SilverWook said:

xhonzi said:

timdiggerm said:

xhonzi said:

Which is why I think the "[REDACTED] movie would have been great if it had been rated 'R'" comment* I see so much is just dumb.

Great movies are great movies, despite their ratings- not because of them.

But a great movie can be made worse by cutting out certain parts in order to achieve a lower and more marketable rating.

Possibly.

I've seen my fair share of movies that are edited for offensive content. With few exceptions- I've never really thought that the missing content went... missing.

As in "edited for television"? Savvy filmmakers have been shooting alternate takes to cover that for years. Most movies only play on basic cable these days instead of the networks, and things are more relaxed now than in the 80's and 90's.

The worst part of an "edited for TV" movie is usually the awkwardness/readily apparent nature of the edit, not the missing content itself. As you said, Savvy filmmakers can either make the TV edit the peer of the more extreme version- or a parody.