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There is no uncut version on VHS. It doesn't exist and it never has. As a matter of fact a lot of those "uncut European/Scandinavian/whatever VHS releases" are just the R-rated U.S. theatrical version because the initial releases in other countries were cut even more by that country's censorship board.
The uncut versions of the first 8 Friday the 13th films are all lost with the exception of the first one because it was actually released uncut and uncensored in theaters in the UK I believe. Even that one there are rumors that graphic death scenes for two characters who die off-screen were originally included before being cut due to the X rating threat from the MPAA, according to IMDB Alternate Versions section. A VHS workprint of Part 7 exists. And that's it. The original elements to the films were either junked or stored somewhere that nobody knows about.
Sadly, studios never took advantage of home video back then as a way to present the full uncut versions of films that had been censored by the MPAA. Notable exceptions included Videodrome, Crimes of Passion, and 9 1/2 Weeks which were released uncut on VHS. The trend continued here and there in the 90s with big films like Basic Instinct and Natural Born Killers, hot and controversial films, not low-budget slashers. I think Hellraiser II was an exception to that. Nowadays "unrated versions" of genre films are a given when they come out on DVD and Blu-Ray.
how the fuck does a hot piece of ass like that get anywhere near an ugly fuck like Allen? Allen better thank the Lord he's from a different era cause nowadays somebody who looked and acted like him would never get any, even with his money.
Anyway I have to go pour bleach into my brain so that I can get out the thought of this chick "dreaming about making love to Woody." Holy Christ. The Hollyweird community is the worst.
Bro...this thread was made a decade ago on the old IMDB boards. They're never going to read your opinion.
What I love about MovieChat is how they display all movies that are being posted about anywhere on the site. Then we all get to see that this...whatever it is...is being discussed alongside latest Hollywood releases and TV shows and all of that.
I agree that this is the worst of the original Die Hard trilogy. Samuel L. Jackson is good but the film drags on and on and on, the script is all over the place not being helped by the fact that it was originally the screenplay for an entirely different film, then it was going to be the screenplay for Lethal Weapon 4, then they tacked on Die Hard characters and rewrote the last half. It is agonizing and dumb seeing John McClane and Samuel L. Jackson running around NYC playing children's games that never turn out to amount to much. We're supposed to find that the villain is the brother of a previous villain getting revenge on McClane but actually nvm he didn't really care about that after all, he's just going to pull some sub-tier James Bond villain shit? Not to mention Jeremy Irons is poorly cast here, he has none of the impact and screen presence of the late great Alan Rickman. Irons looks like a henchman in one of the Brosnan Bond films. Really boring villain.
I just kinda found this movie a chore to watch. This one gets praised a lot while DH 2 is often cited as the worst? I don't get that at all. DH 2 is flawed but it still is in keeping with the tone and feel of the first film.
My buddy and I immediately saw it for the cash grab that it was. As we were leaving the theater he said to me he hoped Disney wasn't going to turn the Star Wars franchise into a cash grab, and I said they already have. We didn't bother with any of the subsequent ones.
Second, the PG-13 rating is necessary. In 1968, when the rating system was instituted, there was no PG or PG-13, only M for Mature Audiences. Rosemary's Baby was released with an M rating that year. In 1970 M became GP for General Patronage. Feeling that this wasn't adequate enough a distinction and sounded the same as G for General Audiences, they changed it to PG for Parental Guidance Suggested in 1972. Violent and sexual films such as the James Bond series, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Jaws were rated PG. It wasn't uncommon to see nudity and violence and hear swearing in a PG-rated film in the 70s.
In the 80s, the violence factor was being upped in movies. After Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which featured a famous scene of a heart being ripped out of a guy's chest on-screen, parents and critics decided the PG rating was being too liberally applied. However, films such as Indiana Jones were not R-rated material. Just not suitable for 9 year olds either. Spielberg got on the phone with the MPAA and told them it was time for a responsible rating that would allow him and others to continue making films like Temple of Doom without the threat of backlash. PG-13 was instituted in 1984.
Does the MPAA rating system need an overhaul? Yes, desperately. I propose that only three ratings are needed: G for General Audiences, T for Teenage Audiences, and A for Adult Audiences. This would cover the gamut of film content and let filmmakers be free to make what they want. As it is, the system has too many nonsense ratings (what's the difference between G and PG these days?) and still has the untenable NC-17. Under my system, T would go to films like superhero franchises, Hunger Games, YA novel movies, etc. A would include R-rated films, James Bond (some Bonds have been cut to get a PG-13 here in the U.S.), adult superhero franchises like Deadpool, etc. as well as all films that would ordinarily be rated NC-17, only this time without the stigma. If you have a driver's license, you can get into an A-rated film without a parent or guardian.
You guys don't really understand some things.
(part one) First, there is no "X rating" anymore. There was one. It wasn't trademarked by the MPAA, resulting in porn and exploitation distributors self-applying the rating and exploiting it in advertising materials to try and get asses in seats. It was replaced by NC-17 in 1990 because ever since the 1972 porno explosion, the public associated X with porno and so an X-rated movie could not be advertised or distributed by a major studio. Newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, etc. refused to advertise X-rated films. Prior to that, from 1968 - 1972 approximately, an X rating was just fine, which is why A Clockwork Orange was nominated for an Oscar. That wouldn't and didn't happen after 1972. In the late 80s, film critics began demanding that the MPAA abolish the X rating and replace it with an "A" rating for "Adults Only" or something similar because well-received artistic films like 9 1/2 Weeks, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover were getting X ratings, forcing them to be cut to get them widely distributed. Horror and action films like Stallone's own Nighthawks and Cobra, Friday the 13th series, etc. were all rated X until they were edited to the MPAA's satisfaction. A notable exception was Scarface, which was rated X until Brian De Palma fought an appeals battle to make the MPAA re-rate it R with no cuts, which they did. George Romero released X-rated Dawn of the Dead without a rating, only a violence disclaimer in ads.
In response, the MPAA instituted NC-17. Video stores, retailers, movie theaters, TV networks etc. immediately responded by declaring that they would not rent, sell, show, or advertise NC-17-rated films. Major studios refused to legitimize the new rating, and NC-17 was immediately blacklisted, and its negative connotations ensue to this day. The MPAA uses NC-17 to strongarm filmmakers and distributors into censoring a film to their satisfaction to get an R.
You seem not to know what's going on in urban areas like Detroit if you really think "other races would be annihilated if they did stuff like this." It is very much like the mafia.
He was really good. License to Kill is one of the best Bond flicks, Living Daylights I found kinda meh. But the reason why he didn't return was because 6 years were wasted screwing around with lawsuits, corporate buyouts, Cubby Broccoli's declining health and resulting development delays. Dalton probably just figured too many years had passed and he lost interest and maybe wasn't feeling physically up for it, so he resigned a couple months after the screenplay for the next film was completed in 1994. They had always wanted Brosnan from the time Roger Moore started winding down, but he couldn't do it because of Remington Steele. A decade later he finally got his chance.
This is going to be horrible. I can't believe they're seriously going ahead with this.
Enter the Dragon, of course, was inspired by Dr. No. Interesting how it comes full circle.
It's because this is the way it's done in the real major-label music business. So probably they didn't realize how abhorrent it would be to regular people who buy into all the glitz and glamour that the entertainment industry sells. Record labels and managers never just celebrate somebody's talent as-is (if that were the case Lizzy Borden would be a megastar), they meddle and take control and do everything they can to make the act into a commercially viable product at every level. John Kalodner is an example of somebody who did this with bands like Whitesnake. Very sad but that's the way the music business works. Miley Cyrus is another major example where even the public saw in real time how the A&R and management people were taking control and molding her to create controversy and sell more records and concert tickets. Taylor Swift is yet another example whose own career trajectory kinda aligns with that of Lady Gaga's character.
Interscope was also the first (and I guess last because I've never heard of this since) record company to openly pay radio stations to play songs when they paid a Portland, Oregon station to play Limp Bizkit's first single in the late 90s. They paid for 50 airings of the song and each airing was preceded by a brief disclaimer that the song was "brought to you by" Interscope Records. Of course that was not the first ever "payola" as that's how the radio/singles market works by and large but it was the first time a major label openly flaunted it.
Dear God now we can't even enjoy Halloween without some snowflake popping up and crowing about URRRHGHGHGHG CREEPY RAPEY PATRIARCHY THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE EVEN THOUGH THIS IS A 40 YEAR OLD MOVIE!!! It was just a JOKE. It was before everybody screamed about #METOO PATRIARCHY HARASSMENT every time a joke related to sex or a female person was uttered, followed by extreme liberal feminists going on a violent all-caps Twitter rant for 5 days straight with every tweet punctuated with NO. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. Also this was an R-rated independent film which didn't have big studio producers vetoing every line for political correctness. This isn't The Last Jedi.
As a matter of fact nothing about this film could have passed at a big studio which is one of the reasons it is one of the best films of that decade whereas most major studio films from that decade are forgotten.