Thursday, October 8, 2009
The Departed on TV? Really?
First off, I absolutely love movies. Its a form of escapism that I truly enjoy. There are no commercials (during the movie) and it is a story that I get to follow from beginning to end without breaks. I am much more guarded when watching television- even though it is an act of escapism, I find that I let go more when I go to see movies. Though I am aware of product placement in movies, and yes I get annoyed when the ads before the film are seemingly endless, once the movie begins I submerge myself into the story. One of my favorite films is The Departed. I was more than surprised to see it on television one day on a cable channel (not HBO or any other movie channel). It was really disappointing to see such a great movie censored and cut up into sections. I've seen The Green Mile on television that is supposed to be 188 minutes, but on television it was a 4 hour experience- thats 52 minutes of commercials! And though I like the variety and watch some movies on television, others like The Departed or The Godfather Series or even DOGMA lose their appeal on television. There is something really wrong with not being able to hear the true swear ridden dialogue that Jay spews to Silent Bob, or hearing a mafia gangster saying "Forget you!" when they clearly meant something else. I totally understand that children watch TV and that it needs to be censored. So why do we bother putting these kinds of movies on TV in the first place? To me, it ruins the movies. Perhaps I'm overreacting, but I just altogether ignore watching rated R movies on cable television. I'll stick to my DVDs there. Nothing like hearing Marky Mark and Matt Damon in all of their Boston glory...
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I agree, the premium channels show nudity all day, so why is it offensive to hear cursing when there are people are do dirty deeds to each other.
ReplyDeleteive seen that movie on tv a few times, and every channel does there best to show us as much as they can with in the rules they are given, i lone when a company sponsors a movie premier on tv so you only see 3 commercials for 1 product the whole time
ReplyDeleteI don't get it either. I'm not a big fan of watching movies on regular television stations to begin with because of the ridiculous amount of commercial breaks, as well as the fact that there always seem to be pieces of the films cut out in order to fill the time slot and get all of the advertising in. I know what you mean with the R rated movies as well. I don't really understand why R rated films are put on basic cable stations, because it isn't all that enjoyable when every other line is edited.
ReplyDeleteI definetly hate when they do this. Watching Goodfellas on television is horrendous, especially any scene with Joe Pesci. At the rate we're going nowadays, though, we won't have to worry about this for very much longer.
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