Dave wrote:
"And as far as Kevin's comment about this movie being
unavailable in Britain until recently sounds like pure
hypocrisy - I'm sure far worse has been shown over the years
there."
From what little I know about the UK's video release policies
(I'm sure someone from the UK could tell us more), there have
been quite a few movies held up due to violence, including
Reservoir Dogs. From what I have read, there also seems to be
an element of elitism and/or racism. Films that are thought
to appeal to certain types are held up, but the extremely
violent Dutch (?) satire Man Bites Dog about a documentary
crew tagging along with a serial killer had no trouble since
it was in black and white and had subtitles and was therefore
thought to appeal to an artier crowd. I wonder how the later
variation on the same idea, Natural Born Killers,
fared.
Mark
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