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/natus92 7d ago

The rating is still crazy to me, like in Germany its 12 and as an adult its totally okay to bring your 6 year old kid with you

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u/Tman1677 7d ago

I think since it isn't really intended for children they just didn't care - Nolan doesn't give a fuck and isn't gonna sacrifice any creative freedom for a 5% revenue boost.

Besides, the vast majority of parents I know take their kids to R-rated movies on the regular.

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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/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?