How would you feel about an R rated Godzilla?

The question is does it need to show people all bloody and losing limbs (although that might still be shown to a lesser extent)? Same goes for Godzilla and the Kaiju, while I would really like to see some darn vicious (Edwards said go realistic) so I want the fights to be pretty nasty, and while blood may be shown, i don't expect horror movie gushes. I dunno, in scare terms I can imagine it could be pretty jumpy and harrowing as an R rated film, but I think it might have that in it, just not to such a R rating extent. To be fair I actually thought a film like Prometheus was pretty tame on scares and gore considering the rating, and I could see a Godzilla movie being far nastier. But in my own opinion, I don't think it needs the rating bump up, I think it will be a dark, destructive film without the need of extra scariness or blood. All I would want from a mature sense is the tone and attitude of the film and maybe some brutal kaiju fights (I'm talking body parts getting lopped off) but still a pg-13

Oh, god no, I'd like a realistic amount of blood and gore, not a Tarentino film. xD

Yeh haha, the blood in that film was just a ketchup bath haha

Mmmm ketchup.

I'm sure we'll get little splodges of ketchup in Godzilla, but nothing like Django no way, that stuff splurted out like jam haha

I doubt it'll be rated R. If it were, the movie would have to work very hard to make a profit.

No. If you really look at how graphic PG- 13 movies can get there wouldn't be any need to make it R without going over the top. PG 13 movies can get pretty graphic in terms of blood. Kaiju blood and monster blood isn't viewed on exactly the same terms of humans and real animal's blood so the monsters could really pretty much rip eachother apart and it could still get a PG13 rating. The human aspect is basically just the ones the survive the destruction and hollywood has no problem messing up people pretty bad off screen and just showing the aftermath in a PG13; it's when they show them getting killed or cut up that they boost the rating to R usually.

No way should this be an R movie, certainly a PG-13 would give enough scope for some violence. Certainly the devastation shouldn't be overlooked in the movie but plenty of recent movies with accessible ratings have not shied away from the concept of on screen death.

Where as I agree that there would be less restrictions with the movie being rated R, with the same fundimental rules as in Gojira and Gojira 1984: Godzilla being this unstoppable nuclear menace, and where ever he goes his victims will end up burned to death, crushed, devoured - possibly by enemy Kaiju, blown to bits or simply die from radiation poisoning we have to take into consideration that potential Godzilla fans will be going to the movie ie: Fathers or uncles taking sons, daughters, nieces, and nephews to see the movie. Too much realism my turn them away from Godzilla. I would argue that yes the movie can be PG13 that would be good enough. PG13 movies now have the same material rated R movies had 20 almost 30 years ago. That being said, I will argue we need scenes of the more human element to Kaiju movies which have been lacking from 1954 to 2013. I am talking about the emotional trauma of a monster ramapge or battle. Such as in the original Gojira where you see a mother clutching her 3 children with a fire raging on one side and Godzilla on the other saying they will soon be with their father or the little girl who saw her mother watched her mother die after Godzilla's rampage, to the emotional breakdowns and terror in Cloverfield, to Mako's memory scene in Pacific Rim. Where you get the feeling that people regardless of who they are, how old they are, are dead or dying.