TVNZKKK [F]

I sent a complaint to the broadcasting committee over Michael Bay’s actioner BadBoys2 on the 24th September, that reads:

20 Minutes into the screening of “Bad Boys 2” last night, the word “Fuck” was censored (understandable) but not the word “Nigger.”

Personally I’m not a huge fan of Director Michael Bay nor am I big on cliché Hollywood action dialogue; but your broadcast movie censorship of “Bad Boys 2” last night was a double standard. “Fuck” and “Nigger” are both offensive terms and the fact that one word was censored over the other upset me, regardless of their use in context.

Here’s what they said Today:

‘The TVNZ Appraiser who viewed the movie and made these cuts, also made the decision to leave the word nigger in the broadcast. She considered that the use of the word nigger was in context for the scene involving members of the Ku Klux Klan assaulting the black policeman and that to cut the word nigger would have rendered the exchange nonsensical.’

They declined to uphold my complaint. Fair enough, can’t say I was all too anal about it in the first place. They felt it exemplified the KKK. …Nonsensical, humph, A better decision would have been to play a better movie.