• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          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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              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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          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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      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.

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    How do you manage to have three trains collide? Two I get, but three‽

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      It really is both. Privatization has pushed reliability past it’s breaking point and you are seeing the outcome. And because it’s happening more you are seeing it in the news a lot more. It’ll continue and it will probably get worse.

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        Privatization

        This is a line in the US. US lines have always been privately-owned.

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            The rail privatization spat you may have seen may have been the British one, where the rail was originally owned by the state, then privatized, and it’s been a common topic of political discussion since. That’s largely of political interest in the UK in terms of passenger rail, whereas almost all US rail usage is freight rail.