Our Censorship Board Is A Big Huge Joke
Btw, I went to watch Watchmen again yesterday because nenekguru hasn't seen it yet. I'm kinda glad I did because apparently I missed the entire scene where The Comedian got killed (even though I've seen how it was exactly portrayed in the graphic novel) before the opening credits because my cousin & I were kinda late getting to the movie theater due to it being a super last minute spontaneous thing in Singapore.
I gotta say though: I AM SO GLAD I WATCHED IT IN SINGAPORE because the Indonesian censorship board did a pretty ridiculous job censoring the movie. It's like, they couldn't decide which part to cut and which part to leave in, and in the end they ended up cutting the wrong parts that shouldn't be cut? Wth? Why can't they just blur it out like what azuzora said the Malaysians did?
What I find absolutely ridiculous is the fact that their attempt of "censorship" is apparently only limited to everything sexual and nothing of the sadistic gore. So what does that tell us about this country's mentality? Sex = not OK. But VIOLENCE = VERY MUCH OK. And you wonder why there have been so much inhumane and unnecessary murder reported in the news lately.
Let me LIST DOWN all the things they did not even consider to censor:
Did I miss anything else? I'm sure I did -_-# Maybe my description doesn't really accurately convey how violent it is. It's still no My Bloody Valentine, but if you couldn't even look at the screen for 300, well.........
Instead of focusing their censorship attempt on the violence, of course they were entirely fixated on Dr.Manhattan's blue penis and Laurie Jupiter's boobies. I just don't get why they chop off a scene that shows Dr.Manhattan's blue peewee when he is a bit "closer" and zoomed in (so to say) in a scene and not when he's at a "certain" distance? WHAT IS SO GODDAMNED DIFFERENT NEAR OR FAR? YOU CAN STILL SEE IT ANYWAY! Might as well leave it there entirely!!! In an attempt to chop off a "zoomed in" peewee, they ended up cutting an entire spoken dialogue by Adrian Veidt. Brilliant.
They chopped up the Nite Owl-Silk Spectre scene so bad, the whole humorous essence when "Archie" shot out that burst of fireball was totally lost. They didn't even show the boinking process that got Laurie (or Dan?) to accidentally press the FIRE button.
When Dr.Manhattan had all those flashback scenes, the one where he first made love to Janey Slater was entirely GONE. GONE BABY GONE.
And that dream Dan had, where he and Laurie were standing stark naked in space and that nuclear explosion happened, well, I'd just like to say the whole long silence that made it even more dramatic in the beginning was also GONE BABY GONE. There wasn't even any sexual acts in it, just a view of Laurie's side boob. Geez.
Our country is whacked, seriously. Yeah, show the people and kids (I'm sure parents are again, misinformed about this film, thinking it's a children's movie simply because oh, it's a SUPERHERO MOVIE!) all that disturbing murdering violence and gore, but not the A-cup side boob or the blue peewee. Great job, BSF. Whoop-dee-doo, great fucking job.
I gotta say though: I AM SO GLAD I WATCHED IT IN SINGAPORE because the Indonesian censorship board did a pretty ridiculous job censoring the movie. It's like, they couldn't decide which part to cut and which part to leave in, and in the end they ended up cutting the wrong parts that shouldn't be cut? Wth? Why can't they just blur it out like what azuzora said the Malaysians did?
What I find absolutely ridiculous is the fact that their attempt of "censorship" is apparently only limited to everything sexual and nothing of the sadistic gore. So what does that tell us about this country's mentality? Sex = not OK. But VIOLENCE = VERY MUCH OK. And you wonder why there have been so much inhumane and unnecessary murder reported in the news lately.
Let me LIST DOWN all the things they did not even consider to censor:
- When The Comedian roughed up the first Silk Spectre in a rape attempt by punching her face repetitively, kicking her gut, breaking her ribs and then smashing her onto a pool table.
- When Dan (or was it Laurie) broke a thug's arm and the bone was all exposed and protruding and blood splurted out.
- When Laurie (or was it Dan? It all happened so fast to me) jabbed that huge big knife into a thug's neck and it came out the other side.
- When Dr.Manhattan blasted those people at the pub into an explosion of blood and gore and gut and goo, and when people look up to the ceiling there are some remains of a skeleton with bloody flesh hanging from it and blood dripping.
- When The Comedian shot dead a Vietnamese woman who is pregnant with his own child without so much as thinking twice after she slashed his face open with a broken bottle.
- When there was that murder attempt on Veidt, a bullet cut through a room and straight through the secretary's calf, practically blowing it up into shards of bone and exploding flesh.
- When Rorschach investigated one of his first cases, the missing girl, he found the German Shepherds growling in the yard pulling on what apparently was a tattered leg of a child still with socks and shoes on.
- And then he cut open one of the German Shepherd's head and threw it through a window.
- Then he pulled out a huge big axe-like knife and said that "only bad men go to prison, but dogs get put down" and started chopping on the murderer's skull.
- When a convict tried to attack Rorschach at the jail cafeteria, he soiled the convict's face and head by flinging (pouring) blazing sizzling hot deep-frying oil on him.
- When the midget convict's henchman had to saw off another convict's arms with some kind of a chainsaw (while he's very much alive and breathing and kicking and screaming) to pry open Rorschach's jail cell door, and they even showed the leftover cutoff arm that's hanging on the jail door railings wtf.
Did I miss anything else? I'm sure I did -_-# Maybe my description doesn't really accurately convey how violent it is. It's still no My Bloody Valentine, but if you couldn't even look at the screen for 300, well.........
Instead of focusing their censorship attempt on the violence, of course they were entirely fixated on Dr.Manhattan's blue penis and Laurie Jupiter's boobies. I just don't get why they chop off a scene that shows Dr.Manhattan's blue peewee when he is a bit "closer" and zoomed in (so to say) in a scene and not when he's at a "certain" distance? WHAT IS SO GODDAMNED DIFFERENT NEAR OR FAR? YOU CAN STILL SEE IT ANYWAY! Might as well leave it there entirely!!! In an attempt to chop off a "zoomed in" peewee, they ended up cutting an entire spoken dialogue by Adrian Veidt. Brilliant.
They chopped up the Nite Owl-Silk Spectre scene so bad, the whole humorous essence when "Archie" shot out that burst of fireball was totally lost. They didn't even show the boinking process that got Laurie (or Dan?) to accidentally press the FIRE button.
When Dr.Manhattan had all those flashback scenes, the one where he first made love to Janey Slater was entirely GONE. GONE BABY GONE.
And that dream Dan had, where he and Laurie were standing stark naked in space and that nuclear explosion happened, well, I'd just like to say the whole long silence that made it even more dramatic in the beginning was also GONE BABY GONE. There wasn't even any sexual acts in it, just a view of Laurie's side boob. Geez.
Our country is whacked, seriously. Yeah, show the people and kids (I'm sure parents are again, misinformed about this film, thinking it's a children's movie simply because oh, it's a SUPERHERO MOVIE!) all that disturbing murdering violence and gore, but not the A-cup side boob or the blue peewee. Great job, BSF. Whoop-dee-doo, great fucking job.