Batman Movies on DVD: Cut and Uncut?
12-31-04, 03:36 PM
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Batman Movies on DVD: Cut and Uncut?
Can anyone tell me if the r1 releases of the four Batman Movies were uncut?
Here in r2 (for the UK, other r2 versions were not cut) they were cut to achieve a lower certificate for cinema and Warner, in it's infinite wisdom, used the cut versions for the DVD releases (even though they're quite different markets).
Batman Forever suffered the most cuts. Notably - a scene where Two Face's goons swing chainsticks; Batman headbutting Two Face; Two Face shooting the pilot in the helicopter; Edward Nygma's murder of his boss (you don't see him actually fall to his death). Some lines were also removed such as Two Face (in the circus tent) saying "Batman. Broken. Crushed. Dead" (or something like that). All in all, about 1 1/2 minutes were removed.
Batman Returns had a couple of small cuts: a clown swinging chainsticks, and also Catwoman putting some aerosol cans in a microwave oven.
Can anyone advise?
Here in r2 (for the UK, other r2 versions were not cut) they were cut to achieve a lower certificate for cinema and Warner, in it's infinite wisdom, used the cut versions for the DVD releases (even though they're quite different markets).
Batman Forever suffered the most cuts. Notably - a scene where Two Face's goons swing chainsticks; Batman headbutting Two Face; Two Face shooting the pilot in the helicopter; Edward Nygma's murder of his boss (you don't see him actually fall to his death). Some lines were also removed such as Two Face (in the circus tent) saying "Batman. Broken. Crushed. Dead" (or something like that). All in all, about 1 1/2 minutes were removed.
Batman Returns had a couple of small cuts: a clown swinging chainsticks, and also Catwoman putting some aerosol cans in a microwave oven.
Can anyone advise?
12-31-04, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by FinkPish
As far as I know, nothing was censored from the DVD releases here.
But yeah, pretty sure there are no cuts in the R1 releases. Where did you here about the cuts in the R2 release? I'd like to read further about that. That sucks.
01-01-05, 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Lee Harvey Oswald
Near the end of Batman the part where Vicky Vale removes a piece of Joker's thread from her lip/tongue was cut.
