Your "favorite" editied for content by the studio examples.
 

Here's a few to start people off:

- The fact that in Eyes Wide Shut, a movie totally about sex, was edited, having bodies covering some sex acts in an orgy scene. I mean, hell no, someone who goes into a Kubrick film about underground sex world might get offended if those bodies weren't there! :D :D :D (yes, I know the real reason was to get a lower rating, but I'm looking at the end result here.)

- A PG version of the Pg 13 film, Josie and the Pussycats was made and released. What the hell are those studio execs smoking? what kind of idea was this?

- Warner Brothers editing Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, replacing whole animated scenes, changing the story, turning RED PAINT to PURPLE. Using the world "ice" instead of "kill" and various other things. And then when people asked if these rumors were true they simply lied, saying "No."

- The original title of 8 Crazy Nights was "Whitey & Davey", but it was changed because it sounded politically incorrect.

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There are some edited lines from movies that I find very funny while at the same time detesting the practice of editing them with all of my might.

Here's an example.

Scarface (1983):
"This country's like a great big pu**y waiting to be f**ked"
was edited to...
"This country's like a great big chicken waiting to get plucked."

While i have yet to see this different version i can't help but wonder:

The Powerpuff Girls movie

The regular PG-13 movie and the "clean" version.

What exactly is there to take out of this movie to make it clean?

Sh*t, its the Powepuff Girls...not Robocop.

no its teh pg movie, and the edited g movie which must have gotten canceled since you cant find it anywhere.

The original Spider-man teaser isn't on the DVD because the World Trade Center appears in it.

Our Showcase channel in Canada did a commercial mocking other networks that editted movies, whereas they air them uneditted. It went something like the following:

The movie was The Usual Suspects. The scene was the lineup where they all had to say "Give me the keys, you f*&king c**ksucker". They said, aren't you tired of channels that air movies like this: "Give me the keys, you fuzzy socksucker". :)

See sig for one of the most infamous examples. :)

Hell, just have a quick gander at the "Love Conquers All" version of Brazil that Universal tried to shove down all our throats (a cut which deleted 48 minutes from what Gilliam submitted). It was truly a great service by Criterion that both the inferior, unholy studio hack version -- as well as Gilliam's 142 minute version -- were both included in their Brazil DVD set.

Well, I'm not talking about TV edits, although those are funny.

I'm talking about studio edits made during the films production, and sometimes after it...

Two that I know of:

in Galaxy Quest
While trying to get through the gauntlet in the bowels of the ship Sigourney Weaver's character says:
"Well screw that!"
but it is clear by watching her lips that she really said:
"Well f**k that!"

And in The Fast and the Furious
One of the cops says something to Paul Walker like:
I've seen her pictures too...
but he really said:
I'd beat off to her pictures too...

I always wondered why a alternate take wasnt used in place of just dubbing over the word.

You know, Ive owned this DVD for a year now, and I've never watched the "unholy" version (I actualy saw it in the theater as a teen and I remmember loving it - hell, I was 16, give me a break). I am now going to set aside some time to watch that "3rd" disc.

the r-rated version of 'storytelling' places a large red box over the characters in a sex scene. i thought that was pretty funny.

"Unholy" third disc...
 

Please provide a follow-up posting once you have watched the so-called Love Conquers All version again -- I am quite interested as to what your take will be...

My understanding with Josie and the Pussycats is that the film was originally submitted and intended to be rated PG, and that they forced the director into making it PG-13 for release.

Studio bungled it, but it's a tough to prove to someone that this is secretly a good movie. You just have to sit a person down and force them to watch it.

Hime, interesting. Either way, the studio did something really stupid.