Monster Hunter pulled from Chinese cinemas over racist scene

[polynucleotide]

Chinese regulators are in the midst of censoring the film #MonsterHunter after controversy broke out online on opening day https://t.co/WrVO3ZkzRe
- Variety (@Variety) December 5, 2020
Monster Hunter -- the film based on the video game series -- has been pulled in China a day after its release after backlash over a racist scene

Comments

[milotic2]

On top of the movie looking bad as hell, there’s this. Whoever at Capcom who gave their ok to sell the rights without supervision of the project, must be shaking for their job

[kiss_my_undies]

Oh wow, I remember MC Jin from Freestyle Fridays on 106 and Park with AJ & Free back in the day lol

[soupdupcosmogrl]

When I was a kid, I had an older book (printed in the 80s; I read it in the early 90s) about these two bunnies. One was red, one was blue, and I forget what the story was, but there was a line in it about one of them "making Chinese eyes." The illustration showed it doing just that.

Not knowing that it was the wrong thing to do, I copied them one day while I was playing. My aunt saw me and set me straight about it. How are there still people out there who think this is funny or acceptable?

[tifag]

I remember this rhythm from when I was a young kid, it was wrong then and its wrong now. The fact that they included it into the movie is so disturbing.

[ohwutevernvm]

Ugggggh. Fuck em racists. So sick of them. Like, can they please fuck off the planet already?