Parents: What rules do you have for what movies your kids can watch?

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My daughter is six now. I think the most "mature" films she has seen is like rated 7. Something like Super Mario bros and Mitchell's Vs the Machines and Spider verse. She gets a bit spooked by some things but usually after a brief conversation gets over it fast and we can continue. If she doesn't want to then we just pick something else. I don't want to force feed her anything she is not comfortable watching.

My parents had zero issues me watching The Deer hunter or Papillon at age 9. They did have problem with me watching Mortal Kombat 95' because of the violence lol. I guess they never watched a lot of martial arts films and thought I would see it as pure violence or something but The Deer Hunter of course had a lot more traumatic effect on me.

My father did say once when we talked about me watching a lot of grown up stuff as a kid didn't seem like it was doing any harm as I was always asking "how did they shoot that? How did they make that scene" etc. and he picked up on me being very interested in filmmaking. I am thankful for that and fair game to him.

That said, my kid isn't me and is in no way ready to watch the things I watched her age like TGTBATU or Jaws and probably won't be for a long time (and definitely shouldn't) and if you know your kid you can sail the waters pretty neatly.
And I always have little conversations of the films afterwards to kind of get into her mindset about the movies we watch.