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Star Wars was actually shot in space urgeok, but it was a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
If you begin removing the harsher elements from extremely harsh films, they begin to lose their edge - as someone pointed out above, the undeniably genuine animal killings in Cannibal Holocaust serve to make the casual viewer ponder on the human "deaths" and, together with the real third-world execution footage (deliberately misleadingly described as "fake" in the movie itself), the whole package comes with a punch that makes this film powerful, demanding and unforgettable... whatever your views on its importance in cinematic history, and animal rights.
Does it really matter about how traditionally cute your slaughtered animals are, mothman/aborted?
Is the killing of the (edible?) pig worse than the slicing open of the live, screaming muskrat, or the stabbing and shell-peeling of the giant turtle?
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