As far as I know - horribly cut and edited down in the TV version. So if it is ever on television, avoid at all costs. Deserves to be seen on dvd or blu ray for the first time. I suspect the MPAA did the cutting for the tv release..
"That's it. It bit into his arm-pit. Like It wanted to eat him, man. Like It wanted to eat his heart." shareMPAA doesn't make cuts or require you to do anything — you don't even have to submit a movie for a rating.
However, if you want your movie to be rated, then you submit a particular cut. If the rating you get is not what you expected, you can submit a different cut.
I don't like to watch movies on TV for that reason. I want to hear John McClaine say, "Yippie Kye Aye, Mother ******." Not, "Yippie Kye Aye, Melon Farmer."
shareI recently watched this film on US tv, and it drove me crazy with the amount of commercials breaking up the film. For crying out loud, the last half hour of the film took about 90 minutes to get through. It was a terrible viewing experience.
shareYeah. Another good reason not to watch it on TV. It takes like 4 hours to watch a 2 hour movie.
shareI do remember seeing it on TV once and enjoyed the line "Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river and came out clean on the other side."
Well what's so amazing about that? Rivers are full of water.