I just bought the new Johnny Be Good DVD yesterday and was very excited when I put it in this morning...until I noticed that it is not the same VHS edition that I had grown to love in past years. Tons of scenes have either been altered or completely edited out. Very dispointing!!!
shareWhat is it rated? On the alternate versions of "Johnny Be Good" it says that the theatrcle version was PG-13. Maby it's that one? How much did it cost?
shareIt says that it is rated PG-13 or R, why is it rated like that? Language? Never see it, so I'm curious. Thanks!
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I was pretty sure the new DVD wouldn't be like the R-rated VHS (the one that proclaims it was re-rated 'R' because it contained new sexually suggestive material).
And of course, I was right.
You see, Johnny Be Good was rated PG-13 in the theaters, but when it was released on video, they added some nice naked scenes (mostly the strip club scene) and re-rated it R.
Later editions of the video omitted the extra nudity, yet somehow still kept the R rating. The MGM DVD is the PG-13 cut, mistakenly labeled as 'R'.
Bogus, if you ask me.
(by dane youssef)
The original PG-13 version of this movie bombed. So the producers obviously tried to put all the original footage back in, thinking it would help somehow.
The only way to save this abomination of a movie would be keeping trimming and trimming it down until all that was left was the trailer.
Anthony Michael Hall has all the facial expressions and built phyisique for this role, but he mumbles his lines so shly, so lifelesly. He's not good with dialouge. After he shed his "geek" image, he had a hard time finding a new niche for his acting talents.
Hall's character is dull, smarmy and unlikeable. Downey, Jr. is a silly little goof. Thurman is... nothing, really. She could be made of cardboard. Perfect for this guy. He's got no love for her. His first love is himself. Lotta people like that. If only he was more interesting.
Why did he accept this role? He wanted to play the lead? He was tired of just playing a nerd and wanted to be the jock who got the girl? Couldn't he have found a better vehicle than this? Had Hollywood type-cast him so that no new roles in good movies were available?
Robert Downey, Jr.--there's no reason why he would accept this. His drug problem had yet to get so serious that no one would touch him. Why would we willingly accept this? Did someone have something on him? Maybe this was before his drug habit leaked out? This guy is the best of his generation. WHAT IN GOD'S NAME HAPPENED?! Was the money too much to refuse?
The one and only Ms. Uma Thurman... well, she hadn't really been discovered yet. Hell, she didn't even have prominent billing here.
"Out of Bounds" was a cardboard thriller sown together with cliches.' It was alright and Hall did a first-rate job with his performance, as did Kobe.
But "Johnny Be Good" was so bad, so full of trite', poorly written scenes and confused half-ideas and musings. Despite the first class cast, the actors were still putting together crap on celluloid.
Although to be fair, Hall played same this kind of part much better and more interestingly as the villain in the infinetly better "Edward Scissorhands."
Movie trailers can lie to you. The trailer for "Johnny Be Good" is actually pretty funny and promising.
But then again, so was the trailer for the god-awful "North."
MY ADVICE: You wanna see "Johnny Be Good"? Just check out the trailer on IMDb under "trailer." They cut out all the garbage. It's a little over a minute long. Now THIS is the version they should have shown in theatres and put on home video and DVD. No question.
CLOSING NOTE: Hall is first-rate on "The Dead Zone." Check that out instead if you want to see Hall shed his "geek" Brat-Pack image.
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I bought the R rated version at big lots for $3 :)
I haven't watched it yet thou.
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Seems you are right, what a bunch of crap. Amazon lists the runtime at only 86 mins for the DVD, meaning that about 5 full minutes have been cut as the video version is 91 mins as listed here on IMDb.
My body's a cage, it's been used and abused...and I...LIKE IT!!
i bought a 2 pack with young blood and it's rated r and has nudity
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My body's a cage, it's been used and abused...and I...LIKE IT!!
it says 86 min. on case but has the strip club nudity and stuff so idk
shareThe 86-minute version kept 'some' of the nudity in, though it removed the great scene from the slender brunette stripper (not to be confused with the brunette guns blazing stripper). She was gorg-gee-ass. Great scene, if left intact. Hopefully, the bluray addresses this.
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