R-rated sequel?

[Doctor Octopus]

If it calls for it sure. Deadpool was a great rated R movie that didnt really take its ratings to far.

Cussing alone could get it rated R so not like it changes much

Agreed. Only do it if need it not because it just cool.

 

[Guts]

I think making an R rated movie would be more in Ayer's element. This is his first PG-13 movie and WB had to cut things out just so they wouldn't upset people, like Joker's abuse to Harley and Boomerang's racism.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

It can work...but why make the sequel R rated when the first one could have been?

 

[KillerWolf]

They "got away" with the fact that they had mindless, gooey monsters to slash, shoot and burn and still keep the film PG-13. If hypothetical sequel gets to be more grounded and covert operation-like as the comics usually are, them doing that to human targets should warrant R-rating.

 

[Quasimod0]

It didn't need to be rated R. What it needed was a good story, editing, and script.

 

[StormC]

I think an R rating would give the story the most options.

Sigh. Can we keep comics stuff accessible to the people that they were originally invented for?

Isn't this kind of close minded in the same year we had an incredibly successful R rated Deadpool movie? It's a group of villains named after suicide. Superhero material can be for all ages - but not all at once.

I wouldn't even call TDK appropriate for anybody under 13. That is a dark, dark movie.

 

[Doctor Octopus]

Agreed but it have no blood and gore in it.

 

[FunkMiller]

Isn't this kind of close minded in the same year we had an incredibly successful R rated Deadpool movie? It's a group of villains named after suicide. Superhero material can be for all ages - but not all at once.

I wouldn't even call TDK appropriate for anybody under 13. That is a dark, dark movie.

Deadpool is a comic aimed at an r rated audience. If that's the case, r rated films are also fine.

It's not closed minded to want comic book movies to be accessible to younger people as well. It's closed minded to be happy to shut them off from them, just so a small minority can have more t*ts and violence.

 

[project13]

I believe having the sequel be rated R would allow David Ayer to play to his strengths as a director. Also he could have the squad go on missions all across the globe(i.e. in war-torn areas).

 

[StormC]

Deadpool is a comic aimed at an r rated audience. If that's the case, r rated films are also fine.

It's not closed minded to want comic book movies to be accessible to younger people as well. It's closed minded to be happy to shut them off from them, just so a small minority can have more t*ts and violence.

I don't think Suicide Squad comics are exactly aimed at little children. Wanting some superhero material to be adult doesn't equal wanting all of it to be adult.

Also, Deadpool definitely didn't constantly swear or have explicit sex scenes in his comics.

 

[project13]

They "got away" with the fact that they had mindless, gooey monsters to slash, shoot and burn and still keep the film PG-13. If hypothetical sequel gets to be more grounded and covert operation-like as the comics usually are, them doing that to human targets should warrant R-rating.

I'm more interested in seeing Ayer enhance the scope of the franchise.

 

[CaptainWagner]

Deadpool is a comic aimed at an r rated audience. If that's the case, r rated films are also fine.

It's not closed minded to want comic book movies to be accessible to younger people as well. It's closed minded to be happy to shut them off from them, just so a small minority can have more t*ts and violence.

The Rebirth issue of Suicide Squad just showed in full view Boomerang slicing off a guys hands to get a box, before Deadshot shoots him square in the head. The FIRST EVER issue of Suicide Squad had a terrorist group massacre an airport full of civilians AS A TEST, and it was later revealed that one of those killers was an undercover agent who went along with it to keep her cover. I think it's safe to say kids aren't the target audience.

This series, especially if Ayer will stay, deserves freedom for an R-rating so we don't get a neutered mess like this time, where Joker, Harley, and Boomerang were all robbed of key character beats.

 

[Wolf Boy]

How about a well written sequel first up? since they didn't get that right in the first time around. R doesn't mean anything if the movie is just bad anyway.

 

[DarknessOfDeath]

The Rebirth issue of Suicide Squad just showed in full view Boomerang slicing off a guys hands to get a box, before Deadshot shoots him square in the head. The FIRST EVER issue of Suicide Squad had a terrorist group massacre an airport full of civilians AS A TEST, and it was later revealed that one of those killers was an undercover agent who went along with it to keep her cover. I think it's safe to say kids aren't the target audience.

This series, especially if Ayer will stay, deserves freedom for an R-rating so we don't get a neutered mess like this time, where Joker, Harley, and Boomerang were all robbed of key character beats.

This. Well said.

 

[project13]

Not only would SS2 being rated R would allow Ayer some creative freedom, it would allow him to do stuff like this:

• Instead of the mission taking place in a city, it could take place in either in the Middle East, Russia or any war-torn country on Earth.

• It would be like an actual spy thriller.

•The stakes would be higher and there would not be a chance that any of the members would survive.

Also, the sequel would be an actual suicide mission.

 

[Iceman]

I don't like series going from PG-13 to R as you pick up young fans in the first film who then are not able to watch the next film. Better just to be R from the beginning.

 

[Greens]

I don't like series going from PG-13 to R as you pick up young fans in the first film who then are not able to watch the next film. Better just to be R from the beginning.

By the time the sequel comes around those fans will be old enough to watch it

 

[The Endless]

The first one should've been rated R.

 

[project13]

All the more reason to make the sequel the type of movie it should have been.

 

[BlueLanternKal]

A film where the bad guys or villains or whatever you want to call them are the protagonists deserves an R rating. It's common sense.

The theatrical release did pull punches. I really hope the blu-ray is unrated or Rated R. Especially if it's the Joker cut like everyone's been speculating.

 

[scarlet-witch]

*IF* they get a sequel (and I still think it's a big if even with their box office total) it should definitely be R. That might be a good start getting this franchise in the right direction.

 

[metaphysician]

I don't know. Going R rated intrinsically limits your total possible audience, so for it to be worthwhile, they'd need to actually make the movie such that it *really* benefits from the R rating. If they don't up their writing and directing game ( and/or eliminate the malign executive meddling ), an R rating isn't going to help. . . and if they *do* fix those problems, an R rating would be largely unnecessary.

This is without getting into the "so what are you putting in that necessitates an R rating, and does it actually necessitate it" issue.

 

[project13]

Okay, so we mostly agree that the sequel should be a R-rated movie. The question is how do we make that way?

One way to do it is an "adult" title:

SUICIDE SQUAD: WORLD'S MOST WANTED

 

[Doctor Octopus]

How about a well written sequel first up? since they didn't get that right in the first time around. R doesn't mean anything if the movie is just bad anyway.

Agreed. R rating not solution good script is. That why Deadpool very good.

 

[Andrew Lucas]

Okay, so we mostly agree that the sequel should be a R-rated movie. The question is how do we make that way?

One way to do it is an "adult" title:

SUICIDE SQUAD: WORLD'S MOST WANTED

That's a bit... too much.