Re: successful SF predictions?

Keith F. Lynch wrote:
r.rice@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Apparently the recording industry in the US has been going after
some video services that buy copies of their movies, and then
make an edited "family-safe" version of it (cutting out nudity,
substituting/bleeping profanity, etc.).

I've heard you can get a Star Wars Episode I without Jar Jar.

How about editing the scary parts out of scary movies? In the
newsgroup next door, someone complained about _Snakes on a Plane_
having snakes, which are scary. Perhaps a copy could be released with
all the snakes removed, for ophidiophobes.

...sounds like it would look an awfully lot like mime, just w/o the makeup. People screaming, running, falling down dead, all for no apparent reason....

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