Is wrong make a direct comparison between a R rating and the final success of a product. First of isn’t that strange that a rated R movie can be successfull, there are tons of rated R adaptations of comics and movies that were successful, the fact that comic book movies are trend and “fashion” in this years, makes easy to create movies that can be successfull, because in any case people are curious about this specific type of movies, and the mass follows the trend, every time. So even if the rating is R, people go to watch anyways. Second, the rated R isn’t a really prohibition and a lot of people don’t really know what the rated R really means. The ratings are different from country to country, in USA there’s the R, that says “under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian”. So basically people under 17 can still go to watch that movie, with an adult. People under 17 can’t go if the rating is NC-17. With rated R everyone can go, but they need to go with someone that is more that 17 years old. The most important fact to know, that a lot of people ignore, is that in Europe and other country outside US, there is not this kind of rating, so even if in USA people under 17 can’t go to watch a rated R movie alone, and they need an adult with them, in Europe and other States of the World, people under 17 can go alone to watch that movie, because there isn’t any kind of prohibition. A movie rated R in US, is not rated R in Europe. Sometimes there is the prohibition for people under 14, so they need to go with an adult but also in this case, everyone can watch a rated R movie, with no problems. There are too many misconceptions about this rating, is really important to know this fact: more than the half of the final box office earning of a movie come from outside the USA, and outside the US there aren’t rating rules like in the US. Actually, rated R is just a red herring.