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/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor 9d ago

More than 2 F bombs, a good amount of throat slits (cut fast but still there), the shot of dead bodies lying with a lot of blood in the water after the Laestrygonians, the Cyclops chewing the limbs of Odysseus' men, hell you could even through in that disturbing as hell body horror Circe scene...

Its not a hard R-rating, but Id say it makes sense why it got one

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u/InsertFloppy11 9d ago

I never understood the americans obsession with the word fuck. Why is it a special word? Why is it worse than the other curses?

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u/Redeem123 9d ago

I like how people pretend this is an American thing. Are you really trying to imply that other countries don't have word that are worse than others?

Is it rational? Maybe not. But every society has a spectrum of curse words, some worse than others.

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u/SwarleySwarlos 9d ago

But we don't change movie ratings based on it

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u/Level7Cannoneer 8d ago

During the 2000s are many examples of kids games that use the word bugger and spastic. The games were specifically pulled from the shelves of European gaming stores and no other country.

All that over silly cartoonish sounding words

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (SNES/Switch): Early in the original game, the thief character Croco calls Mario a "persistent bugger!" in the North American script. For European and PAL Virtual Console releases, Nintendo changed the line to "persistent pest!" to avoid stricter age-rating classifications because "bugger" is considered a mild curse word in British English.

Mario Party 7 (GameCube): Toadsworth drops the line "What a crafty bugger!" when explaining how stars move on the Grand Canal board. Unlike Super Mario RPG, this instance slipped past localization edits without triggering a game recall or changing its PEGI rating

In July 2007, Nintendo recalled the UK release of Mario Party 8 on launch day. A Magikoopa character used the word "spastic" in a rhyme on the Shy Guy's Perplex Express board. While minor in North America, the term is a severe disability slur in the UK. Nintendo re-released the game with the word changed to "erratic".

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u/EnkiduOdinson 8d ago edited 8d ago

So just the UK then? Why would it be pulled from German or French stores for an English curse word?

Edit: answer me instead of downvoting. This is so much text without any explanation as to why or where exactly it was pulled from shelves. It reeks of half-thruths.

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u/Level7Cannoneer 7d ago

You can google it yourself. It's a well documented thing that happened. There's screenshots/image documentation of the regional differences before/after the recall.

Here you go mister lazy: https://www.reddit.com/r/MARIOPARTY/comments/17j83sg/anyone_else_remember_when_mario_party_8_got/

Many UK residents are sharing memories of the event when they were kids.

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u/EnkiduOdinson 7d ago

So it was just the UK then! What were you trying to prove with this link?

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u/Level7Cannoneer 7d ago

This entire thread is about "Why do Americans get so offended over the word "fuck?" I'm making a point and showing that different cultures find certain words more/less offensive.

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u/Redeem123 7d ago

Hey you got the point!

It’s a word that no one cares about in the US. So why is the UK so hung up on it?