unrated and director's cuts

i love movies. i figure that's pretty evident by now for those of you who have followed this reckless and sometimes, cumbersome discourse. i think i'll have that put on my epitaph - "he liked movies". i loved to be entertained by those that can. i love a great plot. i love something that makes me think. i also love things that don't require any thinking. **see my rating on Mean Girls**

what i don't like is a feeble attempt at selling me something by throwing a bunch of tangible adjectives in my face to cover up the fact that i'm watching the same old, shitty movie i saw in the theaters. this is the current advertising ploy for DVDs and movies. "See it the way the director intended you to see it." "Check out the version to hot for the theaters!" this is all crap. they slap huge banners all over the cover of the DVDs covering up stuff that we thought we'd never see in this film and trick us into spending our money on something that's no more than an extended, european trailer. my real question here is this - how 'unrated' can a PG13 movie really be?

sometimes it's not even an addition to the movie itself. sometimes, it's them slapping a topless girl into the menu or the addition of two scenes that look like they belong in Gone with the Wind instead of the Jackie Chans film you thought you rented. so we have an additional 3.7 seconds of Angelina Jolie's tits, that probably ended up on the cutting room's floor purely by accident and the director didn't even realize it.

these are terms and catch phrases that are supposed to intrigue and wow us. a few years ago, it was the over use of the term 'extreme'. i used to enjoy watching the extras and now i'm lucky just to find the original trailer. i don't think i'm interested in 96 minutes of a behind the scenes look at the costume designer for My Baby's Daddy. it's unexciting and bothersome. and if you're going to give me additional footage, make it exciting. if i've got the director commentary on why the scene was cut and he sounds bored to tears or says he can't even figure out why the scene was filmed, then what makes them think that i'd want to watch it?