Movies and shows that are not suitable for kids despite appearances otherwise - Happy Tree Friends is an obvious one, but there are a lot more that aren't really appropriate for kids

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I'm talking like movies and shows that by all extents and purposes seem like children shows, but they have very bad core themes or otherwise touch on topics that aren't appropriate for kids

One example is the Powerpuff Girls Go remake where one of the pedo writers had a self insert character that had a creepy romance with one of the girls.

Another example is The Willoughby's, a movie where the kids are trying to become orphans
 
anything modern

that paw patrol slop with the multi racial society and trannies, fuck the shit the jews try to push on our kids is sickening

charlie and the chocolate factory is fucked as well
 
The original RoboCop. I saw it on VHS when I was down with chickenpox as a kid. First R-rated movie I'd ever seen, first F-bombs I'd ever heard dropped--up until that point the goriest things I had seen were Temple of Doom and Gremlins, and those had done a number on me. Heck, the Poltergeist 2 trailer that ran before Gremlins in the theater did a number on me, and that was just a girl staring at a TV screen and saying "They're back."

So, yeah, add those other two movies to the list.

Also, the RoboCop remake with Michael Keaton arguing for black armor. Not nearly as messed up as the original, but PG-13 RoboCop completely misses the point and isn't really suitable for anyone.
 
watership down is not a kids movie despite the bunnies. neither is when the wind blows which is about an elderly couple slowly dying from nuclear fallout.

these are not cartoon for kids. at all.
 
Forsaken Wanderer said:
that paw patrol slop with the multi racial society and trannies,
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I tried to confirm this and it looks like the paw patrol wiki is locked. Imagine being so emotionally invested in paw patrol that you get into edit wars with the rest of the site.

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I wonder if the admins are normal well-adjusted people...

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God damn it. Leave the puppies alone you groomer!
 
Neuropol said:
The original RoboCop
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idk..my kids all LOVED that movie, my daughter was oddly enough the biggest fan. she would draw weird pictures of him with hearts and shit, very funny.
that being said, i dont know if i have the best judgement with kids/movies. i let my kids watch robocop, and scarface, and in my mind, i felt that it was a sort of feel good movie about making it in the world, despite the obstacles that would try and derail you, but my husband disagreed. vehemently.
 
Neuropol said:
The original RoboCop. I saw it on VHS when I was down with chickenpox as a kid. First R-rated movie I'd ever seen, first F-bombs I'd ever heard dropped--up until that point the goriest things I had seen were Temple of Doom and Gremlins, and those had done a number on me. Heck, the Poltergeist 2 trailer that ran before Gremlins in the theater did a number on me, and that was just a girl staring at a TV screen and saying "They're back."

So, yeah, add those other two movies to the list.

Also, the RoboCop remake with Michael Keaton arguing for black armor. Not nearly as messed up as the original, but PG-13 RoboCop completely misses the point and isn't really suitable for anyone.
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I wasn't a young kid when Temple of Doom came out, but I vividly remember thinking, "Jesus Christ, they rated this PG?" right around the time when dude gets his heart ripped out by Mola Ram.
 
oh no its pipkun said:
watership down is not a kids movie despite the bunnies.
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I'm going to respectfully disagree here. I'm fully aware of how terrifying Watership Down is. I watched it as a young child myself. But the thing that I dislike most being presented to children are bad moral lessons. Watership Down has blood, fear, but it's not Saw. And the morality of it is solid. And it introduces death to children in a way that is surprisingly gentle. At the start of the movie, the rabbits fear "The Black Rabbit," their personification of death itself. But at the end of the movie when he comes to Hazel he's looking out over the young rabbits at play and He says something to him like "You're tired. Come with me now. They'll all be alright." It's sad but it also gives the child a feeling that somehow it's right as well, it's okay.

I don't think Watership Down did me harm as a kid. It's from an era where it was thought okay for children to be exposed to some darkness, the better to see how to face it and deal with it. And I don't think that's incorrect.

To take a contrasting example from an entirely different genre and era, the movie Superman Returns. Blood? Gore? Gratuitous sex and violence? Not that I recall. All fairly clean cut and PG rated. But in this movie we see Superman be mean to his dog, use his powers to eavesdrop on the private and intimate conversations between Lois and her husband, we get poodles eating each other, Lois lies to her husband that her child is his when she knows full well that its Superman's. Hell the movie ends with Superman secretly letting himself into their house to spend time with the child without either of them knowing. And it's not like the movie gives any moral reason to be opposed to the husband. He's kind, funny, successful and brave. Hell when Lois is in danger and Superman decides to save the city over her, he gets in a light airplane with no powers and flies into danger to her rescue her. The entire film takes a series of immoral or dubious actions by Superman and casts them in a heroic light. I'm not arguing to be contrary - Watership Down is a scary film for kids. But I would rather they see loss and fear in an allegorical cartoon that they can learn from and get over, than some glossy praising of bad moral lessons.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not fine with showing small children heavy violence or gore. But I'm okay with scaring them a little. Bad morality is harder to fix later.
 
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Shroom King said:
I tried to confirm this and it looks like the paw patrol wiki is locked. Imagine being so emotionally invested in paw patrol that you get into edit wars with the rest of the site.

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God damn it. Leave the puppies alone you groomer!
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This is just as bad as the Backyardigans Lost Media Fagtastrophy.


Thread Tax: The Poltergeist Trilogy has good arguments for an X-Rating, that shit isn't even scary half the time, just disgusting.
 
Neuropol said:
The original RoboCop. I saw it on VHS when I was down with chickenpox as a kid. First R-rated movie I'd ever seen, first F-bombs I'd ever heard dropped--up until that point the goriest things I had seen were Temple of Doom and Gremlins, and those had done a number on me. Heck, the Poltergeist 2 trailer that ran before Gremlins in the theater did a number on me, and that was just a girl staring at a TV screen and saying "They're back."

So, yeah, add those other two movies to the list.

Also, the RoboCop remake with Michael Keaton arguing for black armor. Not nearly as messed up as the original, but PG-13 RoboCop completely misses the point and isn't really suitable for anyone.
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Kids loving RoboCop and toys being created led to parents groups having a fit over the violence. So when OCP turned him into a pantywaist for part of the sequel it was actually a jab at that.

Gremlins 2 had that sexy gremlin even though the mogwai just self reproduce when exposed to water. Makes me think that a furfag was on the team. Apparently there's a third film being developed with a late 2027 release date. Dear God please don't suck. Even though I know it probably will. *sigh*

My mom took me to see Terminator 2 when I was 11. She didn't take my siblings because they were too young. I know a lot of kids loved the movie. But it wasn't intended for kids. Just like with RoboCop there's no way it's not gonna attract a younger audience with the whole cool robots with guns theme and the fact that anyone who saw it was blown away by how cool it was. I wish I could go back in time and see T2 for the first time again.
 
Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, any of those will traumatize the absolute shit out of kids.

Also I'd say both The Witch King from The Black Cauldron and Hexus from Fern Gully were really pushing the limits of scary for children's media.
 
Crypt Kicker said:
I wonder how many children had their sexual awakening from Labyrinth
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Jennifer Connelly was the 20th century's leading cause of early-onset male puberty. (Requiem for a Dream is from 2000, so technically...)

I didn't consciously notice David Bowie's wang in Labyrinth, but I've seen a quite a few women on the internet call it the star of the show.
 
Heavy Metal, American Pop, Rock and Rule (although that last one's biggest danger was creating another generation of Furries). Oh, Wizards. Definitely Wizards. And talk about traumatic, how about Silent Running? "Lowell just wants to save the forests!" Even setting aside the ridiculous premise (the world is 72f all over, climate controlled...but forests are apparently in the way and there's none - zero - on Earth anymore), "I'll murder all my friends to save a terrarium but I'm the hero of the movie" is pretty warped to see as a kid.
 
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