@larmer: It absolutely holds up. A comedy with questionably offensive material? Those are still being made today. Plus, I think you are taking things a little bit out of context. The "transgender" was a murderous villain getting humiliated, not some random person being targeted for no reason.
Excuse me? "The 'transgender'"?
So it's okay to treat a trans woman this way if they are a murderous villain? How do you think that makes a trans woman like me feel? Too many trans woman have been killed because people don't think of them as real people.
I agree with you. However, please don't use the word "transgendered". Please use Trans person or transgender person. Or, in this case, trans woman would also work instead of male-to-female trans person. Thank you. Please excuse my 'necro-posting'.
I would think Ace Ventura 2 would hold up better than 1, since the big twist ending of 1 is that a main character is humiliatingly exposed as male-to-female transgendered and everyone is viscerally disgusted by it.
@alex Just to explain the whole kidney injury thing a little bit better, here's some stuff about the body. This whole "kidney attack" situation that was going on. Probably more useful for Dan to hear.
People with the type of kidney issue Tachibana has are likely to be on a dialysis schedule of 3 times a week. This is for people with Stage 5 Chronic Kidney Disease also known as End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD). So the machine Tachibana would be on is called a dialysis machine. The machine essentially acts as your kidneys, and filter the blood by taking all the urine out. That's right, your blood essentially has urine in it all the time and it's only thanks to the kidneys that it goes away.
The reason Tachibana's kidneys got damaged after getting his arm chopped off is this:
Tachibana lost a lot of blood. Blood loss leads to low blood pressure. When you don't have a lot of blood, not much blood goes to the kidneys. The kidneys are no longer able to work without a supply of blood. The kidneys undergo Acute Tubular Necrosis (ATN). The same way if I stopped blood going to your foot and it would fall off, the kidneys started to fall apart from the inside.
The truth is, the game may have gotten this next part wrong. The truth is, ATN very rarely if ever results in ESKD. It is a very very rare complication. ATN is an acute problem, and people either recover almost completely or die. Progressing to ESKD is actually scientifically contentious and we don't usually ever teach doctors that there's a connection there. So feel free, like me, to be mystified.
So...am I the only one that noticed this knob (main character) took a helicopter to go 2 city blocks during the opening? Look I know it's dumb, but you just see this guy's apartment and know he is posting pictures of every meal he has onto instagram.
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