Saturday, July 08, 2006

Court Rules Against Sanitizing Films

This is disappointing. Hollywood is determined to decide what the public should see, and the courts have ruled that it's illegal to edit objectionable content from movies. (article here) Never mind my right to see a movie without the garbage that the director feels I need to see.

"Audiences can now be assured that the films they buy or rent are the vision of the filmmakers who made them and not the arbitrary choices of a third-party editor."

They make it sound like audiences have been duped and getting edited movies unwittingly and against their will - but those who go out of their way to rent or purchase edited movies obviously don't want the entire "vision" of the filmmakers. What's so bad about letting consumers have a choice?