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Lurdiak posted:Don't worry he never loving used it. Everything you wrote is bollocks. The actual reason was because some fuckwit called James Ferman ended up as head of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and he had a massive hate boner against graphic violence in films and banned the poo poo out of loads of 70s and 80s exploitation flicks, and imposed scores of cuts on others (so getting hold of the US version of, say, Robocop on VHS could make you the most popular kid in school for the summer). He particularly hated nunchuks not because they represented the ‘sinster, far more dangerous technology of the inscrutable orientals’ but because guns were hard to come by while any dope could get hold of a chain and some sticks. Bruce Lee made it look like the coolest poo poo in the world so every kid was desperate to go to Ninja 2000 and get hold of some. Eventually - thankfully - the miserable bastard retired and hosed off never to be seen or heard from again and, wonder of wonders, his replacment rescinded the ban on nuchucks soon after. Pristine copies of Enter the Dragon immediately turned up on shelves and Mikey was no longer left holding bugger all. It feels like it’s literally been decades since anything’s had the kind of gently caress awful cuts or bans that were the norm while that uptight arsehole was calling the shots. Last thing I recall was Obi-Wan headbutting Jango Fett in AtoC, some dope decided that it would encourage kids to go around headbutting each other.
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As if random hooligans would need a Jedi to show them how to headbutt someone.
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Sentinel Red posted:Everything you wrote is bollocks. In Scotland at least, if kids were going to be encouraged to headbutt each other, surely it'd just be from seeing their dad in a pub.
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Sentinel Red posted:Everything you wrote is bollocks. Where would be the right thread to ask about weird British censorship bullshit?
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Skwirl posted:In Scotland at least, if kids were going to be encouraged to headbutt each other, surely it'd just be from seeing their dad in a pub. "Scotland actually has it's own style of martial art. Yeah, it's called gently caress You. It mostly involves headbutting people, and kicking them while they're on the ground."
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El Gallinero Gros posted:"Scotland actually has it's own style of martial art. Yeah, it's called gently caress You. It mostly involves headbutting people, and kicking them while they're on the ground." An underrated classic.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Scotland actually has it's own style of martial art
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VanSandman posted:Where would be the right thread to ask about weird British censorship bullshit? There's a general questions thread in CineD. Edit: I was going to get you a link, but it's pinned on the front page of CineD. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Nov 1, 2018 |
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Now I think about it, The Evil Dead used to staight up banned, I’m sure of it. That, Driller Killer and a host of others that you’re just as likely to find showing on Horror on any given weeknight now. I want to say The Texas Chainsaw Massacre too, even but not entirely sure. The Exorcist was basically only viewable at repository cinemas for years, it didn’t get cleared for home release until the mid/late 90s I think. God, he was such a tosser. Even in the 90s they were still liable to freak out. Tarantino sent them into fits of apoplexy, Reservoir Dogs and Natural Born Killers got a load of heat. A lot of it was due to media shitstirring, there was one film critic in particular, Alexander Walker of the London Evening Standard, who was always getting outraged over something or other. Oh god, the fuss over A Clockwork Orange, hah. Region locked DVDs/BluRays aren’t so much of a thing these days. The main reason for bothering is to get hold of special Criterion editions, obscure releases that no one bothers to release in the region, or if something did get censored but like I said, since Ferman quit, things have been immeasurably better on that front.
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Sentinel Red posted:The actual reason was because some fuckwit called James Ferman ended up as head of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and he had a massive hate boner against graphic violence in films and banned the poo poo out of loads of 70s and 80s exploitation flicks, and imposed scores of cuts on others (so getting hold of the US version of, say, Robocop on VHS could make you the most popular kid in school for the summer). He particularly hated nunchuks not because they represented the ‘sinster, far more dangerous technology of the inscrutable orientals’ but because guns were hard to come by while any dope could get hold of a chain and some sticks. Bruce Lee made it look like the coolest poo poo in the world so every kid was desperate to go to Ninja 2000 and get hold of some. Fun fact: James Ferman was actually an American expat. Best line from his Wikipedia page: quote:On his retirement from the BBFC, Ferman called for a relaxation of the restrictions applied to hardcore pornography in the UK, suggesting that this would discourage illegal material. Apparently the reason he was never heard from again was that he died a couple of years after he retired.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Fun fact: James Ferman was actually an American expat. It's like when cops realize legal weed would actually take power away from drug gangs.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Fun fact: James Ferman was actually an American expat. Actually not entirely a surprise, we’ve been far less bothered about sex than violence for long while now, haven’t we? Nothing everyone loves more than a steamy costume romp on BBC2/C4. Ah, all those French ‘art’ films C4 would show back in the day. Halcyon days.
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# ? Nov 1, 2018 21:33 |
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Being okay with kids seeing sex instead of violence is probably healthier than the American approach of extreme violence but no nudity. An episode of Hannibal got flagged because you could see the butt crack on a corpse, the solution was to digitally add blood covering up the crack.
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Skwirl posted:Being okay with kids seeing sex instead of violence is probably healthier than the American approach of extreme violence but no nudity. One of the positive things about having the government set the age limits for movies is that the process is 100% transparent and they have to make the case that it is actively harmful for kids to see the movie. One of the downsides is that they can straight up ban the movie.
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Sentinel Red posted:Everything you wrote is bollocks. I'm pretty sure that's about the same as what I said.
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Lurdiak posted:
No you were most definitely chatting poo poo.
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:No you were most definitely chatting poo poo.
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VanSandman posted:Where would be the right thread to ask about weird British censorship bullshit? no joke, but ask in the UKMT in D&D. We used to have a list of massive effort posts about stuff like this, but it's been lost to the winds of time but if you ask someone could probably provide you with a link to it e: all of the effort posts are collected on this blog ShaneMacGowansTeeth fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Nov 2, 2018 |
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:no joke, but ask in the UKMT in D&D. We used to have a list of massive effort posts about stuff like this, but it's been lost to the winds of time but if you ask someone could probably provide you with a link to it This link has led me down a rabbit hole of long, rambling posts that talk at length about British Politics, technology and attempts by the law to deal with the Internet. Occasionally interspersed with humour. This is so in my wheelhouse you wouldn't believe. This is the best thing I've read all day. Thank you.
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# ? Nov 3, 2018 00:14 |
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that's a really mean thing to say to a guy whose legs were just bitten off by a shark
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:that's a really mean thing to say to a guy whose legs were just bitten off by a shark Pfff, he just has really bad localised sunburn. Like he sticks his feet out of his car window or something.
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# ? Nov 3, 2018 05:37 |
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I don't blame her. That's some seriously awkward love-making.
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# ? Nov 3, 2018 06:19 |
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Since she can still talk, I guess he's making out with her forehead? So yeah.
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# ? Nov 3, 2018 18:08 |
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I suppose that's supposed to be the sunset way in the background but it looks like a red wall only feet away like the edge of the world in The Truman Show.
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# ? Nov 3, 2018 18:43 |
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Ms. Marvel #33: Ms. Marvel's having a little bit of trouble with her powers...
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# ? Nov 4, 2018 03:19 |
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Is the Shocker stealing golf clubs? Why? I know they can be expensive, but they're expensive in the "I want to play golf" sense, not the "steal and resell on the black market" sense.
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# ? Nov 4, 2018 03:29 |
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Think of all the crazy metals of the Marvel universe and how valuable a golf club made out of that would be
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Skwirl posted:Is the Shocker stealing golf clubs? Why? I know they can be expensive, but they're expensive in the "I want to play golf" sense, not the "steal and resell on the black market" sense. Looks like a duffle-bag with a pipe with an elbow attached to me.
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Proteus Jones posted:Looks like a duffle-bag with a pipe with an elbow attached to me. That makes less sense than golf clubs.
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Skwirl posted:That makes less sense than golf clubs. Obviously he's making some renovations to the Shock Shack.
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Kalli posted:Obviously he's making some renovations to the Shock Shack. I just noticed that the mailbox says Mr. Shocker.
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I really like this interpretation of Shocker as one of those outsider artist guys. Is there a panel where she walks into his backyard and it’s full of concrete statues of cowboys decorated with pieces of beer bottles?
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howe_sam posted:I just noticed that the mailbox says Mr. Shocker. Please, my father's Mr. Shocker.
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Wonder if that house is on Shock Street.
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Crom! I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it...
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Please don't doxx me
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Lol And also, because it's just a thing I have to do, I checked and you can see Supes concealing the pie in the 1st panel.
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