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[–] 29 points 6 months ago (4 children)

WALL-E (I think it’s G?)

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago

    Mature as in, treats its audience like adults and gives them serious topics to think about? Definitely. The rest of this thread seems to taken Mature to mean horrific or dark or traumatic, but I like where your head's at.

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Star Trek the Motion Picture pretty gnarly transporter death with screaming, very slow 'think piece' pace and subject matter

    2001 A Space Odyssey Mind bending, bizarre, slow. Mature subject matter and homicidal computers

    Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) Acid trip of a movie with some bizarre things that have to have killed some kids

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    For a G-rated movie? Imagine watching that as a 5 year old.

    But it's not just that scene. In general, the movie is fairly dark, the story is fairly complicated, and it's very slowly paced.

    I'd still put it in the list of 'mature' even if I'm not arguing it should be rated R or anything. It is obviously rated G after all

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    I know it's old, but the first thing that came to my mind was Bambi. Maybe not the most mature subject, but watch that with a kid and then field the "where's his mom?" question.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I recently watched this with my kid who just turned 4. It didn't phase him at all. Mufasa's death in Lion King is much worse.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I can see that. Direct betrayal and evil. For being kid-centric, Disney stories have a lot of hard hitting themes. Which I'm okay with, I don't think kids should be sheltered from the outside world.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    The Secret of NIMH, maybe

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    2001: A Space Odyssey.

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago*

    Old Yeller

    20000 Leagues Under The Sea

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    The Ten Commandments

    Battle of Britain

    The Andromeda Strain

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago*

    Jerry Seinfeld Apologizes for Interspecies ‘Sexual Undertones’ in ‘Bee Movie’

    my bad that was PG

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Silent Running. Bruce Dern scifi where he murders his shipmates to preserve a forest.

    Andromeda Strain. Those townfolk turned to dust was pretty horrifying.

    Dark Star- The Captain is a frozen corpse they talk to and everyone dies.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    The Andromeda Strain is rated G and it shows tits, dead kids, and threatens to nuke a government facility

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Maybe The Last Unicorn.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Funny story.

    Any movie made before the MPAA system was implemented was grandfathered in as "G"

    There were some wild pre-Code movies that are legally G.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    That's objectively not true. Studios could choose to have a movie rated or not. Many are just "un-rated".

    Many were rated as G because post-Hayes Code but pre-MPAA ratings, most would have earned a G anyway

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  • [+] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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    On November 1, 1968, the voluntary MPAA film rating system took effect,[2] with three organizations serving as its monitoring and guiding groups: the MPAA, the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), and the International Film Importers & Distributors of America (IFIDA).[15] Only films that premiered in the United States after that date were affected by this.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_film_rating_system#References

    If a movie wasn't rated it was open to all audiences, hence "G."

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    [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    For shows, I'd say probably Batman: TAS. It deals with some heavy themes like drug abuse and trauma, and imo doesn't really dumb anything down that much.

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    [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Quest for Camelot had some gnarly monsters

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Straight story

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    The Strait Story.

    It is David Lynch’s only G rated movie and it is excellent.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Stalker. Rated G in some counties, PG in others.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    The Fox and the Hound, most of the movie is relatively typical Disney fare, but the ending had its "PG" moments.

    All Dogs go to Heaven, this production felt different compared to other animated movies when I watched it as a kid.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)