To be fair Sin City isn't a super hero movie, simply a comicbook one, and the sequel tanked.CoCage said:Which is weird because R-rated superhero movies have been done well before. See Blade 1 and 2, Sin City, the first Kick-Ass film; not so much the second, and The Crow. Sure they didn't make over 600 million, but their numbers were nothing but laugh at either. I'm not putting this on you, but it's a surprise me that the execs and certain, people don't know that there were already R-rated comic book/superhero movies before DeadpoolSilentpony said:It was all-proof insurance. An R-rated "mature" super hero movie hadn't really been done well, but its a risk. If Deadpool failed, the Suits could blame the R-rating and be all 'told you so!'. But if it did well, the Suits can hold up the R-Rating and be all 'Aren't we so great? We risked it, and made it! Underdogs! Woo!'
Kickass is a cult favorite, granted, but not a blockbuster.
Only the Blade movies would really count for the suits as an R-rated hero movie, but they're so old the trends have changed.