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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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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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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.
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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