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Why Fear the End of the R-Rated Superhero Movie?
brumgrunt writes "Last year, Marvel said that R-rated comic book superhero movies weren't in its future plans. Now, in the light of Watchmen's box office performance, Warner Bros is going the same way, meaning high-profile comic book superhero films will be restricted to the PG-13 rating at most. But is this a bad thing, and should we fear the end of the R-rated superhero movie?"
I went into it expecting it to be a decent movie, but it sucked.
Maybe if people made good rated R movies they would get better ratings.
It wasn't the violence I didn't like about the movie. What got me was the copious amounts of sex in that movie. Why are superheroes fucking? I can understand they were trying to display the emotion they felt towards each other, but why not convey that relationship through dialogue and actions and have the sex implied? The violence is a little more understandable as Rorschach was a major character and the violence was key to his character. He was a good half of the movie, so understanding and seeing the world through his eyes was key. The blue schlong also didn't mean much to me, everyone's seen a penis (just anatomy). But 'superheroes' fucking each other, what? 3 times was it? Why not have it implied or something else. I know there are worse things out there and priorites are jacked when it comes to sex vs violence and such, this just happens to be what ruined this particular movie for myself is all.
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I hope they stop making ANY superhero movies. They're a crap subject, really.
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Why are superheroes fucking?
Um, cause fucking is fun?
What the hell kind of idiot question is that? You don't have a problem with superheroes shooting unarmed pregnant women, but you don't want to see them fucking? You sir are a sick puppy.
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Ah, yes. But the very fact that we obsess over being sex-saturated makes it worse. Think Victorian times - child prostitution and deviance went through the roof, due to the repression of something NORMAL.
Sex isn't normal for children, though.
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