BLOG: Use common sense, don’t take children to ‘Deadpool’

A few weekends ago, I went to the highly-anticipated movie “Deadpool.” The movie was everything I had been looking forward to: violent, crude and all around hilarious.

However, what I wasn’t looking forward to was the hundreds of Facebook posts from parents complaining because they had to take their child out of the movie nine minutes in because it “wasn’t appropriate” for their child and “they weren’t warned that it was going to be this bad.”

Ladies and gentlemen there was a warning and it’s called an R rating. Please don’t complain because you willingly took your 7-year-old to an R-rated film and you found its content not appropriate for him or her. Of course it’s not appropriate, it’s rated for adults!

Despite my ranting, however, this does bring up a valuable point. Should there be more warnings on adult-rated films, such as PG-13 or R rated movies, especially for movies like “Deadpool,” which is considered a superhero movie?

In my opinion, no. There were plenty of warnings and signs that were given before the movie was released.

When I went to see the movie in my hometown theater, there were multiple signs outside the doors saying that people would be carded if they were planning on seeing this movie and that it wasn’t appropriate for audiences under the age of 17. I doubt that my hometown theater was the only one that did this.

Not only this, but there is a red band trailer in addition to the usual trailer. “Deadpool” and “Dirty Grandpa” are some of the few that are doing this to further warn people that this movie isn’t appropriate for young people.

Finally, the movie is rated R. Granted, I’m not a huge fan of the rating system either, and I know it’s screwed up, but usually when a movie is rated R, it means that it’s going to have graphic content, swearing and sexual content.

A lot of people and parents believe the movie shouldn’t have been rated R. However, myself and those who are fans of the character and follow him know that if the movie was made with a PG-13 rating, it wouldn’t have been nearly as good. Deadpool was made to be loud-mouth, violent and crude with a quick wit and great aim. Taking away the R rating would have taken away a great aspect of the character and movie.

Those who are concerned about taking their child to a movie can do a few things beforehand: check out the rating, look up reviews on the movie and ask a friend or two, because usually they can give you the best review.

Or, simply do the simple thing and don’t take children to R-rated movies.