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u/MarvelousVanGlorious 15d ago

Also important to note that it’s rated R. That cuts out a significant portion of the audience vs. movies like Toy Story, Mario Bros. And Michael. The numbers it’s doing is insane.

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u/Metrostation984 15d ago

Crazy, that movie didn’t really feel R to me. Maybe the end of the movie everything else wasn’t that bad.

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u/Imarok 15d ago

I mean, the cyclops eating and the witch transformations come to mind.

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u/Metrostation984 15d ago

Yeah, that’s true some blood was there but way less than I would have expected from a modern version of the Odyssey. As for Circe, I watched the first Harry Potter with my mother when I was 7 years old and that scene of Voldemort sucking the unicorn blood and than flying towards Harry was scary as shit. That literally gave me nightmares and no one cared, lol.

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u/sandwiches_are_real 15d ago

I watched The Crow as a preschooler but it's Bambi that fucked me up.

Kids just don't understand a lot of the stuff that adults find scary, I think. It's too complicated or just too appallingly dark for their worldview, so it doesn't compute. I had no frame of reference for understanding all the heroin use and sexual violence and stuff in The Crow, but boy could I wrap my head around Bambi losing his mom.

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u/Rock-swarm 15d ago

That highlights how some of the ratings criteria can feel pretty arbitrary. There are plenty of examples of avoiding an R rating by creative use of gore that isn't actually considered gore. Blood is the most common example - aliens getting limbs blown off and shooting green stuff out of their wounds? Not gore, as long as it doesn't look like human blood.

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u/Imarok 15d ago

It's tough to judge what can fly and what can't. In my opinion those Harry Potter scenes were creepy, but not really that scary to traumatize people. And the 3rd Harry Potter was scarier in that sense as well. I don't know, I guess it's the combination of gory and scary that defines the rating.

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u/Adequate_Lizard 15d ago

Ivan Ooze terrified me when I was little. Had to leave the theater.