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Originally posted by: ricarleite
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Never heard that about Cinema Paradiso. Did they actually edit based on his "bells"?

Yes, there was a scene in that movie in which the local priest (this was set in early 30s-40s Italy, I think) watched the movie alone and ringed a bell when he saw something that he thought to be inapropriated, like 2 people kissing and stuff. They would out a marker on the celulloid, and cut that scene afterwards.

A friend of mine was watching Matrix Reloaded with his both 3 year old twin sons. His wife freaked out when she saw this. He claimed they were too young too understand what the violence onscreen was all about, and she said "oh yeah? watch this...", and told them both to play as they had guns. One of them shoot his brother with his finger, making "pow, pow" sounds, the other one throwed himself to the ground, as he was "dying". I don't know what to think about this... I've always belived that TV contributes to violence, when they show glorious non-fictional violence on TV. And at the same time, I belive in freedom of expression, and non-censorhip. Maybe we must evolute as a society and ban violence and hate from it, and THEN we'll be able to show extreme violence on TV to our kids with no fears.

I don't think the movies should be censored, but it appears that there are fewer and fewer family oriented shows and movies being made. A responsible parent doesn't want their kids watching something that has an abundance of blood and gore or excessive cussing in it. But yet there are very few forms of entertainment that are not adult oriented. Video games used to be something that kids could play without any repercussions. These days, the vast majority of the games have realistic blood, gore, excessive violence and yes, foul language in them. I don't think everything should be censored, but I don't think Barney should be a parent's only option for their kids. One thing that gets me is that people criticize Nintendo for making a few kid friendly video games, but they tend to forget about a few other games (such as Killer Instinct, The Legend Of Zelda, etc.) that adults like to play as well. As far as Game Genie is concerned, that was nothing more than cheat codes. You could play the game with or without it. There were no copyright infringements taking place.