Unrated Blockbuster

I've tried Netflix and I've also tried Blockbuster's movie delivery system, and I ended up with Netflix because they have far more movies including loads of documentaries. My biggest problem with Blockbuster was...they simply don't carry NC-17 movies. Or so I thought.

So I was confused the other day when I walked past my local blockbuster and I saw a big movie poster in their window bragging about the unrated version of some movie they were carrying. What???? Why would they have an unrated movie if they don't carry NC-17? I never noticed that they did that before, but it seems that although they DON'T carry NC-17, they DO carry unrated versions of movies. Walmart, too. WTF???? Such hypocrisy. Are they pretending that they have NO IDEA that these "unrated" versions are probably the same, if not twice as raunchy/sexy/gorey/violent as an NC-17 version?

It's great to see movie studios come out from under the thumb of the Motion Picture Association of America...obviously people want to see the unrated versions since they always sell more than the rated versions. Too bad this is only on DVD and not in the theaters, forcing movie production crews to make two versions of each movie. Haha...that's as bad as the porn industry, where they have to shoot one version of a sceen for softcore and one for XXX.

Still, I can't get over the hypocrisy of Blockbuster and Walmart here. There is a really good movie about how the MPAA works called "This film is not yet rated" that you should check out if you haven't yet.

Meanwhile, my bf is getting his new tv on Friday and it's just about big enough to be used in a movie theater...so maybe I'll just have to watch (unrated) movies at his place from now on. I hope he makes good popcorn. If people say one day in the not-too-distant future that home theater systems and dvds killed movie theaters...they would do well to remember that "real" movie theaters were showing censored versions of movies and maybe it was really the MPAA and the big companies that own those theaters that put them out of business.