The Batman | March 4, 2022 | Warner Bros. | Certified Fresh on RT | 7th Most Profitable Movie of 2023

[Eric Duncan]

15 minutes ago, excel1 said:

PG-13 is now trending worldwide on Twitter. An abnormal occurrence for high profile blockbusters. 

 

1 minute ago, TestPattern said:

Were people expecting the movie with Oreo tie-ins and Lego toysets to be rated R like it's the 1980s?

Looking at Twitter, people both expected it and seem cool with this. If anything, people are just saying this is going to be an R movie in PG-13's clothing and are happy about that.

[TheDude391]

Based on the description sounds like WB bribed the MPA to get by on a PG13 lol.

[thesmoothknight]

29 minutes ago, TestPattern said:

Were people expecting the movie with Oreo tie-ins and Lego toysets to be rated R like it's the 1980s?

Most of the people complaining are the Snyderverse fans that is trying to create a false narrative that WB got in the way to cut up Matt Reeves's true vision for the movie. lol 

[excel1]

The point is that EVERYTHING WITH THE BATMAN TRENDS ON SOCIAL MEDIA BECAUSE THE BATMAN IS GOING TO BE FUCKING HUGE. 

[Spidey Freak]

13 hours ago, TheDude391 said:

Based on the description sounds like WB bribed the MPA to get by on a PG13 lol.

Every live action Batman film except for Schumacher and the '66 one have comfortably been dark and PG-13. Why did people think a dark tone for this one would automatically mean R when the Joker has been mutilating people in PG-13 movies before?

[filmlover]

Looking at this week's MPA ratings the Firestarter remake with Zac Efron (which is currently without a release date still) got an R simply for "violent content" while this gets a PG-13 for "strong violent and disturbing content, drug content, strong language, and some suggestive material." Moonfall also got a PG-13 for "violence, disaster action, strong language, and some drug use." Just goes to reinforce the notion that they have double standards for when it all takes place inside a fantasy world (Gotham City isn't a real place) or some fantasy variation of the real world compared to when the violence is realistic and occurs in a real world setting (of course I'm sure many will also point out Joker's R rating but that movie's Gotham City universe was shown to be a lot seedier than the one usually depicted in Batman movies).

Edited January 12, 2022 by filmlover

[belblazer]

Sounds just like the Apes trilogy. I don't know why there were people expecting this to be R.

 

Btw, it will be good for a possible release in China.

[WittyUsername]

4 hours ago, AJG said:

Are we still pretending that these movies somehow push the limits of acceptable pg13 violence??? 

 

In the year of the lord 2022???

 

 

This movie sounds like it might. 

[thesmoothknight]

 

 

[wintersoldier2021]

While I'm not interested in this movie due to the fact that everyone is miscast and its a severe departure of the Batman formula to anyone who feels not being R rated means that wether by will or by force the film WILL not be as brutal/intense as they may have expected I offer 7 words

 

War of.the planet of the apes 

Edited January 12, 2022 by wintersoldier2021

[lorddemaxus]

52 minutes ago, thesmoothknight said:

 

 

This just sound like trailer music.

[Eric Duncan]

3 hours ago, TheDude391 said:

Based on the description sounds like WB bribed the MPA to get by on a PG13 lol.

Off-topic, but I'm half convinced Disney did this with Burton's Alice in Wonderland. How a film featuring a woman jumping on floating decapitated heads in a moat of blood got a PG rating is one of the most baffling things I've ever seen.

[filmlover]

12 minutes ago, Eric Riley said:

Off-topic, but I'm half convinced Disney did this with Burton's Alice in Wonderland. How a film featuring a woman jumping on floating decapitated heads in a moat of blood got a PG rating is one of the most baffling things I've ever seen.

"Fantasy violence" is obviously taken a lot less seriously than "real world violence." That explains why Cruella and Jungle Cruise got PG-13s while Maleficent 2 (which had a body count that rivaled a season of Game of Thrones) was able to get away with a PG.

[grim22]

16 minutes ago, filmlover said:

"Fantasy violence" is obviously taken a lot less seriously than "real world violence." That explains why Cruella and Jungle Cruise got PG-13s while Maleficent 2 (which had a body count that rivaled a season of Game of Thrones) was able to get away with a PG.

One of my favorite reasons was for one of the X-Men movies, I think DOFP, The Wolverine or Apocalypse, which got PG-13 despite a scene of a mutant massacre because "mutant blood is not considered to be as bad as human blood"

[Ozymandias]

#ReleaseTheRCut

 

Lol the edgelords on twitter complaining about a PG-13 Batman movie.   As long as WB feels they can make a lot of money on Batman, they're never going to make it an R.  Zack Snyder's 4-hour wankfest only got away with it because it was a streaming release.

[excel1]

This going to be Giachino best score ever by a long shot. 

[WittyUsername]

I’m glad the movie is PG-13 (although I knew it was never going to be rated R), but if anything, I’m actually curious if this movie will face some backlash for being too intense for kids. 

[21C]

Just now, WittyUsername said:

I’m glad the movie is PG-13 (although I knew it was never going to be rated R), but if anything, I’m actually curious if this movie will face some backlash for being too intense for kids. 

Nobody cares about that sort of stuff anymore.

[Maggie]

After the KStew snub, RPatz rises. Hopefully this is a hit. Rooting for it

[Eric Duncan]

7 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:

I’m glad the movie is PG-13 (although I knew it was never going to be rated R), but if anything, I’m actually curious if this movie will face some backlash for being too intense for kids. 

When was the last time this kind of parental backlash happened to anything? Like with Call of Duty 10 years ago?