DS1 is 7. He is dino mad - as in wants to be a palaeontologist, reads fact books about them, keen to learn the proper names of all the lesser known ones and has been the same since he was 4 - more than just a kids passing fancy basically.
He is desperate to watch Jurassic Park, which is a PG. DH thinks he would be ok to watch it, I still freak out about the dilophosaurus in the car and the severed arm etc. so think not yet.
However he has watched and loved and is not scared by: All 3 Hobbit films, all three Lord of the Rings films and the first 3 Pirates of the Caribbean films and the original 3 Star Wars films. We started him watching these by fast fowarding through the more gruesome battle scenes about a year ago and he was fine so then let him watch the full films. no nightmares, no worries, he watches them on loop on the evenings he's allowed to watch before bed. All of these he asked to watch, we didn't offer, and was started by his love of dragons (we originally just showed him Smaug from Hobbit and it developed from there).
DH says if he is fine with all of those he will be fine with JP. My worry is that all of the others are clearly fantasy. JP is based in the real world, dinos were real and its premise is they could come back through science - JP2 has the T-rex loose in america etc. I think this could cause issues.
DH is not pushing it at all, but DS looks longingly at the DVDs are keeps asking when he can watch them.
So AIBU to not allow him to watch them? Am i projecting my own jumpiness from when i first watched JP (as a young girly teen) onto the situation? What age did your DC watch JP?
Sorry its long, trying to give context of the type of kid DS is!