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Finally watched this recently, although it's entertaining in places, it has nothing on skyfall which set the bar high. Shame really
Done! Thanks for the heads up.official release date on amazon now 22nd feb 2016
can a mod please update op please
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Melonfarmers confirm this is the cut for 12A version in UK cinemas. Hopefully someone in the US/Canada might do a group buy..?
I haven't managed to get a satisfactory answer to that very question. Further complicated by if you search for "Spectre cuts" all you get is stories on how the kissing scenes were censored for India...
Not really. It's being released in nearly every country. If you mean the UK only, it's probably the usual 2-3000 print run.
There wont be any shortage of these one way or another for a long time.
I'm not in any rush to pick it up anyway......
Going to wait it out and see if other countires get an uncut version and if not a price drop anyway
The normal print run is 4000, I'm guessing with a film as popular as this it will probably be more than that.
Lowest price ATM of GBP 19.99 . . . though there's no way I would pay that for this.
OK, 12A studio cut for cinema release with the understandable intention of appealing to the largest number of the Bond target cinema audience (which I read somewhere is pre-teens) plus you have mummy/daddy to supervise and buy tickets . . . and hey presto you're away . . .
This is based on my experience with both of mine having seen it with school friends and my having not.
However, with the film on Blu-ray there's surely no reason good enough to not include the 15 certificate version with the bits trimmed for the cinema release as there's surely space on the 50GB disc for both.
Regarding the artwork: Has it been confirmed that this is the final artwork with the same art front and back ?
If that's the case it does seem very strange and beyond lazy and speaking for myself I'd prefer to see the bullet hole on the back ONLY with something more stylish on the front.
OK, 12A studio cut for cinema release with the understandable intention of appealing to the largest number of the Bond target cinema audience (which I read somewhere is pre-teens) plus you have mummy/daddy to supervise and buy tickets . . . and hey presto you're away . . .
This is based on my experience with both of mine having seen it with school friends and my having not.
However, with the film on Blu-ray there's surely no reason good enough to not include the 15 certificate version with the bits trimmed for the cinema release as there's surely space on the 50GB disc for both.
Regarding the artwork: Has it been confirmed that this is the final artwork with the same art front and back ?
If that's the case it does seem very strange and beyond lazy and speaking for myself I'd prefer to see the bullet hole on the back ONLY with something more stylish on the front.
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According to the BR.com the U.S BD is "PG-13".
According to the BBFC page the U.K. BD is "12A".
From the same site, and I quote, "All known versions of this work passed uncut" although under "Pre-cuts information" we have, "During post-production the distributor sought and was given advise on how to secure the desired classification. Following this advise certain changes were made prior to submission".
BBFC Insight (published on the 16/10/15) has a rundown of the examples of violence, threat and bad language and I've got to say that some of the violence - "including a brief moment of eye-gouging" - SOUNDS pretty strong to me for a 12 year old viewer !
(For aficionados of swearing in films there's always the old favourites as well as some new ones with a high F. word count including:- THE WOLF OF WALL ST., CASINO, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, GOODFELLAS (mostly uttered by Joe Pesci who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his profane performance !) or RESERVOIR DOGS.
As we all know both the F. word and the C. word go back at least 500 years (and both are used quite liberally in a film I've just seen - Ben Wheatley's "A Field in England" set in around the 1650s) though it wasn't until 1972 that both words were included in the Oxford English Dictionary and the Campaign for Real Swearing issued a statement which reads "We'd be a bunch of lying cu- - - if we didn't say that we were totally fu - - ing delighted". In 1991 we have the Rev. Ian Gregory of the Polite Society proposing that existing swear-words are banished and replaced with nice words like 'breadstick' and 'cotton socks' " and the response from the Campaign for Real Swearing was "The good reverend can go and f - - - himself ! ". You couldn't make it up.
In conclusion: NOT CUT by the BBFC but CUT by the studio/distributor (all versions).
I suppose that's fine though as Bond was always out-and-out blockbusting entertainment for most of the family with the car and the power-boat chases, the luxury/exotic destinations, the stylish and glamorous clothes and females, coupled with the un-PC humour of Connery and the raised eyebrow of Moore - not forgetting later incarnations with their own individual styles - and clearly not meant to compete with the violence and bad language of some of those films noted above.
According to the BBFC page the U.K. BD is "12A".
From the same site, and I quote, "All known versions of this work passed uncut" although under "Pre-cuts information" we have, "During post-production the distributor sought and was given advise on how to secure the desired classification. Following this advise certain changes were made prior to submission".
BBFC Insight (published on the 16/10/15) has a rundown of the examples of violence, threat and bad language and I've got to say that some of the violence - "including a brief moment of eye-gouging" - SOUNDS pretty strong to me for a 12 year old viewer !
(For aficionados of swearing in films there's always the old favourites as well as some new ones with a high F. word count including:- THE WOLF OF WALL ST., CASINO, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, GOODFELLAS (mostly uttered by Joe Pesci who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his profane performance !) or RESERVOIR DOGS.
As we all know both the F. word and the C. word go back at least 500 years (and both are used quite liberally in a film I've just seen - Ben Wheatley's "A Field in England" set in around the 1650s) though it wasn't until 1972 that both words were included in the Oxford English Dictionary and the Campaign for Real Swearing issued a statement which reads "We'd be a bunch of lying cu- - - if we didn't say that we were totally fu - - ing delighted". In 1991 we have the Rev. Ian Gregory of the Polite Society proposing that existing swear-words are banished and replaced with nice words like 'breadstick' and 'cotton socks' " and the response from the Campaign for Real Swearing was "The good reverend can go and f - - - himself ! ". You couldn't make it up.
In conclusion: NOT CUT by the BBFC but CUT by the studio/distributor (all versions).
I suppose that's fine though as Bond was always out-and-out blockbusting entertainment for most of the family with the car and the power-boat chases, the luxury/exotic destinations, the stylish and glamorous clothes and females, coupled with the un-PC humour of Connery and the raised eyebrow of Moore - not forgetting later incarnations with their own individual styles - and clearly not meant to compete with the violence and bad language of some of those films noted above.
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I really hate the BBFC
They are so old school and ancient with their views it's ridicolous
They use the term crunchy blows for spectre under moderate action violence and some of their examples of "some mild language" is: bloody, moron, Jesus, Christ (seperately lol) and hell.
The other mild language they state (the better words) are assh*le, b*stard and sh*t
I feel like I've gone through a time warp everytime I read their pages.
Loki in avengers said Quim for Christ sake (which isn't too bad but hilarious and Genius they got away with it) and in days of future past they get away with saying "go **** yourself" and loads of other decent swear words. The violence in days of future past was much stronger and better than spectre too and more graphic. Especially when wolverine gets those metal rods pierced through his body
They are so old school and ancient with their views it's ridicolous
They use the term crunchy blows for spectre under moderate action violence and some of their examples of "some mild language" is: bloody, moron, Jesus, Christ (seperately lol) and hell.
The other mild language they state (the better words) are assh*le, b*stard and sh*t
I feel like I've gone through a time warp everytime I read their pages.
Loki in avengers said Quim for Christ sake (which isn't too bad but hilarious and Genius they got away with it) and in days of future past they get away with saying "go **** yourself" and loads of other decent swear words. The violence in days of future past was much stronger and better than spectre too and more graphic. Especially when wolverine gets those metal rods pierced through his body
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