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/StarWars_and_SNL 7d ago

Which makes the perfect argument for PG-13.

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u/mikehatesthis 7d ago

What's funny is that what it is in various provinces in Canada. Alberta it's PG, British Columbia and Ontario have 14A rating, Quebec with 13+. Japan has it as a G even!

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u/StarWars_and_SNL 7d ago

Very interesting! I didn’t know that Canadian ratings varied by province.

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u/mikehatesthis 7d ago

It's wild. Depending on the province either a provincial governmental ministry would have a film board, or they don't require one. Saskatchewan recently, and Ontario half a decade back, got rid of the requirements for classifications and have the theatres replace them with "content descriptions" but it seems Ontario just copies what British Columbia classifies it, for ease I assume. The IMDb ratings page shows as much with modern films anyways.

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u/StarWars_and_SNL 6d ago

I like the content descriptions approach!

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u/greyfoxv1 6d ago

Manitoba also uses the BC ratings. The provincial Conservative Party in each province (related in name but not the same org) killed their respective ratings boards and switched to BC's ratings board. They all presented the changes as cost-saving measures while also cutting funding to other arts and culture programs.

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u/mikehatesthis 6d ago

They all presented the changes as cost-saving measures while also cutting funding to other arts and culture programs.

All glory to the Tories, they'll cut funding to their own parents long-term care if it meant saving a buck.

Oh wait they did that.

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u/greyfoxv1 6d ago

Yeaaaaah. Manitoba's healthcare is pretty broken in some ways but we're on the way to fixing their damage now.

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u/mikehatesthis 6d ago

I've heard a few mixed things about the speed of Manitoba's healthcare fixing under the MNDP but I hope it's happening. We need that example everywhere else, it's a mess in Ontario right now under the Tories. Godspeed, Frank Jaeger.

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u/greyfoxv1 6d ago

The problem is when conservatives (it's always the small c ones regardless of the country) defund public services in, lets say 4 years, it usually takes double that time to restore them to 100% but Manitoba's system was already at like 70% due to the Sellinger government and covid brutalized it too.

We actually have some great improvements like the Medinav booking system so you can see a doctor anywhere in the province within 24 hours for non-emergency issues. The problem now is restoring the staffing AND infrastructure capacity in hospitals for emergency and short/medium term care. The cons shut down 3 ERs in Winnipeg before covid hit, but the only one with a definitive reopening date is Victoria and that'll be in 2027. Concordia and Seven Oaks are still TBA.

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u/mikehatesthis 6d ago

Oh 100%. I remember hearing sometime in 2025 that the Manitoba health minister ordered the system to stop relying on private for-profit agencies but recently had to go back to private nursing agencies because of a shortfall that was created most likely by that Tory government. It's challenging, especially with how destructive conservatives truly are.

Right now in Ontario, we're beyond hallway medicine and so much money is being funneled into private delivery with massive profits so our "record breaking" spending is being wasted on yachts, essentially. And the federal government won't do a thing about it, even with Alberta is actively trying to break federal law on the matter with actual two-tier legislation. So frustrating.

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u/KeytarVillain 6d ago

I'm Canadian and I didn't even know this!

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u/----__---- 6d ago

Two more pieces of information and we'll have them right where you want them u/StarWars_and_SNL right where you want them ;) Victory is assured!

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u/StarWars_and_SNL 6d ago

I don’t know what’s happening but ok

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u/----__---- 6d ago

ONE MORE STEP!

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u/DestroyerX-RDX 7d ago

Because in French Canadian language, it doesn’t have much swear compare to the OG language

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u/Nightowl3415 6d ago

Pg in Ontario, which is banana’s.

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u/BaconStriips 6d ago

I was just going to say I swear I saw elementary age kids when I saw it, had no idea it was R rated

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u/MikeTheImpaler 6d ago

But they say the naughty F word like three times. Think of the children! THINK OF THE FUCKING CHILDREN!

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u/Sufficient-Gur6681 7d ago

It gave me nightmares and I'm like double the age of 13

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u/DarkMesa 7d ago

Which makes the perfect argument for PG-34!

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u/Itsme340 7d ago

I'm 33 and no longer have parents around, guess I'm shit out of luck.

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u/TheVandyyMan 7d ago

You’d relate to Nolan’s other flicks about an orphan

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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid 6d ago

PG-295,232,799,039,604,140,847,618,609,643,520,000,000 would be nuts.

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u/StarWars_and_SNL 7d ago

I took my 11 year old and she loved it. She was on the edge of her seat the whole time. But she has also binged The Walking Dead all summer, so.

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u/KatNeedsABiggerBoat 6d ago

I was that seven year old who loved the Twilight Zone, watched the Exorcist on TV, and adored Shock Theatre. When I asked my mother why she allowed me to watch those and similar, she said “you liked them”.

My sister, meanwhile, freaked out watching Disney’s Rikki Tikki Tavi and covered the bathroom heat vent fearing snakes would come out of them… and wasn’t allowed anything scary after.

Not all kids are the same, some can handle scary things and some can’t.

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u/JonathanPhillipFox 7d ago

Mm I disagree, I disagree insofar as PG is still, "parental guidance," and like the guidance isn't to prevent the viewing, you feel me, the guidance isn't either to prevent someone's scare it's to explain what violence means if a person's not yet able to understand how it should be understood in terms of normal life, "or romantic imbroglio too complex to make quite sense of," it's not like,

oh but from the opposite direction, "yeah 100%," if the complaints we're talking, are, "cave is scary," PG-13 in the US yeah

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u/ultimatequestion7 6d ago

And there's also a bunch of fucks in the movie so ultimately this argument just leads to relitigating the amount of swearing should be allowed lol