When movies are shown in television..

Something a little similar happened here too. Here they show a movie every Friday night starting at 10pm, right before their news at 12am. In the past, after the midnight news, they would air the rest of the movie, wherever it was stopped before the news came on. But last Friday, they just cut the movie there and there was no continuation after the midnight news. So you would have no idea how the movie ended. I really don't understand why they didn't air the ending. It's bad enough that the movie gets cut and you're left in suspense during the 30 minutes of the news. But at least if you showed the rest of the movie afterwards, it's not so bad. But to cut the ending completely? Are we supposed to come up with our own ending?

Does scenes get cut when showing in tv? I dun think so, secret So far it's doing fine over here, unless that particular movie has some scenes that are not suited for general viewing, only then the censorship board will cut it before showing on tv. If not, everything would be exactly the same like in the cinema. As u know, there are ratings for movies being shown, so maybe that's the reason for some editing?

The problem with commercials is that it is where the television stations make a lot of their money, the more popular the channel is the more commercials they will be offered the more they will charge. The fact that they cut bits out of movies is sometimes so that they can show movies that can only be shown after the watershed because a scene is too violent or too physical they edit out the scene and then show it for general viewing. The problem is that sometimes those scenes are the basis of the movie and the movie losses the structure without it. A few years back the commercial reached scary numbers. The one time I was watching a movie and it went into commercial break I decided to get a snack, made a sandwich and cup of coffee and still got back and had to wait. On more then one occasion, I would change channels and forget what I was watching only remembering when talking to friends the next day.

Yes, because if they will not cut some parts they could not air the commercials which is the source of their income. Movies are only for ratings, they do not have importance to the value of the story but to the income they will be getting in inserting commercials. That is why it is so tiring to watch local channels when it comes to featuring movies. I sometimes cut the minute of the airing of movies, the airing of movies takes 3 minutes while the airing of commercials is five. Do you imagine how many parts of the movies are being cut because of this one. it is totally out of essence. Even cable channels of SKY CABLE which is owned by ABS-CBN have commercials. I am just like watching a local channel but I am paying it every month. I do not watch local channel because they are just fooling the viewers. I watched news though. Anyway, you can catch some of the movies at YOu Tube or download it for free in the internet.

Yes, I really hate that too... But usually in our country when they show movies they just cut out the rated pg stuff since kids might accidentally watch it. But sometimes, especially when it's almost ending, they cut out some of the climax since they run out of time..

did you mean by cut is removing some of the scene? i know one TV station in my local channel who is doing that, and now i never watch that channel ever again. If they want to stuck some commercial between scene that's OK but i never really understand why did they cut some scene so a 3 hours movie can be just less than two hours. The local tv still have to pay royalty for airing that movie so why do they cut them? they can get more commercial by displaying full length of the movie... maybe there's a rules in TV that i don't know so they have to cut it to fit two hours timeline.

I realize they have to pay for the airing somehow, but what I dislike most is that the commercials are MUCH louder than the regular programming (they say they aren't but I guess we all know they are, as in do they really think we are THAT stupid?) -- that is even more annoying than missing part of the movies.

i am not really fond of watching movies on local tv. yes because they cut portions of the movie that will make the story dull or something that will leave you clueless. and yes there are usually commercials that will also cut the thrill while watching the movies. i don't think it's betrayal to the viewers but they need the commercials to continue the operation of the tv channel.

Yes..it does happen here. There are some movies that it doesn't really matter but there are those that it ruins. I have seen several movies a second time on regular TV and it wasn't the same at all.

I experiences that most of the time. I used to be fond of watching these movies every Sunday night. They will remove a scene and somehow you will feel its incomplete. That's why I don't watch movies shown in television anymore.

erm i don't really know if that happens in our local channels coz when they show movies, they are non stop. There are no commercials in between and the movie feels pretty complete. Wow if the best parts are cut up, that'd be annoying!! But i don't think they cut off the good parts, do they?

That really happens in television. Now if you want the full version, watch movie directly in a theater. It would be unfair to those who paid for a ticket to let everybody see the full version in the television where they are only viewing it for free.

I dont bother watching movies on TV for this very reason. When I watch a movie I want to see the whole thing not just part of it. My husband tends to watch movies on TV all the time and I cant even get into it knowing they are gonna cut so much of the movie out.