I would. In fact, I can’t imagine anyone being able to use one without being ridiculed.
What the hell are you talking about?
Well, if they had young kids and wanted to control what they saw at home, it is their perrogative.
It might be pointing out the obvious, but if you want to control what the kids see you could… um…
Not put in a DVD with questionable content.
They have these rating things now…
And unless there’s some new option where the DVD player scans ahead several seconds and matches words that sound similar to swear words against a database (besides adding to the price I doubt this is even practical)… I don’t think we’ll have to worry about that.
Watch me eat my words as someone links to a product at wal mart or something…
Hope your words taste good, because here is the product link at Walmart.
I would more likely roll my eyes because it would appear to be another instance of parents neglecting there role. Rather than monitoring what their children see they would rather some technology to become the “parent”.
Let’s just say I wouldn’t bother watching movies at his house…
So do you guys all have moral objections to movies on TBS or Comedy Central that have been edited for content?
I’m not really seeing the difference.
I don’t object to nudity or sex or swearing. I DO, however, object to grossout gags and overly explicit depictions of violence. If I had an option to buy a tamed-down version of most popular movies, I would. I’m serious, it’s gotten to the point where I wonder if I’m going to vomit when I watch some scenes.
Many filmmakers seem to feel that no film is complete without at least one scene completely covered in blood and/or vomit. I would enjoy watching those movies WITHOUT that scene (which is put in to get that coveted R rating).
Fortunately for me, there’s plenty of older movies out on DVD or VHS, which I can rent or buy and watch to my heart’s content.
My daughter is 24 now, and perfectly capable of deciding what she wants to watch. When she was in her teens, though, and wanted to watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show, I let her watch my copy. But first I warned her about the scene that showed a half-eaten Eddie. Incidentally, she somewhat enjoyed it, though she was rather put off when I insisted that she watch it again, with me, while I recited all the audience participation lines. I didn’t throw anything, though, that’s MY living room and I have to pick it up!
Actually, I do.
Removing parts of the movie that are objectionable, usually defeats the purpose of the movie. Sometimes the swearing, drinking and drug use are essential to the movie, and removing them takes away from the movie.
If they’re going to show the movie, show it the way it was meant to be seen.
If they started programming them to censor stupidity, I might be interested. You know, just put up a quick message saying “5 minute set-up culminating in crotch gag” or “same dumb gag they used in the first two movies, followed by joke about how they’re just recycling old material”. You could watch Austin Powers 3 in under ten minutes with something like that.
Damn… the one time I don’t google it…
Ignore everything from “And unless” on. 
yes…yes I would
Sometimes, of course, the swearing, drinking, drug use, whatever, is simply put into the movie to show how cool a certain person is. Watch some movies from the 60s and 70s sometime, and laugh at the drug scenes. I think that most of the drinking,drugging, and whoring are simply posturing, not Making An Artistic Statement. Of course, as I stated, my personal edit material would be gratuitous violence, I probably wouldn’t skip over swearing (unless it got to be boring) or drug/alcohol use (unless, again, it got boring).
Precious few movies are really Art, and have a Great Statement To Make. Let’s not pretend that they are, all right? Most of them are really just consumer goods, which were created with the express intention of spending as little in the way of resources for the maximum amount of profit. And there’s nothing wrong with that, as long as we aren’t pretending that we are, indeed, getting Fine Art. Wanting to watch a movie without seeing a lot of gore is, in my mind, the equivalent of wanting to eat canned ravioli (one of my guilty pleasures) without a lot of rat shit in it.
I think it’d be even MORE fun to watch movies at his house. You could be the official DVD compensator, shouting “PENIS!!!” or “This is the part when he fucks her in the ass and she begs for more!” at the moments when that word or those scenes are cut out.
Indeed, I would laugh, and cluck my tongue. There would probably be some head-shaking involved, too.
I mean, I wouldn’t try to hinder you from buying and using such a device. That’s your call, and your right. But I’d still think it was ridiculous.
Only if someone tried to force me to use such a player would I start making a fuss. (To put it mildly.)
Wow, you guys are really showing your age (or lack thereof) if you can’t even imagine anyone being upset at hearing “foul language” and preferring to avoid it.
If I were in charge of supplying entertainment at an old folks’ home, for instance, you can **** well believe I’d be ******* interesting in buying a self-censoring DVD player.
(Especially if Snooooopy were there. I’d love to see the reactions that would get.)
How about a self-un-censoring DVD player? As if , every so often, you had to clean out all the clogged-up gross scenes and foul language by running them onto another DVD? Would that be a big seller?
“Martha, I don’t remember there being so many barf jokes in Casablanca.”
“Yes, but the sex scenes are better on this edition.”
I wonder what this ClearPlay™ technology would do with The Passion of the Christ? Would it play in like 15 minutes, fast-forwearding through the graphic violence? Or would there be many minutes of blacked-out screen?
If I recall, the scene at the dinner table, the chunk of eddie looks esstinally like a giant chicken mcnugget. I didn’t remember it being particulary disgusting looking.