Even worse was that they would “cut movies to length” which actually meant it was stuffed full of commercials and then parts of the movie got trimmed off to make it fit in the time slot that they wanted to fit it into. I honestly grew up thinking that most of Clint Eastwoods westerns were completely fucking insane. They were just so damn random and often kinda rapey. Then I finally watched one on a cable with no commercials. I was so fucking confused. I thought I was having a stroke. Finally someone understood what was going on and explained to me about how they cut the movies for tv
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
A few years ago, I was watching Home Alone 2 on tv with my family and my brother-in-law pointed out that they cut the part where the family wakes up and sees they slept in and are all frantic. Kind of important to the plot because it helps explain why they’re in such a hurry at the airport, they leave Kevin behind. Yet they left in Donald Trump’s useless cameo, which adds nothing to the story. Apparently previous broadcasts cut Trump’s cameo and people complained because sensationalist headlines told them it was political when it was really because of time reasons and his cameo being unimportant to the plot.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The really crazy part is that if they just increased the time slot, they would have room to stuff in even more commercials. So why cut anything at all?