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Stupid cuts/censorship from dvds that annoyed you?

  • 24-05-2014 07:00PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭


    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:



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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭umop.episdn


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    How can they censor our cartoons like this?!



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭umop.episdn


    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 ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭umop.episdn


    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 .....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,188 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,337 ✭✭✭aphex™


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    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.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    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:



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,374 ✭✭✭Hotale.com


    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:


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


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

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    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?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e




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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    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 ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    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




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    YIPPEE KAI YAY KIMOSABI :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


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

    Pricks :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭e_e


    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:


  • Site Banned Posts: 7 5U5pect


    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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,924 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    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.


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


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


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