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cbreezen

(694 posts) Thu Dec 21, 2017, 09:13 PM Dec 2017

What's the most poorly edited for TV movie you've seen?

I just switched from Christmas with the Kranks on TV to my copy on DVD.

There are others, but this is the one which caused me to bring up the subject.

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What's the most poorly edited for TV movie you've seen? (Original Post) cbreezen Dec 2017 OP

Blazing Saddles...n/t wcmagumba Dec 2017 #1

I'm not sure if that qualified as "poorly-edited"... regnaD kciN Dec 2017 #7

The network broadcast of Deep Throat jberryhill Dec 2017 #2

Basic Instinct, Goodfellas, Boogie Nights... nt Dr Hobbitstein Dec 2017 #3

Casino. muntrv Dec 2017 #4

Scarface... TheDebbieDee Dec 2017 #5

Yeah. They cut the whole bathtub/chainsaw scene. Lochloosa Dec 2017 #6

wcmagumba

(2,893 posts)

1. Blazing Saddles...n/t

Reply to cbreezen (Original post)

Thu Dec 21, 2017, 09:23 PM

Dec 2017

regnaD kciN

(26,047 posts)

7. I'm not sure if that qualified as "poorly-edited"...

Reply to wcmagumba (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 21, 2017, 10:16 PM

Dec 2017

...but it's the only one I've ever seen where they cut so much out, they had to edit in several deleted scenes just to make it long enough to qualify as "feature-length."

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

2. The network broadcast of Deep Throat

Reply to cbreezen (Original post)

Thu Dec 21, 2017, 09:23 PM

Dec 2017

They hacked it down to about 5 minutes.

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)

3. Basic Instinct, Goodfellas, Boogie Nights... nt

Reply to cbreezen (Original post)

Thu Dec 21, 2017, 09:33 PM

Dec 2017

muntrv

(14,505 posts)

4. Casino.

Reply to cbreezen (Original post)

Thu Dec 21, 2017, 09:33 PM

Dec 2017

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)

5. Scarface...

Reply to cbreezen (Original post)

Thu Dec 21, 2017, 09:38 PM

Dec 2017

I got tired of hearing about cockroaches and melonfarmers!

Lochloosa

(16,097 posts)

6. Yeah. They cut the whole bathtub/chainsaw scene.

Reply to TheDebbieDee (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 21, 2017, 09:47 PM

Dec 2017

Just wasn't worth watching after that.

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