Stupid cuts/censorship from dvds that annoyed you?

Links234 · 24-05-2014 08:46PM

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

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

You think? It was violent, disturbing and downright upsetting. Other shows like Hellsing for example, as overly violent as it was, it wasn't really any more graphic than Elfen Lied, but got an 18s cert?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 24-05-2014 08:47PM

I honestly do not see the point of a 15s cert.

Either a movie is 18s, or it isn't.

e_e · 24-05-2014 09:20PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

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.

...and do you not think that some anime can be as mature and sophisticated?

Don't get me wrong a lot of is bilge imo but it's like anything else where there's some really great stuff if you get beyond the rubbish. Check out Grave of the Fireflies, Ghost in the Shell or Paranoia Agent.

Temptamperu · 24-05-2014 09:23PM

If you a over 18 and watching anime you are a weirdo in my eyes. Its creepy.

umop.episdn · 24-05-2014 09:25PM

Temptamperu wrote: »

If you a over 18 and watching anime you are a weirdo in my eyes. Its creepy.

What about jacking off to animé, that's ok right?

e_e · 24-05-2014 09:31PM

Temptamperu wrote: »

If you a over 18 and watching anime you are a weirdo in my eyes. Its creepy.

You seem insecure.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 24-05-2014 09:47PM

Temptamperu wrote: »

If you a over 18 and watching anime you are a weirdo in my eyes. Its creepy.

Even Studio Ghibli?

bumper234 · 24-05-2014 09:49PM

Temptamperu wrote: »

If you a over 18 and watching anime you are a weirdo in my eyes. Its creepy.

But i suppose you would be ok with people who watch the Simpsons, family guy, American dad etc?

Each to their own is what i say.

Links234 · 24-05-2014 09:52PM

e_e wrote: »

...and do you not think that some anime can be as mature and sophisticated?

Don't get me wrong a lot of is bilge imo but it's like anything else where there's some really great stuff if you get beyond the rubbish. Check out Grave of the Fireflies, Ghost in the Shell or Paranoia Agent.

There's plenty of rubbish anime alright, entire genres that I've no interest in, shows that seem to go on endlessly like One Piece, Bleach and Naruto that I'll probably never watch, and some dodgy juvenile crap like HOTD... But holy crap is there ever some gold to be found!

I'd add to that anything by Studio Ghibli, especially Miyazaki. Satoshi Kon, Makoto Shinkai and Mamoru Hosoda (Wolf Children left me in tears) all have some serious masterpieces under their belt. In terms of TV shows then you have things like Death Note, Fullmetal Alchemist, Monster and then Steins;Gate which absolutely blew me away and is easily one of the best things I have ever seen. Not to mention Shinichiro Watanabe for both Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, both absolute masterpieces.

e_e · 24-05-2014 09:55PM

Yeah Cowboy Bebop really is a show that anybody can like. Shame that some just won't get over their bias because it's easily up there with the best TV series ever made.

Links234 · 24-05-2014 10:06PM

e_e wrote: »

Yeah Cowboy Bebop really is a show that anybody can like. Shame that some just won't get over their bias because it's easily up there with the best TV series ever made.

Absolutely legendary show alright

It stands up so well because it has such a fantastic ending, and speaking of, that's one of the things I tend to love about anime shows, quite a few have a story they want to tell and they bring it to a conclusion. The aforementioned Steins;Gate, just an incredible story and ending. Or recently I watched Maho Shoujo Madoka Magica and I was blown away, really not expecting it to be that good at all. :eek:

Have to give a nod to Evangelion too! It's pretty divisive and you kinda either love it or hate it, or are just downright puzzled by it, but god damn if it's not one of the most downright iconic anime shows ever.

syklops · 24-05-2014 10:13PM

Links234 wrote: »

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:

Thanks for creating this thread. Girls Und Panzer sounds great. Downloading now.

jill_valentine · 24-05-2014 10:20PM

o1s1n wrote: »

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

I think the best example was when they decided to be horrified at a scene of Michaelangelo the Teenage Mutant bloody "Hero" Turtle, twirling string of sausages like nunchuks.

SAUSAGES!

Links234 · 24-05-2014 10:22PM

No probs Syklops!

Oh, also while mentioning great anime, I know it's been a bit overhyped, but Attack on Titan really is epic

Humanity is driven to near extinction by titans, the last of them are living in cities protected by gigantic walls, until one day the titans break through...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af6O_McpSEA

jill_valentine · 24-05-2014 10:32PM

There's a TV show I used to watch called Lost Girl. It's like a Buffy made for a tenner by somebody who only half remembers it and keeps mixing it up with True Blood. Anyway - the American version has to have the naughty language overdubbed for the SyFy channel - proper "Curse you, Maggot Farmer!" quality stuff - but more importantly, it has to be about three minutes shorter than the original Canadian one, to fit in extra ads, and so the US get a specially edited version that other countries don't.

By some absolutely bizarre coincidence, those three minutes almost always came from the lesbian character, regardless of how important or not her dialogue or scenes were. What was weird was how hard it was to figure out exactly what the logic was - surprisingly graphic sex scenes could be totally intact; a character who ate his own fingers mid sentence, that was shown intact; establishing shots of generic Toronto suburbs, they would be left intact. But lumps of a sentence here, or a quick hand gesture or something, that would be cut. Completely harmless banter jokes, they could be cut. Key explanatory plotline stuff that played into the whole later season, that could be cut. But almost always from her.

The weirdest example was one episode where the character had literally one line, all episode, and they still managed to cut three of her four words of dialogue.

It was just... weird.

I'm looking forward to seeing how much is left of Spartacus by the time they're finished with it. What I don't understand is why they buy in shows that are specifically known for this particular stuff, and then edit it anyway.

TheGoldenAges · 24-05-2014 10:34PM

It's a video game but in the recent South Parkl The Stick of Truth game, they cut out the scene where you get anally probed by aliens and you perform an abortion on a man. Sounds ridiculous but if you watch the scenes where they're cut it's surprising they did as it's no more graphic than the show qhich isn't censored over in Europe at all so it's all the more so annoying and the censored scenes were shown in the US.

fussyonion · 24-05-2014 10:42PM

The gay scene from Dumb and Dumber in the toilets with Lloyd and Seabass. It's cut from the DVD I have.

Peregrine · 24-05-2014 10:50PM

Links234 wrote: »

You think? It was violent, disturbing and downright upsetting. Other shows like Hellsing for example, as overly violent as it was, it wasn't really any more graphic than Elfen Lied, but got an 18s cert?

Was it the puppy scene? That seemed to bother a lot of people.

Yeah, Hellsing is less violent. Just a poor certification system then, I guess.

I'm starting to notice some record companies and bands putting up censored versions of their songs on YouTube. It's really annoying and silly. Especially when it's just words like "God damn".

jill_valentine · 24-05-2014 10:50PM

The stuff that always, and forever will, break my heart is when a show uses absolutely the perfect song in the TV broadcast, only to miss out on the DVD rights for the same song. So you have something so absolutely perfect and iconic in your mind, only to be presented with some WTF Tesco substitute in its place. The bloody Tetris theme takes the biscuit though.

WeHaveToGoBack · 24-05-2014 10:53PM

When Martin put barbed wire around his penis and raped a heavily pregnant woman up the arse, who was at the rear of a human centipede.

Cant believe this was cut from the UK release of Human Centipede 2.

Nanny state!

jill_valentine · 24-05-2014 10:56PM

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I'm starting to notice some record companies and bands putting up censored versions of their songs on YouTube. It's really annoying and silly. Especially when it's just words like "God damn".

A job I used to work at used to get special licensed CDs to play in store. One of them had an edited version of Azealia Banks' 212.

WTF is the point of an edited version of that song? Why not just go with a different song?

AlanS181824 · 24-05-2014 10:59PM

I have censorship so much...

Fecking despise it!

Links234 · 24-05-2014 11:06PM

jill_valentine wrote: »

It was just... weird.

That sounds like some pretty ****ed up censorship there

Nimrod 7 wrote: »

Was it the puppy scene? That seemed to bother a lot of people.

Yeah, Hellsing is less violent. Just a poor certification system then, I guess.

There was that, there was what happened to Nana, the scene with Kouta's sister on the train... probably loads more parts I can't think of right now, some of it was just cruel. that show just kept kicking me in the gut

e_e · 24-05-2014 11:10PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbkhW_6yAc

1:58 "You stupid sucker you!!!!!"

Links234 · 24-05-2014 11:16PM

"You Jew money-lover!" :pac:

I'm not sure if that's actually worse than the original or not

kowloon · 24-05-2014 11:33PM

Links234 wrote: »

Are we talking TV censorship here?

I remember ITV/UTV being the worst for that. I'm not sure if the cuts were just to shorten the movie or if they were something we weren't allowed see,

A neighbour of mine recorded movies and edited them for her kids to remove any naughty shots of people's bits but leaving in the wholesome violence.

rotun · 24-05-2014 11:35PM

****ing sponsorship is a load of ****.
What do the ****ers think? If the ***** block it, the **** will be ****ing forgotten forever?

*****.

EyeSight · 25-05-2014 12:00AM

Links234 · 25-05-2014 12:53AM

the Robocop one was something else...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pjThvRQ0gs

I remember seeing it and thinking mothercrusher? what does that even mean!?

jill_valentine · 25-05-2014 01:50AM

Links234 wrote: »

That sounds like some pretty ****ed up censorship there

It's mental. Like, the actually fairly graphic tribbing and stuff - that's fine! Absolutely fine. But like... a bit where they touch each other's arms was cut.

What's strange as well is that this is just the US version. No other country orders in this weird special cut, even places with the same or more ad time. Even other SyFy channels, like the UK, get the original Canadian cut and do their own fairly seamless time edits if required. Only the US gets this version, and it's very odd. It's only three minutes, but it's so pointed and consistent it's just.... odd.

Stupid cuts/censorship from dvds that annoyed you?

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