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.
The studios already chop up the movies for showing on television. With all the space available on Blu-Ray you'd think there'd be no problem including the edited for TV cut on the disk.
Someone needs to email hollywood with this idea. I bet it'd result in higher Blu-Ray sales if people know they can have the edited version along with the complete version.
I remember hearing on Glenn Beck's radio show once about a service he used to edit rated-R movies down to a PG-PG13 level. I can't remember the name of the service now.
I agree wholeheartedly! It would open up a HUGH market for DVD sales to families who would like to see movies with their kids, but don't want to have to explain things to the younger ones while doing so.
There was a group that was doing this, and I think they were sued by some film-makers or something like that for ruining the original spirit of the movies.
Give me a break!
I just think it’s funny that half of us want a PG version for the kids, and half want the PG version so we can show it to our parents. :~D