Why did Deadpool have to be rated R?

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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!'
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 Deadpool
To be fair Sin City isn't a super hero movie, simply a comicbook one, and the sequel tanked.

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.
 

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Silentpony said:
CoCage said:
Silentpony 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!'
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 Deadpool
To be fair Sin City isn't a super hero movie, simply a comicbook one, and the sequel tanked.

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.
Also not helped by the fact that if you asked your average movie goer they wouldn't ever call Blade a hero or comicbook movie, they would call it an action movie or a vampire movie.
 

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I feel that if you have to ask that question, you don't really get what makes Deadpool...Deadpool.

Did you ever watch AvP? Two hardcore R rated franchises finally went up against one another, and you know what it was rated? PG-13. And the movie suffered for it. Deadpool would have been the same thing if they went with PG-13.
I wouldn't blame everything on PG-13. AvP was never going to be a good movie
 

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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 to 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 Deadpool
Kick-Ass barely broke even ($48 million with a $30 million production budget) and Sin City did not even earn back twice its production budget ($74 million with a budget of $48 million). By post-[Avengers[/i] standards for Comic Book Movies/Marvel Movies they were utter failures because they did not reach $1 billion in ticket sales.
By regular movie standards they barely scrapped by.
Hell, Deadpool is the first R-rated action movie that made over double its budget in close to fifteen years at least. With that in mind, Deadpool did amazingly well.