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I watched a documentary online about a movie rental store in Utah that used to exist. They would edit movies for vulgar language, nudity, sex, and graphic violence. Really good documentary! I recommend for others to watch it as well. It’s a shame, though, that its former manager Daniel Thompson was arrested for sex with underage girls. Thanks for the info, just hearing the name takes me back to the times when most people owned a working VCR! 😆 I’ll have to check it out.
Yes, I watched it at a film festival and enjoyed it. I reviewed it: http://mormonheretic.org/2012/06/18/the-religious-test-and-cleanflix/ Wait, are you telling me that the Cleanflix guy got busted for messing around with kids? How ironic is that? Yeah, like the televangelists and hardcore conservative politicians who get caught with prostitutes. Sometimes, life really is a circus.
I really enjoyed it. At least the original managers of Cleanflix didn’t get themselves in the same kind of trouble. Old-Timer wrote:Yeah, like the televangelists and hardcore conservative politicians who get caught with prostitutes.
Sometimes, life really is a circus.
Yes, it’s almost a real life cliche.
Right wing politicians get caught doing something kinky, left wing ones get caught taking bribes, with their hand in the till or corrupting trade unions.
Yes, those are great comparisons. What irritates me, though, is that when the Cleanflix manager got caught and lost his good reputation he wouldn’t take responsibility for it, just like too many criminals that serve sentences. Ilovechrist77 wrote:I watched a documentary online about a movie rental store in Utah that used to exist. They would edit movies for vulgar language, nudity, sex, and graphic violence. Really good documentary! I recommend for others to watch it as well. It’s a shame, though, that its former manager Daniel Thompson was arrested for sex with underage girls.
I tried to watch this but I was halted in my efforts by depictions of graphic violence and nudity right in the beginning. I was not in an environment where that would be acceptable (sister in-laws house). Because I was frustrated in my efforts, I was analyzing the necessity of the images that they were showing. I believe that it was important to show the before and after clips from Titanic and the Matrix because both of those movies were important parts of the Cleanflix movement. I believe the clips from Pretty Woman, Sin City, and Brokeback Mountain, were unnecessary because those were all movies where the offending subject matter was so pervasive and intertwined with the plot that Cleanflix never touched them. I felt that their “probative value” was limited at best. That is as far as I was able to get.
Fair warning *** If you try to watch this documentary, there are examples of scenes with various objectionable images *** Fair warning
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