In Tyler we trusted
Mar. 10th, 2005 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grrgoylLast night I had a tiny hankering to see my favorite movie of all, Fight Club, for about the 30th time, but once I sat my ass on the couch I couldn't even muster the energy to fetch the disc. After 10 minutes of surfing channels though, what did I find but FX airing the very same? I love when that happens! It was half over and that was a bummer because I generally prefer the first half to the second, but whatever. It was their DVD-on-TV feature and I was pretty appalled when at the first commercial break they suggested running out and buying the special edition DVD, "and make sure to use your Visa card when you do!" the guy added, holding a credit card right up in extreme closeup to the camera. *sputter!* Didn't these people even SEE the movie? The whole freakin' point of it is....but I see now that had to be a tongue-in-cheek thing. Ha-ha. Good one.
It would have been nice to see without the incessant commercial breaks every 12 minutes, but other than that to my surprise the movie was left completely untouched. All of the violence, all of the gore and most of the swearing was kept intact, and that's saying something for an 8 pm timeslot. The only things they removed were every occurrence of f**k and s**t (but kept goddammit and asshole)....oh, and of course the not-quite-subliminal "nice, big cock" was taken out at the end (I arrived too late to see how they handled the first longer shot of it). (heh heh....I said "longer") For the bare minimum of censorship I salute you, FX, even though I was previously not speaking to you because your lower screen post-commercial ads during Buffy were so distracting I had to stop watching.
In other movie news, my copy of Trainspotting: The Definitive Edition was "dispatched" yesterday. Hurry, Ewan my love. I can't wait to lick that irresistible orange packaging.
It would have been nice to see without the incessant commercial breaks every 12 minutes, but other than that to my surprise the movie was left completely untouched. All of the violence, all of the gore and most of the swearing was kept intact, and that's saying something for an 8 pm timeslot. The only things they removed were every occurrence of f**k and s**t (but kept goddammit and asshole)....oh, and of course the not-quite-subliminal "nice, big cock" was taken out at the end (I arrived too late to see how they handled the first longer shot of it). (heh heh....I said "longer") For the bare minimum of censorship I salute you, FX, even though I was previously not speaking to you because your lower screen post-commercial ads during Buffy were so distracting I had to stop watching.
In other movie news, my copy of Trainspotting: The Definitive Edition was "dispatched" yesterday. Hurry, Ewan my love. I can't wait to lick that irresistible orange packaging.