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by Me Again_Archive
Oh lordy. Last night I started watching Blade Runner (still have to finish the last third), and it got me thinking of Sean Young. She's a good actor, and easy on the eyes, but I was having trouble remembering what other films she's had roles in, that I've managed to see anyway. Then, inevitably, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective came to mind. Pretty much everyone saw this back in the day.I haven't seen it in decades, but it's not hard to remember the end climax, a spoof of sorts of The Crying Game, which in the harsh light of 2019, seems glaringly transphobic and a strange turn for a film that was half-marketed at children.This would never fly now, right? Guess we, collectively, have come a long ways since the 1990s. I try not to hit people over the head with "woke" criticisms of movies, as they're often overblown and sometimes throw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to otherwise good movies. But at the very least Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is "highly problematic" in today's world. Maybe that was/is par for the course for stupid comedies, but it really dates the film. Yikes. And it just sort of slipped by everyone, or seemed to slip by everyone.