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Dave Williams
Wet nipple scene

Posts: 1836
From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 04-19-2002 02:01 PM

Hey Greg, I am with you on that!!! everyone always assumes that utah and censorship go hand in hand. There was that theater that did what they did and they paid a very big price for it. There was also a video store that was cutting the scenes out on request of the tape purchasers as well, and they got hit too. But this kind of thing goes on all over the place.

There is a box now that is supposed to eliminate bad language from tv and movies, by reading the CC encoding and replacing the bad word with a good one... in a test, they used the Dick Van Dyke show, and what came out in the audio at the beginning of the show was "The Happy Van Gay Show". Censorship is just a bad thing.

Dave

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Greg Anderson
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 766
From: Ogden Valley, Utah
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 04-21-2002 12:28 AM

Let the record show that anybody who wanted to see the correct, James Cameron cut of Titanic in Utah had no trouble finding any number of theatres showing it that way (when the movie was still in theatres, that is).

I heard that someone used one of those "automatic" TV cenorship devices on the TV show Third Rock From the Sun and every time someone talked about John Lithgow's character (whose name is Dick) it used the word "Jerk" instead.

Yes... I often decide not to see certain movies because I'm not comfortable with what I consider to be immoral or offensive. But that's just it. I decide not to see the movie at all! I don't start looking for ways to make it more palatable. Furthermore, I find it quite easy to tell whether or not I'll object to something in a movie based on a wealth of available information. The TV ads and trailers are usually a very good indicator. Beyond that, there are reviews all over the place and MPAA ratings. Anyone who sees a movie these days and is surprised to find something offensive is just clueless to begin with.

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Jan Hackett
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 148
From: Albuquerque, NM, USA
Registered: Apr 2002

posted 04-22-2002 08:15 PM

Remember Cinema Paradisimo!

All the censorship the priest ordered of the kissing scenes?
Well it made for a really good ending. That ending still brings tears to my eyes. Censorship makes for a good storyline but makes a rotten public statement about society when it is done.

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Jan Hackett
Theater Operations Manager
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NM Museum of Natural History Foundation

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