What happened to risk takers in Hollywood? If it wasn’t for risk takers we would not have some of the greatest movies of all time. I think the best example of that would be Star Wars. It was turned down at every studio but fox where Alan Lad Jr. saw what it could be and took a huge risk in making it. Look at what that risk has done for the film industry!! If it was not for Star wars getting made we might not have ILM, THX and the Biggest one of all Pixar. All that because of a risk. Fast forward to the present and the last big risk taken was Watchmen, which made 56 million open weekend but everyone says that it Bombed. On a side note I hope some day I can make a bomb that makes half that much opening weekend. Anyway Watchmen was cut for an R-rating in order to do justice to it’s source material, which I thought was great but according to most movies goers it was just to much . So with this supposed weak opening WB announced that they will never again make an R rated super hero movie, then a few weeks later they are fighting with McG to cut Terminator from an R to a PG-13, all because of Watchmen . Studios are now afraid of making anything R-rated because they think it will not make as much as it would if the rating where lower. I mean have some balls. Why is it a bad thing if a movie stays close to the martial even if its R-rated ? Some times you take a risk and it’s hit or miss but if you never take them, how will you ever know what you could of had?
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