Attack of the Clones Cut in UK

MartyJG writes "The British Board of Film Classification has demanded a cut in Ep2 AOTC for a head-butt. I don't know which is more extreme: UK viewers insisting on viewing the US version for 1 second of extra film, or that a 1 second cut means the difference between a '12' (~PG-13) and a 'PG' certificate. For some reason the distributors must think fewer people would see the film if it was a '12'. The film report is on the BBFC website."

Comments

Re:PG vs. 12 certificate

[Ngwenya]

It's a kid's movie, why shouldn't they make a 1-second cut that will allow kids to see it?

Exactly my point - I don't have a problem with it. Trouble is too many /. libertarians will launch into polemic screaming about the traducement of free speech

You know the sort of tired nonsense spouted by weedy types who don't get laid much - pinko Europeans, silly socialists, nanny state, censors, Hitler & the Nazis, yawn...

My point is that the Classification Board offer a choice - cut the film and keep the money, or refuse the cut and keep the film as Lucas intended. As a parent, I don't think losing a 1 second headbutt from a film will do that much damage to the film's value - so I'll be taking my 10 year old along to see it, even in this hideously bastardized form which the patriarchal elite have seen fit to butcher atavistically.

--Ng

NFL Europe?

[wackybrit]

Grow a brain, Europeans don't watch your stupid 'pick the ball up for two seconds then do nothing for two minutes' sport.