Something to laugh...of cry...about. A list of banned movies in Malaysia. Taken from Wikipedia

Here are a few of the noteable ones:

Permanently banned:

1)Queen of the Damned. It's based on a novel by Anne Rice. Oh well...the movie sucked, so I don't really care.Oh yeah, I think I saw this one on Astro. Why ar? But then why is Twilight not banned then?

2)The Piano.It's even one of the Cannes Film Festival kakis. Remember this one? About the pianist who wouldn't speak. Christopher showed us part of it during class once, I don't think it would be offensive in any way. Btw that probably means that the dvd is being sold somewhere. Why ar?

3)South Park. That's alright, we've all watched it anyway. Ohohohohoho...

4)Pet Semetary. Based on a book by Stephen King. I read the book and it was really good. They prolly thought the part about bringing dead people back to life was demonic.But the story portrays that ritual as being not worth it's price. But then again I don't think Malaysian audience would be childish enough to actually believe it to be true. Except maybe the fake datukdatins who visit bomohs.

Now released on dvd(like wtf right, cannot see in cinema but later can buy n see at home? Or better still, buy /download illegal dvd. Oh thank you censorship board for encouraging piracy):

1) The Exorcist. OK, pretty obvious why they would want to ban it(but still a very petty reason), but it's one of the classic horror movies, so how can you ban it?

2) Schindler's List. Another classic. Seems it was banned for being too sympathetic towards Jews. Huh? So we are for the Nazis now?

3)Babe. Kerana ada babi dalamnya.

4)Babe, Pig in the city.

5) The Prince of Egypt. Because they think the Muslims in this country need to be protected from the outside world. Hello, they can think for themselves lah.

6)Saving Private Ryan

7)Austin Powers, the spy who shagged me. You can buy it and watch it at home and have all the obscene fun you want. Just not in the cinema.

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And don't forget that they are now pushing for a blanket ban on horror films.Because Malaysians might tend to believe that the scary boogieman on screen is real and we should worship him just in case he comes to haunt us. Or something like that. Well, at least that might put a stop to all the low budget lame locally made horror movies that are so abundent of late.