I've never done a "panic buy" before in my life but I found a used dvd copy of French Connection at a local used media store and I've never seen the movie before so I bought it.

What did you tell us?

So.

A needle pulling thread.

Thankfully, I still have the BD that was released in 2012, the Signature Series one.

Now you can give a hell yea when you hear the n word.

Jk.

Really tho I think this is misguided and the entertainment industry will put a stop too it quickly.

In a thread in HD Talk, I was saying I hate owning physical media because it takes up space and it's kind of a pain in the ass to set up (I have a BR player and small TV, but keep them in the closet). And I was also explaining that most people of my generation don't really care about physical media because they'll just binge stuff on their laptop while they eat. Not to mention it's a more expensive investment. Most people don't own BR players. When we'd have extra screeners to give away at the office, only people 40+ would take anything, because no one else could play it. We'd have Criterion releases laying around after being out all day, even.

That if you switch to buying “digital” movies, they are going to just go in and change them as they see fit, whether for political correctness or whatever.

Laptop??? I wouldn’t even watch most YouTube videos on my laptop. Big screen or nothing!

I'm wondering if this is just one of those "blanket" censorship things, where some low level employee just fixes it without taking context into account. Like, there's an episode of Cheers where the word "ass" is bleeped out in syndication. However, in the scene in question, the character is actually referring to ass as in the animal, and not a slang term for the buttocks.

That said, I'm glad a friend mentioned this to me a few weeks ago and I got the original Blu from Amazon for just $10. Only copy I had before was an old laserdisc (although I had William Friedkin sign it, personally)

Good question. I wonder what the method is? Is there a system that scans every catalog movie for certain words?

Is there going to be a 72 minute version of Pulp Fiction?

What about Blaxploitations films? Aren't they the king of using that word.

People are going to wonder why “Mr. Falcon” seems to be the star of the movie because he’s mentioned so often but he never appears on screen.

You know, you don't have to actually buy the digital movie. You can just stream it as part of the service so you don't lose money on something if they decide to censor stuff.

I do hope Disney issues a public statement about this or recognizes they need to fix it ASAP. It doesn't make any sense for an R rated movie that would only be watched by adults anyway. Plus they have countless older movies and tv shows on Disney plus that exist as is and carry content warnings they deem as racially insensitive.

But the industry wants you to buy digital movies instead of discs, and some have gone along with that. Services are more like cable, they won’t have every movie all the time anyways.

Thank god I still have my copies on VHS, regular DVD, special edition DVD and Blu-ray, whew!

If they do this with Die Hard 3 I’ll flip. Not that I can’t buy the DVD. But still fucked up. And it’s Fox too.

Most people stream instead of buying digital. And most people who buy digital movies probably don't care about this type of censorship.
And most people don't care that the services don't carry every movie because there's more than enough content to keep them interested.

This type of thing still won't make people return to buying physical movies just because they fear some movies which they'll watch every 20 years has a small scene that's censored - which they probably would never have noticed in the first place.

This is all disposable entertainment - very few give a crap about it.

If they don't have it already, they'll probably soon have an AI program that can scan movies and shows and recognize offensive content. They'll probably be able to automatically remove that material. I imagine they already use some AI program to scan new scripts for things to remove before they get made.

I have three copies on Laserdisc alone, and no, Alan Smithee does not need to contact the mods about multiple accounts.

Widescreen edition
DTS edition
Criterion Box set

Glad I still have my DVD/BD collection.

Mr. Falcon is a melon farmer.

Of course now the Blu-ray is suddenly unavailable unless you want it from a reseller who’s asking a crazy price. I have a copy on DVD that I never upgraded.

It's Disney... This should surprise no one. They've been happily censoring for 50 years now, the bastards.

I'm glad I have two of releases of FRENCH CONNECTION. The horribly 'revised' wacky color version of Friedkin, and the proper version with colors as they were seen theatrically. So, thankfully I'm set and now own the definitive version of this exellent film.

I just know, however, that this unacceptable reach of wokeness is going to rub off onto many other films as well. That's why I've been like a broken record for years now: Eschew and boycott streaming. They own it, they chop, chop, chop whatever they want. You own nothing. So, buy all the physical media you can, and they can't take that away from you or chop it up.

Yeah, people are terrible.