Labor

Was reading an article about some random upcoming Horror movie (The Hills run Red) and the Director said this, in regards to why he wasn't able to put his unrated cut on the DVD (the R version was actually shortened by 10 minutes due to ratings reason supposedly)

http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=11853

This would explain why they actually bothered to submit the Friday the 13th extended cut to the MPAA...I have no particular interest in this movie, but I wonder what their reasoning for doing away with Unrated DVDs is?

Alan Smithee

Will they release NC-17 rated movies?

tylergfoster

I have this movie to review for DVDTalk and I was wondering why it wasn't Unrated. Interesting.

drak b

Given that it’s Warner Brothers, they’ll probably take them off the marketplace for a short while and then bring them back on only Blu-Ray editions of their movies as yet another 'exclusive' incentive for that wonderful technology…

dkedvd

Yay! Again Warner Brothers screwing the fans of their movies/shows over. There was a time I used to like Warner Brothers but over the years they have gotten waaaaaay too P.C. and and just stopped caring about the fans. I love DVDs (obviously) but part of me thinks the popularity of the format has given studios too much power over what they put on it. They can do whatever they want and they know it will still sell. And this goes for a lot of things. Not just the topic of this thread. But I guess that's just how it will always be. You audience's money first... your audience themselves... second.

Giles

Warner Bros. I swear is run by a bunch of retarded donkeys - they keep changing their tune and policy on this like its deciding which pair of socks to wear.

Gizmo

How long before chris and/or phillip arrive?

moviezzz

I don't believe this is the case.

Warner is about to release the unrated directors cut of NATURAL BORN KILLERS, a title they had in the past licensed out to another studio.

If anything, they have gotten more liberal with their releases.

dkedvd

Perhaps but I doubt we'll ever see those last two Tom & Jerry cartoons.

PixyJunket

Most of the unrated stuff nowadays is just a marketing gimmick anyway. Let them submit older films that have reason to be released that way to be rerated (like F13) and keep the deleted scenes of new movies deleted as opposed to sloppily sticking them back into the movie and making them "UNRATED EXXXTREME" editions like everyone else does.

inri222

I would agree, especially after them putting these out :




Still waiting for this one though :

Giles

given how much attention the transfer for 'Cruising' was given, I'm surprised that it wasn't given a blu-ray release.... as for 'The Devils' - when pigs fly.

LeeVing

i think that's just what they told the director of a straight-to-dvd horror movie...maybe his unrated cut was just tooooo graphic.

Warner is even putting out the Harry Potter movies in extended form...which is the same thing as "unrated".

Giles

sort of, but not really. 'Unrated' in the days of VHS was always the indication that the restored footage was violence and/or sex that had been clipped at the bequest of the MPAA. Now a days if a studio wants to restore a movie of any footage, objectionable or not, they really don't have to resubmit and repay the Classification and Rating Administration to go through the whole process again.

philip74

what could i still add
typical corporation with a huge hierarchy where everbody is probably just
trying to protect their own ass and they are miles away of putting
their minds into what clients really want.
smaller labels are usually trying much much harder to meet the customer and fan wishes and are more flexible to meet those demands and wishes.
still i think warner has become the most arrogant from the big studios, because if they were the least bit interested in their customers, they wouldn`t just ignore any customer emails.
you can already tell that they fear customer contact more than the devil
the holy water, by the fact that they don`t even list any email addresses
on their site
what i simply don`t understand is the fact that the industry is constantly
crying about dropping dvd sales, but their releases are getting more and
more effortless, rather than trying even harder to put the best product possible out.

-TRANCE-

Warner just sucks now plain and simple.

Labor

Nope. Warner submitted the Extended Harry Potter cuts to the MPAA, they are rated PG as well.

Living Dead

Is The Hills Run Red over two hours?

WMAangel

+1

I'm looking forward to watching my NBK unrated BD soon too!

Look at the original quote...the guy says "from my understanding", therefore he is merely drawing his own conclusions based only on whatever information he has and his own situation....the upcoming NBK release obviously is evidence that this is not some actual "policy change", but probably something that is looked at on a case by case basis....

tylergfoster

The Hangover gets both R and Unrated cuts, so it looks like this guy was fed some misinformation by WB.

Rypro 525

is NBK getting re released on regular DVD in its unrated/nc-17 version too? I'd love to retire my shitty looking non anamorphic Trimark version

MTRodaba2468

Not quite. Unrated means exactly that. It hasn't been rated by the MPAA.

If they were to submit an extended cut or "Director's Cut" to the MPAA, it wouldn't be unrated, which is what they did for the Harry Potter extended cuts.

LeeVing

yeah..ok. so using Harry Potter as an example wasn't a good idea. I know what "unrated" means. I just didn't know that Warner submitted the extended cuts to the MPAA.

I still don't buy it.

Unrated cuts sell so much better than theatrical. Now everyone expects them to be released.

Space_Monkey

Great... First they start screwing us DVD purchasers with single disc theatrical releases with sub par features while the Blu owners get director cuts and all special features that would fit on the dvd(i.e Terminator Salvation, Trick r' Treat). Now comes the end of unrated cuts!
Warner was almost consistently on the top of my list for dvd studios but I can see those days are over.

godzilla rules

I think that they are only going to release "unrated" versions of movies on Blu-ray. It makes sense taking into account what they are doing now.