Though these particular films aren't horror movies, I sit here with a stack of dvd rentals and each one of them is an unrated cut. Its not just a growing trend amond DVD's, its the status quo. Its disgusting the way the home video distributors are using the term unrated cut to sell more dvd's when the only reason its unrated is because they don't have to submit the dvd to the mpaa. I know I'm not telling you anything you don't know, but its so pathetic that an added scene of a guy rollerblading up a hill eating an english muffin could be the only addition to a DVD cut and yet the film will now qualify as unrated. It used to be that violence, obscentity, excessive drug use, and other great things in movies were cut and when they were put back in the movie that cut was something special-- an unrated cut. Now everything is unrated and it means nothing. In fact, most people can't figure out whats been added. there are some exceptiongs. The 40 Year Old Virgin Unrated DVD has some noticeable additions, but still nothing that was so shocking it couldnt be shown in theaters (especially when you keep in mind that things the MPAA asks people to cut could be easily ignored by said raitings board depending on whether or not they had their fiber that morning). I'm just fucking sick of every DVD being unrated and then having it marketed as "the cut you couldn't see in theaters." Besides the shit the MPAA "suggests" to film makers is so benine. Instead of 10 seconds of rape, it can only be 4.8734 seconds of rape and only one curse word per 3 tomatoes.
Horror films get it the worst. They pump out these pg-13 crap fests and then bust out unrated DVD's but the shit they add doesn't make it R, it just makes it unrated because they didn't bother getting it rated for a DVD release. There is nothing R rated to put back into The Grudge 2 because when they shot it they knew they were making a PG-13 film to begin with. So then they come out with a unrated cut and the unrated scenes are Sarah michelle Gellar making a pie or some shit. WHY DOES EVERY DVD HAVE TO BE CALLED UNRATED LIKE IT MEANS A GOD DAMNED THING?
Horror films get it the worst. They pump out these pg-13 crap fests and then bust out unrated DVD's but the shit they add doesn't make it R, it just makes it unrated because they didn't bother getting it rated for a DVD release. There is nothing R rated to put back into The Grudge 2 because when they shot it they knew they were making a PG-13 film to begin with. So then they come out with a unrated cut and the unrated scenes are Sarah michelle Gellar making a pie or some shit. WHY DOES EVERY DVD HAVE TO BE CALLED UNRATED LIKE IT MEANS A GOD DAMNED THING?
