Birds of PreyGets Censored on HBO Max, Will Get Re-Uncensored

Perhaps you determine to pass the holiday weekend watching some good sure-enough fashioned superhero violence in the form of last year’spretty good(and perhapspoorly named ) skirt of Prey ( and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn ) on HBO Max . If you ’re one such soul , you were greet with a carte tell that the film had been edited from its original version and may have noticed it was considerably more tame compared to its gas constant - rated theatrical cut . ( essentially , the same edition they ’ve been playing on TNT every other weekend for about a month or so . )

You ’re not alone , and the tidings apace spread on social mass medium about this sudden change . From grubby ocular gag and swears to Margot Robbie ’s Harley Quinn flashing her middle fingers , the thing that partially make the movie what it is are presently absent in the stream version . Since it was the first gas constant - order movie of DC ’s cinematic universe that was n’t an substitute edition of a film that already released , lover were disturbed that the original adaptation may be forever lost on the armed service , but that ’s fortunately not the pillow slip . A spokesperson for Warner Bros. confirmed toIGNthat bird ’ programme version was added on fortuity , and the R - tell on film will be “ useable on HBO Max alternatively , ” though at the clock time of writing , the PG-13 version remains .

In the long running , this is nothing more of a minor botheration and the issue should hopefully be resolve before the weekend ends . But if you ’re more interested in the preservation of plastic film , it ’s a monitor that rain cats and dogs help , even on accident , melt down the danger of erasing film account . lover of celluloid as a medium have felt more than a trivial vindicated about this , and have take to social medium to prompt folks to grab physical copy of their preferent films when possible . The option is … well , this , but more careful .