39.1 Why are some of the movies I rent at Blockbuster different from the same movie I rent at "Joe's House of Video"? Is Mommy Blockbuster editing them?
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This article is from the Sex Movies FAQ, by director@gti.net (The Director) with numerous contributions by others.
39.1 Why are some of the movies I rent at Blockbuster different from the same movie I rent at "Joe's House of Video"? Is Mommy Blockbuster editing them?
Okay - you rented "The Getaway" at Joe's, and saw some pretty hot
scenes of Alec Baldwin porking and muff-munching on Kim Basinger.
That turned you on, so when you and your buds decided to down a few
brews and watch it again, you went to Blockbuster for it. No
muff-munching, he just played with her tits a little, your friends
were bummed out, and they won't ever trust your judgment again.
What happened? Were you imagining things? Blockbuster didn't want
you to see the delectable Ms. Basinger get snacked out, and trimmed
the flick?
Here's what happens: Blockbuster has a long-standing policy of not
stocking anything any feature that hasn't been rated by the MPAA
(Motion Picture Arts Association - the industry trade group for the
movie studios). Therefore, when a studio wants to put out a video,
if they can't put an "R" or lower rating on the box, Blockbuster
won't buy it. (For what it's worth, BB isn't the only chain with
this policy.)
In the case of "The Getaway", what you didn't notice was that the
copy you rented at Blockbuster was in a black box with "rated "R""
underneath the title. Meanwhile, the one you got at Joe's was in
a red box with, the special
UNCUT, UNRATED VERSION
prominently displayed on the box.
I tend to regard the theatrical version of a film as canon, the
movie you rent at Blockbuster is almost invariably the exact same
version of the movie that you saw at the theatres, so technically
the Blockbuster version is the unedited version, and the Joe's
version is the (re)edited version.
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