Australia is a more heavily policed country in terms of censorship. For all our "casual" racism and blatant disrespect of the English language, and our ability to use the C word in a myriad of situations both positive and negative, you would think we'd be chill about censorship.
We're not. I saw a movie that I shouldn't, that got a prominent reviewer arrested for trying to screen privately. We have video games missing scenes involving anal probing that had to be covered with a cartoon picture of a koala. We police a lot in terms of content for children that grown adults should have a right to see. We live in an actual Nanny State when it comes to being able to see what we want, it's so conservative, even with that government being ousted, that one department is still stuck in the 50s. We're lucky they don't police "socialist propaganda".
So, when I see someone erroneously claim a movie I saw frequently as a kid has swearing in it, and I know it doesn't, I get kinda mad.
Never-Ending Story has a cut where we see the janitor invade the attic and mutter some expletives after tripping over Bastian's mattress. I found it online as I knew for a fact this wasn't in the release I saw. I also watched it at five, and loved it by six or seven. I wouldn't mind if it was remade, I think it deserves a better version. I only recently bought the soundtrack, really this saves the movie in many regards. Artax's death is impactful but the reason I probably coped with death as a concept early on. I did wonder if it was appropriate for my sibkid to watch but when they saw my AURYN t-shirt they said "Why's everyone so obsessed with this movie?" and I was like, you go, kid. Assert your independence don't go with the group think. I don't know if they'd like Last Unicorn or Labyrinth or Dark Crystal (the last two were caked in nostalgia for me but not that great to watch as an adult, Dark Crystal is legit boring and Labyrinth is cringe). What I can remember is dialogue, so if you're telling me Bowie dropped a couple S bombs and I didn't hear it, I'll challenge you on it. I wanted to give feedback to this website (I thought the movie was G rated, it wasn't) that the scene they mentioned isn't in the US release so you can't just say that shit unless it's included with bonus features. Don't tell tales out of school about my movies. I kinda also hate parents who can spend time doing this but it's a tool for others, I don't know what's age appropriate anymore because the ratings system was gamed to sneak more shit into PG movies. It's also fair there are tits in this, and some gruesome imagery I did find questionable as an adult. I just looked at the page for Hocus Pocus and it bothers to mention product placement for a candy bar we don't even fucking sell here. Most of the humor in this is for adults anyway. I remember watching one of the lesser Addams Family sequels with some six or seven year olds and there was a ball and chain reference one girl asked me about. I don't remember what I said. It's such a parent nudge/wink joke. Pixar didn't invent movies with adult content for the grownups to enjoy. I'm thinking this website is borrowing from a US source anyway, you can't expect people to watch all these.
But Last Unicorn is NOWHERE on this site. Considering they had to rerelease it to replace where the word "damn" is used, (I had the US release as well as the region 4 one and we didn't censor it and it is G rated). The website also has shit I've never heard of or things like Boy in the Striped Pajamas which I'd never show to a kid anyway. But not this? Did it really fly that far under the radar over here you completely forgot to add it? It's a fucking cartoon. That was how you tricked parents into renting stuff like that for you, it's animated so it's for kids! It's also how we were tricked into watching Watership Down. It's animated! It's for KIDS!
I think it's also been set up by gen X parents and you're telling me none of them saw Last Unicorn? Wow. I'm astounded. Watership Down isn't on here either??? Were they like banned from video stores eventually?? I'm so confused.
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