10 Movies To Blame For The Current State Of Movies

7. The Pointlessly R-Rated Movie - Deadpool

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To be clear, Deadpool is most certainly not a pointlessly R-rated movie: the foul language, cartoonishly brutal violence, and irreverent humour are entirely inherent to the character, and a PG-13 rating would've been a travesty.

But as expected, Hollywood took the wrong lesson away from Deadpool's surprise box office success, opting to hand out R ratings to tentpole movies regardless of whether it was really appropriate or not.

The recent Hellboy reboot, for example, was R-rated in all the wrong ways: witlessly crude, monotonously violent, and trying way too hard to be edgy.

Even Terminator: Dark Fate, which many praised as a return to the more adult tone of the earlier films, hurled out profanity like a teenager trying to impress its older friends. Ironically, it was also helmed by Deadpool's Tim Miller.

The salient point here is that a script needs to be good before a studio simply banks on the goodwill of a "mature" movie: an R rating didn't stop A Good Day to Die Hard from being deeply, deeply terrible, did it?

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