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VamPyroX

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I was reading another thread about fire ants and thought about this...

So, have any of you ever seen any movies involving ants? Here's what I can think of at the moment...This is all the movies I can think of involving ants. There's also an episode on television...
 
VamPyroX said:
I was reading another thread about fire ants and thought about this...

So, have any of you ever seen any movies involving ants? Here's what I can think of at the moment...
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That's all we saw... except horror movie over Ants. I remember old and horror movies - it could be around 1965 and 1970 when I was in England.


Most of horror movies were banned in Germany. I will check at store either we have one like what your list mentioned.
 
Liebling:-))) said:
...Most of horror movies were banned in Germany. ..
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Do you mean that Germany censors your movies? Why?
 
My favorite "ant" movie was The Naked Jungle.

It was based on the short story, "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson. I remember reading the story when I was a kid.

I used to think that kind of story couldn't really happen. Then I moved to South Carolina and experienced fire ants. Whoa!

Them is kind of a cult classic of hokey "horror" films; I still enjoy watching that for fun.

Thanks for the memories. :)
 
Reba said:
Do you mean that Germany censors your movies? Why?
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This explains in the link over Germany law.

http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/arwcgerm.htm

http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/in03a.htm


I am not saying ALL but "most" of horror videos, DVD and movies are bann due prevent from get influence on the children with crimes, volience, etc. The law are strict about volience, crimes, etc protection.

We will get in trouble if they found out that we have horror video Friday 13th, etc. in the house. (I recorded in England long time ago before I married in 1985). We still have them but we haven´t watch them repeat since after birth of my first son. We hided the 25 to 30 videos in the attic that the children should not see it. I found them for a first time last summer when I clean at attic and told my hubby why should we keep them when we are not interesting... My hubby said no and leave it. :dunno:


We have some of volience, crimes, horrors DVD but it´s "light" one but the stores are not allow to sell them to children until they are 18 years old. If they want to have one then they have to ask their parents for permission... Adult buy DVD and video for the children if they think it´s okay. It´s parent´s responsible, not the store. It´s store´s responsible to not allow to sell DVD, etc. to underage children accord German law.
 
Liebling:-))) said:
This explains in the link over Germany law.

http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/arwcgerm.htm

http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/in03a.htm


I am not saying ALL but "most" of horror videos, DVD and movies are bann due prevent from get influence on the children with crimes, volience, etc. The law are strict about volience, crimes, etc protection.

We will get in trouble if they found out that we have horror video Friday 13th, etc. in the house. (I recorded in England long time ago before I married in 1985). We still have them but we haven´t watch them repeat since after birth of my first son. We hided the 25 to 30 videos in the attic that the children should not see it. I found them for a first time last summer when I clean at attic and told my hubby why should we keep them when we are not interesting... My hubby said no and leave it. :dunno:


We have some of volience, crimes, horrors DVD but it´s "light" one but the stores are not allow to sell them to children until they are 18 years old. If they want to have one then they have to ask their parents for permission... Adult buy DVD and video for the children if they think it´s okay. It´s parent´s responsible, not the store. It´s store´s responsible to not allow to sell DVD, etc. to underage children accord German law.
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Boy, that sucks!
 
Liebling:-))) said:
This explains in the link over Germany law.

http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/arwcgerm.htm

http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/in03a.htm
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I read the link but it was confusing because the people who posted there did not even agree on what the law means. Your links were just chat postings, not the actual law cited.


I am not saying ALL but "most" of horror videos, DVD and movies are bann due prevent from get influence on the children with crimes, volience, etc. The law are strict about volience, crimes, etc protection.

We will get in trouble if they found out that we have horror video Friday 13th, etc. in the house. (I recorded in England long time ago before I married in 1985). We still have them but we haven´t watch them repeat since after birth of my first son. We hided the 25 to 30 videos in the attic that the children should not see it. I found them for a first time last summer when I clean at attic and told my hubby why should we keep them when we are not interesting... My hubby said no and leave it. :dunno:

We have some of volience, crimes, horrors DVD but it´s "light" one but the stores are not allow to sell them to children until they are 18 years old. If they want to have one then they have to ask their parents for permission... Adult buy DVD and video for the children if they think it´s okay. It´s parent´s responsible, not the store. It´s store´s responsible to not allow to sell DVD, etc. to underage children accord German law.
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I can understand not allowing children access to violent and pornographic movies. I thought you meant that "violent" movies were not allowed in Germany for every one. The way your link described, the movies are not banned; they are just restricted from children.

I thought it was interesting that Germany allows "cut" versions of movies. When someone wants to "cut"/censor a movie in the United States people complain loudly. The loudest complainers are the movie directors. They don't want anyone to touch or change their product. I wonder why directors don't complain about German censorship?
 
Reba said:
I read the link but it was confusing because the people who posted there did not even agree on what the law means. Your links were just chat postings, not the actual law cited.
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The link, they said is correct because I live in Germany and see a lot of missing DVD, video and movies what Americans/Great Britain have. Example about Friday the 13th, Zombies, etc. I see no confusing on that link. I got some DVD or videos from my British friends. I might fill out the form at custom if they found out they sent which DVD they sent to me - the form is easier and helpful for them find out who did it if they found out I pasted and sell DVD to anyone.

I can understand not allowing children access to violent and pornographic movies. I thought you meant that "violent" movies were not allowed in Germany for every one. The way your link described, the movies are not banned; they are just restricted from children.
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Well, we (adults) have no problems for not have any missing movies, DVD and movies because we only doing to protect our children.

Yes, it's correct that we have restricted DVD, videos and movies here in Germany which ages 6, 12, 16 and 18 are suitable and also computer games, too. Computer games are restricted since big scandal about student shoot teachers and children in Erfurt, Germany in 2002. (It's first and worst shooting scandal since the end of World War II). The inspectors searched student's bedroom and found out that student are the fan of volience computer games. That's why we have computer games restricted, that's the children can't buy anything until they get their parent's permission. We also have TV with restricted, too. Volience and horror movies start between 10.30 pm and midnight for 18 years old and depend on light volience start from 10pm for 16 years old...... TV remind us which movies suitable for ages few minutes before it starts. It's parent's decision for allow underage children to watch volience on TV or not... Police criminal series from 8.15 pm and police information from 8 years old.


I thought it was interesting that Germany allows "cut" versions of movies. When someone wants to "cut"/censor a movie in the United States people complain loudly. The loudest complainers are the movie directors. They don't want anyone to touch or change their product. I wonder why directors don't complain about German censorship?
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I'm afraid yes about cut videos, DVD etc in Germany. Example what I have old uncut videos... Terminator, Cobra, Predator, Indiana Jones, James Bond 007 etc. We compared our old videos with new one (DVD) and movies on TV... We are surprised that there're a lot of missing what I saw our old videos... Example: we saw old video - Terminator "stabbed" through man's stomach with his hand fist ... blood... New DVD and TV, cut... James Bond 007... poison spider crawl on James Bond's chest (Sean Connery)... DVD or TV cut... We (a lot of people) see no problem for that because we are for it to protect the children.

Answer your question about complainers etc. Do you mean about German directors who don't complain about German censorship? If yes, well it's about respect. They understand and agree to this accord volience and crime protection. They discussed until they agreed about TV, DVD, video restricted which time movie start on TV, etc. Cut...etc. We find it's okay.

As what you said loudest complainers about "cut"/censor a movie in USA, it shown that they have no respect. To my view, they are selfish and never thought how to protect crimes/volience children. This is a disgust.
 
VamPyroX said:
So, have any of you ever seen any movies involving ants? Here's what I can think of at the moment...
  • Antz (1998)
    3D animated kids movie
  • A Bug's Life (1998)
    3D animated kids movie
  • Glass Trap (2005)
    horror movie involving giant ants
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Those are the movies I have seen so far. :) Pretty Anty, eh?
 
I write down the list of horror ants you mention here and will check at a big DVD store tonight. (We will be in town tonight to visit a doctor then go to big supermarket...)... I will let you know afterward. :)
 
Liebling:-))) said:

Answer your question about complainers etc. Do you mean about German directors who don't complain about German censorship? If yes, well it's about respect. They understand and agree to this accord volience and crime protection. They discussed until they agreed about TV, DVD, video restricted which time movie start on TV, etc. Cut...etc. We find it's okay.

As what you said loudest complainers about "cut"/censor a movie in USA, it shown that they have no respect. To my view, they are selfish and never thought how to protect crimes/volience children. This is a disgust.
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I mean ALL movie directors, from every country. They do NOT want other people changing their movies. They complain that it is their art and they do NOT want people touching it. They say that every minute in a film is important and should not be removed. I know there were lawsuits against some American video distributors who edited movies.

I was just curious why ALL movie directors complain when American distributors want to edit or censor films, but NONE of the directors complain when Germans edit or censor their films? I suspect it has more to do with the marketplace (money$$$$$) than it does with concern for freedom of expression or respect.

Sorry, this is :topic:

Back to ANTS! :popcorn:
 
I've already seen the following...
VamPyroX said:
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I thought Phase IV was interesting. The ants managed to build ant hills that were strong. They also learned to make homes in human bodies. Those human bodies were marked with holes in their palms. No matter what the survivors tried doing, the ants managed to become smarter each time.
 
Reba said:
I mean ALL movie directors, from every country. They do NOT want other people changing their movies. They complain that it is their art and they do NOT want people touching it. They say that every minute in a film is important and should not be removed.
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Normally every directors keep their original movies and sell their movies to other directors. Other directors have to ask the directors for the permisson before they want to cut, change or whatever and then sell them to their people and TV etc. They have to make contract agreement what they can or not. I noticed that we have more US than British movies. I beleive that British director reject German director's permisson, that's why German directors won't buy their movies unless they agree with them to cut their movies.

I know there were lawsuits against some American video distributors who edited movies.
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Perhaps they do something without ask other director for the permission?

I was just curious why ALL movie directors complain when American distributors want to edit or censor films, but NONE of the directors complain when Germans edit or censor their films? I suspect it has more to do with the marketplace (money$$$$$) than it does with concern for freedom of expression or respect.
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I guess German directors ask every directors for the permission before they buy their movies and make an agreement with them before they cut some? They can't do anything to complain or file them lawsuits because of contract agreement between every directors and other directors.


One thing, I would like to ask you something, Reba. German directors edit and censor the DVD/video movies..., not the new of the world - example about Iraq war.... dead bodies are shown on the new TV... German want us know what kind of wars like this, tasmaic, katrina, etc. etc. because they are real... But American TV not... , volience/crime movies yes... Why?

Sorry, this is :topic:

Back to ANTS! :popcorn:
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:Oops: and pass me :popcorn: :kiss:

Back to topic

I went to town yesterday to care of mails and went to small store for DVD... none... I will try again tomorrow to big supermarket for DVD, video, PC games,...
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Liebling:-))) said:
Normally every directors keep their original movies and sell their movies to other directors.
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I'm not sure what you mean by that. I haven't heard of movie directors selling their movies to other directors. I don't think directors "own" their movies unless they are also the producers.


Other directors have to ask the directors for the permisson before they want to cut, change or whatever and then sell them to their people and TV etc. They have to make contract agreement what they can or not. I noticed that we have more US than British movies. I beleive that British director reject German director's permisson, that's why German directors won't buy their movies unless they agree with them to cut their movies.
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I think some directors do give permission for editing films for TV showing but I don't think that they like it.


Perhaps they do something without ask other director for the permission?
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Perhaps.


One thing, I would like to ask you something, Reba. German directors edit and censor the DVD/video movies..., not the new of the world - example about Iraq war.... dead bodies are shown on the new TV... German want us know what kind of wars like this, tasmaic, katrina, etc. etc. because they are real... But American TV not... , volience/crime movies yes... Why?
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Sorry, I'm not sure what your question is. Are you asking if American TV censors it news shows and/or movies? I will try to answer. (If this is not your question, please ask again.) Each TV news program director decides which stories, photos, and videos to show on that network's or station's news show. That is, ABC News makes the decisions for ABC News; CNN decides for CNN; and each local station news director decides what to show on the local news for that area. Progam directors decide which movies to show on each network or station. That is, the program director for American Classic Movies (ACM) decides which movies to show for ACM; the program director for CBS entertainment decides which movies and programs to show on their network, etc. Each network has a different criteria (set of rules) to follow. Programs on Spike TV show more violence and sex, programs on Lifetime are chick flicks, programs on Discovery are more educational, programs on TCM are old B&W movies, and so forth.

I am not a movie expert; maybe Banjo or some of the other more movie-savvy ADers can give better explanations. :popcorn:
 
Reba said:
I'm not sure what you mean by that. I haven't heard of movie directors selling their movies to other directors. I don't think directors "own" their movies unless they are also the producers.
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:dunno: I´m not movie expert like you... but we have most of US movies here... sometimes repeat movies... ??? I just thought German directors buy movies from US directors and make an agreement with them... :dunno:

I think some directors do give permission for editing films for TV showing but I don't think that they like it.
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If they don´t like then not give or sell their movies to German directors.


Sorry, I'm not sure what your question is. Are you asking if American TV censors it news shows and/or movies? I will try to answer. (If this is not your question, please ask again.) Each TV news program director decides which stories, photos, and videos to show on that network's or station's news show. That is, ABC News makes the decisions for ABC News; CNN decides for CNN; and each local station news director decides what to show on the local news for that area. Progam directors decide which movies to show on each network or station. That is, the program director for American Classic Movies (ACM) decides which movies to show for ACM; the program director for CBS entertainment decides which movies and programs to show on their network, etc. Each network has a different criteria (set of rules) to follow. Programs on Spike TV show more violence and sex, programs on Lifetime are chick flicks, programs on Discovery are more educational, programs on TCM are old B&W movies, and so forth.
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Yes, I know what you mean. We have kind of news like this... what I mean is: We saw corpses in Iraq war on the New TV... , it´s not just Iraq but tumanic, katrina, etc. We saw everything on TV without cut or censor. With crime movies, German do something to edit to cut etc. Opposite to America - volience and crime movies are allow without cut and censor... US TV news, they have to cut corspes ... I have CBS TV in my program... I compared with CBS New and German News. CBS News didn´t show corpses but German News. Why US don´t want to show corpse to anyone but crime and volience movies? I will try to explain if you dont understand.

I am not a movie expert; maybe Banjo or some of the other more movie-savvy ADers can give better explanations. :popcorn:
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Me either... :o I only tell you what I know US movies here... with no problem from American director... it look like that they have agreement before they sell or lend??? :dunno: Yes, Banjo is an Expert of Movies...
 
Liebling:-))) said:
I´m not movie expert like you... but we have most of US movies here... sometimes repeat movies... ??? I just thought German directors buy movies from US directors and make an agreement with them...
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These are very broad, general descriptions:

The movie producer organizes the financing, staff, and materials for making a movie. The producer hires the director and actors.

The movie director directs the actual making of the movie. That is, the acting, special effects, cinematography, film editing, music, etc. After the movie is finished, the director's job is finished. He/she has no more control of the movie after production is completed.

Next, the movie distributor sends the finished movie to theaters for showing; later, sends the DVDs out for sale and rental, and for showing on TV.


If they don´t like then not give or sell their movies to German directors.
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The directors don't have control of who gets the movies. The distributor handles those deals.

Directors don't like changes made to their movies because they feel their art is tampored with (messed up). However, they do like the money that movies make, so they usually suck it up (quietly accept) so they can earn more money thru wider distribution. A few are very vocal (loud) complaining about censorship but they really can't do much about it.

You call them "German directors" but I don't think that is the same meaning. Do you mean "editors/censors", the people who cut parts out of the movies? Or do you mean "distributors", the people who send movies to TV networks for showing?


... US TV news, they have to cut corspes ... I have CBS TV in my program... I compared with CBS New and German News. CBS News didn´t show corpses but German News. Why US don´t want to show corpse to anyone but crime and volience movies? I will try to explain if you dont understand.
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It is traditional that TV news and print newspapers try not to show recognizable corpses because they want to respect the dead and their surviving family. Sometimes they show the pictures if the picture is important to the understanding of the story.

Violent movies are not showing the bodies of actual dead people; it is fake, so it is not offending real victims.

I think Banjo might be too busy watching all the new "holiday release" movies :popcorn: this weekend to read AD. ;)
 
Sorry for :topic: debate with Reba. :Oops:

Anyway we were at supermarket today to check at large DVD store but I still can´t find them... :sadwave:
 
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