Why is American tv so...weird

Gerard

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Going through the channels last night via vpn and happened upon "the final destination" and thought I'll watch this for a bit before heading up to bed. Within a few minutes I noticed something was....off...

Then it dawned on me, any curse word being uttered was either muted or replaced with something else, now for anyone who's not familiar with this movie the opening sequence has a woman being crushed with an engine block, people being sliced in half, a guy getting a pole stabbed through his head, a tyre landing on someone's head which makes it explode then we get a close up of the body and bits and pieces hanging out of it, among many other gory scenes. ALL of that was apparently fine but saying the "f word" is something that gets censored? WTF

Is it just me that finds this utterly baffling to understand that someone was tasked with muting swear words in case some parents watching with kids watching got annoyed at hearing them yet all the blood guts and gore was totally acceptable? You can watch the opening scene on youtube "the final destination premonition scene" to see the level of madness in the intro. I'm still scratching my head about it today, just seems utterly bizarre that they do this like the "f word" is somehow more traumatising to some than seeing a body split in half and all the bits and pieces falling out. :confused:
 
There are no swear words in the Bible. There's lies, prostitution, slavery, rape, murder, war and all manner other foulness... but no swearing.
Parts of America are very heavily into the Bible, so I imagine this is all to please them.
 
ttaskmaster said:
There are no swear words in the Bible. There's lies, prostitution, slavery, rape, murder, war and all manner other foulness... but no swearing.
Parts of America are very heavily into the Bible, so I imagine this is all to please them.
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It's madness, hard to believe what they censor vs what they don't.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Tom Scott did a good vid on the weird things you can't do on British TV, too...
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Can't imagine it would be remotely on par with what I was watching last night, no swearing but a decapitated body with the entrails splattered nicely everywhere was just fine.
 
Isn't it something like the Networks are quite heavily regulated but the non-network/subscription channels are more lax?

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates "indecent" free-to-air broadcasting (both television and radio). Satellite, cable television, and Internet outlets are not subject to content-based FCC regulation.
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I went to see Dawn of the dead remake back in 200x when ever it was. I watched a US version a few years later and the scene not long into the film where there is a bus and a woman being killed or some such on the back seat. Another woman, naked, walks past in the view of a windscreen of a car, our POV was inside the car. They added more CGI blood on the car windscreen to cover the boobies. I was like.... ??? why?
 
Freakbro said:
Isn't it something like the Networks are quite heavily regulated but the non-network/subscription channels are more lax?
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Maybe so but it still strikes me as incredibly weird that cursing is the thing that's censored considering the gore porn content of the movie. At what point is "the f word" somehow more objectionable than seeing a body missing its head, brains splattered everywhere?

I just can't wrap my head around it to be fair, to me a movie like that would be on after the watershed on uk TV. But assuming they don't have that type of system they feel fine airing it at 8pm their time, no cursing just tons of gore. :confused:
 
Droolinggimp said:
I went to see Dawn of the dead remake back in 200x when ever it was. I watched a US version a few years later and the scene not long into the film where there is a bus and a woman being killed or some such on the back seat. Another woman, naked, walks past in the view of a windscreen of a car, our POV was inside the car. They added more CGI blood on the car windscreen to cover the boobies. I was like.... ??? why?
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Boobies would warp the kiddies mind, seemingly. :p
 
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