• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          9 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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              9 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.

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          9 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.

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      9 months ago

      All right, listen up, ladies and gentlemen, our fugitive has been on the run for ninety minutes. Average foot speed over uneven ground, barring injuries, is 4 miles per hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive’s name is Dr. Richard Kimble. Go get him.