They’re so drunk on the possibility of blockbusters being R-rated again that some appear to think that just about every movie should be. Some movies are just meant to push the envelope, and audiences have overwhelmingly responded to this bold new direction of the typically more sanitized Hollywood studios.Īnd yet, I can’t help but feel that a lot of people are missing the point. When movies are allowed to cut loose and just be themselves, it’s a magical thing: not worrying about “toning things down for the kids” and just doing the things they do best. I got to watch a twelve-year old girl sever a grown man’s head with a retractable pair of razor-bladed claws in her fists and it was just about the greatest thing I’ve ever seen before in my life. There’s no way that Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Deadpool (2016), Logan (2017) and Hereditary (2018) would have been nearly as good with the more audience-friendly PG-13 rating. And especially after the drought of good, no-holds-barred blockbuster action movies that was the 90’s and 00’s, I for one am ecstatic for the adults-only movies we have been getting lately. Don’t get me wrong: I love R-rated movies with the best of them.
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