Wednesday, January 20, 2010
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS: There's nothing we love more than bad TV censoring of movies--I still vividly recall wondering why, in the TV edit of Quick Change, there was so much discussion of vikings. But what happens when you take Samuel L. Jackson's line in Snakes On A Plane and try to make it both network safe and make sense? Well, you get this.
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That is awesome. And randomly, it's the second time I've seen that clip today, although the first was in its orginal format as part of this excellent compilation of the 100 cheesiest movie lines of all time.
ReplyDeleteYou see what happens Larry? This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!
ReplyDeleteReally? Wow.
ReplyDeleteYou gotta wonder if there's some dorky guy at Standards and Practices whose entire job is to come up with the worst possible replacements for curse words. "Monday to Friday plane"? Really?
ReplyDeleteThen again, I suppose that everyone watching knows it's a curse word, and probably knows which one it is, so you might as well have fun with it.
On a similar note, in the couple of minutes of the TV version of Office Space I watched over the weekend, one of the funniest lines was David Herman's Michael Bolton worrying about going to "Federal pound-me-into-ash prison."
ReplyDeleteI saw this last April, but it's still funny. I agree with the commenters who say "Major League" was the worst edit ever.
ReplyDeleteHad I read the title...well, yeah, my mind instantly went there too
ReplyDeletePresumably, they also edit out the more graphic violence. Why not just replace that with a spliced-in scene in which several monkeys also get loose on the plane, and then, yes, fight the snakes?
ReplyDeleteI know, it's a perfect solution. I am available to consult on all aspects of filmmaking, particularly if it results in me showing up in the credits - I'm trying to get the lowest Erdos-Bacon Number in the world.
Just silence it, for pete's sake. I hate the filler--just bleep it or silence it.
ReplyDeleteThere are some movies that just should not be allowed on regular cable, because the edits make it unwatchable. Recently I was flipping past TBS and noticed "Grandma's Boy" was playing. I think the play time of the movie was cut in half from the edits. Why even bother?
ReplyDeleteI saw "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" this weekend, which substituted the word "cuss" for all, well, cuss words. My son didn't notice anything odd about it, except for asking me what a "Clustercuss" was.
ReplyDeleteAmen. Let's just stop pretending.
ReplyDeleteWhat edit in particular?
ReplyDeleteSamuel L. Jackson would have had to record those looped in words, right? So someone actually thought ahead and chose those as the words that would replace the famous line. Which to me shows the same weird sense of humor that allowed that movie to be made in the first place.
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