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I'm probably the minority on this, but in general I'd rather see the TV movie versions of things. I tolerate language in movies, but I don't like it. For MOST movies I see, the majority of the sex and language can be cut out, leaving the movie intact (and much more enjoyable for me, though admittedly some of the language dubs are rather silly). For certain movies, however, this simply doesn't work. SPR is one of them; I can't imagine what a "sanitized" version of that would look like.

Maybe it comes down to how much swearing one perceives as realistic. I guess even someone who isn't effing and blinding the whole time in their own life, recognises that soldiers (Saving Private Ryan) and perhaps also gangsters (Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels) are more realistically portrayed if they do swear the whole time.

The reason I brought up Four Weddings And A Funeral when someone mentioned the F-word, is that (at least in the cinema version) the opening scene is of Hugh Grant waking up very late for a wedding he's going to, using the F-word when he realises how late, waking all his friends up, all of whom verbally realise how late they are too, and eventually everyone piles into a car and set off for the wedding. The first few minutes of the film have literally no dialogue except the F-word. Dozens of F-words, in fact. And it works because it's realistic: for once a character in a film is actually saying what you'd (well, I'd) say in the same situation.

And US network television can't just cut the whole scene, because the credits run over it -- so I wonder what they did instead.

Peter