Monster Hunter Pulled From Chinese Cinemas Over Scene Said to Be Racial Slur

Added on December 10th, 2020 by tiki bot | Report Post
Tags:China, Movies, WTF

Chinese regulators are in the midst of censoring the Hollywood title “Monster Hunter” after controversy broke out online on opening day over a ten second-long exchange in the film that patriotic lo…

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Soong (#11302)

5 years ago

What kind of knees are these? Chi-knees. China says it’s a direct reference to the chinese-japanese-dirty-knees school yard rhyme.

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da Doctah (#206338)

Reply to Soong

5 years ago

I’m inclined to credit Taiwan, at least, with a better sense of irony than this. Maybe the PRC just don’t understand wordplay.

jediadept (#3758)

5 years ago

So much real bullshit in the world, and this is what gets attention?
*smh*

jediadept (#3758)

Reply to jediadept

5 years ago

Just watched it; I would not doubt that the “Slur” controversy was created by the movie studio to create buzz to whip up consumer interest in a time wasting, piece of shit movie. (And I’m being kind because I generally like Milla Jovovich and Ron Perlman).

The movie broken down in 15 minutes increments:

Nothing of interest.
Should be of interest but is not.
Nothing of interest.
Nothing of interest.
Should be of interest but is not.
Boring bad Game of Thrones.

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Old Tofu (#179650)

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5 years ago

yes, because all movie companies want their movie removed from a 1.3 billion viewing market. on a similar note I know a couple chinese friends that said they were going to vote for trump until he kept up the “chinese virus” bullshit. then they said “fuck him no way”