Originally Posted by DVDfever:
“Halloween: Resurrection is OAR on BBC1 now. Haven't seen it before but it looks pretty crap as a film, although a pristine OAR print.”
It is every bit as crap as you thought it was! After the highs of HALLOWEEN H20: 20 YEARS LATER (shown last week in cropped/reframed 16:9), the series just went straight downhill again.
By the way: As promised, I took a look at my recording of EARTHQUAKE and was quick to switch off again. It was absolutely scrubbed clean of ANY possible offence, including language and 'violence' (such as the cartoon splatter of 'blood' which hits the lens when the elevator plummets down the shaft, and the shot of a woman with glass in her face which was clearly there BEFORE she got hit by the falling window!). Absolutely ridiculous.
I wouldn't mind if they provided an on-screen announcement about edited versions before a film starts, but they don't. C4 is currently crowing about how it was conceived as a 'daring' alternative to the other channels, and how it was able to go whether other broadcasters feared to tread. That was true at the beginning - when they first started, they refused to cut films which had been snipped by the BBFC and would make sure audiences knew material had been edited prior to broadcast, whenever they were forced to do so (such as the first screening of SCUM and A BIGGER SPLASH). Nowadays, they are just as ridiculous as other broadcasters.
Ofcom's rules be damned: I'd like to KNOW UP-FRONT if I'm getting a compromised print so I can make an informed choice as to whether I continue watching. And if I'm not allowed to know, I'd like to know why (probably because they'd have to do it for virtually every post-1970 movie shown before the watershed - and that's a LOT of material!).