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Poor filming or just censored?

posted 21 years ago by soup13
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I saw Changing Lanes on DVD and thought two scenes were a bit odd:

The car accident that Ben Affleck had. He was driving and Samuel l Jackson cruise by in a taxi. Jackson showed Affleck soemthing in this hand. Next, Affleck's car wheel came off and he crashed. Why did his wheel came off?

Jackson came out from the bar. He made a phone call from the payphone. The two guys came out from the bar too and shouted at him. They approached him and before another word was said, Jackson is seen beating these guys up. Did these guys said something real bad when they reached the phone booth to cause Jackson go violent?

This is one strange movie that the story/filming just don't flows. Or has certain parts of the movie been censored/cut from the DVD? Is something missing here?

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[–] soup13 21 years ago

Ok, That's does it. The DVD I had is from Canada and from what you tell me, the 2 scenes has been cut.

I think Paramount Pictures and their distributer in Canada acted distastefully in cutting the movie. At least, put a consumer info label saying this is a edited version.

Anyone thinking of cheap shopping in Canada gotta think twice. Never buy movies in Canada unless you can accept the cuts.

I know of another badly cut movie, not only it's cut, the scene is doctored and this movie is Point Break.

No more DVD buying in Canada.

[–] BradP36 20 years ago

i bought this dvd in canada and mine is fine

[–] soup13 20 years ago

>> i bought this dvd in canada and mine is fine

Strange, I bought mine from Future Shop. I see why the DVD is sold at C$15. Where did you buy it from? It seems that Paramount Pictures has 2 different version of the movie, one for US and one for Canada. The back cover of the DVD has some wording like "For Distribution in Canada" or something to that effect. In fact, the back cover art has different pictures from the US version.

[–] mikeavelli 8 years ago

Future Shop, hahaha...that sounds so Canada. Let me ask you, did you have to skate there. Unn itt troll

[–] Movie_Buff99 20 years ago

Sorry, but since when are Canadian-distributed films cut up? I never noticed that.

"I know that someone, somewhere, will read this and think, 'F*cking bastard.'" - Orlando

[–] soup13 20 years ago

If you didn't notice it, then the movies you bought are probably the US versions. This DVD I had was cut, I know they are confirmed cuts in Point Break and Species II, to name a few. And a suspected cut for Killing Me Softly (I haven't seen the US version, so this is only suspected). Most of the cuts has to do with nudity, sexuality or violence. Changing Lanes was really screwed up by the Canadian distributors. I think I will stop buying movies from Canada.

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[–] North-3 20 years ago

Hi,

Under DVD details for Point Break, all the region 1 DVDs are 122 minutes. The non-Region 1 DVDs are 118 minutes.

The reason why DVDs are packaged differently for Canada is because there's two official languages, French and English, and both have to be represented on the packaging, either on the same side, or on the two different sides.

In some cases, the packaging is cooler here in Canada. The DVD cover for Atom Egoyan's film Exotica is classier than the American version. Also, the 3 disc set for The Pianist was sold here in Canada, not the U.S. One of the discs was the soundtrack, yes, but the other discs had the movie and extras separated on different discs, which allows for less compression and better quality for the movie for the Canadian version.

Also, look at CDs... Eurythmics' Greatest Hits in Canada didn't have their annoying single The King And Queen Of America which the American version did, and instead of 14 songs, there's 18 songs!

The Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels soundtrack (American version) had something like, 11 songs, plus 7 dialogue tracks, so a total of 18 tracks. In Canada, our version was the same as Britain's: 16 or 17 songs (I forget if track 23 was a dialogue track or song), with added dialogue snippets, which make for 27 tracks. I didn't have to pay import prices for mine, since this 27 track was released domestically here in Canada.

For the previous writer, I watched the Canadian DVD for Changing Lanes, Samuel L. Jackson is spinning that tool (lug wrench for tires) in his hands at 1:01:00 to 1:01:03 (in Chapter 10). In the previous shot of Samuel L. Jackson, he's holding a lug nut. He must have taken more then one off to have the wheel come off.

Outside the bar, during the 0:38 minute mark, the two guys are saying things to Samuel L. Jackson like: Do you wanna play golf? We didn't like it. Talkin' to your daddy? (I could hear them, and I double-checked with the subtitles on)...

So no, this wasn't censored or cut. Why would it have been?

Cheers

[–] hardstuff1000 20 years ago

From what you are saying it would appear that only a few seconds are missing, are you sure your disk isn't scratched or even smudged? I know in the past when I have been watching a DVD it has sometimes skipped a few seconds and when I ejected the disk I could see my finger print on the disk and once I cleaned it, it worked fine. I can't see why any distributor would cut part of a scene out, when nothing in the missing footage could cause offence.

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[–] North-3 20 years ago

Hi,

As I explained further down to another message, (here's the exact wording):

I watched the Canadian DVD for Changing Lanes, Samuel L. Jackson is spinning that tool (lug wrench for tires) in his hands at 1:01:00 to 1:01:03 (in Chapter 10). In the previous shot of Samuel L. Jackson, he's holding a lug nut. He must have taken more then one off to have the wheel come off.

Outside the bar, during the 0:38 minute mark, the two guys are saying things to Samuel L. Jackson like: Do you wanna play golf? We didn't like it. Talkin' to your daddy? (I could hear them, and I double-checked with the subtitles on)...

So no, this wasn't censored or cut. Why would it have been?

Cheers

[–] 666Night999 20 years ago

Wow, you don't pay attention. Your questions make it obvious you don't know how to watch a movie.

[–] North-3 20 years ago

------Wow, you don't pay attention. Your questions make it obvious you don't know how to watch a movie.------

Me, or Soup13?

[–] 666Night999 20 years ago

The person who started this thread. I can't see how they'd get a copy of a movie with scenes taken out, if that's what they claim. That Soup13 person.

[–] parth-2 20 years ago

you're right night66999. This has nothing to do with Canadian censoring.

Holding up a nut and a jack with a menacing expression kind of implies the car has been sabotaged. This is obvious.

And the guys outside the pub? As night66999 said they were provoking him on the street. SL Jackson was flustered and they were interrupting his important phone conversation. As his character has an explosive temper, he lashed out. Obvious.