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Post by Neverending on Apr 7, 2020 13:22:15 GMT -5
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Post by Dracula on Apr 7, 2020 14:06:22 GMT -5
Why anyone would want to watch a movie on commercial supported Network TV in the year 2020 is lost on me.
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Post by 1godzillafan on Apr 7, 2020 14:16:09 GMT -5
The things they edit out on TV now for more commercials is insane. I switched over to Back to the Future about a month ago and they edited out Doc getting shot by the terrorists.
I mean...isn't that a plot point?
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Post by Wyldstaar on Apr 7, 2020 15:02:49 GMT -5
The things they edit out on TV now for more commercials is insane. I switched over to Back to the Future about a month ago and they edited out Doc getting shot by the terrorists. I mean...isn't that a plot point? Back then it was the exact opposite. In those days, the networks paid by the minute. The studios would recut the movie, adding in scenes that had been cut from the theatrical release. Often times movies would have to be aired over the course of two nights. Between the new scenes and the commercials, it was necessary. Other times, the news would run late. A few years ago, WB finally released the TV cut of Superman (1978) because there was so much demand for it. The TV cut had a big action scene that was removed from the theatrical cut for no readily apparent reason. It had been sold as a bootleg for decades. I've seen things along the same lines as Doc being shot get cut out this century fairly often, though. The first time I saw the Season One episodes of new Doctor Who on BBCA, they cut out the scene in The Empty Child in which Rose's hands are healed by nanogenes, and has them explained to her. The nanogenes aren't just a plot point of that story. They are the primary plot point, around which everything else revolves. I caught it again a few years later, and they'd put it back in. This is what happens when something gets edited by someone who is already familiar with the story and isn't thinking about what they're doing. |
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Post by Neverending on Apr 7, 2020 15:04:53 GMT -5
The things they edit out on TV now for more commercials is insane. I switched over to Back to the Future about a month ago and they edited out Doc getting shot by the terrorists. I mean...isn't that a plot point? Back then it was the exact opposite. In those days, the networks paid by the minute. The studios would recut the movie, adding in scenes that had been cut from the theatrical release. Often times movies would have to be aired over the course of two nights. Between the new scenes and the commercials, it was necessary. Other times, the news would run late. A few years ago, WB finally released the TV cut of Superman (1978) because there was so much demand for it. The TV cut had a big action scene that was removed from the theatrical cut for no readily apparent reason. It had been sold as a bootleg for decades. Superman II: The TV Cut is like the ultimate version of that movie. |
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Post by Doomsday on Apr 7, 2020 23:35:06 GMT -5
I remember the exact moment I threw in the towel. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on AMC. AMC used to be pretty legit and then they started running commercials. Then one day while watching Butch Cassidy they heavily edited the scene where they shoot the Bolivian bandits in the mountains. No yelling, no slo-mo falling, just gunshots and a cut to dead bodies. After that if it wasn't on disc, streaming or in theaters I wasn't interested.
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