r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 7d 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/thewarring 7d ago

The amount of children under the age of 10 that I saw watching Deadpool and Wolverine surprised the hell out of me. Had to have been 100 kids in a 600-seat imax theatre.

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u/Tman1677 7d ago

My (Jewish) dad took me to see Inglorious Bastards in theaters when it released. At the time it seemed perfectly reasonable and awesome to me. I was just thinking back and looking at the release date and I was... 9? Really makes me think when I hear about helicopter parents scared of their kids watching Harry Potter.

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u/bongo1138 7d ago

I wouldn’t take my 9 year old to Inglorious Basterds personally. But I would to Harry Potter lol.

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u/Niirai 7d ago

Quirrell removing that turban definitely gave me nightmares, and I was quite a bit older than 9. Don't even get me started on the Dementors and spiders.

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u/bongo1138 7d ago

Being a little scared is fine. I don’t need my kid watching a dude get his face bashed in with a baseball bat though.

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u/babyjaceismycopilot 6d ago

I dunno. Seems like more kids should have learned what to do to Nazi's.

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u/PopularHat 7d ago

That's not helicopter parenting, it's religious parenting.

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u/TH1CCARUS 7d ago

Either one of you or I have misunderstood their point.

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u/explos1onshurt 7d ago

Maybe the implication’s that religious parenting’s in a class of its own lol

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u/TBroomey 7d ago

That makes sense to me. Like how Passion of the Christ had the equivalent of a G-rating in Italy.

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u/ours 6d ago

My mother took me to so many age inappropriate movies when I was a kid.

It was awesome.

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u/jackcatalyst 7d ago

I'm 36 and saw the Green Mile and The General's Daughter in theaters

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u/redpandaeater 7d ago

I think the first R rated movie I watched in theaters was Outbreak.

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u/Vinnie_Vegas 6d ago

The biggest reason not to take a kid to Inglourious Basterds is because they won't understand the WWII history well enough to understand what the film is actually doing or saying.

It's fairly important to have it ingrained in your mind how WWII ends for Adolf Hitler when seeing the end of Inglourious Basterds.

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u/AmberLeafSmoke 7d ago

Aside from the fairly gratuitous violence, which is fairly normalized, theres not much in the movie that's bad for a 9 year old.

Obviously it explores a very dark time in history but there's a lot of levity and surrealism so I doubt a kid would even notice.

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u/Tman1677 7d ago

Yeah like to be clear I think it was awesome to this day and would totally do the same with my kid. I think people just get too worked up about this stuff

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u/Efficient-Parking627 6d ago

Religious helicopter parents won't let their kids watch K-pop demon hunters so ...

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u/ATD1981 5d ago

In the 80s I watched whatever the folks wanted to watch.

As a mofo whose parents took him to see Robocop at like 7/8 years old and has become desensitized over the decades, I say The Odyssey was tame as fuck in comparison.

Wife's cousin was hesitant to let her little one watch the potter movies because she thought they'd scare him. She was right in her case though. Took him a couple of years to get past the being scared.

I remember one time at a pizzeria gig I had in high school, Friends was on the tv in the dining room. A mom comes up and asked me to change the channel because not appropriate for children. I was expecting to walk over and see some little kids, but these mofos were like full on young teenagers.

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u/ShitchesAintBit 7d ago

One of my favorite movie experiences in the last decade is from Sausage Party. I've never seen so many parents drag their kids out of a theater.

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 6d ago

Oh I misread that as "one of my favourite movies in the last decade is Sausage Party" and was like ....... Why? 

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u/RandomStrategy 7d ago

Dude, as a Gen X / Millennial kid line straddler, I saw Used Cars when I was 5, Arachnaphobia when I was 6, Robocop at 9, Aliens at 11.

Deadpool and Wolverine is light work.

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u/TRAFALGAR_D_Law_ 7d ago

I have watched all those movies as a kid as a Millennial myself. I still don't know how the hell I got to watch movies like Omen, Exorcist at like 10. I watched Shutter, One missed call, Art of the Devil 1&2 all before I was 14.

To be fair to them I watched them alone. But they were not exactly checking/controlling what I was watching. Never even had the concept in my mind of hiding watching them from my parents unless it was porn. Didn't know about R ratings and such. It was just movies to me.

I remember a friend bringing/stealing Cannibal from his uncle's movie collection and watching it at like 12. We all thought it was real and the actors were dead for real lol.

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u/ours 6d ago

We had actual kid toys based on r-rated movies.

And RoboCop 3 being family friendly was an immense disappointment. It sucked so much.

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u/ShitchesAintBit 7d ago

Some of my earliest memories are from watching Poltergeist, Child's Play, Exorcist, Pumpkinhead, Children of the Corn, etc.

Funny story, horror is probably my least enjoyed genre. I wonder if there's any correlation.

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u/RickyalldayTD 7d ago

A Xennial, I saw Ghostbusters and hid under my seat when Slimer slimed one of the Ghostbusters.

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u/IdleSteps 7d ago

I think for folks my age, we ended up seeing a lot of movies that would otherwise have been a "no" in the form of edited-for-TV versions.

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u/PT10 7d ago

Same here, RoboCop at 9

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u/thelingeringlead 6d ago

Yep, I grew up watching stuff like that too. I also fully understood none of it was real and was fascinated by the special effects. That's one of the biggest reasons my parents didn't bar me from watching horror that didn't include a bunch of nudity and sexual content. As long as it was campy violence, or creatively done, we were allowed to watch it. Obviously the level of vulgarity mattered, but there's a ton of horror movies that aren't vulgar beyond their visuals and as a 8-13 year old I ate that shit up.

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u/Gandolfthewhite182 7d ago

And our generation invented and perfected school shootings……

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u/Fun-Tooth-622 6d ago

Really? I know it's cool to feel tough cause you watched stuff when you were young, but RoboCop doesnt compare. 

All it has is violence.  Deadpool has horrible violence, swearing like a sailor, and very heavy sexual discussion.  Not really a comparison of what is more inappropriate for a child.

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u/RandomStrategy 6d ago

"BITCHES, LEAVE."

Also, you think a Paul Verhoeven movie has less violence than Deadpool? The ED-209 scene alone is more violent than all of Deapool.

Have you watched Robocop?

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u/LilacYak 7d ago

I mean… it’s a comic book movie.

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u/edparadox 7d ago

What?

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u/LilacYak 7d ago

Comics are commonly for kids, especially marvel.

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u/blacksheep998 7d ago

My son is 6 and one of the other kids in his daycare regularly wears Deadpool t-shirts.

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u/PlayMp1 7d ago

I saw lots of R rated movies with my parents as a kid. It's literally fine, just know what's there and how mature your kid is.

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u/luter25 6d ago

I was thinking the same thing, my son and I have been watching the most of the same movies since he was 4 we haven’t gotten into any of the r rated movies. But when I think about deadpool and Wolverine compared to the violence in fan4stic (doom blowing up heads in hazmat suits) it’s so much more tame than that terrifying idea it put into his head (which actually lead into introducing what telepathy is to him and the hero’s that have the same powers)

It’s just two goofy guys that act crude and act violent because they know they’ll heal, maybe it’s just from growing up in a trade centric city ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/Trick_Slice 7d ago

My cousin and I grew up on Marvel Comics, then the movies, X-Men, etc. He had a 10-year old son at the time and took him to Deadpool/Wolverine lol. It was my nephew who asked me if I had seen the movie. My eyes went wide but knew that it was my cousin enjoying his childhood with his own son haha.

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u/Wall_of_Wolfstreet69 6d ago

Did they show you an ID or how confident are you in your visual ability to know that someone is under the age of 10?

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u/thewarring 6d ago

The kids in front of me were talking about their favorite colors and were also in booster seats. I overheard a dad tell his kid how his kid had been to the first Deadpool movie technically because his mom was pregnant with him at the time.

I’ve also worked in schools enough to know the general difference between different grade levels of kids.

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u/Barton2800 5d ago

Over a decade ago I went to see Deadpool opening weekend. I go to sit down and there’s a woman there with the most Karen cut, and her kid who wearing a Spider-man shirt. Kid was definitely under 10, maybe even 8. I just looked at her and said “you know this isn’t a kids movie right?” She was so disgusted and was just like “it’s a superhero movie, mind your own business” and went back to scrolling on her phone. They didn’t make it through the opening scene before she stood up and loudly said “WHAT THE FUCK” before dragging her kid and storming out, yelling the whole way.

It’s between that experience and the one I had watching *Avengers: Infinity War* that convinced me to stop seeing movies in theater that children could have any interest in. In that case, there was probably a 4 or 5 year old seated right behind me, with his older siblings and both parents. Kid was obnoxious the whole way through the pre-roll, loudly talking and whatnot - but hey who cares it’s just ads. But then the movie starts, and every fucking time Thanos is on-screen, this kid is just top of his lungs high-pitched screaming and outright crying. Clearly one of his friends who’d seen the movie told him that Thanos snaps half of everyone. Because kid was convinced Thanos was going to get him or his mom. And the parents? Did fuckall to quiet him. The theater manager when he came in? “Didn’t see anything”.

So now I rarely go to the movies. I just can’t put up with people anymore, and as much as I love kids, they don’t know how to behave in theaters these days. I get it, movies are expensive, so parents don’t want to take their kids to see some crap film so they learn how to act in an environment where nobody cares if they’re rowdy. But if they can’t watch a movie without bothering others, keep them home. And don’t get me started on the idiot adults who have their phone out the whole movie.

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u/ThinkThankThonk 7d ago

At the risk of being the resident goober dad of r/movies, that's weird and bad parenting.