Comment on Crocodile Dundee | New 'Encore Cut' removes footage from original film
xyzzy@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoYeah, 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.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
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.