Europe Version vs USA Version

Too bad this movie didn't have much substance so the European version sucked! I haven't seen the American version and it's probably worse, but I hated the European version. There was very little plot, the acting was almost beyond horrible, and the ending was too predictable.

lol. its funny how when US censors something, everyone complains how US are censor whores. but when europe censors something, its for art... double standards are the worse type of prejudism. i'm happy i've grown up in a place where we dont judge entire countries.

and is it really a compliment to say europeans think that this movie had substance? lol...

The version i watched was apparently the European version, which was definitely tame, but although i wouldn't say it had 'substance,' i appreciated the lack of gore. Although predictable, in this censored form the film at least had a psycho-thriller edge.

Of course, now i'm intrigued about the acid and blender and what-not, but i liked the film without it!

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"americans love gore because their brainwashed repatidly believing they are the greatest nation on earth and can engage with anybody to 'fight terrorism' or in more realistic terms, widen the class structure!"

And you learned all that from watching a censored version of "Captivity"? Bravo.

"The european version focuses more on substance rather than style"

I wish I could have seen this "Extended Substance Cut" you watched because they apparently edited all the substance out of the U.S. version to make room for the extra gore.

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LOL...what a great post.

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If America's not the greatest country on earth, then which is? If we weren't the greatest country on earth, we wouldn't always run into loudmouth jealous eurotrash trying to rip on us with non sequitors. The EU economy is crashing, why don't you go sue microsoft for another 1.5 billion for the exact same thing you already just sued them for, so you can prop up your economy, even though you dont have to pay your own defense... If it wasn't for the US, europe would be all german / russian speaking.

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that's very ignorant of you

This was very unnecessary, and has nothing to do with U.S beliefs, your just going by what you see on the news, just like people who supported Hitler.

yep the acid and the blender scene was in the movie i saw. in europe.

I've just come through the dog scene and the acid scene and the blender scene and if that is your scene you are welcome to it, I find it ob scene. I stumbled across this movie in a local video shop where I did my window shopping prior to ordering DVDs (I don't hire) and I was captivated (pun) by the box design, the sad eyed-girl behind the chain link fence. I had no idea it was about torture, I thought it was an abduction drama. What totally sold me on the deal was that Elisha Cuthbert was in it. THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. I'm not disappointed by Elisha in the flick, she did well. Had she not been such a classy chick, this movie would have had no value to me. Anyway, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR is my kind of scene, not this.


Anyway, it's interesting to see how you guys fight over dead meat. In this country, we had to fight the censors to see living flesh. You could have been thrown in jail for a centerfold. And you guys find your jollies in this day and age over an eye and an ear and other assorted chunks of red meat chopped up in a blender. Hell, get thine couch asses over to an abattoir, you'd love it there! Wallowing up to your knees in your leather boots in a sea of blood. Must be heaven to you.

I'm in the UK and I rented Captivity last night. The version I saw was exactly the same as the "US version" you describe.

The UK version is a totally different film altogether. all the torture scenes mentioned above are absent, there is a lot more dialogue (meaning more of a focus on the bad acting), and a full play-by-play of the police investigation. the flashback of the two brothers is gone, the film starts with jennifer immediately being captured, and a lot more questions are presented and left unanswered. interesting at times, but isn't at all what the US version was. The film ends almost the same as the US version.
4/10


Thats the version I watched, wtf... seems the US version is alot better :E

Seems there are some very basic misconceptions about the two different versions of the film.

1 - The US version isn't the 'original' version. The original version is actually the less gory version with none of the tooth pulling or acid showers.

2 - The original version should NOT be called the 'European' version. In most EU countries they got exactly the same version as the US, It was only the UK and Spain who got the less gory first edit and there are over 40 countries in Europe, not just those 2!

Germany also got a third version(Germany have very strict censorship laws)

3 - The editing had nothing to do with securing a certain age rating or censorship... The US/Spain version was released first and bombed so they quickly re-hashed it before it hit the US almost a month later and both versions are available on DVD in the UK.

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