First, I need to declare I'm not working with LPF nor any associate agencies
When you're in cinema, seeing your favorite scenes censored, you're angry, and start cursing LPF for butchering the movies
but before you curse them, I would like to clarify that LPF is not really the one to take the full blame, they are still the one to be blame partially, but not fully
The current general perception is they are the one that chopping out all those naked/violent/sensitive scenes that is against our national moral value, and all those scenes are ending up on the office floor in LPF (Last time lah.... now all digital, stored on PC )
Anyway, actually LPF DOES NOT perform any snips at all to any films, those snips are perform by the distributors first before submitting to LPF for classification and approval for screening.
Once the local distributor obtained the original movie source (usually just a few days away from the first screening date), they'll do an internal review first, then proceed for either internal censorship or done via a third party company registered with LPF, so that the content of the movie is accordingly to the guideline set up by LPF.
Once the own censorship is done, they'll submit the film to LPF for review
If LPF find out certain scenes are violating the guideline, usually they will just tell the distributor those scenes need to go, together with a classification
Back to distributor, they'll need to do some cutting again if LPF instruct them to do so
Censorship is a norm already in Malaysia, due to the nature of you know lah
But not all movies are censored equally
some has good censor edit till you hardly noticed it
some are pretty bad with sudden cut to next scenes till you wanna throw rotten egg at the screen
and some with inconsistent censorship, like the F words are allowed, but the B*tard word are muted
Blame the local distributor and their 3rd party censor company for that
PS: I heard there are basically 2 teams of reviewers in LPF, one is the younger more liberal team and one is more conservative older team. Hence at times you see some controversial caused by them. I heard DJango Unchained managed to pass uncut due to the younger team, and the current BatB fiasco was caused by the older team, but reversed by the younger team with some pressure from certain ministry.
LPF doesn't cut/censor films, not to be blamed for bad censor edits