• Snot Flickerman
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    10 months ago

    Hollywood Don’t Make Disabled People the Villain Challenge.

    Difficulty: Impossible.

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      10 months ago

      It was based on a famous TV show from the 1960s where the guy who actually killed Kimball’s wife was known as “The One-Armed Man,” so it seems like this particular movie is a strange one to object to on that front.

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          10 months ago

          Does it? Or is this just an adaptation of an old TV show that wouldn’t make sense or please the audience if they changed it?

          Are any one-armed people actually offended by the movie? If you aren’t one-armed yourself, have you asked any of them?

          This is the weirdest hill to die on- complaining about the portrayal of a man with one arm in a 1990s adaptation of a 1960s TV show as if it is somehow relevant to films in 2024.

    • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      The real villain was Kimball’s able-bodied buddy, and the antagonist was Tommy Lee Jones.

      Also, everybody knows that the souls of one-armed men are poisoned with resentment, driving them to crime. The movie was just being realistic.