Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Avatar and watching a movie in an islamic country

I made a run north tonight to run some errands, and ended up checking out the 360 Mall in kuwait.  Overall I was disappointed, not only did it not have any resturaunts i was interested in, there were no starbucks. The Avenues Mall has 8 starbucks.  While im not a huge fan of starbucks, there seems to be a correlation between how many starbucks a mall has and how much i like it.  The Avenues Mall also has an Ikea, and a Super Walmart like grocery/electronics store, and another huge electronics store.  Oh yea, and a dip-n-dots, but the 360 Mall has a Marble Slab Creamery, so i'll call it a tie on frozen treats.

Anyways, I also ended up watching Avatar in 3D, which was pretty cool, i had already seen the movie, but it has great special effects and great special effects look even better on a 60 ft screen.  Not sure if i've mentioned this before, but if you watch a movie with anything more than a boy and girl sharing a quick kiss, and you happen to be in an islamic country, be prepared for editing.  I watched Sherlock Holmes with greg and becca a while ago and i remember them cutting out a couple of minutes during a scene involving Rachel McAdams in lingerie, and ending with holmes on the bed in cuffs.  No warning, no blackout, just like that the picture changed, the dialog is different and you're thinking, man, that conversation didn't really have an ending.

It was funny to be that they cut out a couple of scenes from Avatar.  Luckily i have already seen it so i didn't miss anything, and i noticed every edit.  Jake and the blue chick 'mating' -cut     Jake and the blue chick laying in hammocks talking - gone.   What was weird, and i dont know if this was for islamic reasoning, or trying to shorten the movie, but there was also a few dialogs cut out.  Like when the soon to be chief first meets Jake, the second half of that meeting was cut.  As were a few other conversations.  It was weird to me.  Oh yea, the first scene i mentioned was cut, the second was actually blacked out.  When i say black out, i mean a black shadow rose up from the bottom of the screen because it was obvious someone in front of the projector was putting his hand in front of the lens.   I had to laugh out loud during that one, as did a few other people there.  It happened once more but i forget during what scene.

2 comments:

  1. Interesting to hear what was or was not edited out of the movie... I chuckled about how they used their hand to black out the screen.

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  2. Interesting to read about what they edited out. Hmmm..

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