When I saw Rush Hour 3 trailer in Kuwait Cinema (Cinescape) I told my wife I’m not going to this movie. I could see what’s coming very obvious. People who went to the movie in theatre told me as expected. Cinescape took the movie name literally and managed to squeeze the whole movie in less than an hour! The rest of the movie (30 minutes) was censored. I could tell from the trailer, no surprises. It’s not the first time that a great movie is completely spoiled because of how they censor it. We live in a Muslim country, and we have our regulations and religious restrictions. No issues, I am not against them at all. However, when the movie is so full of inappropriate scenes that third of the movie is removed, then there is no point in showing the movie in the first place. Just cancel it. Or at least, give a discounted ticket price for it.

Speaking of price. I don’t know about outside, but in Kuwait normal tickets are 2.5 KD ($9). You are not allowed to take any food inside. No water, or anything else. Not even a milk shake, which they don’t sell inside anyways. Going inside and wanting to enjoy the movie, the normal tradition is a soft drink and a popcorn. That would be another 0.75 KD ($ 2.6). Sum is around $12 for one person to see a movie. You spend that much to find out one third of the movie is censored. This is not a very special case I assure you. I still remember when I went to Crash. 3 Oscars, 8.2/10 rating on IMDB. Everyone who saw it in Kuwait said it’s completely pointless and sucks! Foreigns however defend it by heart saying it was a master piece. How come? Sandra Bullock, one of the movie stars only appeared in Kuwait theaters for around 5-10 minutes! The movie was completely shredded to small pieces and them summed up again. Quarter the movie was canceled. Want more? Recently I went to Ratatouille (I can actually spell it!) which is a wonderful 3D animation movie from PIXAR as usual. Again, a scene was deleted and I still can’t figure out what happened in that scene. But I keep asking my self: “What could’ve happened in Kid’s movie? How bad was it to remove the whole scene?”

But that’s not all that spoils the movies in Kuwait Cinema. So often I go to the cinema and the sound is not clear, screen is trimmed from both top and bottom, or you see some vertical lines as in the old days. Except for the fact that Kuwait is hot, and there aren’t really any varieties of family entertainment places, cinema would have been abandoned long time back. And even now, I am thinking about sparing some movies until I get the DVDs and enjoy them at home. If you’ve got large good display screen, and the appropriate surrounding system, just get the place quite and enjoy 10 times better show at home. Even if not, the least you would not feel fooled and ripped off.

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