That page says the CG effects were deemed too disturbing. The rumor that I read somewhere was that there were complaints about people sucked up into the sun resembling incidents from 9/11 of people falling from the skyscrapers.
I remember when it first came out and there wasn’t much CGI in it. Then about a month later, the CGI version was released. I swear they said that the reason was that the CGI, which was still pretty cutting edge at the time, wasn’t completed on time, so they released it without it. I never heard anything about it being censored. But I suppose I could have misremembered it.
So what exactly in the video needed to be censored? Also, RIP Chris Cornell.
Here’s a pretty good summary of the changes https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=3065
That page says the CG effects were deemed too disturbing. The rumor that I read somewhere was that there were complaints about people sucked up into the sun resembling incidents from 9/11 of people falling from the skyscrapers.
I remember when it first came out and there wasn’t much CGI in it. Then about a month later, the CGI version was released. I swear they said that the reason was that the CGI, which was still pretty cutting edge at the time, wasn’t completed on time, so they released it without it. I never heard anything about it being censored. But I suppose I could have misremembered it.
Watch all 3 versions side by side:
https://youtu.be/sxzqOBN1NQc
Apparently the daytime/censored versions are harder to find now.