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One R-Rated movie that was targeted at a very small niche audience with a runtime of 2hrs 45min doesn't make $100 million and the R-Rating is at fault? No thanks - Watchmen was a hard sell and was never going to make big box office.
WB just has to remember that the R-Rated Terminator 2 made more than $150 million. If the movie is good, regardless of rating, people will see it. Don't go the Live Free or Die Hard route - that movie sucked mad ass in Theaters, but the unrated DVD was actually entertaining.
This is why I hate the internet - everything can be turned into an immediate crisis based on one sentence and next thing you know, the world is crumbling around us.
I hope McG's Terminator gets the R rating he wants. This is a post-apocalyptic war flick focusing on humanity's last stand against an unstoppable evil mechanical force-- given the story material, it shouldn't get a kid-friendly rating just because of the absence of tits and blood. But America is such a prudish country, I have a feeling that PG-13 films and the MPAA's rating system will have a long lasting reign over the film industry.
The nudity should stay. Even if it is a total gratuitous tit shot. Fuck PG-13 for the Terminator franchise. PG-13 ruined Live Free or Die Hard.
you have to admit that if a studio is spending 100-150million it's going to hard to get their money back in domestic box office...American moviegoers like their films PG-13 it comes down to numbers unfortunately..along with the fascist anti-sex MPAA having way too much power over films and how they are released....internationally people rarely look at ratings when it comes to profits...if it's a solid film R or PG-13 it will blow up DVD and Bluray sales so the studio will make their money back...
when it comes to Terminator I don't want casual cursing and random nakedness...the reason for nudity/sex scene in the original Terminator was to show John's conception ...I'm not sure how Moon's character is that important her nudity will effect the story...on the other hand why isn't there a sex scene between Bale and Bryce?..I think that would be more important... blood and gore is something I expect considering we're seeing Terminators unleashed and not covert/hiding among humans....the R rating is a standard in the franchise I'm not questioning that...but I don't know if American audiences will be getting that in a theater cut....
that said I can't wait for McG to start work on T5 and T6....
They're anomalous, with most of the fare succeeding on the basis of offering something startlingly new (300, Wedding Crashers, The Passion of the Christ) or something that absolutely commands popular attention (Gran Torino, The Departed). The only R-rated hits that anyone predicted in the last decade were the Matrix sequels.
This commentary seems to be based on a false assumption.
Terminator: Rated R, $40mil US. Terminator 2: Rated R, $200mil US. Terminator 3: Rated R, $150mil, US. The studio should work on releasing a good movie. How excited is the world about T4? If it was rated NC-17 it would still make $100 million.
What it comes down to, for me, is if a director/writer/production thinks the story needs to be told in a Rated-R manner, I want to see it. If they make a Rated-R movie and it gets cut to a PG-13, that's basically like switching from Widescreen to Full Screen. You're not getting the whole picture.
If this movie is rated PG-13, I'm going to pay a bum to sit outside the WB lot pooping.
As for R Rated Blockbusters, wasn't Titanic rated R? (I would think it had to be for the Kate Winslet naked drawing scene, but I don't recall?)
If a quality flick happens to be rated R, the studios are not going to step in. (Not that I loved Titanic in any way.)
Comic Book's, and comic book movies, are targeted to kids. 11 year olds cannot get into an R Rated flick.
Hollywood always look for the latest trend. In their mind one superhero movie is the same as any other. If Watchmen had been made by a good director and focused on some sort of relatable story in 2 hours it would have succeeded. I saw Watchmen and enjoyed it, but I cannot imagine really wanting to see it again. Nor can I imagine taking my girl to see it, or trying to talk my friends into seeing it. Iron Man and TDK both got multiple viewing in the theater from me, along with me taking dates and friends.
As for R Rated Blockbusters, wasn't Titanic rated R? (I would think it had to be for the Kate Winslet naked drawing scene, but I don't recall?) As long as Titanic has the number one all time box office, there will be room for R Rated flicks.
If a quality flick happens to be rated R, the studios are not going to step in. (Not that I loved Titanic in any way.)
Comic Book's, and comic book movies, are targeted to kids. 11 year olds cannot get into an R Rated flick.
Hollywood always look for the latest trend. In their mind one superhero movie is the same as any other. If Watchmen had been made by a good director and focused on some sort of relatable story in 2 hours it would have succeeded. I saw Watchmen and enjoyed it, but I cannot imagine really wanting to see it again. Nor can I imagine taking my girl to see it, or trying to talk my friends into seeing it. Iron Man and TDK both got multiple viewing in the theater from me, along with me taking dates and friends.