Although sitting next to my daughter while Clooney unveiled his "invention" was a bit uncomfortable.
Yes.... That thing is uncomfortable no matter who you’re with... ;~)
ROTFL! I'll bet it was!
Oh gadz... I'd forgotten about that. That's exactly the problem with Coen brothers' movies. I remember all the funny parts and forget the wierd parts and then convince my Dad and Dona to sit down and watch it... and then oh... crap. It's like when I thought they'd just love "Fargo" like I do... and utterly forgot how vile the language was. Same thing happened with "Office Space".
It'd be nice on DVD's if you could choose different edits of the film... like a "G" version... a "PG" and a the full version. Why not? There's some great stuff in movies that, for some audiences... they can't deal with those moments of vileness.
Granted... there's some movies, like "Team America..." for which there can be no "G" rated version. But for lots of movies, a few bleeps here and there and a few tiny edits could open up whole new worlds of popular culture to audiences that would never see them.