I recently received an e-mail from Family Edited Movies, an edited movie provider, about their most recent sale. I fully support edited movies, ones that have been edited to remove the filth and vulgarities. Unfortunately, we no longer have any legitimate edited movie companies operating in Utah because Hollywood, through lawsuits, wants to dictate what your watch in the privacy of your own home. However, Family Edited DVDs is located in Texas.
Hollywood disgusts me; they produce mostly filth and garbage in movies with the intent to influence society with vulgar language, gratuitous sex, and gory violence. People learn from watching others, especially from watching movies. With the filth and garbage in today’s movies (even PG and PG-13 rated), our society is gradually being molded by a select few. In addition, Hollywood uses it media power for political purposes as well as to influence our beliefs. As Sheri Dew most eloquently writes:
Sometimes rationalization overtakes even the best among us. “R-rated movies (editor’s note: PG-13 can be worse) don’t bother me,” we sometimes hear. “I go for the story, or the music, and skip over the profanity and the sexually explicit scenes.” Yet advertisers pay millions of dollars for a few seconds of airtime on the bet that through brief, repeated exposures to their products we’ll be persuaded to purchase them. If 60-second ads can influence us to spend money we don’t have, to buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t even like, then how will minutes, hours, months, and years of watching infidelity, violence, and promiscuity affect us? (Sherri Dew, No Doubt About It, p. 96)
Edited movies, have been around quite a while. As I recall, when I was a student at BYU, the varsity movie only played edited movies. The phenomenon gained popularity after Hollywood went overboard by showing full frontal nudity in a PG-13 rated movie (Titanic). I guess Hollywood realized that R rated movies weren’t doing so hot at the box office. According to an article by Michael Medved, Hollywood is definitely out of touch with the general public:
Despite the generally improving economy in 2004,the big Hollywood studios saw the movie audience decline for the second year in a row. Attendance fell by more the 2 percent, after dropping nearly 4 percent in 2003. More and more Americans feel out of touch with the values and politics of leading filmmakers, and box office figures highlight the situation. Of the top 10 moneymakers, six were family-friendly releases aimed squarely at kids – “Shrek 2,” “Spider-Man 2,” “Harry Potter 3,” “The Incredibles,” “Shark Tale” and “National Treasure” — and then there was the phenomenally popular, $380 million religious blockbuster “The Passion of the Christ.’ But none of these crowd-pleasers are considered candidates for major awards, which instead focus on little seen, downbeat, adults-only, edgy fare like “Vera Drake,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Kinsey” and “Sideways.” Hollywood is in trouble precisely because the industry’s own ideas of excellence show no correlation whatever with the preferences of the public. – Michael Medved (South King County Journal, January 5, 2005)
During the past 3 years, only 2 rated R movies made it in the top 10 grossing movies (one of which was Passion of the Christ). However, for the 79th Annual Academy Awards (movies in 2006), 12 awards (half of them) were for R rated movies. Of the films nominated for Best Picture, 4 of the 5 were rated R, and NONE of them were in the top 10 grossing films. The movie, “Cars,” an animated children’s movie, brought in nearly as much gross revenue as the 5 nominations for Best Picture combined!
Since edited movies posed a threat to Hollywood’s goals of indoctrination, they sued and shutdown most of the edited movie companies. However, Family Edited Movies is one of the last remaining edited movie providers (not an edited movie reseller; this company actually edits the movie). Their prices are comparable to what CleanFlicks was charging. You can visit their website at: http://www.familyediteddvds.com/
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