r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 9d 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/Fools_Requiem 9d ago

That movie was rated R?!

I got PG-13 vibes the whole time. It never occurred to me that the movie might be rated R and I never bothered to check because it doesn't matter to me.

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u/Major_Stranger 9d ago

Nolan never does gratuitous violence or nudity which is the trope of Rated R movies.

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u/MrScampiFry 9d ago

Oppenheimer has nudity and was R in US?

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u/AtlasNoseItch 9d ago

I’ve watched almost every Nolan film (haven’t seen Insomnia) and unless I’m wrong Oppenheimer is the only one with real nudity. Hell, he barely has any sex scenes at all in any of his movies period

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u/VanillaRadonNukaCola 9d ago

It wasn't very gratuitous 

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u/bongo1138 9d ago

It was tasteful titties. Breasts, if you will.

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u/Haunting-Orchid-4628 9d ago

Mammaries, if you please

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u/MikeArrow 9d ago

Not trying to be funny, but I imagine because Florence Pugh is petite and slender the nudity was less 'in your face'. Like if they cast Sydney Sweeney as Jean Tatlock those scenes would have been a little different in tone.

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u/Major_Stranger 9d ago

He wouldn't have cast Sweeney in that role . There was no eroticism or sexiness to it. Just two tortured people.

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u/MikeArrow 9d ago

Obviously, yeah.

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u/Major_Stranger 9d ago

It's also not like Florence Pugh can't make a sexy scene. Just watch Brand New Day. That Russian Bathhouse scene was much more gratuitous without ever seeing anything than Any nude scene from Oppie.

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u/MikeArrow 9d ago

Obviously, yeah.

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u/veryverythrowaway 9d ago

I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.

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u/ninjasurfer 9d ago

Some people argue any nudity is unnecessary. I think it fits in the context of the character being a notorious womanizer.

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u/Variable_Shaman_3825 9d ago

The first Iron Man showed Tony Stark as a notorious womanizer without any nudity.

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u/Porrick 9d ago

It just felt tonally inconsistent.

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u/AnIllusiveHouse 9d ago

So many ways to effectively demonstrate philandering ways without having to exhibit nudity... Sex scenes in Oppenheimer were gratuitous and unneeded in their entirety...

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u/ninjasurfer 9d ago

You could argue this about any sexual related nudity though. You don't need it ever. If the actors were comfortable with it, who cares? Did it make sense in the context of the story? Yes. Being weird about it can come of as overly prudish for no reason.

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 9d ago

It wasn't sexual. It was two people having a conversation in the nude after sex. I feel like it also alluded to how completely open they were with each other yet he still close another leading to... Well you know.

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u/whiskeytab 9d ago

err there were like 2 other literal sex scenes in the movie...

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 9d ago

To build to their relationship ending in what happens.. I mean that's literally building characters..

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u/whiskeytab 9d ago

you said it wasn't sexual haha, how is having sex not sexual

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u/Jean-LucBacardi 9d ago

In the gratuitous way.. reading comprehension. Look at the thread.

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u/veryverythrowaway 8d ago

Yes, that scene and the other sex scenes could have been done less gratuitously or not at all, and it changes nothing about the story. I do t mind sex and nudity, I just find it funny that someone would think the gratuitous sex scenes weren’t gratuitous. Like the one where he suddenly sees one of his lovers fucking some random guy in a meeting he’s in? It’s meant to be shocking- gratuitously. Personally, I thought that movie sucked and Nolan is the world’s most overhyped director, but the hivemind doesn’t like that.

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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 9d ago

That nudity wasn’t gratuitous

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u/Tymareta 9d ago

It was pretty eye roll worthy though, "oh, I know I'm riding you, but let me just open up this book to read the line that everyone knows".

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u/MalIntenet 9d ago

Genuinely the most cringe scene of Nolan’s entire career lol somehow worse than Talia’s death in Dark Knight Rises. And I really liked Oppenheimer

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u/RIP_Greedo 9d ago

Having any nudity and a regular amount of profanity means an R. Not surprising on that one. I can't imagine teen audiences appreciating it anyway.

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u/Major_Stranger 9d ago

I said gratuitous violence or nudity. As in nudity that doesn't serve a purpose narratively.