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The NC-17 cut is not all that different. You get some additional frontal nudity, etc.
That’s right, Johnny, and we never will! Hahaha, serves you right for doing absolutely nothing to us… all we wanted was revenge (for nothing)!
In the cases where there are multiple versions, like unrated or whatever it may be, I usually go for the unrated or higher rated version. Not because of the contents but because of the implication that a film was intended to be seen a certain way and that’s the way I intend on watching it.
^ I agree with that as a general principle . . . although many films are in fact now intended to be seen more than one way . . . the director knows going in that he’s doing to do two cuts and prepares both himself, so the intentionality isn’t as clear cut as when, for example a film is taken away from a director and recut by someone else. It’s often little more than a marketing device these days.
^matt- yeah, that kind of bothers me about movies these days. especially comedies. why go to the theatrical version when all the funny parts are in the unrated version?
Yeah, it seems pretty cynical to be consciously designing the marketing campaign to double-sell a movie.
But as to your original question, since this is Bertolucci, it is worth considering that he has had a distinctive presentation of sex and nudity in his work. So even if the trimmed version isn’t much different, I’d still go with the film as he intended it.
Im in England and i saw it on tv uncut
I’ve been meaning to rent this flick for a long time. I’m in love with Eva Green and this is when I first heard about her. Anyways the simple fact here is that Downbylaw is right… it’s Bertolucci and sex in his films is as important as dialogue in a Woody Allen film.
I think the turning point for Unrated cut of a film was “American Pie”…. seriously. That was one of the first big selling comedies on dvd and that seemed to slowly set the trend for films of that genre. Then eventually bad horror films seem to jump on the same bandwagon. Only once in a blue moon does an unrated cut have impact anymore of an american film. Hell even the director of The Hangover disowned the Unrated dvd/blu ray edition of that film because he said it was a rough cut and the studio persuaded him to use it.
I think the last time an Unrated cut meant anything was the 90s. Wether it be Basic Instinct, The Getaway Remake etc.
johnny
i just picked this up really cheap at the bookstore down the street. when i got home i realized it was the R rated version. should i regret having got this version?
i’m almost always a completist, the longer the better
if a movie is good, i think it should keep going as long as possible.
but i also am not into sex scenes in movies. unless they’re important to the plot, which i assume is the case here.
should i not even watch this sacrilegious edit, or not worry about it?