nothing like toning down an adult series
for the kids hey everyone I'm Rebecca
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went pg-13 that means we're looking at
various franchises that started as adult
oriented r-rated movies before
transitioning to pg-13 even if it was
only for one movie all right let's get
to the list
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number 10 the scary movie franchise the
first two scary movie the movies were
delightfully crude and wickedly
offensive yes there was violence and
profanity but most of the vile content
stemmed from sexuality the first film
included countless innuendos and that
infamous bathroom stall sequence scary
movie 2 ramped up the sexual humour to
an insane degree the series subsequently
shifted to a much more kid-friendly and
naked gun esque approach with scary
movie 3 a trend that continued with the
two subsequent sequels however that's
not to say they were less funny in fact
most people would agree that 3 was a
huge improvement over - no one actually
kept track after that they are peaceful
it's so peaceful man why were they
choking us a few minutes ago oh that's
always say hello number nine the Riddick
franchise the Riddick series has gone
through quite a few iterations over the
years it all began with pitch black an
alien like slasher that saw Riddick and
a supporting role
like many slashers pitch black was rated
R largely for its gore which includes a
woman being ripped in half by killer bad
things the series then shifted to a more
site by approach with The Chronicles of
Riddick losing a lot of violence and
gore in the process I'll kill you with
my tikka various scenes were cut so the
film could secure a pg-13 rating but it
was mostly for naught as the movie
bombed at the box office
luckily the series returned to its
violent r-rated roots for 2013's Riddick
it was a huge improvement
maybe I win did the worst crime of all
I got civilized number eight the speed
franchise speed is perhaps the latest
are in the history of light ours
it was rated such first violence and
language although the violence is rather
tame the most extreme scene is when
Howard gets decapitated in the subway
but it wasn't done in a graphic or
disturbing way no the r-rating mostly
stems from the frequent swearing
including the mother of all curse words
so we didn't exactly lose much when
speed to cruise control was rated pg-13
there's no real swearing and the
violence is limited to what the MPAA
hilariously calls frenetic disaster
action
granted no one saw speed to anyway so it
doesn't really matter number seven the
vacation franchise most people know the
vacation series thanks to Christmas
vacation the harmless pg-13 rated
holiday classic featuring a no nudity
and no serious wearing well with one
hilarious exception we say that because
the first vacation was actually rated R
it was released in 1983 aka before the
advent of the pg-13 rating which
followed one year later that said it
would still receive an R rating today we
see Ellen's bare breasts on two separate
occasions and the language isn't cleaned
up at all it's clear that the first
vacation was meant for the parents
whereas the subsequent films including
Christmas vacation were intended more as
family events
the series did return to our territory
with the 2015 soft reboot but that's a
road better left
untraveled this trips been a night well
that's what family vacations are but you
can't give up number six the Expendables
franchise if an action series deserves
to be rated R it's the Expendables you
can't just throw away a cast like that
on [ __ ] Disney violence the first two
movies saw to this as they were both
rated R due in part to bloody violence
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this includes instances of severed limbs
graphic beheadings and bad guys being
blown in half that all changed with the
significantly inferior Expendables 3
which contained much t more violence
yeah all the traditional stabbings
explosions and shootings are present but
gone are the visceral and messy results
it completely changed the nature of the
series and made it seem like it was
catering to the younger demographic
rather than bombastic 80s action movie
nostalgia for what spendable Oh number 5
the Mad Max franchise both Mad Max and
the road warrior were released before
the advent of the pg-13 rating so they
qualify as light ARS at best yes the
violence is persistent but it's nothing
that wouldn't be seen in a modern pg-13
action movies only one year after the
invention of the pg-13 rating Beyond
Thunderdome was given the rating due to
its subdued and bloodless violence
coincidentally most people often
consider this to be the weakest Mad Max
the R rating was subsequently reinstated
for fury road although this too was a
surprisingly light are for the most part
number four the Alien franchise and the
predator franchise both Alien and
Predator helped define the 80s monster
movie despite the lack of on-screen gore
the first three alien movies were rated
R mostly thanks to their horrifying
visuals and dour tones this changed with
resurrection which contained far more
graphic detail predator was the more
violent of the two franchises as it
contained gory instances of skinning 's
mutilations and severed limbs
needless to say fans were hyped to see
some blood and flying limbs in alien vs.
predator
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it would surely contain the scariest and
goriest of both franchises right wrong
it was lame pg-13 nonsense that tended
to cut away from the more violent
moments and most of the gory violence
was contained to the monsters themselves
that's cool right right guys number
three the die hard franchise when it was
announced that live free or die hard
would be pg-13 it was like the world was
ending the first three movies are rather
violent with John getting progressively
bloodier throughout the stories
goons are stabbed through the eye and
one man is sliced in half by a cable
they also contain a lots of swearing
which helps convey John McClane's
everyman status who wouldn't be swearing
in his situation because in live free or
die hard John gets dirty
rather than bloody and the movie had the
nerve to edit over his iconic
yippee-ki-yay line with a gunshot
nevertheless we'd still take it over a
good day to die hard which proved that
an r-rating does not automatically equal
a good
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number two the Terminator franchise
maybe it's about time this series was
terminated the first three movies were
given our ratings with the first two
being particularly hard ours they
contained some graphic and fairly
convincing surgery sequences including
the Terminator cutting out his own
eyeball the violence is visceral and
impactful and the characters swear up a
swarm that Terminator is out there it
can't be bargained with it can't be
reasoned with
however salvation in Genesis took the
easy pg-13 route and the movie suffered
as a result
the latter was particularly offensive
relying mostly on bloodless violence and
horrible CGI to convey the carnage yeah
well it looks like a piece of junk the
series returned to its r-rated roots for
dark fate but everyone had long stopped
caring and even then it was nothing
compared to the first two films before
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notifications number one the Robocop
franchise the first Robocop is arguably
one of the most violent mainstream films
ever released and originally received an
X rating based solely on its graphic
violence thank you for your cooperation
good night yes most of the violence is
comically over-the-top but it still
counts the second movie retained the R
rating but the violence was
significantly toned down Robocop 3 did
away with the blood and gore entirely
resulting in the fan maligned and
infamous pg-13 rating it's also
considered the worst film in the series
almost like it completely took the soul
out of the franchise for a quick book
you go
unfinished business of course that
completely backfired as no one went to
see it it was an utter disaster on all
fronts and Hollywood didn't exactly
learn its lesson with the pg-13 remake
why can't we use these machines here at
home why is America so Robo phobic who
watches a movie like die hard or Robocop
or terminator and think so we go to make
these four kids can you imagine if the
first movie in each of those franchises
had been pg-13 we probably wouldn't have
had more of them actually you know what
you should do let us know in the
comments what movie you think would be
most pointless if it had been made in
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