I never said Watchmen was the best film ever made. But I did say everyone should see it, because if it doesn’t do well, studios will never make another adult-oriented comic book movie again. Well guess what, it looks like that’s what’s happening. IESB claims a source at Warner is saying they’re unlikely to do another R-rated “tentpole” movie – and keep in mind they have Terminator Salvation coming out this summer and it’s still unrated. IESB says…
How much of the movie going market – specifically those that go to see superhero/genre films – is cut out by rating a film R versus a PG-13? Warner Bros. thinks too much and is said to be focusing solely on PG-13 rated superhero/tentpole films only, definitely harder than the “family friendly” superhero films of Fantastic Four but not in the R rated range. Think about it, the movie going audience is “huge”, now the genre/superhero movie going audience is a portion of that “huge” and the R rated/genre/superhero movie going audience is an even smaller portion of that “huge.” [Oh my gosh, that required "huge" thinking!]
I liked Watchmen and thought it was a fantastic piece of filmmaking, but it’s definitely for adults only. And no kids will be asking mommy to buy them shirts or Rorschach masks from this one.
Oh yeah? I know at least one kid who will. The problem is, finance guys run movie studios, and finance guys’ jobs consist mainly of pretending they know something you don’t. So instead of taking all factors into account and admitting that this stuff is near impossible to predict, they just mash everything into some retarded business-school equation. You can bet that if Rorschach had worn a red shirt for the entire movie, there’d be a no-more-characters-in-red-shirts memo going around WB this week.
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I don’t see any way in hell this doesn’t make a Bajillion dollars in DVD sales.
I’ve been trying to market a latex mold of Silk Spectre’s ass and twat for years now, so i see where they’re coming from.
Kurg, Spectre 1 or 2? Because if you asked nicely I’d be willing to be that Carla Gugino would be down for that.
I’d like to murder the families that are friends with Fantastic Four.
So, is this for all tentpole films, or just blue tentpoles?
WB doesn’t see what the real problem here was. In this recession, the midget badguy economy is starting to bust. Quit hiring midgets and you’ll be all good.
PG-13 tentpole movies are the reason I rarely go to the theater anymore. That and their insistence that I wear pants and their reluctance to sell alcohol. I’m trying to have my own tentpole movie damn it.
Tentpole PG-13 movies have already got me the Paul Reubens treatment once.
The good news is that the MPAA isn’t a totally arbitrary ratings committee with no set standards regarding what constitutes an R rating versus a PG-13.
What? Oh shit then.
And whether or not they’re PG-13 (and I’m on the Watchmen was awesome wagon), WB can at least take pride in knowing that they don’t take crap in paperbags and get the storyboards from the smears inside like Fox.
G movies are the Pat Boone of cinema, and PG-13 tentpole movies are the Pat Boone “In a Metal Mood” of cinema. Still insultingly shitty, but with an earring.
I don’t know if that analogy made sense. Fuck you, it’s monday.
(P.S. Keep your eyes peeled for my new chain of restaurants, FYIM’s, to be opening next to burned-down Applebees buildings next fall.)
I think there should be a rule that if the source material isn’t meant for kids, the film version shouldn’t be either. The rule should work the other way, too. I don’t want a world with a Watchmen movie rated PG-13 or a Beezus and Ramona adaptation rated NC-17.
*Throws away Beezus and Ramona meet Encyclopedia Brown script he was working on after reading Peet’s comment*
I keep my tentpole in my dutch oven. And, like WB, it fuckin’ stinks.
And also, the problem is that kids have gone soft. You don’t ask mommy for anything. You’re supposed to tell her. Bitch, get your fat-ass out of bed and go to Kmart and buy me a fucking bike.
The problem is that there are more Spy Kids movies than Goonies movies. Of course kids aren’t going to be able to handle awesome anymore, they grow up ill-equipped for it.
PG-13 Terminator travel through time fully clothed.
PG-13 Terminators will be back.
With a bouquet and a fine selection of swiss chocolates.
I’m going to go watch the PG-13 Spawn movie to remind myself what a good idea this is.
I hear they’re now getting Ryan Gosling to re-film most of Terminator Salvation.
The problem wasn’t that The Watchmen was rated R, it was that the movie just wasn’t that good.
For a movie to do well at the boxoffice word of mouth has to be better than “Mmmmmaaaaph”
Great because we already know they are wanting to do a “harder” Fantastic Four. Will it be called Fantasti Four (Letter Words) and they’ll have Thing say “shit” like once? Then the rest of the movie will be Jessica Alba and her creepy fucking blue contacts running around finding ways to be sorta naked…
Cause that’s what Kirby and company had in mind when they wrote these things originally.
I can’t wait to see what they do to Y- The Last Man.
I find it ironic that Internet Morons tend think that the only thing that makes a movie “adult” is vulgarity and nudity… two things that only children obsess over. Adults care about plot. Smelly teenaged virgins care about nothing but boobs.
Yeah, it’s amazing how many times I referenced nudity and vulgarity in my post.