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News & Current Events Mar 24, 2026 at 11:47 AM

Movie censorship on streaming platforms

Posted by tlxq

Im watching goodfellas and as many of you know its a mob movie with violence around every corner. While watching noticed that all bad language is censored and it makes zero sense why they can show people getting stabbed/shot/beat up but they cant cuss? Even if its so younger audiences can watch it they are going to see much worse, is there an actual good reason for this.
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mdmnl Mar 24, 2026 +36
Where are you watching a streaming, censored version of Goodfellas?
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Fantastic_Prune987 Mar 24, 2026 +14
Wait which platform is doing this? I've seen Goodfellas on few different services and never noticed the language being censored like that. Maybe you accidentally clicked on TV version or something? That would be really weird for streaming platform to censor just language but keep all violence
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tlxq Mar 24, 2026 -10
Its definitely the tv version on Amc but doesn’t make sense either way, if someone who shouldn’t be watching it stumbles across it on live tv they will see a lot worse than some bad words. Edit- everyone spam downvoting in comments, we get that your frontal lobe isn’t developed but you don’t have to take it out on people commenting and can show some type of intelligence by saying why you feel the need to do so.
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NativeMasshole Mar 24, 2026 +9
That's been pretty standard for censorship of media in the US for my entire life.
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PresentationThat3627 Mar 24, 2026 +1
I worked at a video store from 2006-2009 and you’d be surprised at how many parents are totally fine with violence but hate cursing.
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Formal_Cherry_8177 Mar 24, 2026 +1
The MPAA is one of the worst thing that happened to visual arts. Heres a lost in descending order of badness Female sexuality - LGBTQ Sexuality - male sexuality - bad words - a bunch of other stuff - graphic violence. If you'd like some great insight into the MPAA watch "This Film is Not Yet Rated".
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ToastGoblin22 Mar 24, 2026 +1
It’s the network’s decision, and yeah it doesn’t really make a lot of sense but from what I can tell it seems like more of a legacy policy that the higher ups are maybe just too used to at this point to bother getting rid of? Also, with how few people watch live TV nowadays they probably don’t see any real benefit to be gained by changing it. With streaming services parents have the ability to restrict the content available to their children, but with TV there’s this notion that a child could stumble upon something inappropriate without the parents realising. And yeah it still makes no sense that swearing is a massive issue but violence etc. seems to be fine, but I can imagine the higher ups thinking “no one is watching live tv anyway, why risk a loosening of our long-standing policy which might cause more oldfashioned people to complain, just for the small number of people that actually watch live TV. Anyone who cares about seeing the uncensored version is most likely using streaming platforms anyway”. It’s not like they’ve put this edited version out on their actual streaming service, it’s just the TV edit they use for live TV.
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tlxq Mar 24, 2026
Well put and agree been getting more physical copy’s as much as i can but i really was in the mood for goodfellas and i don’t have it yet.
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tlxq Mar 24, 2026
Whats so bad about what i said to be downvoted lmao, I don’t get reddit users at all is that not facts?
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mr_ji Mar 24, 2026 +2
Makes me think of the Mad TV sketch about the censored Sopranos and now I kind of want to see it.
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tlxq Mar 24, 2026 +1
Amc
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Roadshell Mar 24, 2026 +9
This is the AMC+ streaming service? Being as AMC is a basic cable channel they do regularly show edited versions of movies like that there.
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mdmnl Mar 24, 2026 +2
https://www.reddit.com/r/MartinScorsese/s/Xf34GzfeQY I'm surprised they provided a trigger warning but also removed any profanity.
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bfloblizzard Mar 24, 2026 +9
Probably the same censored version AMC's plays on cable channel .
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BattlinBud Mar 24, 2026 +2
https://youtu.be/Svr6Zl2QgX8?si=htw7QX_f9EsYLJMr
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VampireHunterAlex Mar 24, 2026 +2
Youtube has free movies (Ad-Free if you're subbed to Premium) and they do this all the time: It's like they mistakingly get the old tv-edits. (Pro-tip on Youtube is to always check the comments before starting the movie.)
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tlxq Mar 24, 2026 +2
Wasn’t on YouTube or i would have and agree with checking comments. On a side note seen “Trainspotting” for free on YouTube and it was a dude with a joker face filter talking as long as the movie length 🤣
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rbrgr83 Mar 24, 2026 +2
Sounds better than Joker 2.
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DukeRaoul123 Mar 24, 2026 +2
Most streaming services don't censor movies. That's AMC and AMC plus which use the TV edited version of Goodfellas. It really just depends on the channel I think. I think IFC shows uncensored movies now regardless of the provider. But there's a Movie Sphere by Lionsgate channel and a Miramax channel that do censor their movies on both Sling and Pluto.
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rbrgr83 Mar 24, 2026 +2
Welcome to American culture. You can graphicly kill people all day long. But God forbid you say the F-word or show a boobie, you'll be crucified.
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trackofalljades Mar 24, 2026 +1
FWIW, this is a very uniquely American thing. The ratings system in America and the cultural norms are all based heavily around the religious control of the MPAA (which indirectly influences television as well). That’s why not only is the violence versus sexuality stuff bonkers, but also “rules” are applied totally differently to male and female bodies and characters, as well as straight versus queer relationships.
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Emperor_Orson_Welles Mar 24, 2026 +2
Ratings vs. censorship are related but distinct things. Most people are OK with ratings as long as adult content is available for viewing. The MPA (formerly MPAA) isn't under "religious control." They have had problematic cases for sure, and they should be more transparent. And the idea that censorship is "uniquely American"? C'mon, you know that's not true.
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Formal_Cherry_8177 Mar 24, 2026
I think the "uniquely American" comment was more about sex & bad words vs violence. It's always been fairly apparent to me that censors and rating bodies care more about sexual content and language than they do violence. It's absurd. I've argued with many a colleague who clutched their pearls at colorful language and various sexuality being shown to their children but wouldn't ball at barbaric forms of violence.
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0verstim Mar 24, 2026 +3
Reason: the streaming services are a tangled mess run by people who barely know what they're doing and have bigger priorities. Some streaming services may intentionally censor their media because some report the CEO read on a blog run by a Christian nationalist organization said it was more profitable. Others are just shoveling hundreds of thousands of media files into their content management system with little organization. They might have uploaded a copy of Goodfellas that they got from another streaming service that went bankrupt that they acquired, and THEY got the file from an auction of assets from another service who was downsizing who got it from a Chinese wholesaler who hired kids to rip DVDs from a flea market, for all we know. Don't attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. You know how the barista who makes your coffee usually looks like they're underpaid, underappreciated and would rather be anywhere else? That's everyone lately. I never thought I'd know what the production assistants on mad Men look like, but here we are.
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mdmnl Mar 24, 2026 +2
I'm staggered by how often Amazon gets their Prime Video listings wrong. Wrong posters/trailers/synopsis... And they have absolutely no way of reporting errors. Every time I try there's a mental block that lands "So you're saying you bought this movie and didn't enjoy it?". No, I'm saying there's two movies called Man on Fire and this one ain't that one...
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tlxq Mar 24, 2026 +2
Im slowly building my physical copy collection because of how bad streaming has been.
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Shitty_Fat-tits Mar 24, 2026 +1
Not streaming, but my favorite bit of censorship ever came during a screening of Machete on network TV. In one scene, Machete is talking with a woman who was obviously topless in the original film, but the scene has been cropped for TV. In the very next scene, Machete guts a man and uses his intestines to jump out a window. Of course not a single frame was removed from the gut jump, but Glob forbid we see actual human boobies lol
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zowietremendously Mar 24, 2026 -4
Censorship should be f****** illegal
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Fritzy0811 Mar 24, 2026 -3
Its weird right… feels like they're scared of words more than actions lol.. I kinda wonder if its just some outdated rating logic that never really got updated for streaming. like what actually makes it safer to bleep a word than show a punch?..
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Fighting-Geese Mar 24, 2026 -1
So you're saying it seemed a bit funny. Funny how? Edit: just noticed I'm getting downvoted. Are there really people out there who haven't seen Goodfellas?
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tlxq Mar 24, 2026 +2
You really are a funny guy!
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tlxq Mar 24, 2026 +2
No theres just a lot of mouth breathing/smooth brains on this app i wouldn’t take it personally, it was a funny comment.
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