{"id":50557,"date":"2023-08-30T18:29:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainyorphan.com\/?p=50557"},"modified":"2023-08-30T23:33:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T23:33:51","slug":"we-dont-need-more-r-rated-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brainyorphan.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/30\/we-dont-need-more-r-rated-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"We Don&#8217;t Need More R-Rated Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PG-13 movies remain vastly more popular than R-Rated ones. So why do we produce a lot more R movies? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 1995-2023, there were 3,403 PG-13 movies made. In the same time period, 5,682 R-rated movies hit theaters. Despite more R movies, PG-13 movies made twice the money and had twice the viewers. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-numbers.com\/market\/mpaa-ratings?fbclid=IwAR3RC0BKnFnTEGWjWH0-cMkTIBfmc-4qU1eEslQ5znIFmQYsNdVW6jbXWhI\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.the-numbers.com\/market\/mpaa-ratings?fbclid=IwAR3RC0BKnFnTEGWjWH0-cMkTIBfmc-4qU1eEslQ5znIFmQYsNdVW6jbXWhI\">The-Numbers.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it our tortured artists that think we have to make Oscar bids with gritty, dark cinema? Are we all taking ourselves a bit too seriously because Hollywood is filled with people trying to be something they&#8217;re not? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s make some more fun, bright pieces. Life is dark enough as it is. We just lived through a plague, people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PG-13 movies remain vastly more popular than R-Rated ones. So why do we produce a lot more R movies? From 1995-2023, there were 3,403 PG-13 movies made. In the same time period, 5,682 R-rated movies hit theaters. Despite more R movies, PG-13 movies made twice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,150,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-theory","category-thoughts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainyorphan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainyorphan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainyorphan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainyorphan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainyorphan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brainyorphan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50559,"href":"https:\/\/brainyorphan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50557\/revisions\/50559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainyorphan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainyorphan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainyorphan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainyorphan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}