The Energon Pub

Greetings All,

Ok so Vudu has rolled out a new family friendly setting whereby content such as cursing, nudity, substance abuse, and a few other objectionable activities can be muted or skipped over.

As a parent I can appreciate having such an option for smaller children. Personally I don't have any objection to certain content, but as an educational exercise, I'm watching Revenge of the Fallen...The edits are interesting to say the least, but I'm going to dare to say it actually makes the movie better

*edit* when it came to the scene where Alice seduces Sam in their dorm room, the app literally shut down the movie, I guess it couldn't handle/process what was going on, , also why this is still in Beta Testing. I wonder how it would handle an actual R rated film...

Hahaha wonder how it handles the promoting sexual relationships with those who are under age or whatever pointless crap that was in AoE. I can see how the censoring editing might make them better.

very useufl info

If you CHOOSE to use such an app to bucher and sabotage movies, books, or anything to remove "offensive" content, you do you.
It's if such thing get imposed on everyone that I'll take out the torch and pitchfork.

Seriously, the "but the children" excuse is lame and stupid. Instead of censoring a piece of media to make it "child friendly", just go with something made for children right from the start.
Beside, children are not dumb and will look up the things they are forbidden to look at with heighten interest. Especially in this easy internet age.

I also must point out that media don't have magical powers to hypnotise people. I'm a 1980's kid whose childhood movies were Conan the Barbarian, Robocop, Alien, Friday the 13th, The Nerds, Porky, Commando, Rambo, Cheech and Chong up in Smoke, and so on. (Only thing forbidden was clear cut pron, obviously).
So far, I didn't became a serial killer nor a raepist.

Of course, it's best to follow the age ratings for the media you want to expose your children to.
However, censoring a media to lower it's age rating or to follow some arbitrary "moral code" is pretty damn disgusting and disrespectful. No matter how "vulgar" that media is. Instead of censoring, just skip it. There's an infinite alternatives to watch after all.

Censoring works can make them funny as hell. I remember when I was in my church youth group as a kid, i'm thinking middle school age, we watched Driving Miss Daisy during a movie night. the youth group leader had found some device she hooked up to VCR (dating myself with this post ) that cut the audio and replaced it with curse free subtitles. Only kicked in a few times if I remember right, but it was sooo awkward.

Then there was the verion of band of brothers that aired on the History Channel, with the swear words dubbed over with less offensive language. You didn't need to know the real line to tell that was fake. Calling someone a "freaker" instead of you know...

The craziest part is censoring often make things LEWDER.

Case in point, the recent anime My Dress-Up Darling got the South Korean treatment for hilarious results:



Also, this classic:

Let's not forget the time that Marvel Comics decided a scene of Nick Fury making out with his love intrest was to suggestive and replced it with a pistol in a hoster, which writer/artist Jim Steranko pointed out was way more suggestive than anything he could have come up with.