You shouldn't have sinned the line "They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they?" That was the saddest, most hard hitting line in the movie. Even now it gives me goose bumps to hear.
That moment with Artax sinking in to the swamp was a defining moment in my childhood, probably the first time I ever cried watching a movie. even just watching it while you blabber over the top makes me tear up.
Everyone talks about the swamp scene with Artax, but the scene that always stuck with me was Atreyu and the Rock Biter. "They look like big, good, strong hands." The feeling of defeat and despair. The swirling evil clouds of Nothing in the background. It always creeped the hell out of me.
Its just AMAZING how much they put in to a few lines. How the strong giant couldnt do shit and then he just gives up. How anyone decided to sin this line is just beyond me
Was so confused about what the mother's name was as a kid that I read the book, and was blown away by how much they changed. Not the least of which was the name of the fantasy world. In the book, it's called Fantastica. Also, the movie's sequel is based on the second half of the book.
I actually met Noah Hathaway who played Atreyu personally at a convention a couple months ago. He was quite a nice guy. He even told me that the horse actually lived a good and happy full life. It was pretty cool to meet him.
One of the few 90s child stars that didn't die of an OD or suicide. Watching old stuff now and its insane how many of these incredibly talented kids didn't make it past their 30s. God, I remember how upsetting it was to hear when Brad renfro died. Kid was in so many great films but it came at so High a cost. metoo showed there were a lot of sick predators and no accountability in show business
@@Necro-the-Pyro Wait now I'm confused. I actually read an article about the platform lifting down the horse failing due to mud and making the horse stuck, so its face of fear is real and it basically passed out due to suffocation when being covered by mud and not being able to escape. Now I ain't sure what to believe. Maybe the crew had two horses and never told Noah the truth...
@@Backinblackbunny009 I have to wonder if breaking his back on this shoot didn't turn out to be a mixed blessing at worst if it kept him from hanging out with the Brat Pack. Especially since most of the guys adjacent to them that survived (like Wil Wheaton) went to public school in the Valley, or in DiCaprio's case Los Feliz (which wasn't what it is now) and Hathaway was in private school on the Westside, the belly of the beast.
@@mrcat3493 I must be going blind; I misread Ruvi's comment! LOL! I read it as, "...the medallion he wears, which is on the cover of the book". (The book in the film has that same medallion on the front cover). I thought Ruvi just sussed it out.
They say in the film that the Auryn protects the wearer from harm. Jeremy denies that it does this and then proceeds to ask how Atreyu survives the Swamps of Sadness 🙄
When I saw the oracle scene for the first time and it said that only a human child could give the Empress a new name, I asked my parents 'But Atreyu is a human, why can't he give the name?' And that was how I found out that people who look like humans in movies aren't always humans. Thanks NeverEnding Story.
We can definitely tell they watched an updated version of The Neverending Story. In the theatrical release and the VHS release (maybe even the original DVD release), NO ONE can understand what name Bastian says during the thunderstorm and rain.
This movie was stuck in my head for so long. When I read books this is literally how I felt. When the book was over, I felt RIPPED out of the book world. It felt so real and it leaves a piece of your soul gone
@@that_pan_chick8650 "Go be a child somewhere else" - states the person who cannot move on from their own childhood. Also "ad" and "add" mean completely different things.
We had a horse we named Artax because he looked like the Artax in this movie. It turned out to be an apt name cuz he loved learning tricks. He would rear on command, unzip jackets and put them on himself, LOVED being dressed up and painted, and over all acted like a straight diva. One of the best horses I've known.
We have a horse named Artax as well. He is one of those horses that acts like a bonehead most of the time, but every now and then does something to show you that he's much smarter than he lets on. He is also about three times the size of Artax in the movie.
Considering when it was made, i can’t get over how well the practical/matte effects have stood the test of time. Just like Labyrinth, those SFX guys were at the top of their game...
Watching this video and seeing the effects also reminded of labyrinth but that was because I remember the effects and how everything looked really scaring me as a child lol. It’s all just kinda creepy.
The kid playing the child like Empress is really well cast. She never comes off as too much. When she turns and look straight through my soul it works surprisingly well.
As a kid I was confused when I saw the movie with my dad at the cinema and I was like "Can't we watch Star Wars instead?" But you know what? When I came home I was so impressed that I took an empty notebook and began writing down everything I remembered of the movie. That moment showed me that I loved writing.
@@DracoPadilla Not really but thank you for the compliment. 😅👍 Life is about priorities I think. If you have too many balls to juggle you will lose your dreams out of focus. Work, family etc. Try to find an environment which supports your dreams. A work which gives you the money to have time to persue your goals. My urge to write sacrificed my two relationships. So ... I am maybe the last one who should give advice. But here I am now. 😅 Take care.
The part that made me cry was Rockbiter staring at his hands saying "They look like, good, strong hands, don't they?" but when Artax was sinking I was actually expecting something else to happen. Call me crazy but in my head I was remembering Hermione saying "It's Devil's Snare, you have to relax. If you don't, it'll only kill you faster" and then, you know, they fall through the floor into that room.
Lucky you. 😅 While this scene definitely screwed me up big time (I made sure to fast-forward past it whenever I rewatched it, lol), I watched plenty of horrifying things on TV as an 80s kid, a lot of which wasn't of my own accord. My mom allowed me to watch too much, tbh. Between the ages of 3 and 5 (can't remember exactly), she let me watch the movie Arachnophobia. Thanks to her, I developed that phobia quite severely. I remember waking up many times hallucinating big spiders all over my room. It wasn't till my 30s that I finally decided to get over my fear. That's not the end of what mom let me watch, but you get the idea. 😅
I remember loving this movie but would purposely skip the swamp scene because of Artax's death... but one day my older brother took the remote away and forced me to watch it entirely. It was the first time I had to accept death in a film that wasn't Disney.
This will twist your melon. Yoda, Chewbacca and Mickey Mouse all appear in the first Ivory Tower scene where Atreyu is introduced....so...it kinda is Disney.
“Neverending Story” is a lie…it’s only 142 minutes. “The Song That Doesn’t End” goes longer than that, although I’ve never been able to hear how long it really is…
For me it was Kokum in Pocahontas. That scene made me very uncomfortable. Which is hilarious considering I watched a lot of other movies with death but that one got me
When I was a kid those two statues were the scariest things I've ever seen in my life. This movie had me running from doubled-up facing statues for the better half of my childhood.
I watched this movie, then read the book about a month after. It was a really surreal experience. I was honestly extremely concerned about what I would name the empress for like 40% of the book, it was such a weird fuckin feeling lol. I literally called out the name I picked. Dead-ass. I said “Ellie” or whatever name seemed to fit and popped into my head. Also no shame I cried during the movie when Atrax died and when the rock giant and his friends got swallowed by The Nothing.
My mother's boyfriend drew storyboard on that movie. I went to the Soundstage and saw the snail and rockbiter as a teen. I think I have a few pages of concept art in a box in the cellar.
Very little creeps me out in movies but Gmork still somehow manages. Something about his animatronics just gets to me. On top of that, he's a genuinely evil character with those motivations of his 😅.
This movie was the first movie to ever give me nightmares, specifically because of Gmork. Horror movies, monster movies, dinosaur movies… none of it caused nightmares, but frickin’ Gmork haunted my dreams for over a decade.
Definitely. Those animatronics really work for me as do the green eyes but I think it's the voice that's really the icing on the cake. It's kind of understated and it never really raises it's voice which is much scarier than if it had sounded upset the whole time. It's like he knows he's scary as hell and doesn't need to prove it.
I love that he took 5 sins off for the cheesy, "Yeeeaah!!" scream. Also, if you ever want to read the book (and I highly recommend that you do), get your hands on a hardcover copy. You won't regret it.
Jeremy, your voice is the #1 reason I still actively listen to cinemasins. Your true laugh is infectious, your sincerity sounds legit, and your sins (the group effort I'm including here) are on the nose. No more of this dissing yourself. Please.
Rockbiter: [holding up his hands] They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they? I always thought that's what they were. Oh, my little friends... the little man with his racing snail, the Nighthob, even the stupid bat. I couldn't hold onto them. The Nothing pulled them right out of my hands. I failed. Atreyu: No, you didn't fail. I'm the one who failed. I'm the one who was chosen to stop the Nothing. But I lost the Auryn, I can't find my luckdragon, so I won't be able to get beyond the boundaries of Fantasia! [A crash is heard] Rockbiter: Listen. The Nothing will be here any minute. I will just sit here, and let it take me away too. [holds up his hands again] They look like good, strong hands, don't they? [Atreyu nods sadly]
I just love Gmork! He scared the shit out of me as a kid but i couldn't take my eyes off. Today his words hit even harder. Would have loved to see/read more of him in the second and third book...
It's meant to be a metaphor for the grief that the boy reading the book ( & his father ) are secretly going through of the deceased mother and it being unresolved . 🕯📖🙇🐲
Ok, granted, but I am not exaggerating when I tell you, as a full grown adult watching for the first time, I LOST MY SH*T when the Empress started talking about the movie viewers. I still consider it one of the best movie moments I've ever experienced.
I loved the book when I was a kid and I was so excited when I found out there was a movie. But then I watched the movie, and had a whole little rage tantrum about how bad it was in comparison to the book lol Read the book y’all, it’s amazing
I'm the opposite. Probably due to never reading the book until about 6 years ago. Absolutely love the movie and wore a couple vhs tapes out as well as needing to get a new DVD copy. My kids love it as well and glad to see they had the same trauma to Artaxs death as I did lol. I need to reread the book. The first half I loved and felt like they done a decent job following the main plot points. The second half was like the second movie and I couldn't wait for it to be over
I loved the music of this movie. It was put together well for children’s viewing. Like others, I had no idea what Bastian named the Empress and, not like others, I thought the young warrior’s name was “Atrail”. Lol.
@@amyball3342 Yeah, I think that it was better when I didn’t know. Lol. It was good enough for me to know that he named her SOMEthing and saved the day.
Funny... I thought his name was Atrail, too! But, even though I grew up watching a crappy VHS recording (on EP mode, so it was really poor quality) from 1985, I always knew Bastian had called out Moon Child. It wasn't easy to understand, but my sisters and I would rewind and watch it over and over again to make sure. We did the same when Gmork first appeared and the lightning flashed revealing his face. We'd pause it just so we could see what he looked like-even though we had already seen the whole movie dozens of times.
@@MikeEPerez It’s funny. My memory of him calling out the Empress’s new name is that the sound of the storm always drowned it out. I thought it was intentional that we not hear what he said. Lol. 🤷🏽♂️
The movie is a favourite from my childhood, but the book is definitely better. Spoliers: Bastian becomes the villain in the book - a young boy corrupted by absolute power, who proclaims himself the new Emperor of Fantastica - and it's fantastic. Every wish he makes with the Gem causes him to lose more of his memories, until he forgets even his own name, and the book subsequently refers to him as 'the boy with no name'.
Perfect example. Star Wars has famously bad dialogue, tons of little mistakes, some characters we all hate and yet it remains my favorite series of films ever.
This is my favorite movie of all time. I have an auryn tattoo on my chest. I don't watch the sins of movies I haven't seen and I usually agree with most of the comments. I expected that to happen this time too, but honestly almost immediately thought of a reason or justification for most of the complaints. There are definitely a few things you missed...the first scene in Fantasia, they looked at each other because they knew the rock biter was talking about something they already KNEW about. Not because they thought he was nuts. And Atreyu WAS sinking in the swamps of sadness because he was sad. He almost died. Anyway, I could keep going, but I know it's just for fun (and others pointed out a lot of the other things anyway).
I got an Artax sinking tattoo placed between my "good in the past" and "evil is ahead" tattoos as a reminder that in the present you have to always "fight against the sadness".
I loved this movie to fucking death. It still hold special place in my heart. Artax's death made young me paranoid of any mud puddle, which was a problem for our hike-happy family, as they would need to carry me over any stretches of mud, lest I sit and wail at its edge in panic. Until the day they left me behind so I had to run through the mud after them. I had to pretend Morla's shell would stop me sinking.
Damn your parents for real left you behind on a hiking trail just to teach you a lesson? That would’ve never worked on me I would’ve just ended up getting lost lmfao.
@@conscripthornet4430 they trusted my irrational fear of mud would be conquered by my more rational fear of being left behind. They were right! I was a wimp.
Loved this movie as a kid. I can’t count how many times my brother and I watched it. Needless to say, all three of my kids were introduced to it on DVD. There’s a lot going on in this movie: G’mork being scary, Artax dying, the Rockbiter sadly waiting to die, dreaming of flying on Falcore, the boobies, Morla sneezing, “Come for me G’mork!” Etc, etc…..
As a kid I loved this movie, and a large part of the appeal was the awesome opening sound. I had no idea the name Bastian chose was "Moon Child". As a kid I had no idea what he screamed out.
Nothing, nothing is wrong with NeverEnding Story! J/k I actually never venerated this movie as much as many appear to have, but still, overall it was a fun fantasy movie that on the surface was aimed at kids, yetactually dealt with a lot of adult themes.
@@Loromir17 fantasy or fiction in this case is not about lies. Concepts are not lies. The emotional reaction one gets form the situations and story elements real or imagined are a spark for self awareness and examination. People who hate on fiction because it is "not real", are just folks who do not learn from this method of thought.
Jeremy is 8 years older then me and I'm 40 next year which means he probably watched this as a teen vs a kid and doesn't have the same kinda nostalgia for it as those who saw it young
Can't get over how young these kids look to me now. when you see this movie when you're 5-6 years old, it's like watching grownups lol One thing I noticed as a grownup, Atreyu's quest leads him in one big giant circle ending up right where he started. Quite a roundabout way to get some kid interested in reading to save imagination land.
"The answer was there the whole time" or that kind of thing seems to be a common movie trope, there is one in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (great movie) but I won't give it away.
I discovered CinemaSins in middle school, and my sense of humor has evolved such that I don’t really laugh at the cynicism or the recurring bits anymore… however, Jeremy’s commentary is incredibly soothing and it’s such a nice way to re-experience a movie in brief.
Still my favorite fantasy movie as a child and still love this movie, along with the original Superman, Star Wars and Terminator and of course The Exorcist 🤣
I misread this and thought you said The Exorcist was one of your favorite fantasy children's movies and was veryyy concerned for you lol you have a great taste in media bro
I can't tell u how many times i rented this movie as a kid. Was my favorite.. Up until a few years ago i still thought nostalgia would carry that feeling.. It kinda did. Some things seem goofy now. But as a kid. This blew my head back everytime
Same for me. Watched this movie obsessively every single day for maybe 6 months to a year at age 7. In my country we couldn't buy this one on VHS (back in 1994), so my mom drove me to the local movie rental store to renew the lease, every week, without fail. Must've spent an absolute fortune for my sake. Moms are legends.
Same! Everytime my mom would let me go rent a movie, I'd get just end up getting this. It was the first movie she ever just bought so she could stop renting it every weekend.
OMG. The Pink Floyd quote at the end…”There’s no darl side of the moon really…” I will love this channel for the rest of time. Also, “Moonchild” makes me think the screenwriter had a thing for Aleister Crowley, if I do say so myself. But it was the title of one of his books so…
@@RylanStorm Getting a look at David Bowie's "spaceship" is a gift that Labyrinth has given the world. I do wonder how many awakenings (male and female) that Bowie caused.
Was watching this movie with my sister and her two sons. During the scene where the bullies throw him in the trash, my sister says to her boys, “Kids, don’t ever be like that.” I thought she meant the bullies and was glad she gave them a little lesson on being kind, but then she goes, “Never be a weak loser that gets thrown in dumpsters.” True story
@@rheverend that's horrifying. I feel bad for her sons. Rather hypocritical of her, considering she's being the bully in that situation and is pretty much guaranteeing that her sons will be bullies in order to live up to her standards. -_- I'm concerned for their future.
That movie terrified me as a kid ( well I was easily terrified, I didnt like ET and the red bull in the Last Unicorn gave me nightmares), but when I read the book I fell in love with it. As I am from Austria I read it in german and it is a wonderful book. I have one with pictures and the things that happen in Fantasien are written in another colour thant the one in the real world.
This is literally in my top 5 movies of all time. 1. Never ending story 2. The Goonies 3.spirited away 4. The Chronicles of Riddick 5. Bebe's kids My top five are movies I can watch whenever I see them and even at 35 still hold a place in my imagination and childhood and heart.
I remember watching this as a kid at my cousin’s house, leaving to go home, seeing monsoon rain clouds in the distance and worrying whether it was the start of the nothing. As this was 1990, I now don’t think it was ;)
Only thing I can think of: It was actually NeverEnding! 1st & 2nd grade, this was put on while we waited to be picked up by our rides... So, it was also _EverRestarting_ !
I feel weird because that scene never affected me as a kid. Like I was like “oh no, the horse can’t die” but then I just got annoyed how long the scene lasted and wanted it to hurry up. I remember the horse died but I never thought about it. The scene I always thought of was the ending scene when he’s riding the bullies chasing the bullies. For that reason the never ending story was associated with happy emotions for me because that scene was a happy scene.
The first time I watched this movie, I did so without subtitles which led to some funny misunderstandings. For starters I thought luck dragon introduced himself as the Love Dragon, followed by a very creepy “I loveeeee children” The tone of this film is very different if you see luck dragon as a pedophile grooming our young protagonist. Secondly, when Bastian finally names the queen, I interpreted his new name as “aaaahgglaaglack”. I thought it was oddly poetic that her name was unintelligible yelling
10:37 Jeremy: "Yeah, you're a dragon--I get that, but are you going to deny your dog heritage? You are clearly half a dog and the love story between your father and mother must be incredible." Falkor:**wink** +1 sin I'm dying
I was in grade school in the late 80s when this movie was relatively new, and I remember that the audio was so bad that I couldn't quite make out what Bastian yelled over the noise of the rain storm. "Moon Child" would NOT have been my first guess. Not with that uptight ass of a father, anyway. Reformed hippie, maybe? Either way, it really takes me back to the more pleasant memories of my childhood. 😎👍
NO ONE was EVER able to make out her name in the original VHS release; the storm was too loud. Or perhaps they mixed the sound that way on purpose so her name was always a mystery...
I remember going to the movies and seeing this in the theater on my 8th birthday. It was an instant favorite! However, my brother learned to despise it because once it was released on VHS, I'd watch it over and over... lol
3:30 "If you were Bastian, who was told this book was 'dangerous,' and the first few sentences set up what sounds like a horror story, only to shift gears and become 'Jim Henson Goes to Camp', wouldn't you maybe just go take the math test instead?" You would rather take a math test than watch a Jim Henson movie? Okay, have fun with that test.
Jeremy circa 18:27 - "Why the f*ck does the Empress' bedroom has a clamshell drawbridge for the door and why does it need to close after Atreyu walks in?" Me - The clamshell gates symbolise (cough cough) "something" - this is alluding to rebirth.
Missed a perfectly good sin of “Moonchild? He named her Moonchild, is his name Bastian or Frank Zappa?” 🤣 Also needed a sin or maybe 1,000,000 for “The End”… and an outtake of Otto from the Simpsons saying “this is flagrantly false advertising” for the title “The Neverending Story” Oh and +1 for Artrax death scene scaring another childhood.
Pretty good acting especially considering her age. Usually child actors are the worst part of watching kids movies but the talented ones can knock your socks off with their skills
Hey to be fair, I always keep a stick of butter out of the fridge. Have you ever tried spreading cold butter on toast? Not possible without crushing the hell out of your toast, either you never had toast or butter, sooo a sin to you for not being human.
@@Garlarg what's the point of butter if you don't flavor the whole toast, just one soggy mass in the middle of the toast doesn't seem that appetizing. Plus how would you spread meats? You'd have to go through the whole fiasco of mincing or grinding up the ham, sausage, steak, etc. Who wants to deal with that? However spreading SPAM on toast sounds pretty good.
Blocks of butter come similar to that shape in my country (although most people use the tub kind) We leave ours in the pantry rather than the fridge during winter in one of those oldfashioned butter dishes. It seemed perfectly normal to me.
19:30 My friends and I watched this movie on cable tv together as kids (and before I had read the book) -- we were certain that his mother's name had been HOPE and that is what Bastian would name the Empress. We really couldn't hear what Bastian said, but at least ONE of us heard "Hope." :)
This movie influenced an ENTIRE generation's paradigm about pursuing our dreams and working towards making them reality in our lives, which all started back when we first saw this as kids in the 80s. This film, its message and life lessons are TIMELESS. And yes, we ALL cried when Artax died. 💖👍💯😎
"It's weird for a property in the '80's to have a land named Fantastia and without Disney suing them into oblivion!" I said the exact same thing when I watched The NeverEnding Story movie as an adult! 😂🤣
The reason Atreyu doesn't sink in the Swaps of Sadness is because of Auryn (the pendant he wears around his neck), which protects him. It's made clearer in the book. Had Atreyu realized this, he might have given it to Artax to save him instead. But that would have been a different story...
*Believe it or not, according to the Hebrew Yisraelite scriptures there's billions of people who also wandered into & got trapped in the Swamps of Sadness & analytically since they just like all of the rest can't escape the Swamps of Sadness due to their great pain, depression & misery, therefore logically they're dying there even as I speak.*
I remember back in the 90s when i was a child, my dad came to me all "there was this fantasy movie on tv i recorded for you and a horse dies in it". I never forget that. Yes dad that's how you make a pre-teen horse girl want to see the movie lmfao
I had a rush of anger when i saw this video, I'm 40 and this is still one of my top 5 movies of all time. That being said, i agree with a lot of what he says but does it really matter? it's cheesy, it's a bit camp, a bit rediculous, but strange ingredients often make the best meals. it can be rediculous and fantastic too.
I could never understood what name Bastian was yelling out into the thunderstorm until many many many years later. Also, if Bastian never read the book Artax would not have died. Also Also, the biggest sin of this story is that it actually does end. Also Also Also, someone thought it would be a good idea to make 2 sequels.
Sequels? What sequels? This is a beautiful standalone movie. No such thing as sequels. Ever. Not one, not two. NO sequels. Just one beautiful movie. Forever. Full stop.
Ah yes. I remember watching this movie, and its sequel, over and over again at grandma's house. Then the third one came out, and I suddenly stopped watching them so much.
You shouldn't have sinned the line "They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they?" That was the saddest, most hard hitting line in the movie. Even now it gives me goose bumps to hear.
I agree.
Facts
That line hit different for real. 😥
😩😅😅😅😅
It's satire...
My nostalgia will not allow me to find anything wrong with this movie.
My thoughts exactly
But the horse *literally died*
Same feelings here.
I agree...
yup, same here
That moment with Artax sinking in to the swamp was a defining moment in my childhood, probably the first time I ever cried watching a movie. even just watching it while you blabber over the top makes me tear up.
Same
same. I literally have no memory of anything else in this movie but that horse sinking in the mud!
Oh gods, that scene defined so many childhoods
Yooo SAME!
Same. I was afraid to watch this movie for like 10 years because I was so traumatized by Artax’s death.
I made my nieces watch this a month ago. The 7-year-old broke down crying at the horse scene and said " You're causing me EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!" 🤣
Welcome to youth we all experienced its horror tiny human!
Today in what never happened :)
Did she throw her shoe down?
This was the case for me as a child!
Life is Cold. Dress appropriately.
Everyone talks about the swamp scene with Artax, but the scene that always stuck with me was Atreyu and the Rock Biter. "They look like big, good, strong hands." The feeling of defeat and despair. The swirling evil clouds of Nothing in the background. It always creeped the hell out of me.
Atreyu has a song I like.
I love you.
Carpet biter
@@Lucky_Chase Shut up, baby, I know it.
Its just AMAZING how much they put in to a few lines. How the strong giant couldnt do shit and then he just gives up. How anyone decided to sin this line is just beyond me
Was so confused about what the mother's name was as a kid that I read the book, and was blown away by how much they changed. Not the least of which was the name of the fantasy world. In the book, it's called Fantastica. Also, the movie's sequel is based on the second half of the book.
OH NO, THE FIRST MOVIE ADAPTION THAT WASN'T LOYAL TO THE BOOK!
Wellp, I had no idea this was a book until today🤦♀️😅and I grew up in the 80's/90's..thanks it's now in my amazon cart🤣😆
@@CheetoFireCat same! I haven't actually seen Neverending Story in a long while. I think the last time I saw it was still on a VHS.
@@CheetoFireCat Way to support Amazon like its something to be proud of.
the movies sequel took 5 things from the second half of the book and took out the actual story that the second half of the book was trying to tell
I actually met Noah Hathaway who played Atreyu personally at a convention a couple months ago. He was quite a nice guy. He even told me that the horse actually lived a good and happy full life. It was pretty cool to meet him.
I'm ridiculously jealous of you
One of the few 90s child stars that didn't die of an OD or suicide. Watching old stuff now and its insane how many of these incredibly talented kids didn't make it past their 30s. God, I remember how upsetting it was to hear when Brad renfro died. Kid was in so many great films but it came at so High a cost. metoo showed there were a lot of sick predators and no accountability in show business
The horse lived? My childhood is ruined!
@@Necro-the-Pyro Wait now I'm confused. I actually read an article about the platform lifting down the horse failing due to mud and making the horse stuck, so its face of fear is real and it basically passed out due to suffocation when being covered by mud and not being able to escape. Now I ain't sure what to believe. Maybe the crew had two horses and never told Noah the truth...
@@Backinblackbunny009 I have to wonder if breaking his back on this shoot didn't turn out to be a mixed blessing at worst if it kept him from hanging out with the Brat Pack. Especially since most of the guys adjacent to them that survived (like Wil Wheaton) went to public school in the Valley, or in DiCaprio's case Los Feliz (which wasn't what it is now) and Hathaway was in private school on the Westside, the belly of the beast.
The reason Atreju doesn't drown in the swamp of sadness is the medallion he wears, which is covered in the book (8:35).
Ah, that makes sense. 💡🙂
Ruvi my friend, I think you know reading is a sin.
If you need to read the book to understand the film that means the screenwriters failed at their job.
@@mrcat3493 I must be going blind; I misread Ruvi's comment! LOL! I read it as, "...the medallion he wears, which is on the cover of the book". (The book in the film has that same medallion on the front cover). I thought Ruvi just sussed it out.
They say in the film that the Auryn protects the wearer from harm. Jeremy denies that it does this and then proceeds to ask how Atreyu survives the Swamps of Sadness 🙄
When I saw the oracle scene for the first time and it said that only a human child could give the Empress a new name, I asked my parents 'But Atreyu is a human, why can't he give the name?' And that was how I found out that people who look like humans in movies aren't always humans. Thanks NeverEnding Story.
They should've made Atreyu green like he was in the book.
We can definitely tell they watched an updated version of The Neverending Story. In the theatrical release and the VHS release (maybe even the original DVD release), NO ONE can understand what name Bastian says during the thunderstorm and rain.
Yes....👏
Facts
i was gonna say! ive watched it hundreds of times over the years, and never once remembered "moon child"
Her name is czarina
It was a huge childhood mystery of mine 😂
This movie was stuck in my head for so long. When I read books this is literally how I felt. When the book was over, I felt RIPPED out of the book world. It felt so real and it leaves a piece of your soul gone
LOL you read books.
@@mymomsbasement69 go be a child somewhere else. The whole first minute of this video was an ad for books
@@that_pan_chick8650 HA fuckin neeeerd! Books are lame, you're lame 😎
@@that_pan_chick8650 "Go be a child somewhere else" - states the person who cannot move on from their own childhood. Also "ad" and "add" mean completely different things.
Same. I get sucked into worlds in books
We had a horse we named Artax because he looked like the Artax in this movie. It turned out to be an apt name cuz he loved learning tricks. He would rear on command, unzip jackets and put them on himself, LOVED being dressed up and painted, and over all acted like a straight diva. One of the best horses I've known.
Ahh! Sudden House Horse!
@@coldReactive 😂🤣 fixed. Dang autocorrect
Did he die in a swamp?
@@thefirstKenpachi this may be in bad taste but... final trick?
We have a horse named Artax as well. He is one of those horses that acts like a bonehead most of the time, but every now and then does something to show you that he's much smarter than he lets on. He is also about three times the size of Artax in the movie.
Considering when it was made, i can’t get over how well the practical/matte effects have stood the test of time.
Just like Labyrinth, those SFX guys were at the top of their game...
Watching this video and seeing the effects also reminded of labyrinth but that was because I remember the effects and how everything looked really scaring me as a child lol. It’s all just kinda creepy.
... especially since the movie was filmed in Germany (Bavaria Film Studios near Munich), and Germany's movie industry wasnt known to be a powerhouse.
The kid playing the child like Empress is really well cast. She never comes off as too much. When she turns and look straight through my soul it works surprisingly well.
Tami Stronach. Who will be 50 this summer (2022).
As a kid I was confused when I saw the movie with my dad at the cinema and I was like "Can't we watch Star Wars instead?"
But you know what? When I came home I was so impressed that I took an empty notebook and began writing down everything I remembered of the movie. That moment showed me that I loved writing.
Did you make a career out of writing?
@@DracoPadilla As you might have noticed, English is not my language. But actually yes 😊 I am making a living for over 8 years now. Thanks for asking.
that is such a cool story, I'm happy for you
@@yesyesyesyes1600 Nice. That's so awesome to be doing your dream job. Hopefully one day I will be too. Also your English is perfect.
@@DracoPadilla Not really but thank you for the compliment. 😅👍
Life is about priorities I think. If you have too many balls to juggle you will lose your dreams out of focus. Work, family etc. Try to find an environment which supports your dreams. A work which gives you the money to have time to persue your goals. My urge to write sacrificed my two relationships. So ... I am maybe the last one who should give advice. But here I am now. 😅 Take care.
When I was a kid Artax's death was literally the most devastating thing I had ever seen up to that point.
The part that made me cry was Rockbiter staring at his hands saying "They look like, good, strong hands, don't they?" but when Artax was sinking I was actually expecting something else to happen. Call me crazy but in my head I was remembering Hermione saying "It's Devil's Snare, you have to relax. If you don't, it'll only kill you faster" and then, you know, they fall through the floor into that room.
Soooo true!
I think that's true for many of us...
Lucky you. 😅 While this scene definitely screwed me up big time (I made sure to fast-forward past it whenever I rewatched it, lol), I watched plenty of horrifying things on TV as an 80s kid, a lot of which wasn't of my own accord. My mom allowed me to watch too much, tbh. Between the ages of 3 and 5 (can't remember exactly), she let me watch the movie Arachnophobia. Thanks to her, I developed that phobia quite severely. I remember waking up many times hallucinating big spiders all over my room. It wasn't till my 30s that I finally decided to get over my fear.
That's not the end of what mom let me watch, but you get the idea. 😅
Same it traumatised me
Me when making fun of a movie I haven't seen or heard of:
"Hahaha so funny."
Me when making fun of childhood memories:
"Oh hell no!!"
Yeah, your inner young self is a self-important piece of trash.
Right?! 😂
@@christinamatzen4214 Right!!😄
There’s not a single movie without a sin 🤷🏻 but still the offense is harsh lmao
@@-Apothecary- At least he removes 5 sins at 19:55
I remember loving this movie but would purposely skip the swamp scene because of Artax's death... but one day my older brother took the remote away and forced me to watch it entirely. It was the first time I had to accept death in a film that wasn't Disney.
This will twist your melon. Yoda, Chewbacca and Mickey Mouse all appear in the first Ivory Tower scene where Atreyu is introduced....so...it kinda is Disney.
“Neverending Story” is a lie…it’s only 142 minutes.
“The Song That Doesn’t End” goes longer than that, although I’ve never been able to hear how long it really is…
@@videoplusdvd I sure hope Mr Hutz won his false advertising lawsuit
in the book the horse could talk and yes, it made it a lot worse :')
For me it was Kokum in Pocahontas. That scene made me very uncomfortable. Which is hilarious considering I watched a lot of other movies with death but that one got me
When I was a kid those two statues were the scariest things I've ever seen in my life. This movie had me running from doubled-up facing statues for the better half of my childhood.
exactly! My favorite part, it was so scary and yet exciting
SAME
I watched this movie, then read the book about a month after.
It was a really surreal experience. I was honestly extremely concerned about what I would name the empress for like 40% of the book, it was such a weird fuckin feeling lol. I literally called out the name I picked. Dead-ass. I said “Ellie” or whatever name seemed to fit and popped into my head.
Also no shame I cried during the movie when Atrax died and when the rock giant and his friends got swallowed by The Nothing.
The scene with Artax the horse literally dying from depression in the Swamp of Sadness STILL makes me bawl to this very day! 😭💔
That is by far the saddest part of the movie. It even makes my wife tear up when she sees it
That traumatized me as a child
This is when I learned where our glue came from. Gotta say, I wasn't disappointed.
I thought it was hilarious personally 🤷♂️
@@davidhowell1415 yeah I don't get why people get so emotional about it. The horse was in the movie for all of 2 minutes before that scene. Who cares?
My mother's boyfriend drew storyboard on that movie. I went to the Soundstage and saw the snail and rockbiter as a teen. I think I have a few pages of concept art in a box in the cellar.
Cool 😋
Upload that on internet... It's a treasure for everyone of us!
Was he the same as you ? Must be cool to have a dad and a brother in the same time.
Very cool, I'll take 10 sins off for that!
Dude, that's so cool! I would've died if I'd been there. 😍 I hope you manage to dig up that concept art. I'm sure it's worth a truckload.
Very little creeps me out in movies but Gmork still somehow manages. Something about his animatronics just gets to me. On top of that, he's a genuinely evil character with those motivations of his 😅.
I just remember how shitty that last scene with him looked when I watched the movie in school
This movie was the first movie to ever give me nightmares, specifically because of Gmork. Horror movies, monster movies, dinosaur movies… none of it caused nightmares, but frickin’ Gmork haunted my dreams for over a decade.
Definitely. Those animatronics really work for me as do the green eyes but I think it's the voice that's really the icing on the cake. It's kind of understated and it never really raises it's voice which is much scarier than if it had sounded upset the whole time. It's like he knows he's scary as hell and doesn't need to prove it.
then James and the Giant Peach had to go and one up it.
@@uosdwiSrdewoH seriously tho. I'm almost 30 and the ring still freaks me out
I love that he took 5 sins off for the cheesy, "Yeeeaah!!" scream.
Also, if you ever want to read the book (and I highly recommend that you do), get your hands on a hardcover copy. You won't regret it.
Totally the correct scream for getting a luck dragon as a pre-teen
Unfortunately not all hardcover books have the beautiful detailed illustrations for all the chapters.
Jeremy, your voice is the #1 reason I still actively listen to cinemasins. Your true laugh is infectious, your sincerity sounds legit, and your sins (the group effort I'm including here) are on the nose.
No more of this dissing yourself. Please.
Rockbiter: [holding up his hands] They look like big, good, strong hands, don't they? I always thought that's what they were. Oh, my little friends... the little man with his racing snail, the Nighthob, even the stupid bat. I couldn't hold onto them. The Nothing pulled them right out of my hands. I failed.
Atreyu: No, you didn't fail. I'm the one who failed. I'm the one who was chosen to stop the Nothing. But I lost the Auryn, I can't find my luckdragon, so I won't be able to get beyond the boundaries of Fantasia!
[A crash is heard]
Rockbiter: Listen. The Nothing will be here any minute. I will just sit here, and let it take me away too. [holds up his hands again] They look like good, strong hands, don't they?
[Atreyu nods sadly]
@Shadovar I'M NOT CRYING! YOU'RE CRYING! Weird, this is the second time I've written this tonight. LOL.
I just love Gmork!
He scared the shit out of me as a kid but i couldn't take my eyes off. Today his words hit even harder. Would have loved to see/read more of him in the second and third book...
I want a schipperke puppy cause they look like Gmork.
There is only one book.
He was where my childhood phobia of dogs came from.
Dude Gmork gave me so many friggin nightmares!
The death of the horse is still the saddest thing ive ever witnessed 😂
It's meant to be a metaphor for the grief that the boy reading the book ( & his father ) are secretly going through of the deceased mother and it being unresolved . 🕯📖🙇🐲
Ok, granted, but I am not exaggerating when I tell you, as a full grown adult watching for the first time, I LOST MY SH*T when the Empress started talking about the movie viewers. I still consider it one of the best movie moments I've ever experienced.
I loved the book when I was a kid and I was so excited when I found out there was a movie. But then I watched the movie, and had a whole little rage tantrum about how bad it was in comparison to the book lol
Read the book y’all, it’s amazing
I'm the opposite. Probably due to never reading the book until about 6 years ago. Absolutely love the movie and wore a couple vhs tapes out as well as needing to get a new DVD copy. My kids love it as well and glad to see they had the same trauma to Artaxs death as I did lol. I need to reread the book. The first half I loved and felt like they done a decent job following the main plot points. The second half was like the second movie and I couldn't wait for it to be over
I loved the music of this movie. It was put together well for children’s viewing. Like others, I had no idea what Bastian named the Empress and, not like others, I thought the young warrior’s name was “Atrail”. Lol.
Moonchild. Seriously.
@@amyball3342 Yeah, I think that it was better when I didn’t know. Lol. It was good enough for me to know that he named her SOMEthing and saved the day.
Funny... I thought his name was Atrail, too! But, even though I grew up watching a crappy VHS recording (on EP mode, so it was really poor quality) from 1985, I always knew Bastian had called out Moon Child. It wasn't easy to understand, but my sisters and I would rewind and watch it over and over again to make sure. We did the same when Gmork first appeared and the lightning flashed revealing his face. We'd pause it just so we could see what he looked like-even though we had already seen the whole movie dozens of times.
@@MikeEPerez It’s funny. My memory of him calling out the Empress’s new name is that the sound of the storm always drowned it out. I thought it was intentional that we not hear what he said. Lol. 🤷🏽♂️
I love the music but for some reason whenever I try to sing the main song it always turns into the imperial march from Star Wars. I have no idea way.
The movie is a favourite from my childhood, but the book is definitely better. Spoliers: Bastian becomes the villain in the book - a young boy corrupted by absolute power, who proclaims himself the new Emperor of Fantastica - and it's fantastic. Every wish he makes with the Gem causes him to lose more of his memories, until he forgets even his own name, and the book subsequently refers to him as 'the boy with no name'.
Bastian is also chubby in the Books and looks like a Nerd
dang, that's dark af
No sin off for Artax’s death? Or a moment just to acknowledge it?
That scene F***ed me up as a kid, don’t think I ever got over it
Good.
There si absolutely NOTHING wrong with this amazing movie. :)
Quite a bit wrong. Still one of my favorite movies from my childhood. Something doesn't have to be perfect to be perfect if you know what I mean.
@@snerdterguson Yes! It's calld Star Wars. :D
Perfect example. Star Wars has famously bad dialogue, tons of little mistakes, some characters we all hate and yet it remains my favorite series of films ever.
@@snerdterguson 100% agreed! Seeing SW and this as a kid the direction of love was easy for me. I stick to SW, these fantasies were never my genre.
@@Sekir80 I love both. But Star Wars is loved more. Shhh… don’t tell Falcor, don’t want to hurt his feelings.
This is my favorite movie of all time. I have an auryn tattoo on my chest. I don't watch the sins of movies I haven't seen and I usually agree with most of the comments. I expected that to happen this time too, but honestly almost immediately thought of a reason or justification for most of the complaints. There are definitely a few things you missed...the first scene in Fantasia, they looked at each other because they knew the rock biter was talking about something they already KNEW about. Not because they thought he was nuts. And Atreyu WAS sinking in the swamps of sadness because he was sad. He almost died. Anyway, I could keep going, but I know it's just for fun (and others pointed out a lot of the other things anyway).
I got an Artax sinking tattoo placed between my "good in the past" and "evil is ahead" tattoos as a reminder that in the present you have to always "fight against the sadness".
I loved this movie to fucking death. It still hold special place in my heart.
Artax's death made young me paranoid of any mud puddle, which was a problem for our hike-happy family, as they would need to carry me over any stretches of mud, lest I sit and wail at its edge in panic.
Until the day they left me behind so I had to run through the mud after them. I had to pretend Morla's shell would stop me sinking.
Damn your parents for real left you behind on a hiking trail just to teach you a lesson? That would’ve never worked on me I would’ve just ended up getting lost lmfao.
@@conscripthornet4430 they trusted my irrational fear of mud would be conquered by my more rational fear of being left behind. They were right! I was a wimp.
Loved this movie as a kid. I can’t count how many times my brother and I watched it. Needless to say, all three of my kids were introduced to it on DVD. There’s a lot going on in this movie: G’mork being scary, Artax dying, the Rockbiter sadly waiting to die, dreaming of flying on Falcore, the boobies, Morla sneezing, “Come for me G’mork!” Etc, etc…..
Lmao "the boobies"! Truly a defining moment to us 80s kids. 🤣 That would never be allowed in kids media today.
@@MidnightSonnet Exactly! Haha!!
20:57 "Don't worry! It's a racing snail!" Literally gives the Snail meth.
As a kid I loved this movie, and a large part of the appeal was the awesome opening sound. I had no idea the name Bastian chose was "Moon Child". As a kid I had no idea what he screamed out.
I was literally 33yo before I finally thought to google what Bastian yelled, 22yo after I had first seen the movie
No one did. It was undiscernable.
Nothing, nothing is wrong with NeverEnding Story!
J/k I actually never venerated this movie as much as many appear to have, but still, overall it was a fun fantasy movie that on the surface was aimed at kids, yetactually dealt with a lot of adult themes.
It's kind of like a sister movie to The Princess Bride in that it's fantasy about how fantasy is all comfortable lies.
@@Loromir17 fantasy or fiction in this case is not about lies. Concepts are not lies. The emotional reaction one gets form the situations and story elements real or imagined are a spark for self awareness and examination.
People who hate on fiction because it is "not real", are just folks who do not learn from this method of thought.
Just wait until he does neverending story 2
@@erich6860 I was talking more about it often teaching a wrong lesson.
@@Synthespian13 I used to like that movie as a kid and then I watched it several years ago and thought it sucked so much ass.
I watched this solely to see you give infinity sins to Artax dying and you glossed over it like a monster.
Jeremy is 8 years older then me and I'm 40 next year which means he probably watched this as a teen vs a kid and doesn't have the same kinda nostalgia for it as those who saw it young
Can't get over how young these kids look to me now. when you see this movie when you're 5-6 years old, it's like watching grownups lol One thing I noticed as a grownup, Atreyu's quest leads him in one big giant circle ending up right where he started. Quite a roundabout way to get some kid interested in reading to save imagination land.
I didn’t think they were adults but watching this as like a 5 year old I thought they were like teenagers. In reality they were preteens.
@@rachelcookie321 right? of course when I was 5 I thought teenagers were ollld too
"The answer was there the whole time" or that kind of thing seems to be a common movie trope, there is one in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (great movie) but I won't give it away.
@@sarahberkner Walter Mitty is another great movie!
10:36 That damn thing gave me nightmares when I first saw it when I was a kid 😰
Thank God I wasn't the only one!
Same bro
I discovered CinemaSins in middle school, and my sense of humor has evolved such that I don’t really laugh at the cynicism or the recurring bits anymore… however, Jeremy’s commentary is incredibly soothing and it’s such a nice way to re-experience a movie in brief.
Still my favorite fantasy movie as a child and still love this movie, along with the original Superman, Star Wars and Terminator and of course The Exorcist 🤣
I misread this and thought you said The Exorcist was one of your favorite fantasy children's movies and was veryyy concerned for you lol you have a great taste in media bro
@@Imanwonn 🤣🤣🤣🙏
I can't tell u how many times i rented this movie as a kid. Was my favorite.. Up until a few years ago i still thought nostalgia would carry that feeling.. It kinda did. Some things seem goofy now. But as a kid. This blew my head back everytime
Same for me. Watched this movie obsessively every single day for maybe 6 months to a year at age 7. In my country we couldn't buy this one on VHS (back in 1994), so my mom drove me to the local movie rental store to renew the lease, every week, without fail. Must've spent an absolute fortune for my sake. Moms are legends.
Same! Everytime my mom would let me go rent a movie, I'd get just end up getting this. It was the first movie she ever just bought so she could stop renting it every weekend.
Is nothing sacred to you? This is one of my favorite childhood stories... Damn you!
OMG. The Pink Floyd quote at the end…”There’s no darl side of the moon really…” I will love this channel for the rest of time.
Also, “Moonchild” makes me think the screenwriter had a thing for Aleister Crowley, if I do say so myself. But it was the title of one of his books so…
He absolutely did. At least according to his Wikipedia entry...
3:05, his sponsor for the day is a book subscription service...and he sins reading! I love this channel XD
i adore the neverending story, i call it a must watch for all children.
That and Labyrinth.
And Princess Bride 🤣
Ooh, yes
@@RylanStorm
Getting a look at David Bowie's "spaceship" is a gift that Labyrinth has given the world. I do wonder how many awakenings (male and female) that Bowie caused.
It scared me as a kid and I remember nothing about it except for the long dog lol
No sins off for the fourth wall breaking? That was brilliant and really creepy. That girl (the Empress) kinda freaked me out as a kid.
Was watching this movie with my sister and her two sons. During the scene where the bullies throw him in the trash, my sister says to her boys, “Kids, don’t ever be like that.” I thought she meant the bullies and was glad she gave them a little lesson on being kind, but then she goes, “Never be a weak loser that gets thrown in dumpsters.” True story
This made me cry with laughter. But she´s right tho
I, uh... truly hope she was kidding 😅
@@MidnightSonnet she was completely serious. Trust me
@@rheverend that's horrifying. I feel bad for her sons. Rather hypocritical of her, considering she's being the bully in that situation and is pretty much guaranteeing that her sons will be bullies in order to live up to her standards. -_- I'm concerned for their future.
@@MidnightSonnet she’s essentially the bully from 80s teen movies 😆
19:55 Yeah no, taking this long to finally take sins off is not going to make me forgive you.
That movie terrified me as a kid ( well I was easily terrified, I didnt like ET and the red bull in the Last Unicorn gave me nightmares), but when I read the book I fell in love with it. As I am from Austria I read it in german and it is a wonderful book. I have one with pictures and the things that happen in Fantasien are written in another colour thant the one in the real world.
I'm austrian too. I grew up with "Momo". I didn't see or read "The Never ending story" untill my teens.
‘Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film "The Never Ending Story"’- Lionel Hutz
The Artax scene man… I’m still not over it
This movie is a classic. I loved it as a kid
I remember screaming my moms name out the window while watching this movie. Haha! There will never be anything wrong about this movie :)
I'm so glad you sinned this movie. It's still one of my absolute favourites and I tear up like a kid at the ending like I did the first time.
If you want to know what happened to the dragon, it was used recently in the music video for tobacco - babysitter. It's super creepy in the best way
This is literally in my top 5 movies of all time.
1. Never ending story
2. The Goonies
3.spirited away
4. The Chronicles of Riddick
5. Bebe's kids
My top five are movies I can watch whenever I see them and even at 35 still hold a place in my imagination and childhood and heart.
One movie that I enjoyed very much in childhood that I still LOVE today is 'Time Bandits.'
file under UA-cam comments which allow you to guess the commenters age to within a decade
@@MrDuneedon I've completely forgotten about that movie I got as a gift with my first DVD player. Thank you for the memory jog!
I personally think that Spirited Away should be higher on this list.
@@MrDuneedon that movie is my shizz
I love this movie. And this is one of the funniest sins videos I’ve seen. Every joke had me laughing.
I remember watching this as a kid at my cousin’s house, leaving to go home, seeing monsoon rain clouds in the distance and worrying whether it was the start of the nothing. As this was 1990, I now don’t think it was ;)
Only thing I can think of:
It was actually NeverEnding!
1st & 2nd grade, this was put on while we waited to be picked up by our rides...
So, it was also _EverRestarting_ !
For a 90 minute movie, it felt loooong to watch
No. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this movie. This movie is PERFECT.
'The Nothing' is wrong with this movie
@@DanceySteveYNWA 😂😂😂
@@giba2349 looking back I now see this was a lame attempt at a joke. My apologies. (stop laughing at me!)
@@DanceySteveYNWA no no I thought it was really funny and genuinely laughed at this!!
@@giba2349 oh, sorry. I'm just so used to people being sarcastic in UA-cam comments, I assumed you were being too. Glad I made you laugh! ✌️
The biggest sin of this video is glancing over the traumatizing effects Artax's death had on us as children.
How did he not remove a sin for that?
I feel weird because that scene never affected me as a kid. Like I was like “oh no, the horse can’t die” but then I just got annoyed how long the scene lasted and wanted it to hurry up. I remember the horse died but I never thought about it. The scene I always thought of was the ending scene when he’s riding the bullies chasing the bullies. For that reason the never ending story was associated with happy emotions for me because that scene was a happy scene.
Nobody was lol stop being dramatic & stop over using that word I’m sick of the internet doing that .
The first time I watched this movie, I did so without subtitles which led to some funny misunderstandings. For starters I thought luck dragon introduced himself as the Love Dragon, followed by a very creepy “I loveeeee children” The tone of this film is very different if you see luck dragon as a pedophile grooming our young protagonist.
Secondly, when Bastian finally names the queen, I interpreted his new name as “aaaahgglaaglack”. I thought it was oddly poetic that her name was unintelligible yelling
Aight, thinking about the whole royal crowd saying in a natural tone "Her Empress Aaaahgglaaglack" made me laugh hard, thanks XD
I had always thought her name was Alexandria until recently, I guess my brain just made that up when I was a kid, it is a pretty cool name.
10:37
Jeremy: "Yeah, you're a dragon--I get that, but are you going to deny your dog heritage? You are clearly half a dog and the love story between your father and mother must be incredible."
Falkor:**wink** +1 sin
I'm dying
OH SNAP. More movies from my childhood please. Loved this movie when I was little. Watched it within the past year and love the cheesiness of it.
I remember watching this in middle school and cried so hard when Artax died 😭
I was in grade school in the late 80s when this movie was relatively new, and I remember that the audio was so bad that I couldn't quite make out what Bastian yelled over the noise of the rain storm. "Moon Child" would NOT have been my first guess. Not with that uptight ass of a father, anyway. Reformed hippie, maybe? Either way, it really takes me back to the more pleasant memories of my childhood. 😎👍
NO ONE was EVER able to make out her name in the original VHS release; the storm was too loud. Or perhaps they mixed the sound that way on purpose so her name was always a mystery...
I remember going to the movies and seeing this in the theater on my 8th birthday. It was an instant favorite! However, my brother learned to despise it because once it was released on VHS, I'd watch it over and over... lol
3:30 "If you were Bastian, who was told this book was 'dangerous,' and the first few sentences set up what sounds like a horror story, only to shift gears and become 'Jim Henson Goes to Camp', wouldn't you maybe just go take the math test instead?"
You would rather take a math test than watch a Jim Henson movie? Okay, have fun with that test.
Jeremy circa 18:27 - "Why the f*ck does the Empress' bedroom has a clamshell drawbridge for the door and why does it need to close after Atreyu walks in?"
Me - The clamshell gates symbolise (cough cough) "something" - this is alluding to rebirth.
Seriously? I didn't know that.
This is bullshit. It's not even a door. It's the camera moving down, giving the appearance that the top step is a closing door.
The 1st time I saw this movie I never realized how much it reminded me so much of the mid 1980s and how much I truly loved it.
Don't think ANY movie fits that quality more than Flight of the Navigator.
I honestly expected Jeremy to say he's sinning the fact that this is called the Neverending Story when it's not really never ending lol.
The wolf in this movie scared the hells out of me when I was a kid. And I couldn’t watch the part about the horse dying without bursting into tears
Missed a perfectly good sin of “Moonchild? He named her Moonchild, is his name Bastian or Frank Zappa?” 🤣
Also needed a sin or maybe 1,000,000 for “The End”… and an outtake of Otto from the Simpsons saying “this is flagrantly false advertising” for the title “The Neverending Story”
Oh and +1 for Artrax death scene scaring another childhood.
The girl who is crying at the end, telling the story, shes the best part of this movie. Her cry was so real and emo, it hit me as a kid.
Pretty good acting especially considering her age. Usually child actors are the worst part of watching kids movies but the talented ones can knock your socks off with their skills
Hey to be fair, I always keep a stick of butter out of the fridge. Have you ever tried spreading cold butter on toast? Not possible without crushing the hell out of your toast, either you never had toast or butter, sooo a sin to you for not being human.
OK, but why you want to spread so much? You don't want to spread sausage or ham. The butter does not need to be spread too. Cut and lay. Simple.
@@Garlarg what's the point of butter if you don't flavor the whole toast, just one soggy mass in the middle of the toast doesn't seem that appetizing. Plus how would you spread meats? You'd have to go through the whole fiasco of mincing or grinding up the ham, sausage, steak, etc. Who wants to deal with that? However spreading SPAM on toast sounds pretty good.
I think it's more about how big the butter was than it being out, at breakfast no less
@@Retro_Red have you ever ate a stick of butter? Don't knock it till you try it.
Blocks of butter come similar to that shape in my country (although most people use the tub kind) We leave ours in the pantry rather than the fridge during winter in one of those oldfashioned butter dishes. It seemed perfectly normal to me.
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My friends and I watched this movie on cable tv together as kids (and before I had read the book) -- we were certain that his mother's name had been HOPE and that is what Bastian would name the Empress. We really couldn't hear what Bastian said, but at least ONE of us heard "Hope." :)
Sin 18:17 Atreyu ability to breath in space 🤣
Please do Everything Wrong With Roadhouse ;)
This movie influenced an ENTIRE generation's paradigm about pursuing our dreams and working towards making them reality in our lives, which all started back when we first saw this as kids in the 80s. This film, its message and life lessons are TIMELESS. And yes, we ALL cried when Artax died. 💖👍💯😎
I agree with all of the errors noted, but I still adore the film nonetheless.
"It's weird for a property in the '80's to have a land named Fantastia and without Disney suing them into oblivion!"
I said the exact same thing when I watched The NeverEnding Story movie as an adult! 😂🤣
Well the book was first.
The reason Atreyu doesn't sink in the Swaps of Sadness is because of Auryn (the pendant he wears around his neck), which protects him. It's made clearer in the book. Had Atreyu realized this, he might have given it to Artax to save him instead. But that would have been a different story...
*Believe it or not, according to the Hebrew Yisraelite scriptures there's billions of people who also wandered into & got trapped in the Swamps of Sadness & analytically since they just like all of the rest can't escape the Swamps of Sadness due to their great pain, depression & misery, therefore logically they're dying there even as I speak.*
If I remember right he wants to give it to him initally when Artax starts sinking but Artax convinces him not to do because he is more important.
I remember back in the 90s when i was a child, my dad came to me all "there was this fantasy movie on tv i recorded for you and a horse dies in it". I never forget that. Yes dad that's how you make a pre-teen horse girl want to see the movie lmfao
I absolutely love these movies. Such nostalgia for me.
One of my favorite movie of all time. However I had the same question when I was a kid…but seeing Artex at the end totally erased my question.
I rewatched this the other month and I still enjoyed it, not as much as my now dead inner child but enjoyed it all the same !
I clicked out of anger because NOTHING IS WRONG WITH THIS MOVIE!! I’ll still watch it. In case you’re about to say that very thing.
I had a rush of anger when i saw this video, I'm 40 and this is still one of my top 5 movies of all time. That being said, i agree with a lot of what he says but does it really matter? it's cheesy, it's a bit camp, a bit rediculous, but strange ingredients often make the best meals. it can be rediculous and fantastic too.
It's the horse part I don't like though. But I should watch it again. There were a lot of movies I didn't process well when I was a kid. Autism
17:47 Had me in tears I won’t lie.
"How was Atreyu famous but nobody knew he was a kid?"
There’s nothing wrong with The Never ending story. CinemaSins needs to do some push-ups
Well it ended for one thing so....
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I could never understood what name Bastian was yelling out into the thunderstorm until many many many years later.
Also, if Bastian never read the book Artax would not have died.
Also Also, the biggest sin of this story is that it actually does end.
Also Also Also, someone thought it would be a good idea to make 2 sequels.
This seems like the book was a magical book - created specifically for him by this seemingly ordinary kindly old bookstore guy.
Sequels? What sequels? This is a beautiful standalone movie. No such thing as sequels. Ever. Not one, not two. NO sequels. Just one beautiful movie. Forever. Full stop.
Movie 2 was based on the second half of the book. Movie 3 was completely original I think.
first time I've heard moon child, maybe someone cleanup the audio for later version/format
as well as a 4-part Hallmark miniseries and a short-lived animated TV show.
Ah yes. I remember watching this movie, and its sequel, over and over again at grandma's house. Then the third one came out, and I suddenly stopped watching them so much.
The third movie ruined the entire series for me. I love Jack Black, but goddamn, that movie was awful.
Extra like 👍 for the well-placed dragon-wink 10:44 😄
Edit:13:25 I can't drop any more likes... fmirltmirl lol
15:19 "How do we find a human child?" "With luck" I ALWAYS thought Falkor says "we look." I'll be damned......