[ SECRET POST #3970 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3970 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

04. https://i.imgur.com/8Pkc019.jpg

[kaijinscendre]

When I was a kid, the horse scene was most devastating. As an adult, the Rockbiter scene is. https://youtu.be/symP4QT7wLU

Also, I don't enjoy it as much as when I was a kid because there are some reallllyyy slow and boring parts.

[(Anonymous)]

I was always less sad about Atreyu's horse than scared by what happened to it, and scared about what would happen to Atreyu now that he didn't have a horse. But oh man, even as a little kid, the Rockbiter scene destroyed me.

[dinogrrl]

I didn't get the mind-blowing experience either. But my first exposure to the movie was I think 4th grade, in Spanish class at school. I knew the movie entirely in Spanish by the end of the year, because we watched it so many times, but I never knew remotely enough Spanish to have even the slightest idea of what was happening. When I finally saw the movie in English, my brain was set more to 'oh so THAT'S what's going on' rather that 'wow an amazing fantasy movie!'

[comma_chameleon]

I remember watching this as a kid, but to be honest, I don't remember it, if that makes sense?

Honestly, Return to Oz was more emotionally impactful to me, because it had this whole gas-lighting impact behind it.

[otakugal15]

Ok. It had nothing to do with EMOTIONS from Artax, though it did imply that it was feeling sorrow. It was how ATREYU was reacting to his horse being taken by the swamp.

It's the same thing a lot of us experience/d with Simba in The Lion King. Yes it was sad the Mufasa died, but it was SIMBA who evokes the emotion.

I get that way the silly Pokemon films. I can't stand seeing the pokemon cry.

[froodle]

The episode where Charmander evolved to Charmeleon at the end, and they're all in the snowbank and Charmanders flame is getting smaller and smaller and he's pushing himself because he is literally the only thing stopping them from freezing to death? Man I still get choked up watching that ep.

[otakugal15]

Pretty much any episode where the pokemon were hurt, sad, or bittersweet just had me bawling. :C

[nightscale]

I can remember loving this movie as a kid but watching it again as an adult I was just completely underwhelmed, it really wasn't at all interesting to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Watching it as a kid makes a lot of difference, IMO. That said, it's hilarious that you're criticizing the acting abilities of a horse, LOL!

[(Anonymous)]

I loved this movie as a kid but I was a kid when it came out. We had a few years in the 80s with a lot of fantasy movies for kids and this one really stood out for marrying the fantasy world with our own. We could all be Bastian and that was new and exciting and different.

I am still nostalgic about this movie but I don't really enjoy it anymore. It was on tv recently and I opted to do housework instead of join my husband on the sofa to watch it. He hated the movie as a kid and I was surprised he watched it but he ended up liking it more now than he did back then.

[(Anonymous)]

the author hated the movie with a passion


so if people give you grief about it, always remember that

[(Anonymous)]

(the book is seriously dope though go read it!!)

[(Anonymous)]

Is it better in the original German? The translation I read was not great.

[(Anonymous)]

i don't know because i only ever read it in german, sorry!

[(Anonymous)]

I just find it funny that you accused the horse of being unable to act. Be a little kinder: there's not a lot of horse acting schools where he could hone his craft.

[(Anonymous)]

As a horse person, that horse was FREAKED THE FUCK OUT.

The elevator lowering it into the muck broke, and the horse legit almost suffocated from the pressure of the mud.

[dahli]

Saw this movie as a kid (with the rest of the class) and it blew my mind when people where crying about the horse. Apparently it flew over my young mind that the horse was being taken by the swamp.

I can't blame you, though. Even as a kid the movie was kinda confusing for me. But I did love the princess' tiara. So pretty!

Edit: a quick google search tells me the horse lives!

[cakemage]

The horse scene is why I'll most likely never willingly watch this movie, especially after everything that went down with my own horse this summer. I'm still not over Ginger's fate in Black Beauty, and that happened off-screen. I know the horse ends up surviving in the movie (I've heard that he doesn't in the book?), but even so, I just can't take seeing horses endangered, especially since my horse is getting older and isn't entirely out of the woods.

[(Anonymous)]

I was horrified by this movie as a child and still to this day this movie wigs me out.

[(Anonymous)]

Why?

[starzki]

Count me as one who was completely blown away by this movie when I first saw it. I even remember sitting in front of our huge 80s CRT television on the floor and cheering at the end. I was six.

At the time, I was really into horses, so the Artax scene gutted me and I refused to watch on every rewatch that I did. It was more about Atreyu's sorrow and fear than the horse.

But what really sold the movie to me as a kid was how immersive it was. I understood both bullying and losing oneself in a book. And then, at the end, where the main character can not only decide how the book ends (bringing back Artax would have been the first thing I did, too), but can affect justice in his own life by flying a dragon to scare the ever-living shit out of his bullies gave me a joy only a 6 year old can know.

It's like chasing that first high. It's where I understood exactly how much storytelling can move and change a person. It's where I understood that movies could be magical. I think I've been able to rewatch enough times between that first time and now that I still can see and feel the magic.

I think it's also why I still write fanfiction. :D

[mimi_sardinia]

I don't know about anyone else, but the first thing that comes to mind for me about this movie is Hoyts Cinema Sydney. It's one of that handful of movies that dates from the two years I lived in Sydney as a kid.

I don't think the horse scene really affected me, but then the death of Optimus Prime didn't either (and that's another movie from that time, also Hoyts Sydney).

I think it was an over-all combination of the visuals, the fantasy plot, and that song that makes the movie a fond memory, but it is a fond memory that doesn't fully stand up when looked at through a modern eye, simply on a basis of dated special effects, and that when the crappy sequel came out it meant that I bought a copy of the book and that book was ten times better than the movie and could see retrospectively where they simply couldn't do what the book had.

I actually think "The Last Unicorn" had more effect on me that "The Neverending Story" though. TLU was also one of my earliest VHS hires too.