13 Worst Decisions Hollywood Has Made In 2017 (So Far)

10. Sony Plans To Release "Clean" Versions Of Its Films

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In early June, Sony announced that they were planning to offer cleaned-up versions of a host of movies in order to make them more appealing to a broader audience.

The likes of The Amazing Spider-Man, Ghostbusters, Captain Phillips, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Step Brothers, Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby, Elysium and many more were provisionally listed as getting the sanitised treatment, leading to a considerable uproar from the industry as a whole.

The likes of Seth Rogen, Judd Apatow and even the Directors Guild of America offered statements condemning Sony's move, causing Sony to soften their stance and state that any filmmakers who wished to remove their movies from the scheme would be free to do so.

Still, the idea of movies like Step Brothers being cleaned up for the kiddies is just asinine, and regardless of what you think of the movie as art or otherwise, Sony were attempting to encroach upon the vision of filmmakers who had no say in these hacked-up versions.

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