The Neverending Story (1984) Retrospective / Review
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Acting by children and in fantasy movies tend to be very marginal. That being said, the writers and directors asked a pre-teen boy to carry a fantasy movie. Noah did a wonderful job, especially in the Swamp of Sadness scene. He ran the perfect gamut of emotions, from terror, to frustration, determination and despair all at once. I can just imagine the director yelling "cut!" and the whole set just standing there in awe as the weight of the scene they just witnessed lingered with them all.
Cried when Artax drowned when I watched it in the 80's? yes
Cried when Artax drowned when I watched it in this clip? yes
Same.... god, it's so bloody sad!
+Justin Wilson That's how impressive it was. We knew Artax but a few minutes and yet his death was so impactful than it should have. Usually you have to develop a character more to get that affect..
i think other factors that contributed to the sadness of that scene is Atreyu's reaction (Noah Hathaway was a great child actor) & the music accompanying the scene.
Goddamn, so did I... The only difference is now I see the same scene as a metaphor for depression. As a child I was simply witnessing a really sad scene. Now I've had thirty years to understand it. It's bad enough Artex gave up life, but just imagine being Atreyu trying keep the worst from happening and being entirely ineffectual keeping his friend from essentially committing suicide.
On a lighter note that music score near the end reminded me of some early Final Fantasy tracks.
Doesn't it kind of suck cum that we can not discuss or even hear of ANY movie that happens to be more than ten years old without hearing the fucking word "remake" anymore?
What do you mean 30's and 40's? I was 17 when I saw it and I was mesmerized! I'm 51 now, and I still love it! Legend, Neverending Story, Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth are my comfort movies, I need them every now and then to renew the child in me.
I'm 48 Abby and i love them all just as you do.
One of my favourite movies as a kid. Totally awesome and imaginative.
I totally agree :)
...and then, i read the book. And a new kid was born XD
Read the book then. The movie is absolute trash compared to this masterwork of literature.
Agree! 110%
@@Donnerbalken28 I love the first film is it a perfect film no but id be lying if i said i didn't really like it. That being said i have yet to read the book however i will do so in the future and like most cases the book is better i get it.
That goddamn wolf, dude...scared me stupid as a kid.
It did me. My son was also terrified when I played him the movie! Maybe bad judgment on my part 🤣
@@maximoo79 I did the same thing to my little cousins lol.
Gamorg!
The song is so catchy. Loved this movie as a child.
The tears for the horse, the fear for the wolf, the crush for the emperess.
Know what you mean, on all three counts! :)
Guilty as charged
Only the second one for me
Yer, I’m glad to see the wolf had a body & not just a bobbing head.
Ooh, what a good tagline!
Thanks for putting this together. Such an important piece of pop-culture, but also such memories for me personally (I still cry at that 'certain' scene 😑).
The idea of The Nothing being The Ultimate Enemy is akin yet harsher in some ways than Sauron... The Invisible Enemy who is more powerful than you can possibly imagine (yes, more scary than Megatron or The Emperor). Terrifying.
If they ever wanna remake it, I'm totally against it. Having said that, I'd love to audition for The Wolf (ehem).
Just hearing the score brings tears to my eyes ! My nostalgic 80's children I am here with you !
"The less said about The NeverEnding Story III, the better."
Absolutely right!
OH! YES! I'm not big on the second film either to tell you the truth. And no granted the first films not perfect either.
Rooster Montgomery
Nipples.
the nevertobetold story
or bettertoforget story
That's for damn sure
Nice bravura performance by Jack Black though 🎭
I was 6 when this came out. Still remains my favorite movie of all time. I don't know what it is but it's always been a big part of my life..."but that's another story".
+erasure1378 and shall be told some other time....
@@retropolis1 lol
Ha!
"The first film is probably the most perfect family film there is." Made me think of The Princess Bride. In fact, a retrospective/review of that film would be really cool.
20's 30's and 40's - I was 10 when this hit the theaters. I actually think I respect it more now as an adult.
I absolutely LOVE this film. It is one of my favorite childhood films.
Hey Viv I so agree!
It’s a good movie.
I 100% agree and love it too
I remember watching this in the theater on my birthday. Artax in the swamp had me THIS close to being in tears. Then a little girl in the row behind me asks, "did... the horesy die?" and it was all over for me.
I later read the novel, and was shocked the movie only made it barely to the half-way point. Then I saw the sequel, was excited that maybe they'd do the second half of the novel, and THAT was the biggest let-down I had ever witnessed. They got some of the names right, but otherwise it was completely wrong.
I loved 🥰 your 1st Paragraph x
Your 2nd paragraph, I know what you mean!!! But Prehaps in this modern times-they might make another one-based on the 2nd part of the book…you never know…. 🤷🏽♀️
That must have been amazing to watch it on theatres. Today we have very good film scans of many of these movies, but I have no idea about how they looked in theatres back then. Did they look great as cinema should or were the copies more like degraded film scans?
The wolf scene got me so bad as a kid. :O
Well, that wolf killing hope and imagination is running loose in entertainment now, that is the saddest thing about the film predicting the future.
I loved Oliver's inclusion of the behind the scene interpretation of the brilliant puppeteer actor. Practical effects stand the test of time if the models are crafted well.
I saw the movie in 84 about the same time I was reading the Silmarillion for the first time. Gmork was pretty much exactly how I pictured Carcharoth, Morgoth's pet wolf
This film also does the impossible in one important category where most other films fail. It has multiple amazing performances by child actors. Most movies featuring young actors contain either mediocre or downright annoying performances. I don't blame the child actors in those instances, they usually have almost no experience or formal training and so it's more the responsibility of the director to create that performance. Indeed the success of this film so entirely depended on the performances of Noah Hathaway (who was about 13) and Barret Oliver (who was about 11), that if either one was lackluster, key scenes would have completely failed hence making the movie either boring or uncomfortable to watch.
+erentheca yes the Princess as well did an amazing job...very touching grown up feel from a little teenie bobber....
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+functionalschizophr Yeah, Tami Stronach was perfect as can be for the role. Most adult actors these days can't match her sense of maturity in that movie.
True! BTW For me the best child actor was Kirsten Dunst in Interview with the Vampire...she was better then Cruise and Pitt.
@@LegoLad01 I'm not so sure about that
As a child you are horrified to see the horse, Artax, slowly slip away amid Atreyu's pleas. As an adult, you realize Atreyu isn't just talking to the horse, he's talking to you. This comes full circle again with the confrontation with the Empress and the breaking of the wall between the story characters and Bastian. There's such a fun meta quality to the story that is just as poignant for kids as it is for adults. Don't let your dreams slip away into a swamp everyone.
Saw the movie back in 84/85........bought the soundtrack.
Stunning music, specially Bastian's Happy Flight.
Gmork....ugh, by FAR the most terrifying creature from my childhood nightmares.
That voice, the eyes, the teeth....*shivers*
Love the rest of the movie but that thing STILL creeps me out.
V - Pony you know that’s the same voice as Falkor. Who is also a Man-At-Arms and Skeketor
Nick Manzo Now that is some awesome trivia. The voice of Gmork being the same voice who calls Evil-Lyn, Beast-Man, Tri-Klops, and others "bungeling boobs" was not expected!
Bruh
Lol
Agreed! Gmork, Chucky and the demon dogs from Ghostbusters haunted me as a kid growing up in the 80s. They still generate an unease as an adult.
"We are all part of a neverending story. And even the smallest of us can grab the pen and write the next chapter." (Michael Ende) 😊
♾🌬️🐲
"Almost worse because as an adult you see the animitronics."
So you can see the brilliance, in other words?...:)
Sorry, but I feel nothing but pity for people w/ such an attitude, people who do not possess the ability to watch something AS A CHILD...this film is a sterling example of utter creativity and wonder that has in no way diminished over time...if anything, it's gotten BETTER, given the poor excuses for family films studios churn out...
Cheap 80's music? that score sounded amazing from its time. foh
Agreed
Yeah the soundtrack is goosebump inducing.
He never said that, idiot.
Well said😂
I was always in love with the Child Like Empress...and still am.
Is that you Harvey Weinstein?
If it was never mentioned before, I'll mention it now. The whole Artax downing in the swamp of sadness looks to be inspired by someone watching a friend or love one dying of depression. Scary now to realize what that means now that I am an adult.
+gutz1981 I thought the same. Was very sad watching as a child as I thought Artax was trying to get out, but as an adult a very different interpretation - some very existential themes in the film really, not as child-friendly as it first appears!
+gutz1981
Exactly!
As the review says, in the book Artax is a talking horse, and his lines in the dialogue between him and Atreyu as they walk through the swamp are surprisingly similar to things that people who are under depression say.
That's not a very good anecdote
@@dutchmountainsnake5379 ???
I saw Artax dying as Bastian’s projection of his mother’s death and the swamp of despair that he’s now in
I like how Falkor moves and his stiffness adds to his character
I did too, it seemed to be part of this "thing." Like he was a totally legit real creature who just happened to move that way.
Paisley Spin Yes!!! exactly -
I love that movie.. I am in my late 30s and watched it 1988 in a cinema the first time, and was touched right to the bottom of my heart by it.. I couldn't get this movie out of my mind for weeks and went back to cinema for like 3 times.. Then 1990 they showed it on TV and I watched it again.. This movie has always inspired me.. The score, I bought on CD in the mid 90's and always listend to it, which made me see the movie in my mind again.. Beautiful movie!! Thx for the review!!
Sadly many Fantasy and Sci Fi movies of that time are not shown anymore and are hard to find, if you don't know what to look for!! Krull is another beautiful movie with a fantastic score, which scared the Sh.. out of me as I watched it the first time in a holiday camp as young boy!!
I found that scene with the wolf utterly terrifying as a child. I loved the film, but it was a scene I dreaded. I love that he hasn't encountered it before, sees the mural of his adventures, sees the wolf in the hole in the picture only to realise that it is this very moment that the mural depicts! Very clever.
the scene when artax dies used to really distress me and the wolf was dead scary.
cheesy music? the music is great
Agree! I to this very day still love the never ending story song.
@@dominicgiorgi3665 - Written and produced by Georgio Moroder.
@@battleofwills7189 Thank You! kind Fellow,Fella.
I know its epic
I had the album. Still listen to it. Still gets me.
The original book gets quite epic and dark towards the end, with magical conflicts and clashing of armies. Neverending Story is one of few franchises/stories that I'd like to see as a 2 part (2 hour) remake.
4 years later but... Yes, the book has got 2 lectures. One of them is an amazing fantasy tale, but the other one is an extremely dark adult tale about the loss of identity. And it is done on purpose by Ende. That is why this book is brilliant. You can read it being an adult and it gets even better. I own the special edition with the letters in red and green, I read it when I was 12 years old, twice in a row. And I read it again a few years later (I am 42).
Agree!
@@The-Man-On-The-Mountain Hi 👋🏼 I’m really interested in the “special edition” u mentioned. Do u mind sharing which book it is? ☺️🙏🏻
I feel like Noah Schnapp was cast in Stranger Things because of the Bastian vibe he gives off.
haha I can see what you mean
The fact is the never ending story gave me inspiration for my poem
The most interesting part is watching the female puppeteer mouthing the dialog for the wolf. That's really interesting. I wish I could see more behind the scenes for this movie.
what further interests me is that the dialogue she's mouthing along to in that clip doesn't seem to be the take they went with in the final film, gmork has a slightly deeper voice in it. i actually kind of prefer it too, which is a shame. it has slightly more "character" to it, his final voice just feels ever so slightly flatter.
Same here Jack Sofalot i would have loved to seen much more behind the sense stuff.
She doesn't speak. She repeats the text aloud, it will help to move the puppet well. At the beginning it is said that the voice has been recorded.
"Come for me, G'mork... I am Atreyu!"
I am one of the very few and very lucky teens nowadays that can say that this movie has been a huge part of my childhood. I was born in 2001, making me 15 as of now and I was exposed to this movie at a very very young age and I'm so thankful to my parents for that. In fact it is still part of my childhood experience. For Christmas of 2016, I received the book of the NeverEnding Story and I finished it today only a couple of hours ago. Now I can be grouped with the very few and very lucky people who actually read the book AND have this movie be a big part of my childhood. Anyways, when I was much younger I asked my parents for an AURYN replica and I received one, but now as I'm older and more observant I am noticing very big flaws in it (poor paint job, incorrect placement of snakes [gold snakes head should be at the top of the AURYN but the grey snakes head is], the entire backside of it is flat and not painted, the entire thing is almost squashed and not to scale) and I was wondering if anybody could tell me where I could find an AURYN replica that looks EXACTLY like the one from the film, or at least the closest looking one as possible? Thanks, I'd really appreciate it!
You better watch The Dark Crystal ASAP if you haven't, hurry while you are still young
(old people reading this should watch it too though)
ebay & Amazon
I Loveeeeee This Movie. As a child I remember watching this movie almost everyday. With my little sister. Even as an adult I have caught myself letting this movie play in my blu Ray non stop for more than 3 days.
Watching the clip at the end of the whole movie, takes me back to my childhood. My best childhood movie ever. When Artax died, I used to leave the room every time to hide the fact I was in floods of tears 😭😭😭
When I was a kid I did exactly the same. The moment they started walking in the swamp I was gone. Refused to watch it.
Saw this when I was 5 or 6 so it gives me great nastolgia of anticipation to see the empress at the end everytime I watched it. I drew her a lot and aspired to be like her. 😂😂
Thank you!. :)
I read the book as a child after I had seen the movie. The book is so much deeper than the film.
Lots of taoist imagery in the book. Less so in the film... I suppose there was the AURYN, but that was about it.
The G'mork scared the hell out of me as a kid.
Makes me wish WB would release an Ultra-Deluxe Edition of this with both cuts, tons of extras, including commentaries, for Blu-ray disc instead of the current single layered, old-transfer. PLEASE an Isolated Score too! (In DTS-HD MA 5.1 or summat.)
Once again Oliver your hit your mark, I see you becoming some one get and am glad to be part of it!!!
Cheesy eighties music????!!!!!
ugh I love the music in this movie!!!!
+hdjksa52 Agreed. It's feel good music! (Except for maybe the part when Atreyu meets the wolf which just now reminded me of Child's Play.)
‘To the winch wench!’ one of my favourite movie lines ever.
That damn horse. I am one of those "Crying People"
The book is extremely rich and has that dreamlike parable sense that you find in 'The Little Prince'. It works as an epic quest but at all times you have a deeper sense that it means something that is hidden (or might seem hidden to a young reader) so that by reading it, you do in a sense go on a journey and 'find' something important.
It is well worth seeking out.
That the neverending story is closly copycat of Narnia
And Bastian is Caspian in the novel. There's a talking lion Bastian meets in a desert living inside a crypt and when Bastian try to claim ruler of the world like them did against the Narnians it creates a world war.
@@robertagren9360 Those are totally superficial.
The wolf always frightened me!! And i still cant watch the swamp part when the horse dies.
Oliver, may I say that I continually find myself revisiting your retrospectives, particularly Dracula, The NeverEnding Story and The Dark Crystal - they create such a cozy, safe, relaxing and familiar 80s vibe, a welcome reprieve from the often stressful real world out there, and for decompressing after work/over the weekend 🌍 Your scripts are always excellent, narration clear and concise, and frankly no other retrospective channel comes close to your editing, expertise and clear passion for your material, always presenting each video in a way that conveys the heart of the film it’s about. The fact your material is evergreen in this way speaks to this, for sure. Well done man, and keep up the excellent work! You inspired me to do my own stuff with my own channel 🙏, as I’m sure you inspire countless others in the same way - have a great holiday break and an awesome end of year/new year 🎇
5:50 That shot of Limahl and Beth Anderson* ... Oh my God those gorgeous 80s hairstyles, i love it. People are so incredibly bland and afraid to stand out these days. It's reflected everywhere. I noticed for example that the majority of cars today are gray or black, if there's any color it's mostly subdued. This is in contrast with the 80s where there were colorful cars everywhere (and colorful people, music, films, etc, etc). If i could go back to the 80s i would do it in a heartbeat.
* edit: Ok, it wasn't Beth Anderson in the video. I just found this on wikipedia: "One of Limahl's back-up singers, Mandy Newton, lip-synced Anderson's lyrics for the music video."
Don’t worry many get confused by that! That is absolutely Limahl and Mandy Newton. Beth Anderson is the real vocalist though, she’s a white American singer. Beth Anderson did two performances with Limahl one on Solid Gold and American Bandstand.
I don't care for the sequels myself and personally, I believe The Neverending Story is one of those special films that sticks with you all of your life. A classic like The Neverending Story should not be remade.
I was amazed at the lead actor in this film. They could not have chosen a better one! It was nice seeing him interviewed as an adult. Also, that horse was amazing. I'll wager they did that scene in one take. The horse was calm...much calmer than I was when Artex drowned...
And Atreyu almost died in that scene as he got caught on an elevator and as it pulled him down he went under and nearly drowned
Plus Noah had a horse fall on him putting him in the hospital for a bit. 4 broken vertabre if i remember
The wolf scared the shit out of me when I was younger.
One of my favorite movies growing up. I definitely remember the scene with the horse.
cgi the technology is not bad,the problem is the people who have it ...don't know when to use it and when no to use it,,,just because you have the technology it does not make it better ...the story and good writting is what makes it better.....
I think in a way the wolf looks scarier because of his stiff movements, i certainly remember it terrified me more then any other villains in other movies when i was a kid
Hence the newest adaptation of a transformers movie, bumblebee lol. Just an example to further your point ;)
110% Truth!
@@brentantheunis2456 lol same here.
this film scared the piss out of me as a kid!
That’s why they did the other sequels more family friendly, guess what happened with those in the end. Yup they are horrible. Neverending politically correctness is destroying all movies for all eternity.
lol
At the time I still tear up at that scene.
This movie is classic. As a child and a budding artist, this movie captured my imagination instantly. It's this film, along with Frank Frazetta's artwork that has inspired mine and many other's artwork. Great review, as always!
must admit I bawled my eyes out when artax died so many years ago
Your retrospectives bring back so many fond, innocent and joyful memories of my childhood in the late 70s, right through out the 80s. They don't make movies with this kind of TLC anymore. Keep up the great work, bringing a smile to all our faces ;-)
Have you ever watched the Atreyu/Gmork scene with closed captioning? Gmork's dialogue was in dark green. Just to show how *evil* he really was. Nice touch that one.
If they decide to remade or re-tell The Neverending Story for newer audiences and for old audiences who grew up watching it as a kid. I personally think Guillermo del Toro would be great as director and writer for the part. I personally love his work. what do you think?
Oh god I hate this idea so much. Stop with this remake bulshit and be creative fore a change. Do something new and leave my childhood alone.
Daniel Meza Guillermo del Toro would do it well, I agree, with his signature artistic style for mythic based fantasy and solidly written stories and scripts but it would have to be one of those remakes that is different from the old one so that both films would retain originality of their own (a good example being "The Thing from another world" (1951) and "The Thing" (1982)
Guillermo del Toro my arse. Most overrated director of the 21 century.
Karl Karlos not really
Well I'm not very impressed by this man's Œuvre, I have to admit.
Can't get enough of your retrospectives.....like reliving my adolescence and young adulthood.
Dude! Im watching almost all of your reviews! Specially the ones of the 80´s and 90´s movies. LOVE THEM! Even when I think a know a lot of all of those movies, you always find something to surprise me and teach me. GREAT WORK AND THANKS!!!! :D
demm9000 Thats really nice to hear!. thank you so much.
Oliver Harper
Should this be remade today?
+Savvy Savages They can't remake this. They simply can't do it. I read the book recently and tried to imagine how they could remake it, but can't see it.
What actors today are going to outperform the originals?
The movie covers the first third of the book, and even that third had to be substantially cut down.
There are also many things that wouldn't work in a movie.
For example, there are three gates in the book. The first gate doesn't shoot anything at you, all it does it potentially confuse you, and get you talking to yourself forever, until you collapse and die.
How is that going to work in a movie? The change they made, was reasonable.
There are plenty of other examples.
It would be silly to remake this movie just to have a bunch of soulless cartoon CGI running around.
Conor Dowd Actually, the opposite is true.
+Conor Dowd Oh really? .. . Take another look at crap from the 90's like Lawnmower Man and Godzilla 1998 and tell us, with a straight face, how great the CGI in THOSE movies "ages" you dope! The ONLY time CGI ever impressed ME in a movie was in Terminator part 2 - with that "liquid metal cyborg". THAT was the ONLY movie in which it ever really wowed me over, .. . but after THAT I quickly got bored of seeing it in every other movie.
Seriously? You had to show the scene where Artex dies? My heart is broken.
😔😢
ARTEX!!! 😢
Hearing the theme at the end of the video has brought back the feeling of seeing this movie as a kid. Now I won't be able to sleep because I'm too hyped up about flying with dragons.
Absolutely great memories, they just don't make creature effects films anymore, and it's a real shame.
🐉🌬️))🧙🦁🦄⛰️(🐺)⛰️!
My favorite thing about the film was the theme about living out your dreams. Two parts of the story that did this well were the scene in which Bastion’s father tells him to keep his feet on the ground and be realistic and near the end when the Empress begs Bastion to save Fantasia by doing what he dreams.. Although these are completely different points they are also correct. All accomplishments and creations start with dreams, however you have to take action and make your dreams come true. My thanks to Michael Ende for writing the novel.
This is my childhood favorite movie. I love this movie so much when I was a kid. I have yet to revisit it as an adult.
When i was a kid the wolf disturbed me.
Gmork terrified the shit out of me to. So much so that I couldn't help but name my Black German Shepard after him haha XD
good then it did it's job well
KiddCrowley I'd probably shit myself if I encountered a dog named Gmork.
@@hotdog5178 Lmao! Right! lol
I heard he has taken over Hollywood roughly 20 years ago...
This move in usual in such a way that it made the right decisions when deviating from the book and therefore created an even better story.
Well here we stand with still no remake of this great film. There is a part of me that's sort of relieved by that but at the same time I would like to see a new series of films done in this style that covers the whole novel. As much as I disliked Neverending Story The Next Chapter, they did at least try to touch on the rest of the story of the original book. But it was still altered and fell flat without any of the magic and escapism of the original.
Watching this, I feel like The Neverending Story was THE movie of my childhood. I had actually watched the second part first, rented it on VHS. But at some point I was finally able to watch the original and absolutely loved it. Same goes for the book and its pages that are filled with images and writing in red and green - everything about it still feels so special.
Everyone is always sad about Artax...but The Rockbiters "Big, strong hands" gets me choked up over 25 years from the first time I watched it. To see someone, so damn huge and impressive so forlorn, so failed by his own strength despite itself is just heartbreaking.
Stumbled upon your channel Oliver. Glad I did. All your movie choices are some of my childhoods favourite memories. Cheers.
Thanks for playing as much of the song as you did. That was very satisfying. I have a guinea pig named Artax.
Thanks for the feedback. For some of my recent reviews I've put a warning at the beginning about spoilers. But you have to remember this is a retrospective.
Thanks for this channel. Although I tend to find story more important than you do, I really love your reviews!
This review has made me a follower. Not to mention reminded me that I have nephews that are hungry for movies this good. When you see them so quickly growing board of things like Teen Titans Go, you know they're looking for more even if they don't know it.
Something I really respect about these reviews is seeing glowing, insightful recommendations for many films that I overlooked as I grew up, this being yet another one of them (not the most enriched of childhoods). After this review, I feel motivated to seek them out and add them to my collection!
There is nothing cheesy about the 80's music..I was 8 when I saw this in the cinema and it stays with me to this day.
Oliver, I just discovered the early retrospectives! I loved watching this one over lunch. Cute young Oliver pic too!
The song was my favorite part of the film! Loved the music as a child :)
I saw this movie the first time this year, and to be hounest I was almost into tears how graceful it was! The score, the visuals...simple unforgettable! A remake could work in case someone puts energy into making the movie just as fantastic as it is supposed to be.
This movie is absolutely outstanding in all aspects. The acting and the imaginary, the FX, the music... everything is superb.
But the book is even better. For those who haven´t read it, do it, and do it now. No matter if you are an adult, because this is an adult book, and I will tell you why.
I remember one day that my mother toke me suddenly and brought me to the cinema to watch the movie and I was totally amazed. I was 8 or 9 years old. I wanted the book for Christmas, the one with the letters in red and green, and I read it twice in a row. Twice. The book is just pure magic.
But this book has got 2 lectures. In one, you have got an amazing fantasy story. But in the second, you will find a very dark and adult story about the loss of innocence and identity, and is actually intended by the author. In fact Ende didn´t write this book for children, he wrote a story with children in it, is not the same. But the book was for adult eyes. They gave him the award for the best book for children and he got really really upset. In fact, that second lecture (which in my opinion is the main one), it´s scary and sad as fuck as the way it is narrated. This story is amazingly immersive and deep. It happened the same with Momo, another great book by Ende. They kept making the same mistake: you found it in the children section, and they made you to read it in school when you was a kid. Big mistake.
Please, go read it. It´s one of the best and most underrated novels (because everyone thinks is just for children) ever written.
PS: This movie deserves a more extensive and detailed review.
Watched it yesterday with my daughter. Awesome!!!
I have subscribed to your channel. Your reviews are top-notch, seriously.
I appreciate your selection of movies to review, pretty much every movie from my childhood.
I'm 41 this year and the falcor theme still makes me well up, absolutely fantastic.
These videos are so nostalgic.
Having recently finished The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, I think I'm ready to see Falcor again.
Constantly watched on VHS as a child born in '83, I will never forget its magic and power. It is a part of me forever.
I remembered this fantastic movie from my childhood. I think EVERYBODY CRIED when the horse drowned in the swamp....I know I did. The Never-Ending Story song at the end of the movie by limhal was pretty catchy too.....❤️
Hey , i just found your channel , love these retrospective series you made !! Some are my childhood favorite movies as The neverending story , Highlander , Masters of the universe , Teenage mutant ninja turtles , Ghostbusters . Great work and fun to watch these videos !!! Greets from Belgium !!!
I absolutely love this film growing up and wanted to show it to my first graders. But sadly in this day and age....no dice.
Love your channel btw!
Really enjoyed this! Thank you. I have wonderful memories of watching this film in Pakistan when I was very young. Those were good times!
The German cut and score of the movie is very different and more effective compared to the US version. You can watch both on the German blu ray. I highly recommend it! Especially the swamp scene is much more powerfull in my eyes.
ET is still my favorite film from childhood, but it's closely followed by Neverending Story when it comes to emotional impact and precious memories. These films became a part of me then.
Perfect choice for a retrospective. I agree with this being a perfect family film. I can watch this again and again.
I just watched the Blu-ray again, and wondered if you'd given this your usual great treatment. (The DTS-HD-MA sound mix is terrific) Apart from the nostalgic nature of it, (I saw this in the cinema in 1985 when I was 7 years old, and vividly remember that experience), it still works today. I pop it in now and again just to watch a few scenes but it still sucks me in and I end up watching it to the end. I love how it subtly manages to break the "fourth wall". A great movie to show kids, and it has a wonderful message about the power of imagination and, well, you know, actually reading a book for a bit.
They truly don't make them like this anymore. It's a bit insulting to kids to say that they couldn't cope with such darkness.
You are by far one of the best reviewers out there. Thank you.
Till this day every time we go into an old bookstore there's a lot around here .I think of this movie