What you (and some others) don't understand is that ratings have little or nothing to do with how good or bad an action movie might be. For example, an R rating would not have made ROBOCOP 2 and 3 any better. Those movies sucked no matter the rating. I saw the unrated version of THE WOLVERINE movie (it's the only version of the film that I've seen), and I thought that the movie was underwhelming NOT because of the rating, but because the movie wasn't very good. On the flip side, I thought that the first 2 BLADE movies,the first ROBOCOP movie,and the CONAN THE BARBARIAN movie were all great NOT because they were rated R (although I did like looking at the naked ladies in CONAN), but because they had great stories,cool action scenes,and (in the case of ROBOCOP) were funny as hell. Action scenes can be both cool and have an impact without being gory and bloody. It all depends on the director of the film. And let's be honest, some action scenes that are cut out or edited so that a movie can get a PG-13 rating didn't need to be cut out since they weren't all that gory or violent to begin with. For example, I didn't find anything specifically R rated about the unedited WOLVERINE movie.
That is a BS excuse created by fans to explain and justify why the X-Men weren't put into their colorful comic book costumes in the films (except for Storm, whose costume was black in the comics). People tend to forget that 90's superhero movies like THE ROCKETEER and THE SHADOW didn't have brightly colored costumes in them, and that those 2 movies flopped at the box office.
