Twatters Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Is The Big Lewboski worth watching? I bought it second hand in a local pre-owned game shop for a quid and never got round to watching it. Â Â Watch it now! It's an awesome film, with several great performances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kookoocachu Posted February 12, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 12, 2013 Is The Big Lewboski worth watching? I bought it second hand in a local pre-owned game shop for a quid and never got round to watching it. Â Â Watch it now! It's an awesome film, with several great performances. This. It's incredible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 I just think it's brilliant that the Die Hard franchise has evolved into one big ITV Edit. Â "Yippee kay-yay kemosabe." Â That broke my heart. Â You should see the Big Lebowski TV Edit. 'Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps, Larry'. Â I can't find a video of the Die Hard edit (if anyone can then please post a link to it), but here is a video of a few other TV edits (including the Big Lebowski one). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Maestro Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Those TV edits are brilliantly awful. Do we get those in this country? I don't think that I have ever seen a film edited for British television. We just seem to show movies that are a bit colourful after the watershed. When I used to live in America, they would show all manner of movies and would edit any bits out accordingly. I remember the likes of 'Thelma and Louise' and 'Aliens' being majorly sliced apart. If you can't show the full film, then don't show it at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Those TV edits are brilliantly awful. Do we get those in this country? I don't think that I have ever seen a film edited for British television. We just seem to show movies that are a bit colourful after the watershed. When I used to live in America, they would show all manner of movies and would edit any bits out accordingly. I remember the likes of 'Thelma and Louise' and 'Aliens' being majorly sliced apart. If you can't show the full film, then don't show it at all. Â How young are you? Back in the 80s and 90s, all we ever got were edits. When I bought Die Hard on DVD a few years ago I was amazed at how much had been changed back when I first saw it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Maestro Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Those TV edits are brilliantly awful. Do we get those in this country? I don't think that I have ever seen a film edited for British television. We just seem to show movies that are a bit colourful after the watershed. When I used to live in America, they would show all manner of movies and would edit any bits out accordingly. I remember the likes of 'Thelma and Louise' and 'Aliens' being majorly sliced apart. If you can't show the full film, then don't show it at all. Â How young are you? Back in the 80s and 90s, all we ever got were edits. When I bought Die Hard on DVD a few years ago I was amazed at how much had been changed back when I first saw it. Â 27. I lived in America from 1993 to 1999 though so that's probably why it's something that I've never noticed over here. When did they stop doing this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 When they started updating their broadcast tapes for widescreen tvs. Up till then they were still using the pan and scan, pre-watershed edits from the 80s. Channel 5 still used them occasionally, I suspect they bought a job lot of old tapes off another channel. Â Last year ITV started broadcasting uncut, widescreen, HD versions of the old Bond movies. It was fucking unbelievable the difference. Â The most amazing difference is in the westerns where you'd have these scenes where the camera used to pan back and forth between two people talking, and then when you actually watch the original version they're both on screen at the same time in the widescreen framing. Or long panning shots that used to suddenly change speed as they slowed down for the end of the pan, and all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted February 13, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 13, 2013 I remember the ITV edit of Robocop. Two particular bits spring to mind - when Bob Morton looks into the camera (Robocop's vision) and says "You're gonna be one bad mother-crusher!" and when Robocop intervenes at a liquor store robbery, with the robber yelling "Why me! Why me!" or (in another version) "Fly me! Fly me!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted February 13, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 13, 2013 Aliens was another one which was always badly edited. 'No FREAKING way man' always sticks in my head after the drop ship crash. I think the Big Lebowski dubs are intentionally insane arent they and are actually written by the Coens. ITV used to be terrible for doing it. Been mentioned on here before but there's two quite infamous edits from them. One is Their version of Romancing The Stone which was hacked to bits for the first hour. Anything risqu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members John Matrix Posted February 13, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 13, 2013 Similarly, the daytime showing of See No Evil Hear No Evil is something to behold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Scott Malbranque Posted February 13, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 13, 2013 Kind of on topic to what's just been piping up about censorship. Straight Outta Compton is just on Phantom FM (Irish radio station) and it's fuckin' shockingly bad. Â I found the lyrics: NWA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ColinBollocks Posted February 13, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 13, 2013 (edited) The USA TV version of Howard Stern's Private Parts is an interesting watch. When something that needs edited comes up, the screen freezes and Stern wanders on and explains why they aren't allowed to show it, or makes a daft comment on the film. Â Â Robocop should do the same. Edited February 13, 2013 by Blackson Jackson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamtheman Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Die Hard reviews have started coming in for anyone interested  not pretty reading and these will be for the unedited version Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted February 13, 2013 Moderators Share Posted February 13, 2013 "Continuity has become a thing of the past for the franchise, which would help itself by not continuing anymore." Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted February 18, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted February 18, 2013 Aliens was another one which was always badly edited. 'No FREAKING way man' always sticks in my head after the drop ship crash. Â Also "Whoopee fuckin' do!" became "Whoopee for her!" I'd love to hear some stories about the people that worked on dubbing these films - they probably found it a right laugh to work on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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