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The Onion couldn't come up with a better story!

Perhaps it is because permission has not been given?

But a bit of software to play a DVD on a computer in a selective order I would think would be in compliance.

Does it change the story? Does it change the directors vision? Answer, yes. When editing without permission, you create a new product, not authorized by the copyright holder. This is not the same movie, it is now a totally different movie.

If the movie is too harsh for you to watch in its original form, then why the hell would you want to watch it edited? You wont see what all the fuss is about because you wont be watching the same movie.

I have seen a demonstration between the original and the clean version. It is horrifying. Saving Private Ryan becomes 20 minutes shorter, and has no blood, or direct acts of violence. Hey, this is a war movie.

Would you believe that they also edited "The Princess Diaries"? Yep, not sure for what, but they did.

It is unfortunate, but this editing craze is religeously driven, and backed heavily by mormon interest. I am appauled because as a mormon, I feel that my fellow man is trying to tell me what to do. This is not the mission of this particular church, but so many people in it, think that they must save the world from themselves.

Our original founder, Joe Smith, had stated publicly that our value system was driven by the desire to aquire all things of beauty and culture. How fortunate that we no longer live to that standard, but instead try to create our own version of what everyone else has.

Either live in the world, or shut up and sit down.

Dave

Dave

I'm amazed to hear that there are "edited" versions of SPR. For those who don't want to see violence: DON'T WATCH WAR MOVIES!

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"I really wanted to see Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, 'Saving Private Ryan' but I didn't really much care for all those people being killed in the battlefield..." -- Shut the H-E-double-hockey-sticks up!!!

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It seems today's writers grew up in an amoral atmosphere and are not aware that not everyone in the world behaves in that manner and apparently don't know either that you really CAN write a good story without including profanity and sex.

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Have you ever read Catcher in the Rye, Bob? That's littered with graphic language and it was published in 1951. Or how about Chaucer's Canterbury Tales which was written in the late fourteenth century? Better yet, look at some of the implyed sexual situations in ancient Greek mythology. Today's writers grew up in an amoral atmosphere? Give me a break.

So, are you saying they CAN'T make a good movie without using vulgar language and sexual exploitation? And what useful literary purpose do you feel those serve?

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