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  • Ever wished you could own an 'edited for content' movie...?

    No? Nobody? Well, Sony thinks you want to.

    I've suffered through 'edited for content' versions of both Ghostbusters flicks (of which there are multiple versions) and in nearly all of them, something is left out which leaves some sort of plot hole and the alternate dialogue can get annoying--you know something's been replaced as the sound quality is worse and it rarely syncs up right. The only thing that makes those fun is figuring out exactly what was cut, where and why.

    I can't think of what a 'clean' version of Crouching Tiger would be like...
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    A company called CleanFlicks tried doing that back in 2000. They were shut down by the courts in 2006.

    I wonder how Sony expects to get around that court ruling?
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    • #3
      I can see a few angles for Sony:

      - This is not a new edit, instead they're offering a cleaned-up edit from one market (airline, broadcast TV) in another market (home video).

      - Sony is also a movie studio. If they were to do this only with their own movies, they'd be working with their own intellectual property. Wouldn't help for existing movies, but going forward they could refuse to deal with any director who wouldn't agree to let them do this.

      - Instead of the DGA going after a small company, they're going after a multinational that can afford high-priced lawyers.
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      • #4
        Ugh, worst one to date has GOT to be T2, where the cut part was a complete turning point in the story.
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        • #5
          If there are multiple clean versions of a film (sometimes it seems like stations/venues do their own edits if it doesn't involve dialogue), I wonder how they're all going to be reconciled with each other?
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          • #6
            If I had the "privilege" of owning a TV edit of a movie, it would probably be this one. So ham-handed that it becomes funny in its own odd little way. "Yippee-ki-yay, MISTER FALCON!!!!!"
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            • #7
              I know a lot of families around here would love this. They wont go to a rated R movie, but will watch the edited version.

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              • #8
                I heard a rumor years ago that Walmart sold edited versions of some movies and CDs to make them more family friendly.

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                • #9
                  I know I'll get mocked for this, but I'd like to own the edited for tv version of Adventures in Babysitting. Because watching the unedited version as a grown up just freaks me out. "Don't f*ck with the babysitter!" Nooo, you're ruining my childhood memories.

                  But other than that, yeah you guys are right.
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                  • #10
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                    • #11
                      Quoth AdamAnt316 View Post
                      If I had the "privilege" of owning a TV edit of a movie, it would probably be this one. So ham-handed that it becomes funny in its own odd little way. "Yippee-ki-yay, MISTER FALCON!!!!!"
                      -Adam
                      I did not even have to look at the clip you provided I KNEW EXACTLY which movies they were. The way they "edited" that version of the clean version was SOOOO bad yeah it was kind of funny but sort of ruined BOTH the first and second movies movie as a whole.
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                      • #12
                        Some edits can be well done. Others just make you laugh.

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                        • #13
                          I always loved watching the TV version of "The Blues Brothers". When they cut the profanity out, so very many scenes made absolutely zero sense at all. (Why was the nun hitting the brothers? Oh yeah, they actually said "up shit creek", not "up the creek".) Trying to figure out what had actually happened in the scene amused me.

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                          • #14
                            Back before Crapcast decided to make CMT part of some sports package and we lost access, the channel would air Blues Brothers unedited (I don't ever recall seeing the clean version on that channel) fairly regularly. A friend had never seen the theatrical version; when we finally showed it to her it was pretty funny, lots of "Ohhh, that totally makes sense now!"
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                            • #15
                              I actually liked the 'clean' version of Tremors. It was more creative. But it was just edited swear words lol

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