# That's for children? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [October 25, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784 "2022-10-25T21:37:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/41 "2022-10-27T00:00:32Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > I told my 4 year old son that we all skeletons inside us and he was NOT ready for that information. Then don’t tell him his teeth are his skeleton trying to get out of his body! ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/42 "2022-10-27T13:01:29Z")
For myself, the transporter accident in Star Trek the Motion Picture freaked me out. That klaxon, the wailing noises they made. and I could SWEAR when i saw it, the patterns merged…but apparently not. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/43 "2022-10-27T13:06:46Z")
_Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure_. The evil clown sequences were bad enough, but Large Marge had me hiding behind a chair, much to the delight of my younger sister. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/44 "2022-10-27T14:12:26Z")
For my money, that’s the best jump scare in cinema history. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/45 "2022-10-27T18:09:01Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_ is the one I watch as an adult and marvel at it being marketed to children. I don’t remember it being so bad. What scenes in particular do you think would be frightening for children? (Or are you thinking perhaps of the 1971 Gene Wilder version, which is called _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_? A lot of kids, myself, freaked out during the paddle boat scene.) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/46 "2022-10-27T18:39:17Z")
> [@psychonaut](#): > > Or are you thinking perhaps of the 1971 Gene Wilder version, which is called _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory_? A lot of kids, myself, freaked out during the paddle boat scene.) That’s the one. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/47 "2022-10-27T18:39:37Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > For my money, that’s the best jump scare in cinema history. Feh. Carrie’s hand emerging from the grave to clutch Sue’s arm as she’s laying flowers. I was in the back of the theater and the whole place levitated, me included. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/48 "2022-10-27T18:45:50Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Carrie’s hand emerging from the grave to clutch Sue’s arm as she’s laying flowers. I was in the back of the theater and the whole place levitated, me included. Holy crap, yes!!! Right now remembering how high I levitated gave me a bit of a start. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/49 "2022-10-27T19:08:37Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Feh. Carrie’s hand emerging from the grave to clutch Sue’s arm as she’s laying flowers. I was in the back of the theater and the whole place levitated, me included. It’s funny that now, in 2022, we’re so familiar with not just the trope, but the camera framing itself, that we wouldn’t be surprised at all. But I’m pretty sure I made a sharp squeaking sound in the theater when it happened. 😅 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/50 "2022-10-27T19:08:46Z")
It still works on me even now, when I know it’s coming. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/51 "2022-10-27T19:41:44Z")
The “entire theater levitated” jump scare for me was the raptor jumping up at Lex in _Jurassic Park_. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/52 "2022-10-27T19:51:36Z")
Raptor in the generator room for me. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/53 "2022-10-27T21:28:18Z")
Head falling into the hole in the bottom of the boat in Jaws ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/54 "2022-10-27T21:49:01Z")
Coraline is a horror movie for kids that grown people can enjoy. Not in the sense of “it’s fun for the whole family” which nearly always means it’s for kids and old folks but the rest of us have to play along, but it’s a real horror/fantasy movie slanted toward kids but good enough to be really enjoyable and fun-scary for the wider audience. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/55 "2022-10-27T22:51:18Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Many recent Disney and Pixar films have been rated PG (e.g., Moana, Encanto, Finding Dory, Frozen, etc.), as are a lot of the animated “family” films by other studios (e.g., the Despicable Me and Minions movies, the Shrek movies, etc.) Don’t movie studios nowadays purposely _try_ to get at least a PG rating, because they believe a G rating is bad for box office numbers? Because supposedly audiences assume G = “kid’s movie”, therefore adults won’t enjoy it, so they don’t go see it. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/56 "2022-10-27T22:54:22Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > Don’t movie studios nowadays purposely _try_ to get at least a PG rating, because they believe a G rating is bad for box office numbers? Yes, that is my understanding. In theory, the MPA has five ratings (G, PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17), but in practice, it might as well be only three. G pictures are relatively uncommon (even for kid/family films), for the reason you note, and NC-17 films are extremely rare, because many theaters won’t run them, and many media companies won’t accept ads for them. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/57 "2022-10-28T02:22:55Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > The clerk made sure to tell me it wasn’t a sweet bunny movie for the little ones. Huh? You mean it’s NOT about submarines? ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/58 "2022-10-28T03:05:30Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > uncensored roadrunner cartoons. Sorry, what?? Please explain before my dirty mind gets the better of me 😜 ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/59 "2022-10-28T04:25:45Z")
Late 1970s, early 1980s, they decided that the coyote/roadrunner cartoons were too violent, so they started censoring the scenes where the coyote gets mangled. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2022, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-for-children/973784/60 "2022-10-28T04:40:09Z")
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