• Netflix Censorship (bad news about "Spartacus")

    From hardshell1967@gmail.com@21:1/5 to JTEM on Wed Jun 21 05:03:56 2017
    On Monday, January 25, 2010 at 11:22:46 PM UTC-5, JTEM wrote:
    I've checked online, and again & again it is claimed
    that Netflix does NOT censor it's Watch Instantly
    choices, but that's absolute bullshit.

    Here's complaints about a censored "L Word": http://community.netflix.com/forum/topics/the-l-word-censored

    "The Tudors"
    http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2007/04/netflix_censori.html

    And, from my own experience, "Caligula"(*) is hacked to bits.

    It is in view of Netflix's DISGUSTING censorship that I must
    (extremely) cautiously announce that Starz's new series,
    "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" is available to Watch Instantly
    on Netflix.

    Now I have no way of actually knowing if there's the slightest
    censorship of the episodes, having nothing to compare them
    to. In Netflix's defense, there were an awful lot of Bodacious
    Ta-Tas on display, not to mention a lot of F-bombs bombs
    getting dropped... not to mention the C-word. No danglely
    boy parts to speak of, though.

    ....so maybe it isn't censored, maybe all the promised
    "Full Frontal" is the chicks.



    (*) We actually owned a copy of "Caligula," way back when,
    on VHS, when it's reputation was still strong enough to inflame
    a person's curiosity by it's mere mention. I know, because it
    got mentioned many, many, many, times -- far too many -- and
    what followed were usually pleas by the curious for me to toss
    the damn thing in the VCR and let them watch. This occurred to
    such an extant that one evening I brought it over to the home of
    some curious friends, and stood in the next room, just outside
    the doorway where I couldn't see the TV, describing each and
    every scene.... and sometimes what was going to happen next.

    You get a WHOLE DIFFERENT perspective once the shock
    wears off, let me tell you. For one thing, though it is popularly
    believed that Caligula was quite insane, and most people who
    view the film walk away believing he was insane, the movie
    is very deceptive. The movie's Caligula is not crazy. The viewer
    is mislead into believing he is because of his shocking acts,
    but he is not insane.

    "Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely."

    That was the message of the film.

    Pure trash plain and simple. Nothing but a fire.People in a fire of hell,Gods wrath will come upon you people shortly.

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