Perhaps you determined to spend the vacation weekend watching some good quaint superhero violence within the type of final yr’s fairly good (and maybe poorly named) Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) on HBO Max. If you’re one such particular person, you have been greeted with a card saying that the movie had been edited from its unique model and will have seen it was significantly extra tame in comparison with its R-rated theatrical reduce. (Basically, the identical model they’ve been enjoying on TNT each different weekend for a couple of month or so.)

You’re not alone, and the information rapidly unfold on social media about this sudden change. From raunchy visible gags and swears to Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn flashing her center fingers, the issues that partially make the film what it’s are at the moment absent within the streaming model. Since it was the primary R-rated film of DC’s cinematic universe that wasn’t an alternate version of a movie that already launched, followers have been fearful that the unique model could also be ceaselessly misplaced on the service, however that’s fortuitously not the case. A spokesperson for Warner Bros. confirmed to IGN that Birds’ broadcast model was added on accident, and the R-rated movie shall be “available on HBO Max instead,” although on the time of writing, the PG-13 model stays.

In the long term, that is nothing extra of a minor irritation and the difficulty ought to hopefully be resolved earlier than the weekend ends. But in case you’re extra within the preservation of movie, it’s a reminder that streaming companies, even on accident, run the chance of erasing movie historical past. Fans of movie as a medium have felt greater than somewhat vindicated about this, and have taken to social media to remind of us to seize bodily copies of their favourite movies when doable. The different is…effectively, this, however extra deliberate.

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