rjh_54

I borrowed my brother's "8 Mile" DVD to watch either tonight or tomorrow night, and I noticed the spine said "Widescreen: Uncensored Bonus Materials". I did further research and found that the movie was released in FOUR editions:

1. Widescreen w/ uncensored bonus materials
2. Widescreen w/ censored bonus materials
3. Fullscreen w/ uncensored bonus materials
4. Fullscreen w/ censored bonus materials

Is that some sort of joke? I've never heard of a movie being released with the options of having the bonus materials uncensored or censored! Plus, I mean the movie is rated R because (as the back of the box states), there's strong language, sexuality, some violence, and drug use. Obviously the movie's got some foul language in it too, so why censor the bonus material?

I just find it really weird, that's all. That a movie of this nature would have to censor bonus material. Can anyone shed some light on this?

The Monkees

It's no joke, that's how it was originally released. It's just a gimmick, like having unrated versions of movies. Most of the time it's almost nothing. I've never seen the censored special features but I assume that the rap battles are bleeped. I know that it was mostly the rap battles that were "uncensored".

Kory

I think the only thing that was censored is the video for "Superman" has nudity in it that is blurred out or something along those lines. In the "uncensored" version, you can see tits in the video.

Rypro 525

also the so called uncensored dvd does edit out the line 'put anthrax on your tampax, and slap you till you can't stand', editing out the words 'anthrax' and 'slap'.

My Other Self

The tits were there even in the uncensored version which I had bought back on release day - but those words were indeed cut.

I remember when asked about it, Universal said that's how Interscope had supplied it so that's how it was released.