Date: 19 Jan 2011 09:49 pm (UTC)
Good point :D

Yeah, they certainly still do edit films for TV, but not quite to the same extent. And on channels like ITV, they tend to edit even evening/nighttime things for length nowadays instead of content, which can be kind of annoying if it's something you've seen before and it's suddenly missing scenes you remember watching previously. And even if you haven't seen it before, as you say, sometimes it's painfully obvious.

I do kind of miss those dubbed/hacked about versions of films, though - they were pretty amusing in themselves, especially if you were familiar with the uncut version. Probably the prize-winning example is the edit of Robocop they used to show on ITV in the early 90s, with practically every other line of dialogue (badly) redubbed and big whacking great jump-cuts in the middle of every action sequence to avoid the nasty bits. Hilarious stuff, really. I remember Hale and Pace doing a sketch parodying that sort of thing, which made me laugh a lot at the time (I was a teenage boy, probably the only demographic who ever laughed at Hale and Pace). So they were funny at least once in the course of their "comedy" career...and they were in Survival, so they had that too. ;D

Yeah, rewatching these things is all about expectations, I think, and management of same. Or just accepting them for what they are. The best feeling is when you watch something you hsve no great hopes for, and it turns out to be rather better than you were expecting.
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