Ridiculous Movie Censorship....WTF?

[huskerwebhead]

So I'm sitting here on my laptop half watching whatever is showing on Sci-Fi channel and this horrible horror movie comes up. Two guys on dirt bikes fell into a tomb or something and decided to sit down and smoke some weed. They actually blurred out the guys hand and face when he took a hit. What? Really? Are we really that worried about kids watching someone doing drugs in a horrible made-for-TV movie on cable at 11PM at night?! Even better, about 5 seconds after that one of them gets an arrow graphically shot through his head and the other gets acid splashed on his face and his head explodes.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

They should have blurred the entire movie out. I hate Sci-Fi Saturday movies.

 

[The Lizard]

I totally don't understand the editing criteria for movies shown on the Sci-Fi Channel.

Sometimes I think they just send each movie out to a different editor and let them do whatever comes to mind.

 

[bgates87]

So I'm sitting here on my laptop half watching whatever is showing on Sci-Fi channel and this horrible horror movie comes up. Two guys on dirt bikes fell into a tomb or something and decided to sit down and smoke some weed. They actually blurred out the guys hand and face when he took a hit. What? Really? Are we really that worried about kids watching someone doing drugs in a horrible made-for-TV movie on cable at 11PM at night?! Even better, about 5 seconds after that one of them gets an arrow graphically shot through his head and the other gets acid splashed on his face and his head explodes.

You'd think they would let you see the guy taking a hit in hopes that viewers would subconsciously build some kind of connection between weed and getting your head blown-up with acid (How exactly did that work again? Oh it was on the Sci-Fi channel, nevermind).

My mind has been trained to automatically flip the channel when ever I hear the phrase "A Sci-Fi Original Movie," so I don't have this problem.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

 

[enterthemadness]

Yeah, that makes no sense. Sci-Fi Channel gets away with some nice gore/blood. And Harper's Island on CBS...good lord, blood bath. I think the dvd though has unrated death scenes.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

At least they didn't turn guns into walkie talkies.

 

[BatMatt]

Yeah, that makes no sense. SyFy Channel gets away with some nice gore/blood. And Harper's Island on CBS...good lord, blood bath. I think the dvd though has unrated death scenes.

Embrace change

 

[Dark Victory]

At least they didn't turn guns into walkie talkies.

What, you think they're going to remake Raiders of the Lost Ark next?

 

[enterthemadness]

Embrace change

Never...**** that name. Syfy? It's like somone...I dunno, it means the smae thing.

 

[bgates87]

"Syfy" is a lot easier to type than "Sci-Fi," that's about all. I guess that's an important thing in today's age.

 

[enterthemadness]

"Syfy" is a lot easier to type than "Sci-Fi," that's about all. I guess that's an important thing in today's age.

It's stupid. That's like if CBS became 'The Eye' or 'Eye' cause their nickname is 'the eye'.

 

[Manic]

It's stupid. That's like if CBS became 'The Eye' or 'Eye' cause their nickname is 'the eye'.

It's more like CBS changing their name to SeeBeeEss or Fox changing to Fawks, because all they did was phonetically respell their name.

 

[Sam Fisher]

 

[Wolfwood]

One of my favorites is this one:

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Is saying "the finger" really all that terrible? Although I do like the way flipper sounds.

 

[BatMatt]

"Son of a sandwich" and "what the bajinkins?" are the two most ridiculous cases of censorship I've heard myself

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Embrace change

Yes we can!

 

[PyroChamber]

I like those rare moments where they forget to censor a certain part on TV.

I was watching Wild Wild West one day on TBS, and there was the scene where Salma Hayek appears to tell Will Smith and Kevin Kiline goodnight and she turns around and the outfit she's wearing was opened in the back and her bare ass was showing.

Now normally when they show that part they cut to Smith and Kline talking before she turns all the way around, but this particular time they showed it completely.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

I like those rare moments where they forget to censor a certain part on TV.

I was watching Wild Wild West one day on TBS, and there was the scene where Salma Hayek appears to tell Will Smith and Kevin Kiline goodnight and she turns around and the outfit she's wearing was opened in the back and her bare ass was showing.

Now normally when they show that part they cut to Smith and Kline talking before she turns all the way around, but this particular time they showed it completely.

bare ass sometimes is allowed on network or cable tv... sometimes it's edited, other times it's not.

 

[huskerwebhead]

"Monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane." Did I hear that right? Good god, I'd prefer they just bleep the language out instead of butchering it.

And I'll never type Sci-Fi in that other way...that's stupid. I don't understand why it needed to change.

 

[Heffer Wolf]

"Do you see Larry? This is what happens WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS!"

 

[Manic]

I'm glad some basic cable networks have started to get a bit more lenient during the late night. I was giddy when I heard the profanity of Mel Brooks' History of the World in all of its glory one night on the Fox Movie Network, but they edited that movie to high heaven when it aired the next afternoon.

 

[Warhammer]

One of my favorite movies to watch censored is Next Friday especially if you watch it on USA.

"It's a bad mother-shut-your-mouth."

bare ass sometimes is allowed on network or cable tv... sometimes it's edited, other times it's not.

Oh, you mean the bare ass double standard. You know? Where it is completely ok to show a man's ass on tv but if it's a woman's ass, it's trouble.

 

[Warhammer]

 

[BlackLantern]

"Monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane." Did I hear that right? Good god, I'd prefer they just bleep the language out instead of butchering it.

And I'll never type Sci-Fi in that other way...that's stupid. I don't understand why it needed to change.

so they can copyright it and use it as a brand