Blu-ray revisionism now getting ridiculous — Page 3

TheBoost said:

Warbler said:

I the preschoolers who saw it the original way, without seat belts, would disagree with you once they grow and want their childhood show preserved exactly as they originally aired.

lets put it this way: what about the shows were aimed for you when you were a preschooler,  would you want them altered to please the parents of today's preschoolers?  

Are you aware that "Peppa Pig" is only a 4 year old show?

It's been around since 2004. My eldest son, who's now 9, watched it when he was a pre-schooler. Would he be bothered if he realised that the original shows had been altered on the Blu-ray? I doubt it.

Yes, I admit the purist in me doesn't agree with these alterations to appease parents (some reports say there were several complaints, the article I linked to suggests it was a single complaint from one mother). Mostly through it's the complaints I find ridiculous. We see a family of anthropomorphic pigs supposedly reflecting the real world - why aren't parents complaining about the safety implications of Rebecca Rabbit playing with Freddy Fox? What about the geographical inaccuracies of elephants and zebras, natives of the African savannah, going to school with British farm animals like pigs and sheep? 

W@it, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.... Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... Wait, wait, wait.






Hold up now.









In a show with PIGS DRIVING A CAR the parents complain of lack of seatbelts due to impressionability!?!?!?!?!? If the kid can discern that a pig shouldn't drive a car in real life they should also be able to realize safety concerns are different for the cartoon car and, the real cars. If not TELL THEM!!!!!!

On another note LOL reminds me of when the safety people got on Batman for no seatbelting in the Batmobile sequence. From the 60's to today!


Lastly, I don't much care about this issue because, I don't care about the show. Mostly just wanted to post my comment for lulz.

Here is my general position on revisionism: if a change is made to fix something that shouldn't have been there in the first place, or that has been made visible by (a) the higher resolution of Blu-Ray or (b) the lack of generational loss that would have covered up certain special effects secrets (read: wires), I have no problem with that. If something is altered for politically correct purposes or to "protect the children *hand-wringing*", I do have a problem with that. Finally, if a film is altered simply because the director/producer/whatever says "this is the way I always wanted it, but I was hampered by the technology," I call BS.

Ultimately, if the creative minds see fit to alter it, they can, but the with the exception of the first type of revisionism, the original versions should be available in some form. For example, I think Disney should have made the excised scenes in the Pastoral Symphony segment of Fantasia available as a supplement, or through seamless branching. They also could still make them available through BD-Live. Both FFC and Spielberg made the original versions of Apocalypse Now and E.T. respectively available alongside the revised versions; this should be the status quo.

See, Chewtobacca, I warned you that they'd be coming for your cigar, didn't I?

The worst case is releasing a blu ray set without the actual films.

Like the star wars set.

Ziggy Stardust said:

Moth3r said:

 Aliens had digital alterations to fix minor goofs.

 

Exactly, what was done to Aliens?

This was the main change, apparently there were a few other digital touch-ups as well.