - clarkjohnsen 11:52:45 02/01/03 (2)
    In Reply to: Re: Editing and removing offensive content from DVDs posted by Mr. Arnold on January 30, 2003 at 15:43:37:

    Very often foul language is added just for its own sake. To "push the envelope" as idiots like to say. If there was no reason to put it in, there's no reason not to take it out.

    Besides, I find NYPD Blue every bit as gritty as Sopranos, but without a single f-word.

    Hey, remember Jerry McGuire? It was f this and f that for a while, in front of the little boy too, until the kid asked, of no one in particular, "Why does everyone say 'fuck' so much?" Laughed my butt off. It was great writing.

    clark
    
    

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    • Shut the Phuque Up . . . - rufus 09:36:29 02/02/03 (1)
      In Reply to: Beg to differ. posted by clarkjohnsen on February 01, 2003 at 11:52:45:

      About that word: I have rented gillions of A, B, and C grade movies. In B and C's my girlfriend and I, years ago, used to clink glasses everytime somebody said, "Shut the FUCK up." It is the most overused expression on celluloid. It's a better cocktail game than the "Hey, Bob" game from Newhart days.
      
      

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      • Now that's a thought! nt - clarkjohnsen 11:34:18 02/02/03 (0)
        In Reply to: Shut the Phuque Up . . . posted by rufus on February 02, 2003 at 09:36:29:

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• So what do I do... - TAFKA Steve 15:31:46 01/30/03 (1)
  In Reply to: Editing and removing offensive content from DVDs posted by mishmashmusic on January 30, 2003 at 12:03:18:

  ...with the remaining 30 seconds of "Armageddon"?
  
  

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  • Oh, BURN! nt - clarkjohnsen 11:48:01 02/01/03 (0)
    In Reply to: So what do I do... posted by TAFKA Steve on January 30, 2003 at 15:31:46:

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