Posted on 07/09/2025 5:52:57 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
It finally happened. “Rush Hour” — yes, the 1998 Jackie Chan–Chris Tucker buddy cop comedy — has been deemed too problematic for modern audiences.
USA Network recently aired the film with a trigger warning slapped on before the opening credits. The message read:
We all love our buddy comedies … but this movie was created in a different time. FYI certain depictions, language and humor may seem outdated and at times offensive
We’ve entered an age where satire, and even just broad comedy from a pre-social media era are being flagged like hazardous material. “Rush Hour,” with its broad humor, culture clashing, and PG-13 jokes, is hardly “Birth of a Nation. And yet, it’s been put in the same moral penalty box as films with genuinely outdated or questionable content.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this. In the past few years, we’ve watched the cultural reevaluation brigade go after “Goodfellas,” “Gone With the Wind,” and “Blazing Saddles” — each introduced on cable or streaming with some form of a content advisory message warning of racial or gender-based “insensitivities.”
(Excerpt) Read more at worldofreel.com ...
“”””If Rush Hour gets a trigger warning, imagine what Blazing Saddles will get.”””
Ambulances are standing by.
I recommend the Taking of Pelham 123 (70s version) and The Eiger Sanction.
My favorite line from the movie !
Turner Classic Movies will show a movie with no cuts, dead times or bleeps, but they will provide a warning during the intro. In fact, I don’t remember seeing any currently controversial movie parts on TCM that don’t have an intro.
Yeah ... it was made in a time when Hollywood was still capable of making a GOOD movie.
I wonder what the trigger warning would be like for “Airplane” or “Blazing Saddles.”
“It’s not one of Jackie Chan’s better films,”
It’s pretty good I think.
I always think it’s funny at the start of many of my dvds that “the supplementary materials and interviews do not represent the views of this film corporation or its employees.”
On comments about Risky Business, Jerry Maguire or other innocuous movies.
Imagine Blazing Saddles’ warning. It would put Happy Fun Ball’s warning to shame.
RE: Ambulances are standing by.
Funny.
For the promotion of House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price, the film company hired ambulances to be parked in front of the first run theaters in case anyone was overcome with fright at the thrills of the movie.
House on Haunted Hill had Emergo — when in the film a vengeful skeleton rose from a vat of bubbling acid, specially equipped theaters reeled out a plastic skeleton that “floated” above the audience on a wire (whereupon the fright-tastic apparition became a popular target for Milk Duds and pea-shooters).
As Stephen King recalls in his nonfiction book Danse Macabre, Castle also ornamented the movie’s PR by warning ticket-buyers that they must have their blood pressure checked before daring to enter the theater.
https://markbourne.blogspot.com/2011/10/octoberfilms-house-on-haunted-hill-1959.html
I’ve never even watched a Jackie Chan movie, fake, glamorized fighting and gymnastic tricks is just not a genre I enjoy.
I note that the “trigger” warnings are there to warn the simpletons of the left that they might be irritated.
Howz come no warnings when we’re forced to see fugly men pretending to be even more fugly women, or pretend-men playing female to avoid the fact that in the male world, they are “no way” jocks? Or when we see a Supreme Court “Judge” that cannot define a woman?
Also, “The Unforgiven” I bet that one would send the woke into orbit.
“””Also, “The Unforgiven” I bet that one would send the woke into orbit.”””
Pretty much any movie from the 70’s would put them in a coma.
They need a new rating. NSFSFB
Not Safe For Snow Flakes and Babies
Just slap that warning on all movies 20 years old and older.
Each year another year’s worth of movies gets the label.
The show was full of F-bombs, nudity, and violent gang fights with knives, hatchets, guns, and swords.
The label at the beginning of each episode warned of "Language, nudity, violence, and... smoking!"
-PJ
I wonder what they think about “Cotton Comes To Harlem”?
Saw this kind of trigger warning before an episode of Bonanza the other day. Other episodes played the same day did not have a warning. Had a hard time figuring out what I was supposed to be offended about. White guys owning a ranch? LOL!
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