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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
That guy who could walk through matter after something happened to him, but he lost control and ended up falling through the Earth all the way to the central core.
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pwnicholson@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 97d
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
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 97d
The Star Trek scene. It's not that bad... is it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro_QpDJX-Sk
pwnicholson@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 97d
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
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 96d
and then a wierd evangelion type ending for space odssey.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 38 pts · 97d
The Land Before Time
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 96d
My answer is anything by Bluth. The guy must have been harvesting children's tears for some nefarious purpose.
CalmChaos72@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 97d
WALL-E (I think it’s G?)
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth · 21 pts · 97d
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.
pwnicholson@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 97d
It is.
call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 97d
Yeah, that's pretty much /thread there.
Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 96d
Not even remotely. Guessing you didn't see many kids movies from the '80s.
Ashtear@piefed.social · 23 pts · 97d
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 96d
"Come here and hakuna my tata"
Maestro@fedia.io · 2 pts · 96d
Ahhh, the scene that spawned a generation of furries 😄
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 16 pts · 97d
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.
Maestro@fedia.io · 4 pts · 96d
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.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 96d
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.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 13 pts · 97d
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.
pwnicholson@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 97d
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
outandinburger@ttrpg.network · 2 pts · 97d
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 2 pts · 97d
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."
JillyB@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 97d
Wait. Fucking NATO is why I couldn't watch the dark knight in theaters?
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 96d
https://youtu.be/wGTzb66jZYY
Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 12 pts · 96d
The Secret of NIMH, maybe
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 97d
Old Yeller
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Ten Commandments
Battle of Britain
The Andromeda Strain
quinkin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 96d
Watership Down
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 1 pts · 96d
Fuck that nightmare fuel.
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 94d
Was rated PG.
quinkin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 94d
tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 96d
2001: A Space Odyssey.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 97d
Jerry Seinfeld Apologizes for Interspecies ‘Sexual Undertones’ in ‘Bee Movie’my bad that was PG
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 97d
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.
hydrashok@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 97d
Andromeda Strain is a great film. One of the great book to movie translations, in my opinion.
Drusas@fedia.io · 5 pts · 96d
Maybe The Last Unicorn.
makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 96d
The Andromeda Strain is rated G and it shows tits, dead kids, and threatens to nuke a government facility
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 96d
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.
towamo7603@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 96d
Zahille7@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 96d
That guy who could walk through matter after something happened to him, but he lost control and ended up falling through the Earth all the way to the central core.
pwnicholson@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 96d
It's mostly rated TV-PG. The equivalent in TV you a 'G' trying is TV-G or TV-Y.
Nihilore@quokk.au · 2 pts · 96d
Straight story
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 97d
Quest for Camelot had some gnarly monsters
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 94d
The Strait Story.
It is David Lynch’s only G rated movie and it is excellent.
jbone@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 94d
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.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 96d
Taken.
Drusas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 96d
Is PG-13.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 96d
Damnit.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf · 0 pts · 96d
Stalker. Rated G in some counties, PG in others.