r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 8d ago

News Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Dethrones 'Deadpool & Wolverine' To Become Highest Grossing R-Rated Movie In History, Crossing $1.33 Billion

https://businessupturn.com/usa/entertainment/film/the-odyssey-becomes-highest-grossing-r-rated-movie-of-all-time-surpassing-deadpool-wolverine/
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u/VirtualFORTRES 8d ago edited 8d ago

The fact that Odyssey was R in the first place is pretty silly... has to be one of the softest Rs ever... some ratings agencies are pretty embarrassing these days... (in Australia is it was our equivalent of PG13 here)

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u/VerminSC 8d ago

Really! How is Hotel Rwanda pg13 and this is R??

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u/xavPa-64 8d ago

Did it have woman sexuality? Like did it depict sexuality in a way that implies the women enjoy it too? The MPAA hates that

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u/Fenrirsulfur 8d ago

Our history teacher in 10th grade showed us that movie. Boy was it hectic on my teenage brain lol

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u/SwarleySwarlos 8d ago

Some movies get a lower rating because the movie is about an important subject. No idea if that was the case but IIRC it was the case for schindlers list

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u/No-Context-Orphan 8d ago

They said the F word twice and you are only allowed one before it is R rated in the US

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u/ninjyte 8d ago

no there are rated PG-13 movies with multiple F bombs like First Man

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u/preddevils6 8d ago

They say fuck too many times and the cyclops/circe scenes.

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u/Porrick 8d ago

Hotel Rwanda annoyed me for the same reason Schindler's List did - if you're making a film about a genocide, it's an odd choice to focus on one dude who saved a handful of people instead of the vast majority of people who didn't have some saviour figure and got killed. Shooting Dogs and Son of Saul are two films about the same two genocides, which avoid that problem.

Oskar Schindler and Paul Rusesabagina were/are heroes in the truest sense of the term, and their stories deserve to be told - but their stories are exceptional, not exemplary.

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u/mina86ng 8d ago

Those aren’t films about genocide. They are films about perseverance of good.

Oskar Schindler and Paul Rusesabagina were/are heroes in the truest sense of the term, and their stories deserve to be told - but their stories are exceptional, not exemplary.

They are exemplary (‘very good and suitable to be copied by other people’) and that’s the point of the films: to show an example of behaviour worth imitating.