Adult genre films have been replaced by PG-13 family friendly blockbusters.

A quote from Travis Crawford who wrote a booklet for the new Ronin Blu-ray release from Arrow that I found extremely timely.

"Ronin represents another lamentably anachronistic category: the mature R-rated genre film aimed at older adults. Once a staple of 1970's and 80's moviegoing, the adult-driven thriller has gradually been rendered prematurely obsolete by the onslaught of PG-13 classified family-friendly blockbusters - comic book adaptations, superhero fables, sequels, reboots, and / or franchise fodder - that render much of its mayhem in the form of cartoonish, bloodless (literally and figuratively) CGI spectacle."

I watch these movies as much as anyone else but I thought this was very relevant to the recent article about the lowest box office in 16 years.

Submitted August 30, 2017 at 02:41PM by BMW1M http://ift.tt/2vKRpoN