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MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Reading headline: How dare they chop up this masterpiece!

After reading details: Oh. Yeah. Probably for the best. Lol.

Hogan’ response nails it:

Hogan’s response is that people pointed out to him that “this guy is a folk hero around the world. He shouldn’t be groping people. And I thought yeah that’s right, he shouldn’t be, so take it out. I mean, he did it in all innocence, in naivety, but it’s better without it”.

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Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Legendary response too. Avoided the bait and spun it around to "yeah we don’t sexually assault people "

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xyzzy@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yeah, I’m not going to lose sleep over it. Probably would’ve been better to have branching and a disclaimer, though.

Around Christmas I watched Holiday Inn for the first time, thinking it would be a nice movie starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. It began with an offensive content disclaimer, and I thought, oh, there’s probably some unflattering stereotypes. Then the full-on blackface musical number that included an offensive slur basically sucker punched me in the face. Really took me out of the movie.

I think it would be pretty hard to excise that one without losing a story beat, but these two Crocodile Dundee scenes are just dumb gags that contribute nothing.

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- MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  but these two Crocodile Dundee scenes are just dumb gags that contribute nothing.
  
  Yeah. I don’t disagree with folks who say “give us both and let us pick”, but as a consumer, I would probably just feel like my time was wasted with this one, after given the choice.
  
  It’s just not a big loss to rip it out. To me, it’s not even worth the minutes I would spend deciding which version to watch. Lol.
  
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Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The hivemind overruling the director is pretty dystopian.

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