So, they have been selling edited CD's for some time now, have they started selling edited DVD's as well? Watched a copy of Jeff Dunham's Christmas Special that was purchased there and the "F" bombs were bleeped out. Anyone else have a copy of that not purchased there and if so are the few "F" bombs that there were still there? If they are selling edited DVD's now in addition to music I will never purchase either there again! Even with Wal-Mart exclusive music there are still ways to get it without darkening their doorways!

One shouldn't darken their doors anyway.

I imagine Wally World's probably been sanitising their DVD Video titles for some time now......

(As I understand it, WW doesn't actually do the censorship editing itself. The studios who provide their DVD Video discs & CDs produce a "sanitised" version for WW and a regular version for everyone else. That's what I've read/been told, anyways.)

I stopped buying CDs at Floor-Mart years ago. (Last CD I bought there, embarrasingly enough, was a copy of "Radio Disney Jams 3"--yes, that was a couple years before KDZR ever went on the air.) Now it looks like I won't be buying a DVD Video disc there anytime soon, either........

In the "good ole' days," when one could watch movies on broadcast TV, I wondered about something very similar: were the TV stations or networks responsible for editing the films, or did the studios provide a "broadcast friendly" version? In some cases, alternate verbiage was dubbed over the indecent language in the dialogue.

I don't recall that stations edited films way back then. Back when we ran film, we would buy rights to a package for a period of time and show them repeatedly for that period. They were on 16mm film that we would edit spots into the reels, play them on air, take them back to the film library, take the spots off and put the film back together and repeat the process for the next showing. I remember taking Psycho off the shelf once and put it on the viewer and went frame by frame through the shower scene but saw nothing. Was that the same as the original theatrical release? or was it cleaned up prior to the version we got? I don't know.

Generally, the Bond films were filmed with nothing showing. There was one, however, that missed getting it out. I forget the movie but it was an early one... one of the first 6, I believe. Sean Connery is on the beach with a girl in a bikini and he is facing her and says, "I need to get something off your chest" and unhooks her top and pulls it forward off her. There are two frames where you see her nipple. It ran that way on network tv when we were showing Bond films. You had to have the tape and advance it frame by frame. I did not notice it in the theater because it went so fast. I have the Bond collection now on DVD and it is still in that film, the only one I remember where anything shows.

I think there is a butt in one of the old Bond films. I don't remember which one.

If I were a film director, I would not allow my movies to be sold with anything cut out. It changes the presentation too much. I know that Speilburg wouldn't let ABC (I think it was ABC) run Saving Private Ryan unless it was unedited.

If I were a film director, I would not allow my movies to be sold with anything cut out.

Unfortunately easier said than done, especially if one intends to ever work again with OPM. (Other people's money). Even the richest of the rich don't make movies with just their own money. Most films don't break even.

I bet there was an uncensored version available in the bin, if it wasn't sold out. I have made that mistake in purchasing CDs because it hadn't occured to me that there were edited versions available. Now that I spend some money on iTunes, I see it all the time. At least on there, it's clear which version I had a choice between.

Or, maybe, they don't tell you and somehow it makes them feel good or Holy or something to offer an edited version. As if God would say, " Well, you got me on a technicality, I guess. Come on in."

A quick note about Jeff Dunham; I completely admit that it's an over-generalization and possibly only true in the circles I travel in, but I have found a surprising audience who LOVE Jeff Dunham; Christians. And they especially love the Achmed The Dead Terrorist character. I have found that to be so true, that it has caught my attention more than once. I could give you all the disclaimers in the world, but I don't feel like it. It's been so prevalent that I am beginning to believe that some " leader " within the Evangelical community, either on purpose or inadvertantly, gave a bunch of people the " green light " to enjoy that material. Which, on the surface, isn't all that unusual. If you are familiar with the material, it does have some humor. So I can acknowledge it being just that; Funny. But the disproportionate amount of church folk who take real, even fervent, delight in the dead terrorist puppet seems odd to me. It's as if something that had been a taboo before ( I mean, I can't imagine hearing about that same support from that same group for anyone else except Brian Regan - and that's because he's clean ) but now it's some kind of free-pass because the topic is about Terrorists? ( Not rhetorical ) It takes a lot to offend me - but I DO have a line. Jeff Dunham comes nowhere near that line. I would have guessed that Christians would find a way to be offended by that material. Surprisingly though, they are in the opposite camp on this guy.

There are bigger battles in the world that to get all righteous myself and pretend that I am bothered by the hypocrisy. But I have to admit, it does smack of that.

Just a thought. I'm certain I could be proven wrong. I wonder if there was some kind of memo that these folks were given that they just follow.

Oh well.

Well I just bought Boondock Saints from Wal Mart and it has William Dafoe in it naked in bed and making out with another man.

So maybe it was just the dvd you bought.

http://www.boondocksaints.com

yeah side note: Boondock Saints one of the most under-rated movies of all time.

You guys have seen " Overnight " correct? The story of how that movie got made? I liked that documentary a lot.