Longhorns

The rating is for the movie. It is a sweet romcom/coming out story. Now. Let’s talk about iTunes’s shady practices. I’ve bought a couple of movies now that say that they are “unrated” and/or “director’s cuts” only to find out after I purchase them that iTunes has censored them. A lot of the reviewers are saying that this is a homophobic practice and that it is a double standard because they only censor male nudity, which is a valid argument. My feels about censorship and policing the morality of others aside, there is a bigger issue here I think. This is a classic case of “bait and switch.” iTunes is making millions of dollars offering movies in the original format but delivering a modified (censored) version of the product. And I think they are purposefully not telling customers that the movies are censored because they know that people buy movies specifically because they are unrated director’s cuts expecting to buy an uncensored movie, and to inform the customer that the movies are censored would cut into their profit margins. It’s like listing a mint condition Mercedes and delivering a wrecked Mercedes to the customer. It’s still a Mercedes but it’s not the Mercedes you bought. And regardless of their reasons for censoring the movies, whether it is an act of homophobia and/or morality policing, the bottom line is that at best this is false advertising and at worse it is consumer fraud because they are making huge profits off of offering an superior item but delivering a subpar version of the product to the consumer after they have paid for the better version.

While gratuitous violence of every kind passes by the iTunes censor's scissors, heaven forbid we see any part of the human anatomy. Buy the DVD or Blu-Ray instead, as I have confirmed these are uncensored. Vote with our dollars to say this kind of corporate censorship is unacceptable. (It also probably violates DGA union contracts.)

Update...iTunes says the censoring is from the content provider, not them! Still, if selling a movie or song with editing done, one would think they'd share such information! They put notices on certain songs/albums about clean vs explicit content...why not this? I believe Longhorns is a great video portraying self-discovery but was a little disappointed with iTunes censorship. Like others have stated, it was said to be unrated, yet they chose to blur out the "naughty parts". Seriously? I personally feel it takes away from the film and feel misled by iTunes!! So, again, FILM IS GOOD...iTunes dropped the ball though!

This is a great little movie I truly enjoyed it, OK sure it blurs out some of the nudity but that does not diminish the movie entirely, as I said it's a great little movie worth a watch. But I do feel that Apple needs to respect the movie makers and artists and allow their work to be viewed and heard as a intended. I did rent it and now I'm going to buy it.

A follow-up for other commenters.

Glad I read here that it was censored before I rented it!!!

The previous reviewers here gave low marks to this movie based upon the fact that frontal nudity shots were faded out. I get it that some people find any kind of censorship offensive. But this turned out to be a great movie. Glad I took a chance on it.

I saw this movie in the theater and loved it. However, I was shocked and disgusted to discover that iTunes edited all of the scenes featuring full frontal male nudity. My only question is why? This is a gay film and is unrated, it's not like people don't know what they are getting when they download it. Smh, shame on iTunes for being a bunch of penisphobes!!! >:(

If it is unrated why is there blurry bits in the movie

I didn't see the movie in the theater, but I doubt very much that it had blurred out areas… Just be advised, that this movie has been censored (Nudity). I think that should be noted in the description. I would accept censorship a little easier, if they did the same to all violent scenes, but then they would lose a lot of money… Unfortunately, violence sells!