whether you like it or not comic book
movies are now a part of our culture our
valiant heroes are more popular than
ever before and thanks to the success of
Deadpool and Logan the world is in abuzz
over the insane idea of yet this r-rated
comic book movies so that brings me to
the question in the title of this video
after an introduction of course I'm
Jocelyn the intern I do all the research
nobody else wants to straight from
bricks gasps OH
step battle all right here we go
should Deadpool to really be rated R
yeah no [ __ ] [ __ ] it should I mean
duh but now that you're here let me
explain the real point I'm trying to
make
just because Deadpool and Logan are
awesome and very successful doesn't mean
that every comic book movie under the
Sun should also be rated R sure the
addition of the f-word some extra gore
and even the occasional pair of boobies
can help make the world of an antihero
feel more fleshed out however it can
also do the opposite I mean can you
really imagine Captain America running
around dropping f-bombs and severing
limbs that's fine yeah of course you can
imagine it but that doesn't necessarily
mean it would be good the reason I
mentioned this is because the studios
are clearly watching people's responses
and if we don't express our rationale
for this new cinema phenomenon we're all
going to end up regretting it because
trust me out of all the giant media
industries none of them are as easily
misguided as Hollywood just look at the
early 90s for example we had a handful
of solid Batman films even if they were
declining in quality they were still
good some of the smaller comic houses
even got in on the action with movies
like paint girl and the crow man it was
all three great naturally the studio's
took notice and all they heard was the
blind chance of everyone asking for more
comic-book movies and that ladies and
gentlemen is how we ended up with movies
like Batman and Robin and the lowest of
lows deal with Shaquille
a lot of the characters we know and love
our superheroes for the exact same
reason they shouldn't have r-rated
movies these guys are pretty much as
goody-two-shoes as two shoes can be
goody and there is no reason aside from
maybe having an extra nasty villain that
pretty much any of let's say the
Avengers should be running around
murdering the [ __ ] out of people like an
angry old Wolverine even for a character
like Batman it doesn't make sense in a
majority of the scenarios yeah he's a
violent vigilante but 99% of the time
the most damage he does to a typical
goon is knocking them out or breaking an
arm for example Adam West's goofy and
fun Batman should be PG at the most even
the much darker Batman from the animated
series wouldn't really benefit from an
r-rating however if a live-action movie
was made from Frank Miller's Dark Knight
than an r-rating might be more fitting
oh how about the animated movie under
the Red Hood it came in just under an
r-rating by a hair and to be honest it
probably could have benefited from the R
rating that's because it was clearly the
intent of the original comics creators
to make a much darker story I mean if
all we say is give us more r-rated
superhero movies there is a damn good
chance we're going to end up with some
sort of trihard Edge Lord Batman running
around with a bat shaped m16 laying down
as many thugs as he does f bombs don't
act like it can't happen either I mean
how do you think we ended up with movies
like speed 2 and Catwoman for crying out
loud
Nic Cage was almost Superman think about
that to put it simply Deadpool is not
good because it's rated R Deadpool is
good because it's a great adaptation of
the source material and that is what we
need to be praising after all it's not
like it's the first superhero movie to
be rated R hell there are plenty of
great r-rated comic ROM V for Vendetta
The Watchmen arguably Constantine and
he'll even throw in two out of the three
blade movies oh and I bet you didn't
know this but you can add spawn to that
list as well even though it debuted in
theaters as pg-13 the director's cut was
really
on both VHS and DVD with a ton of extra
footage and a genuine R rating so until
next time remember this if you ever get
a call from Warner Brothers or 21st
Century Fox don't tell them you want
more blood and cursing tell them you
want more movies that stay true to their
store and then ask them how they got
your number juiced up weird