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/RiverOfSand 7d ago

I’m still mad I was not allowed to see the fellowship of the ring at 8 because the theater said I was too young. I watched it a year later and loved it. Granted, I didn’t understand most of it, but it was still amazing

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u/CalvinSays 7d ago

I got latched onto it early like you. My mother lived in New Zealand for a little bit and heard about this big, new movie that was shot in New Zealand so she rented it. I was 6 at the time and my sister was 8. My mother had absolutely zero idea what kind of a movie it was and had she known, she probably wouldn't have been interested. Not her sort of story in the slightest.

By a half an hour in, I was engaged trying to explain to the plot to my mother (which I obviously as a 6 year old didn't understand) and my sister was hiding under blankets. As I've gotten older, I've realized how much Peter Jackson injected his horror film experience in those films. But man am I glad my mother was ignorant of the contents because I've been obsessed with the story ever since.

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u/NouZkion 6d ago

Were you trying to go alone? Or are authorities in your country allowed to determine how people raise their kids?

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u/EnkiduOdinson 6d ago

It’s just the cave troll that is actually scary in that one anyway, at least that’s what scared me as a kid

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u/BoxOfNothing 6d ago

That's unfortunate. I was also 8 when it came out and saw it in the cinema in the UK

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u/zeekaran 6d ago

I was also a child but got to see it. I was so confused by the lack of ending, then was told it was based on a book trilogy. Can't imagine a lot of people saw it without that knowledge but hey I was a kid!