10 Movies That Broke Promises To Fans

1. It Will Be R-Rated - Live Free Or Die Hard

When a fourth Die Hard movie was finally announced, fans quite understandably assumed that it would, like all three of its predecessors, receive an R-rating, given the series' penchant for brutal violence and profanity-laden one-liners.

But shortly before the release of Live Free or Die Hard, Fox ordered cuts to bring it down to a more "family-friendly" PG-13 rating, which wasn't just a shock to fans but also star Bruce Willis, who went on the record to express his disappointment even before the film hit cinemas.

Willis said, "I really wanted this one to live up to the promise of the first one, which I always thought was the only really good one. That's a studio decision that is becoming more and more common, because they're trying to reach a broader audience. It seems almost a courageous move to give a picture an R rating these days." Ouch.

Unlike most of the films on this list, however, Live Free or Die Hard actually turned out surprisingly well despite the tame violence and embarrassingly muffled rendition of Bruce's iconic one-liner, even if fans had to shell out for the Unrated home video release to see a slightly more adult version of the movie.

Still, fans were pissed off enough that the next sequel, A Good Day to Die Hard, reverted back to the R rating, only to ironically be quite terrible, confirming that there's so much more to a movie than its content rating.