# No the fuck you didn't just censor my video rental! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 4, 2003, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-fuck-you-didnt-just-censor-my-video-rental/192829 "2003-08-04T03:36:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pencilpusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d6d6ee/32.png) [@pencilpusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pencilpusher)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-fuck-you-didnt-just-censor-my-video-rental/192829/41 "2003-08-05T13:58:52Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Miller \* > **One poster named “Parental Advisory” complaining about censorship, and another named "pencil** pusher_\*" complaining about drug use. Heh. \*\* **Miller** shut the fuck up :wally ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-fuck-you-didnt-just-censor-my-video-rental/192829/42 "2003-08-05T14:52:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tdn \* > \*\* > And what’s the deal in the OP with censoring drug use? To me that would be just as bad. Films like Traffic would be rendered meaningless, and the great works of Cheech and Chong would simply be banned. > > Fuck censorship altogether. \*\* Just for the record, I never said that they should censor drug use in the movies. It’s kinda like **Coldfires** post, make a movie about drugs, censor the nudity and swear words, what for? To market it to kids? I myself didn’t have a problem with the content of the movie, like I said, I liked the movie and generally don’t mind such things as drug use, nudity, swearing, etc… It just doesn’t make any sense to censor nudity and swearing, but widely unaccepted forms of drug use is ok? I’m basically calling who ever does this shit a hippocrite. That’s all, carry on. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-fuck-you-didnt-just-censor-my-video-rental/192829/43 "2003-08-05T15:30:54Z")
Reminds me of the great Lenny Bruce routine about watching a movie with kids (paraphrase) “Look, he’s going up to her - he’s probably going to stab her or choke her - whoops -he’s kissing her - he’s taking off her blouse! Kids, look away! I’m sorry you had to see that.” ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-fuck-you-didnt-just-censor-my-video-rental/192829/44 "2003-08-05T16:04:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Not sure if they have a policy of not carrying unrated films, but Hollywood definately does carry editied versions. The one I’m aware of is the oft mentioned “Requiem For a Dream.” Well, I’ve never seen a censored flick from Hollywood. However, I don’t gravitate towards movies that glorify drug use, either, so Requiem or whatever isn’t on my list of movies I have to watch. Like I said before, If I want to watch a new release, I go to Hollywood. If I want an Indie flick, I go elsewhere. Sam ---
**Author:** ![Tarrsk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@Tarrsk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarrsk)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-fuck-you-didnt-just-censor-my-video-rental/192829/45 "2003-08-05T17:17:29Z")
[hijack] _Requiem_ hardly glorifies drug use- it just shows it (and the nasty consequences) in rather disturbing detail. If anything, it’s the most effective anti-drug advertisement I’ve ever seen, showing a group of people, young and old alike, literally destroying their lives over a two hour period thanks to their addictions. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-fuck-you-didnt-just-censor-my-video-rental/192829/46 "2003-08-05T17:53:57Z")
Tarrsk, Someone said above the Requiem was “…was decidely anti-drug in the same vein as Trainspotting…”, and though it’s one of my favcorite movies, I never saw it as Anti-drug. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Sam ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-fuck-you-didnt-just-censor-my-video-rental/192829/47 "2003-08-05T17:55:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GaWd \* > \*\*Well, I’ve never seen a censored flick from Hollywood. However, I don’t gravitate towards movies that glorify drug use, either, so Requiem or whatever isn’t on my list of movies I have to watch. > > Like I said before, If I want to watch a new release, I go to Hollywood. If I want an Indie flick, I go elsewhere. > > Sam \*\* The censored version of “Over The Wire” (a Skinamax kinda film) was obtained from Hollywood Video. Don’t know if it qualifies for indie status. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-fuck-you-didnt-just-censor-my-video-rental/192829/48 "2003-08-05T18:10:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GaWd \* > \*\*Tarrsk, Someone said above the Requiem was “…was decidely anti-drug in the same vein as Trainspotting…”, and though it’s one of my favcorite movies, I never saw it as Anti-drug. > \*\* I said that and I think that it is. _Trainspotting_ = people wrecking their lives with hard drugs. _Requiem_ = people wrecking their lives with hard drugs. I don’t see how either movie could be considered to be glorifying drug use in any way. ---
**Author:** ![sirtonyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sirtonyh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sirtonyh)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-fuck-you-didnt-just-censor-my-video-rental/192829/49 "2003-08-05T18:46:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GaWd \* > \*\*Tarrsk, Someone said above the Requiem was “…was decidely anti-drug in the same vein as Trainspotting…”, > \*\* Requiem didn’t really condemn drug use (in a narrative sense) but you’d have to be a complete moron to try heroin after watching it. Trainspotting on the other hand didn’t really disuade me from trying heroin although to be fair it didn’t really encourage me either. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-fuck-you-didnt-just-censor-my-video-rental/192829/50 "2003-08-05T18:49:59Z")
_Requiem_ is most definitely an anti-drug movie, as over the course of two hours you watch entire families crumble to nothing losing all their hopes and dreams because of one drug or another. There is nothing whatsoever in that entire movie that glorifies the use of any kind of drug, from the guy and his girlfriend who want to open a fashion store to the middle-aged mother who desperately wants to fit into her red dress to be on television. That movie makes using drugs look like a horror worse than death. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-the-fuck-you-didnt-just-censor-my-video-rental/192829.md?page=2)