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This is the version that I watched for years. Then, when I bought all the films in '97 on VHS in Widescreen, I realised that the version I taped off the box had a few seconds cut.
It's minimal but hopefully relevant in this post!
They cut Bond walking away from Quarrel's boat along the jetti and into Pussfella's club.
Strange cause it only saved a few seconds.
If I remember correctly the ad break came when Quarrel puts his paint tin down and walked off.
...and yet people hung up about AVTAK Beach Boys when this is worse :P
(Life of Brian was banned in Norway due to religion , I kid you not. Norways censors were not fans of martial arts or certain horror like Chainsaw , Maniac , cannibal films)
They chopped Bond and Talisa being 'in action' in Turkey, a couple of key impacts in the courtrooms scene, a few gunshots from the finale and worst of all, blurred out much of Silva's face when he removes his false teeth. I really thought we were past the stage of such ridiculous edits in a post-watershed showing.
They also removed the entire Huw Edwards news scene, but I'm not sure if that's because of the execution footage (not that it shows anything) or because it's BBC and this is on ITV. Either way, totally unnecessary.
Doh.
Not entirely. I was in the hospital just recently, and caught the tail end of Tomorrow Never Dies (from the Saigon tower to the end), and the network cut out Bond's line to Carver "I would have thought watching your TV shows was torture enough" and the street shower scene.
Dr. No - Bond's exit passing the secretary when seeing Dent
Thunderball - Bond arriving at the casino on the boat and bumping into the woman at the casino cut, Bond and Domino kissing underwater cut
OHMSS - Gumbold safe cracking scene cut, scene with Campbell at cable car cut, part of Bond's escape out of the locked room at Piz Gloria cut
Moonraker - When kidnapped in the ambulance shot of the thing going into the advert cut
A View to a Kill - Cut the scene where Stacey gets fired, Cut the scene where Bond and Stacey drink wine and Bond tucking her in to bed
The Living Daylights - 'Bloody' cut from 'you're bloody late' - but was before the watershed', Bond and Kara hitching a ride and dialogue on horse and cart cut, start of Prater Park scene cut (dodgems etc.), Kara calling Bond the backend of a horse cut, most of the end credits cut.
Licence to Kill - Garroting in PTS cut, 'if they heard they might be able to grab the bastard' cut despite being after the watershed' 'watch the birdie, you bastard' cut despite being after the watershed, most of the end credits cut
TMWTGG was on the tv this Sunday afternoon just gone, most of the edits were bums - so the stripper's bum in the Bottoms Up club and some bits of Chew Mee swimming in Hai Fat's pool were cut. Didn't really notice anything else but then again only watched from that point onwards.
It always amuses me that they are happy to show people physically hitting each other, quite hard, bleeding and being thrown around, but a shot of a bum is considered too much so is cut. Crazy. Violence = Fine. A bum = no no!
That's ITV for you - they always sneak in an ad break on a football match between the players coming out and kick off too.
Censored out:
- The dead bodies of Melina's parents. Hector's plane flies off, Melina turns to look at the devastation, and then there's an abrupt cut to her up-close revenge stare, with Sir Timothy's body out of frame.
- The dune buggy hitting Lisl and her rolling off the bonnet. As the buggy approaches, we see Lisl turn around, then a close-up of Locque behind the windscreen. Then there's an abrupt cut to her body laying in the sand for half a second, and then cut to Bond.
- Locque's body laying on the rocks next to the car wreck. The car falls, bouncing off the rocks. Cut to Bond saying, "He had no head for heights". Then cut to the next scene, back in Greece.
- Bond's rock climbing piton striking Apostis in the chest. Bond throws the piton, then cut to Apostis falling. I don't recall seeing his body hit the ground, or Columbo checking it.
That is absolutely horrible!! Why would they do that?
If you think that's bad, try watching the aerial dogfight in Quantum of Solace on a plane! You cut from "There's a sinkhole" to Bond and Camille chilling at the bottom of it.
Edit: And I see that's come up before on just the previous page!
That could be!
So it's not just ITV in the UK that does this then?!! [-X :))