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My answer is anything by Bluth. The guy must have been harvesting children's tears for some nefarious purpose.
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
The Star Trek scene. It's not that bad... is it?
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
and then a wierd evangelion type ending for space odssey.
WALL-E (I think it’s G?)
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.
It is.
Yeah, that's pretty much /thread there.
Not even remotely. Guessing you didn't see many kids movies from the '80s.
"Come here and hakuna my tata"
Ahhh, the scene that spawned a generation of furries 😄
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.
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.
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.
Old Yeller
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Ten Commandments
Battle of Britain
The Andromeda Strain
Watership Down
Was rated PG.
In 2023, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) reclassified the 1978 animated film Watership Down from a U (Universal) to a PG (Parental Guidance) rating in the UK.
Fuck that nightmare fuel.
The Secret of NIMH, maybe
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.
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
2001: A Space Odyssey.
~~Jerry Seinfeld Apologizes for Interspecies ‘Sexual Undertones’ in ‘Bee Movie’~~
my bad that was PG
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.
Andromeda Strain is a great film. One of the great book to movie translations, in my opinion.
The Andromeda Strain is rated G and it shows tits, dead kids, and threatens to nuke a government facility
Maybe The Last Unicorn.
Straight story
Quest for Camelot had some gnarly monsters
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.
It's mostly rated TV-PG. The equivalent in TV you a 'G' trying is TV-G or TV-Y.
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.
Stalker. Rated G in some counties, PG in others.
The Strait Story.
It is David Lynch’s only G rated movie and it is excellent.
Taken.
Is PG-13.
Damnit.