Sentences with phrase «rated superhero flick»

The R - rated superhero flick's domestic run has officially ended and the final numbers are in.

Say what you will the R - rated superhero flick — like for instance that it falls in line with many of the same familiar tropes it purports to mock — but the gleefully violent and «adult» - oriented box office smash opened the flood gates for more of its R - rated ilk, showing studios through the ever influential power of green (not Green Lantern mind you), that audiences were more than receptive to «mature» content in their superhero films.

Such a showing would hand Black Panther the largest domestic opening ever for a February release, topping the $ 152 million President's Day opening for 2016's Deadpool, the R - rated superhero flick from 21st Century Fox.

Not exact matches

Captain Underpants: The Epic First Movie Rated PG for mild rude humor throughout Rotten Tomatoes Score: 87 % In spite of great reviews from both critics and audiences, as well as a large base of fans of their kids graphic novels, this animated superhero flick landed with a relative thud in theaters.

The success of Wade Wilson's solo flick showed the studio profanity - laced, R - rated superhero films could be successful, giving rise to 2017's Logan and now, Deadpool 2.

The original Deadpool worked so well because it went for the R - rated take on the superhero flick with both the blood and the humor.

On this week's Film Club, A.V. Club film critics A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky talk about their shared fondness for James Mangold's Logan, a grisly (and very R - rated) superhero flick that is also the most measured and grown - up movie that this industry - dominating genre has produced — the elegiac revisionist Western...