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After many successful rated PG-13 super hero films produced by Disney’s Marvel, the Fox-produced Deadpool is released as a rated-R film for strong violence and language throughout, sexual content and graphic nudity causing some controversy in the audience, particularly parents who can’t take their children to the new Marvel movie. But after talking to a few students here on campus, no such complaints were given. Quite the contrary.

“Since I’m older, I can appreciate the violence,” said Josh Virtusio, a senior biology major. “It brought more realism to the story… Deadpool is a sarcastic character. He can play both the good guy and the bad guy.”

Daryll Robinson, a senior construction management major, felt similarly. He liked that Deadpool was “doing adult life” like going to bars, pulling out guns, living with a girlfriend. Robinson was glad for the R rating.

“They’re starting to open up their horizons and appeal more to adults,” Robinson said.

Freddy Figueroa, a junior computer science major, also liked the level of violence the R rating allowed for the film.

“That amount of violence is not usually seen in hero movies,” Figueroa said. “It was done well.”

Figueroa mentioned another aspect of the film he enjoyed which was the smaller scale conflict Deadpool has in comparison the usual super hero movie plot.

“Writers can focus on a snipet of a story instead of having to operate an entire universe,” Figueroa said. “He is an anti-hero… he isn’t trying to save the world… he does whatever he wants.”

Despite the negative connotations an R-rating can give a movie, it is a common consensus that this film’s rating makes this particular character and his film all the more appealing.