Even an R-rated Terminator can be PG-13 sometimes.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Many action movie franchises began with an R rating but then changed their tone and content to garner a PG-13 with later installments. The first movies in these series, many of them from the '80s and '90s, incorporated gory violence, foul language, and sexually explicit content, but as the franchises continued to spawn sequels into the 21st century, such R-rated material proved limiting in box office appeal.
10 Die Hard The first Die Hard featured Bruce Willis not only walking on glass and slaying terrorists but also uttering some of John McClane’s greatest quotes like the curse-driven “Yippee-ki-yay motherf*****." The first two sequels expectedly went along with an R-rating, but things changed with 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard, a fourth adventure that found McClane battling global hackers and being chased by fighter jets.
7 Riddick Revolving around a space crew stranded on a planet inhabited by bloodthirsty creatures, the 2000 sci-fi horror Pitch Black featured R-rated violence ranging from bodies being split apart to humans being impaled by blades. The film drew a cult following with Vin Diesel’s outlaw Riddick getting his own solo adventure in the poorly-received The Chronicles of Riddick, which settled for a PG-13 rating with a brief moment of passionate kissing and largely blood-less violence.
4 Highlander Christopher Lambert became an unconventional action icon with the Highlander franchise, which featured him as an immortal 16th-century warrior engaged in intense sword duels with barbaric opponents. Blood-splattered battle sequences and sword fights with decapitated heads serve as recurring tropes, earning all Highlander movies an R-rating, save for the third installment, Highlander: The Final Dimension.
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