WTBS Butchers Movies and I'm Sick Of It

I'm Boycotting This Stupid Station

Published on May 8, 2005 By MasonM In Misc

This is the content of an email I just sent to television station WTBS:

Dear TBS;

Who does your movie editing, a chimpanzee? You people butchered The Matrix, cutting out key scenes and dialog which are very important to the movie. For example the entire "there is no spoon" scene was cut. This scene was very important to the premise of the movie and was casually discarded!

This sort of movie butchering for the sake of making commercial time is inexcusable as it completely ruins the film. I, for one, will no longer watch your station as you obviously couldn't care less about the integrity of the movies you show. I will also be contacting my numerous friends and family via internet to encourage them to also boycott your station in the interest of film integrity.

This is not the first time I have noticed the thoughtless editing of films on your station without any regard for the integrity of the film, but I can assure you that it will be the last time for me and many others.

If you care at all about this kind of film butchering, let them hear from you.

Comments

latour999

on May 08, 2005

Gotta love it when they use sub-standard means to remove profanity too. "You eat pieces of sh-scum for breakfast?"

MasonM

on May 08, 2005

Well, I can understand cleaning up language a bit, even when they do a bad job of it. But cutting out important scenes entirely? It's time people starting complaining about this crap.

Yeah, I know, there are more important problems in the world, but when a station broadcasts a film, it should be kept intact enough to make sense.

Ionolast

on May 08, 2005

Have you heard that commercial networks speed up the films just a little?

This is why I rarely watch or record anything from a commercial network. If I do record it, I copy it and keep the commercials out of the copy, or just wait for the DVD to be released.

What really pisses me off are the pop-up ads. I sent Spike TV a very angry Email the other day. They're bad enough without being animated. They move from top to bottom or from left to right, they sort of explode all over the screen and some of them are about a third of the size of the picture.

Gene Nash

on May 09, 2005

That's the crap you've got to expect when trying to watch films on commercial TV. I rarely bother anymore, unless I've already seen the film, even then sometimes it's too much. For instance, Family Channel cuts the entire ending of Hope Floats, including the line that explains the title!

About the only time it's relatively safe is when the disclaimer at the front doesn't say "this film has been edited for content."

Have you heard that commercial networks speed up the films just a little?

I don't mind time-compression much unless it's so obvious as to be distracting. In an unnecessarily long movie such as Sphere it can even be helpful. I wish my DVD player had that feature sometimes!

What really pisses me off are the pop-up ads. I sent Spike TV a very angry Email the other day. They're bad enough without being animated. They move from top to bottom or from left to right, they sort of explode all over the screen and some of them are about a third of the size of the picture.

Yes! And the one's with sound effects. Too bloody distracting. Or the "You are watching... Next you'll see..." ones that take up half the screen.

Gene Nash

on May 09, 2005

unless it's so obvious as to be distracting.

For instance, I've seen comedies where the timing was totally destroyed. Back in the early days of the technique, they used it on the syndicated broadcast TV version of the final episode of Showtime's Brothers series so they wouldn't have to cut it any. The technology was so inferior to what we have today that the image was as jerky as a 3 frames per second RealVideo file.

Ionolast

on May 09, 2005

Yes! And the one's with sound effects. Too bloody distracting. Or the "You are watching... Next you'll see..." ones that take up half the screen

Yeah, I forgot about those.

ParaTed2k

on May 09, 2005

Ya know what I hate? I hate it when I turn on the TV and watch only what my family and I want to watch, when we want to watch it, with no pop ups, no commercial breaks and no...

no wait a minute, I love that, that's why I dumped the dish AND cut the cable, now we it on, we watch it and life is good!! ;~D

latour999

on May 09, 2005

The worst movie to watch on commercial TV has to be Total Recall. They had to take out so much stuff: The guy used as a human shield, the swearing granny, and most of the blood and violence. I mean, without the blood and violence, why watch it?

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