Best Highest Grossing R Rated Movie Of The Year (2008-1982)

Probably Se7en out of those but Slim Pickens in general.

Matrix vs. Se7en

wow, i weep for America.

Seven narrowly over Saving Pvt Ryan.

same period for G- and NC-17-rated movies, now those would be polls.

seen about 13 of those, maybe 14, forget about Beverly Hills Cop.

Se7en seems the logical boring choice for me as well. I liked Platoon as well, especially considering i usually hate war movies, the strange thing is, i always think "wasn't Platoon 90 minutes, that's a pro" while it's in fact the usual 2 hours.

why is Jerry Maguire rated R??

Because Tom Cruise is fucking terrifying.

I've no major issue with high grosses on:

The Departed (2006)
The Passion Of The Christ (2004) <-- mostly for being a sobering reality check on American psychoses
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Seven (1995)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

<-- mostly for being a sobering reality check on American psychoses

Well, I guess that applies to the other four too.

xpost: heh.

btw http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/snes/true_lies.gif great computer game (True Lies)

oh technically that was xxpost or something.

I'm going with Terminator 2. Saving Private Ryan is pretty classic too though.

T2 - for the ten or so times I snuck into the theatre to see it at age 13.

T2 or Beverly Hills Cop. 8 Mile was surprisingly good too.

i should vote true lies for how awesome i thought it was when i saw it (age 13), and maybe matrix, too (lol 18), but i think i'll probably just vote for the departed

Hold on, Rain Man was rated R in the US? What the hell?

I don't remember much explicit sex or violence in that one.

T2 because it was my favourite film as a child. That and Robocop. It seems that my mum was a really bad parent. Why's Wedding Crashers R-rated? I think I've seen a good chunk of it and that seemed pretty tame.

T2 wins this pretty soundly for me

T2

I'm with Kingsley on this one.

I still to this day haven't subjected myself to Saving Private Ryan, but of these that I've seen, I'd say it's either Seven or the Departed. Platoon was good too.

The Departed by a mile.

haha i guess Tom Cruise is the only person to star in 3 of these movies (although if we put Passion in the Gibson column he'd have 3 too). whoda thunk he'd be America's rated R choice.

i chose 8 Mile. not really sure why.

The Departed (2006)

yes

SPR narrowly over the departed

the mfkn departed

T2 or Beverly Hills Cop yeah, or spr maybe. surprised how easy this is really. seven is a downer, departed too. making less and less time for that shit these days

T2

I've seen 13 of that list.

I voted Lethal Weapon 2, because I loved it when I was 13. Most of these are pretty good though, at least those I've seen.

T2 or Beverly Hills Cop yeah, or spr maybe. surprised how easy this is really. seven is a downer, departed too. making less and less time for that shit these days

Doesn't T2 have a playground's-eye view of the world blowing up?

http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/ss142/dgr555/TerminatorThumbsUp.gif

T2 no doubt

if you guys had a choice between watching t2 or watching beverly hills cop you would choose t2? madness.

The Departed, T2, or SPR. I've also seen T2 10+ times.

Wedding Crashers!!!

T2, but se7en or the departed would have been worthy picks. got into cinema to see T2 when i was 11, great days.

I already voted for T2, and i keep trying to vote for it every time i come back to this thread. just want to be sure, i guess. that, and i have a bad memory.

the other movies that i like on that list, like, rambo, gladiator, 300, matrix, don't even come close to T2. and the rest of those movies are really easy to forget about. i mean, i liked seven and platoon, but do i ever need to see them again? not really. but i could watch rambo, gladiator, matrix, 300, and T2 over and over.

so many films that are just bland, dirty TV

Most are too fucked up for me to call bland.

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Glad he ate her.

Rambo: First Blood Part II is such a ridiculous title it's almost hard to believe it was a real movie and not, like, the name of a parody or Naked Gun-type flick

The same pretty much goes for the movie, which I would vote for except for the Departed.

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fuck a terminator

my friend just sent me this link, maybe everyone's already seen it?? dfw on t2 - http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/waterstone.html

i am glad someone else voted for Lethal Weapon 2.

Ha, the whole reason I watched T2 (recently) was so I could read that essay. Thank you for reminding me of it (I have not yet read it). T2 was great & it was the one I voted for.

thanks for the DFW link. I wholeheartedly disagree with his disappointment with T2 but his arguments are pretty solid.

his arguments that it's not some other lame cheap genre-transcendent movie he was waiting for?
c-

"lame cheap genre-transcendent movie"
are you talking about aliens here? because them's fightin words...

Calling T2 "F/X Porn" seems kind of innocent, in the wake of Michael Bay & co.

I thought the piece would be a very long piece of praise. I didn't really need to see the movie first.

My vote is either for Beverly Hills Cop or Pretty Woman.

wau @ SPR getting only one vote.

phillip ? i think it's better than aliens (just saw alien 3 again, think i gave it short shrift the first time around) ~btw~ but no, dfw is just barking about the movie he wanted made, needs more paradox etc. his name on the byline shouldn't dignify sub-gay dad prattle.

damn, didn't see this poll. wd have probably voted Matrix but i think in the context of the other choices maybe Gladiator deserves a bit better, although i haven't seen that film in years and perhaps it is the awful cheesy nonsense i half-suspect it might actually be. albeit it might be both that AND kinda awesome

hmm thing is i have absolutely no desire to rewatch it

Matrix is mad overrated.

Gladiator is straight up garbage.

also Aliens>>>>>>>>>T2

though of fucking course i'd say that

If Aliens had been a choice, that would've been the clear #1 for me.

I don't see DFW outlining his fantasy idealized version of T2 the same way John Hodgman wrote his revisionist Phantom Menace. Dude is just bummed about cringy Eddie Furlong and financially conservative recasting of Arnie as a good guy, both pretty valid observations.

Why isn't Aliens on this list? Didn't it break major records?

BTW john hodgman's phantom menace is pretty great.

aliens made $80 million domestically

it's pretty miraculous that T2 is any good at all considering how stupid some of it is, i mean the shit is as corny as 'titanic' in places.

all those one-liners!

"i need a vacation"

and none as good as the ones in Commando

Robert Patrick is the best part IMO. The T-1000 is a totally badass, creepy villain.

I know now vy u cry [terminator wipes john's tears] but it is something I can never do

actually that's the corny part i liked. it's like ET if ET was a cybernetic death machine from the future.

How many people who voted for The Departed saw Infernal Affairs, I wonder...

I always found a lot of the corny stuff in T2 to be kind of endearing to be honest. Maybe the fact that I first saw the film when I was 10 or whatever and I actually connected with that ET/Elliott stuff at the time has something to do with it.

i voted the departed. it's a better movie than infernal affairs (which is a flick i like okay.)

How many people who voted for The Departed saw Infernal Affairs, I wonder...

I did! Infernal Affairs was great, but the movies have pretty different vibes

How many people who voted for The Departed saw Infernal Affairs, I wonder...

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nah, i thought internal affairs kind of sucked. departed is like 100x better

and I saw Infernal first, so I was totally unsure whether the Departed was going to be worthwhile.

I haven't seen Infernal Affairs but I thought The Departed was just a'ight.

How many people who voted for The Departed saw Infernal Affairs, I wonder...

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qui gives a shit?

HE ONLY SHOOTS TO WOUND, GUYS, FASCISM MADE EASY FOR YOU

same period for G- and NC-17-rated movies, now those would be polls.

Less shouting at clouds, more starting polls