This is such crap!!!!!!!

[Armymedic]

The Yanks just keep making me glad I am Canadian over and over again....

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-11-11-private-ryan_x.htm

So a epic based on history is now considered too indescent in the US to be played on their Veterens Day....



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Are they ever f***ed.

 

[Michael Dorosh]

The Yanks just keep making me glad I am Canadian over and over again....

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-11-11-private-ryan_x.htm

So a epic based on history is now considered too indescent in the US to be played on their Veterens Day....



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Are they ever f***ed.

Calm down; the FCC has rules about profanity and gore.  What is appropriate for a 35 year old to watch on TV isn't always appropriate for a 15 year old.

 

[48Highlander]

yeah 'cos 15 year olds are all innocent and virginal and such  :

 

[Armymedic]

Mike,
I agree about appropriate for age, but the FCC is the same group who leave shows on like Desperate Housewives at 7 pm, Survivor, and Fear Factor on at 8, and CSI on at 9....

I am pissed at the fact that stations, being afraid of sanctions will not air one of the best films I have ever seen depicting the sacrifices WW2 veterans made. The opening and closing scenes of that movie are the perfect way to honour those men on this day.

What happened to the freedom of speech and the right to chose....you know those same freedoms that the people who died in that NOT being depicted on TV tonight war fought to protect.

 

[Scratch_043]

well, not all of them, I am watching SPR right now on ABC

 

[rw4th]

The Yanks just keep making me glad I am Canadian over and over again....

Yes, I am so proud to be living in the country where you can air Al-Jazeera but not Fox News and Howard Stern has to be delayed by 30 minutes so the content can be censored. Get off your high horse and look around ...

 

[aesop081]

Dont forget Don Cherry on a 7 second delay !!!!

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

Hey, Armymedic, did any Canadian stations show it?

 

[JBP]

Well.... Tigerland is on at 12 on channel 39 or "Showcase" if you wanna watch some kinda war movie. I was really looking forward to watching Private Ryan. O-well...

:'(

 

[Cloud Cover]

cbc showed it when they were doing friday night movies over the summer.

 

[Armymedic]

No "SPR" on TV here tonight, but I did get to watch Enemy At The Gates earlier this aft on History channel.

I am not so much disapointed by not being able to watch it (I own the vhs an dvd versions in my historical movie collection), as I am by the fact that an excellent war movie is not being shown due to fears of sanctions by a govt agency.

 

[Alex252]

Just finished watching it on ABC. Also just saw Enemy at the Gates and Black Hawk Down recently

 

[Recce41]

Fellas
Remember The US is (Jesus Land) 80% of the US, I saw a map on CNN after the election. Only Mich, Cal, and other Devil States are not listed. I do agree with 48th. I go over to the High School and Jr High to get my kids and hear kids swear worst. The world has to growup. The FCC, CRTC, etc. has to get with the times. I remember when damn was cut. OOOOO the F word. As for AJ and Fox, AJ does not slam Canada as Fox does.
The movie should be shown as uncut!  :evil: :tank:

 

[Sh0rtbUs]

If they were airing any other kind of movie I would understand, but not SPR. Its excellent because it depicts the realities of war and what those men went through, and the raw humanity that comes out of it. "Inappropriate" language and violence should not be censored, solely because its the best way to emphasize that this is reality, and these are real men, just like you and me. They cry, bond, bleed and yes curse, just like you and me.

 

[NavyGrunt]

I may be out to lunch but aI think this may be the knee jerk reaction of some left leaning channels to make the public feel censored. I have a hard time believing the head of the FCC Colin Powells son would charge a station on veterens day for playing SPR. Flashing children during the super bowl is a far cry from playing amovie on TV in th eevening.

 

[foerestedwarrior]

Calm down; the FCC has rules about profanity and gore.   What is appropriate for a 35 year old to watch on TV isn't always appropriate for a 15 year old.

it would have been the TV version anyways though. No swearing, but still the gore, even still, could cut out scenes, it wouldn't be the first, nor the last time it is done.

 

[Gunnar]

Watching TV with a friend last night, I had the option of watching Loony Toons or Private Ryan.  I saw the Private Ryan listing was for WKBW, and immediately knew it wasn't going to be worth watching - overcensored.  Hell, the US censors boobies fer chrissakes...and most censors aren't too sure of the difference between Galapagos birds and human mammary glands in the first place!

 

[48Highlander]

I may be out to lunch but aI think this may be the knee jerk reaction of some left leaning channels to make the public feel censored. I have a hard time believing the head of the FCC Colin Powells son would charge a station on veterens day for playing SPR. Flashing children during the super bowl is a far cry from playing amovie on TV in th eevening.

That's the first thing I thought too.  They're making a big deal out of it.  Why?  If they really felt the need to not show it or censor it, they'd just do it.  They wouldn't go around telling everyone with a camera or access to a newspaper column why they're doing it.  Seems to me their thinking goes something like this:

"Oh yeah?  Censor us will ya?  Well f**ck ya.  Watch this!"

 

[Recce41]

Forest
It was to be the complete uncut, uncensored vesion.

 

[clasper]

Actually Spielberg has a deal with ABC that says they can't show an edited version of the film.  The stations that were concerned about being fined asked the FCC for clarification of the rules, but the FCC declined to explain if the stations would be fined or not.  Since some stations did air it, I guess we'll find out if the FCC thinks that Saving Private Ryan is obscene or not...

http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2004/11/11/Arts/SavingPrivateRyan041111.html