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Aug 19, 2004 I was watching televison the other night and it showed a commercial of the movie, “Taking Lives” with Angelina Jolie. The DVD is an unrated version of the movie. If you haven’t seen Taking Lives, it is a very violent movie, so when you take unrated and violence and stick them in a blender you’re going to be more than what you bargained for, right? Wrong. I saw six minutes of material that wasn’t in the movie, and wasn’t really unrated. Atleast, it didn’t freak me out. Another movie coming out on DVD and also has the dreaded unrated version is a film I didn’t even waste my time on; “The Girl Next Door”. As you know by previews, The Girl Next Door is about a woman about the age of eighteen who decides to live in the suburbs and falls in love with a guy who is about sixteen. (Isn’t that illegal?) Naturally the guy is supposed to have a heart of gold, but he lets his little head think for his big head. Of course if a porn star lived next door to me, I wouldn’t be mean to her, but I wouldn’t fall in love with her either, because I personally don’t want to be number 626 of the sloppy seconds on her list. Anyway, the unrated version is supposed to have the “star”, and I use that term loosely, Elisha Cuthbert being more sexy and more provocative, I’m not saying nudity, because I’m guessing she’s done that in the rated version. Another movie was an oldie, but goodie film called, “The Transformers: The Movie”. I remember buying the film because of a little yellow label on the top. Yep, you guessed it, unrated version. I thought, “unrated? It’s a friggin cartoon, what do they mean unrated?” I bought the cartoon and hurried home to watch the film. Sure enough the “unrated” version only had one small little detail that wasn’t in the movie, and it was a derogatory statement; in other words, the S-word, or what some people call when they are describing feces. I was expecting more violence or more scenes. Nope, all I got was s**t. I remember when labels used to be taboo; if you saw a sign with three x’s on it, you would be like, “oh my god, it’s porn!” But now when you see three x’s you run away from it thinking Vin Diesel will be in the film trying to act his way out of something. I use the term act loosely. It seems that labels are just not what they used to be anymore. It seems companies use labels to tickle the interest you have that you will get more than you bargained for. If a movie is rated PG-13 you’ll probably not see it, even though it has an Alien and a Predator in it. But you will go out and see a rated R movie that has a hockey mask freak fight a burnt victim who has an interest in knives. I know I did, and I loved it! Don’t get me wrong, I’m the same way when it comes to labels. If I go to Wal-Mart and see a video game that is rated Teen, but is supposed to be violent, I won’t be too susceptible in buying it then I would a game that is rated Mature. Of course, I would ask the pretty clerk with red hair and glasses to give me the Grand Theft Auto game than the Madden game. Maybe I should use labels on my next book, An Apocalyptic Dream, coming in 2005. Warning, this book will give you nightmares. You’ll be seeing kids lining up for that. ------------ About the author Eric Schomburg: Visit http://www.geocities.com/schomburg2002. The website is about my novel, One of a Kind, a story about a young boy who possess the powers of the natural elements. Email: schomburg2002@yahoo.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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