E.T.

Black Magic

It is 3.24 pm and ET is on RTÉ One. It's not past the watershed and a kid is after calling someone penis breath and mentioning perverts.

chalkitdown1

This is an outrage! I have already sent my letter of complaint to the Director General.




By the way, they showed Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile yesterday and the day before, and they're full of swearing. And Titanic was on Christmas eve which has swearing and breasts!

The lax rules on pre-watershed content is one of the few good things about tv in his country.

Firetrap

How shocking

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

What, male kids don't have penises in Ireland any more? That's gonna mess up your plans of having future generations.

MagicMarker

Black Magic wrote: »

It is 3.24 pm and ET is on RTÉ One. It's not past the watershed and a kid is after calling someone penis breath and mentioning perverts.

*sigh*

I think you'll find penis and pervert aren't profanities.

Black Magic

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

What, male kids don't have penises in Ireland any more? That's gonna mess up your plans of having future generations.

Yes. But what the hell is penis breath?

RodgerTheDoger

I saw two peole kissing on a valentines card in the shop once - Someone think of the poor children, we do not need our children exposed to this blatent sexualisation - I was stright down to the local priest to ask god for forgiveness!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Black Magic wrote: »

Yes. But what the hell is penis breath?

The breath of someone who hasn't washed their teeth in a while...?

Dr. Baltar

Personally, I'm more appalled at the CGI placed into this classic.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Dr. Baltar wrote: »

Personally, I'm more appalled at the CGI placed into this classic.

Ah, back on topic. Excellent. Personally, the CGI didn't bothger me too much as it wsa the storyline the made the movie for me in the first place.

sceptre

Black Magic wrote: »

It is 3.24 pm and ET is on RTÉ One. It's not past the watershed and a kid is after calling someone penis breath and mentioning perverts.

Soooo, were they showing the version with the guns or the walkie talkies?

krudler

Black Magic wrote: »

It is 3.24 pm and ET is on RTÉ One. It's not past the watershed and a kid is after calling someone penis breath and mentioning perverts.

It a good thing they're not showing the non-bastardised version, the mother calls the older son a terrorist in the Halloween scene and men have guns at one point, also E.T is mostly naked for the entire duration of the movie, except the scene where he's dressed as a woman, terrorism, naked aliend and cross dressing in a childrens movie, the shame!

I wouldn't mind E.T. so much, but Elliot is such an annoying kid... Then I guess most kids would be annoying in this scenario. :rolleyes:

"Kids vs. Grown ups" becomes a bit of a pain as well...though I admit it's not as bad as "Ritchie blimmin' Rich". :eek:

krudler

"Kids vs. Grown ups" becomes a bit of a pain as well...though I admit it's not as bad as "Ritchie blimmin' Rich".

The adult aspect of ET is done brilliantly though, aside from Elliot's mother you never really see any other adults faces in the first half of the movie, Peter Coyotes character is only ever seen from the waist down and so is the teacher in the frogs scene, its a great depiction of the faceless adult authority that kids have to deal with

Firetrap

I hate when they tamper with films like that and make them more PC. George Lucas ruined Star Wars - so what if Han Solo shoots first :rolleyes: Most of us watched ET in its original form when we were nippers and it doesn't appear to have done any serious damage to us....or has it

JonathanAnon

Black Magic wrote: »

It is 3.24 pm and ET is on RTÉ One. It's not past the watershed and a kid is after calling someone penis breath and mentioning perverts.

Heads will roll over this!!. Oh hang on, no.. nobody ever gets fired from public service.

Mr sinister

Anyone ever see the bollywood version with a blue alien? Is much better

Mr sinister

Mr sinister wrote: »

Anyone ever see the bollywood version with a blue alien? Is much better

Or how about the porn version which is a much bluer version of ET altogether.

moe_sizlak

Black Magic wrote: »

It is 3.24 pm and ET is on RTÉ One. It's not past the watershed and a kid is after calling someone penis breath and mentioning perverts.

thier was passionate gay kissing before the watershed on eastenders yesterday and your worried about the word penis being said :rolleyes:

krudler

Deleted User wrote: »

Or how about the porn version which is a much bluer version of ET altogether.

the Extra Testicle?

Black Magic

moe_sizlak wrote: »

thier was passionate gay kissing before the watershed on eastenders yesterday and your worried about the word penis being said :rolleyes:

Yes. But if we stamp out Gay kissing we'd have to get rid of it all as it would be discrimination.

Firetrap

Shur they had Goldeneye on the other afternoon where the baddie woman crushes a man with her thighs whilst they're having sex.

Black Magic

Firetrap wrote: »

Shur they had Goldeneye on the other afternoon where the baddie woman crushes a man with her thighs whilst they're having sex.

Ouch!

tony1kenobi

Black Magic wrote: »

Yes. But what the hell is penis breath?

It's a nice way to call someone a c*cksucker.

On the same theme I watched 3 men and a baby the other day and never remembered that they took delivery of the child because they thought it was a quarter mill worth of heroin they were waiting on.....the 80's eh?A decadent decade indeed.

jd007

WHAT???? Cursing on the telly machine?:eek::eek: What next porn on the internet?:rolleyes:

alwaysadub

tony1kenobi wrote: »

It's a nice way to call someone a c*cksucker.<br />

On the same theme I watched 3 men and a baby the other day and never remembered that they took delivery of the child because they thought it was a quarter mill worth of heroin they were waiting on.....the 80's eh?A decadent decade indeed.

I never knew that bout 3men and a baby!! Will have to watch the start of it again without my innocent little mind..

I'm wondering if the op was really offended by what they saw in ET?

I remember when I was a kid and there were adult themes abounding in kids films. Return to Oz, Transformers, Batman, etc were all films which while aimed at children contained subject matter which these days would never be allowed within a hundred miles of a kids film. In fact bar Bridge to Tebitatha and Up I can't recall a kids film which dealt with the concept of death in a very long time.

krudler

Kids these days are wussies, can you imagine something like the Wheelers from Return to Oz being allowed into a childrens movie nowadays? or something like The Dark Crystal, that scene where the head Skeksie dies used to terrify me as a child, we had The Goonies, Back to Future, Gremlins, Indiana Jones and Labyrinth, kids nowadays have High School Musical, Madagascar and Hannah Montana, god i love bein a child of the 80s

InKonspikuou2

Michael Collins was on TG4 last week in the afternoon and there are a good few fúcks in it. Not to mention British soldiers. Offensive stuff.

Elmo

JonathanAnon wrote: »

Heads will roll over this!!. Oh hang on, no.. nobody ever gets fired from public service.

The person who cuts TV shows and Films for RTÉ's pre-watershed schedule should be promoted.

Kojak

chalkitdown1 wrote: »

This is an outrage! I have already sent my letter of complaint to the Director General.




By the way, they showed Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile yesterday and the day before, and they're full of swearing. And Titanic was on Christmas eve which has swearing and breasts!

The lax rules on pre-watershed content is one of the few good things about tv in his country.

Isn't it awful..