Stupid cuts/censorship from dvds that annoyed you?

Links234 · 24-05-2014 07:00PM #1

going back a few years, I remember being downright livid that the DVD release of the Matrix had been cut to remove some headbutts during the Morpheus/Agent Smith fight, it just seemed so stupid to me that they removed that. I could never understand the rationale behind that

just recently we were watching Girls Und Panzer and there was a song that had to be changed for unknown reasons, possibly fear of copyright but it's an old. If you've not heard of Girls Und Panzer, it's an anime show about highschool girls who compete in tank warfare tournaments, it's every bit as bonkers as it sounds but is seriously good fun and they seem to have really included a lot of details about the tanks, etc. And tank cakes, naturally

Anyway in the original broadcast version, the Russian team are singing this old wartime song as they ride into battle. It's nothing essential to the plot or anything, but it was just cool and really set the mood. This is it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA-qmYJJUA4

However! In the version we saw... the scene played out with the ****ing Tetris theme :mad:

Hotale.com · 24-05-2014 07:06PM

There was a song a few years ago in some WWE game that censored the word "hit" from the line "Every hit that we take".

I mean, what the fúck? It was a 16s game, where the aim was to hit people, and they censored the word "hit".

I'm angry now OP. Fúck sake. Even boards is trying to censor my anger.

FÜCK

umop.episdn · 24-05-2014 07:09PM

Manga? WWE? Wouldn't ye be better off worrying about things that actually matter?

Hotale.com · 24-05-2014 07:11PM

umop.episdn wrote: »

Manga? WWE? Wouldn't ye be better off worrying about things that actually matter?

Says the guy who's posted 167 times in the rugby forum?

If I worried about things that mattered I wouldn't be on Boards :P

bumper234 · 24-05-2014 07:11PM

umop.episdn wrote: »

Manga? WWE? Wouldn't ye be better off worrying about things that actually matter?

Exactly

Obviously these kids have never tried to watch Japanese porn :mad:

toastedpickles · 24-05-2014 07:12PM

How can they censor our cartoons like this?!

Links234 · 24-05-2014 07:13PM

umop.episdn wrote: »

Manga? WWE? Wouldn't ye be better off worrying about things that actually matter?

You're right, how could I have started a lighthearted thread about some annoyances when there's children in Africa who've never seen Girls Und Panzer :pac:

Hotale.com · 24-05-2014 07:15PM

bumper234 wrote: »

Exactly

Obviously these kids have never tried to watch Japanese porn :mad:

I'm disappointed in myself for knowing why this is funny. :pac:

Maybe I should get out more.

umop.episdn · 24-05-2014 07:18PM

Hotale.com wrote: »

Says the guy who's posted 167 times in the rugby forum?

If I worried about things that mattered I wouldn't be on Boards :P

I'd say if they made a manga WWE movie you'd be doing Lonely Island's best known hit

umop.episdn · 24-05-2014 07:20PM

Links234 wrote: »

You're right, how could I have started a lighthearted thread about some annoyances when there's children in Africa who've never seen Girls Und Panzer :pac:

#bringbackourmangagirls .....

kowloon · 24-05-2014 07:21PM

First time I actually noticed censorship of a movie was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. One version has a guy get his heart ripped out, the other was more tame. I despise censorship now. If no laws were broken in the filming* I can't see why a grown up shouldn't be allowed see it.

*A movie with animal cruelty in it involving real animals would be an example.

aphex™ · 24-05-2014 07:23PM

I remember a friend pointing out to me that basically all US DVDs are 5 - 10 mins longer than European ones.

Can't remember why though. I think NTSC/PAL framerates were partly to blame, but not sure if that was all of it.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 24-05-2014 07:23PM

There's something very off putting about grown-up who like to watch Japanese cartoons or grown men pretending to wrestle each other.

Each to their own I suppose, just very odd.

Peregrine · 24-05-2014 07:35PM

Differences between English subbed and English dubbed versions pissed me off in nearly all animes.

Links234 · 24-05-2014 07:37PM

kowloon wrote: »

First time I actually noticed censorship of a movie was Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. One version has a guy get his heart ripped out, the other was more tame. I despise censorship now. If no laws were broken in the filming* I can't see why a grown up shouldn't be allowed see it.

*A movie with animal cruelty in it involving real animals would be an example.

Are we talking TV censorship here?

If so, I remember watching Robocop as a kid when it was on TV. Perfectly kiddie-safe movie, innit? Or so I thought, until I saw it years later on DVD and had my mind blown by just how astonishingly violent it was! :eek:

Or this masterpiece :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCcKBcZzGdA

bumper234 · 24-05-2014 07:38PM

Spoilers just in case someone has not seen the movie.

It'a only when i think about it i remember watching i am legend and the ending is Will Smith in front of the glass

with a grenade as the zombie types break in

and then there is an alternative ending which i seen a few years later where

he and the woman and kid are allowed out by the zombie types and they drive off into the sunset to the sanctuary place

Hotale.com · 24-05-2014 07:39PM

Links234 wrote: »

Are we talking TV censorship here?

If so, I remember watching Robocop as a kid when it was on TV. Perfectly kiddie-safe movie, innit? Or so I thought, until I saw it years later on DVD and had my mind blown by just how astonishingly violent it was! :eek:

Or this masterpiece :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCcKBcZzGdA

The noises of their footsteps were unnervingly satisfying in that video.

e_e · 24-05-2014 07:43PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

There's something very off putting about grown-up who like to watch Japanese cartoons

Would you hold the same judgment for adults who watch South Park, Family Guy etc?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 24-05-2014 07:45PM

How anyone could possibly think anyone would want to watch The Big Lebowski in this form, is beyond me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCcKBcZzGdA

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 24-05-2014 07:46PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

There's something very off putting about grown-up who like to watch Japanese cartoons or grown men pretending to wrestle each other.

Each to their own I suppose, just very odd.

Why would you think animation is soley for children?

e_e · 24-05-2014 07:46PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuQP4d_r_Gs

Links234 · 24-05-2014 07:48PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

There's something very off putting about grown-up who like to watch Japanese cartoons

cartoons can be awesome, and not just Japanese ones... You don't have to be a kid to enjoy Wall-E or Up, some of my favourite movies are aimed at kids.

and there's plenty of animation aimed squarely at adults too. In Japan sometimes they'll animate something instead of going for live-action because of budget, see Perfect Blue for example, that's a seriously dark psychological thriller and even inspired Black Swan. some of the best sci-fi and fantasy I've seen has been anime

Don't see anything strange about it, just another art form

Czarcasm · 24-05-2014 07:52PM

Links234 wrote: »

You're right, how could I have started a lighthearted thread about some annoyances when there's children in Africa who've never seen Girls Und Panzer :pac:

Still reads as "Girls Underpants" :pac:

The original ending of "The Butterfly Effect", which was changed because American test audiences found it too upsetting -

The director's cut alternate ending shows Evan turning on the home movies, only this time instead of watching a home movie at a neighborhood gathering, he's watching the video of his own birth. He travels back to when he is about to be born and commits suicide by strangling himself with his own umbilical cord. Therefore he was never there to change the timeline in the first place and explains why Evan's mother had two still-born children before him.

NSFW

Temptamperu · 24-05-2014 07:53PM

YIPPEE KAI YAY KIMOSABI :pac:

dgt · 24-05-2014 07:55PM

Not DVD's but I hate the way channel 4 cuts bits of The Simpsons out.

Pricks :mad:

e_e · 24-05-2014 07:57PM

Links234 wrote: »

and there's plenty of animation aimed squarely at adults too. In Japan sometimes they'll animate something instead of going for live-action because of budget, see Perfect Blue for example, that's a seriously dark psychological thriller and even inspired Black Swan. some of the best sci-fi and fantasy I've seen has been anime

Speaking of Kon, the suicide episode of Paranoia Agent had some cuts here but still has an 18 rating. Understandable but I've seen much worse, especially when you consider that a show like Elfen Lied is only rated 15. :eek:

5U5pect · 24-05-2014 07:58PM

Just came to post the butterfly effect one, one of my favourite films, which is rendered totally meaningless by the cuts... Just glad I saw the full version the first time I saw it

o1s1n · 24-05-2014 07:59PM

Loads of UK releases of action films have had very minor cuts you might not notice. Its very annoying.

The bbfc really disliked multiple headbutts and specialized martial arts weaponry for a long time.

Links234 · 24-05-2014 08:08PM

e_e wrote: »

Speaking of Kon, the suicide episode of Paranoia Agent had some cuts here but still has an 18 rating. Understandable but I've seen much worse, especially when you consider that a show like Elfen Lied is only rated 15. :eek:

Elfen Lied is rated 15?! :eek:

Actually had to look it up there on Amazon to confirm, it IS rated 15, what the hell? Insane show :eek:

Aongus Von Bismarck · 24-05-2014 08:21PM

e_e wrote: »

Would you hold the same judgment for adults who watch South Park, Family Guy etc?

Absolutely.

I find its mostly immature men in their 20s who are into those shows.

The humour in them is extremely juvenile.

I will concede there are some decent animated movies. One of my favourites, Waltz with Bashir about the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the 1980s was excellent, and the animation added to the impact of the film.

Peregrine · 24-05-2014 08:22PM

What's wrong with a 15s rating for Elfen Lied? It wasn't that bad

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