It's rockbiter's "big strong hands" speech that gets it for me

Yep. Crying right now lol.

It really was the movie that traumatized a generation

True...true

'81 here. Can confirm.

Yes, definitely scarred me. The scene with Artax, and the scene with the first gate when the knight gets blasted and his helmet blows open.

For real

Welcome to German fairy Tales

I was five years old when I watched that movie in the original german release in a cinema. There was no scene in that version, that fades to black. So whenever you see a scene in the international cut that fades to black, that scene has been cut short.

@@MrBenedictus25F*cking Struwwelpeter, can't forget that even today haha, great drawings, questionable child education :D

WTF!!!!

I did not need to know this 😭😭

Omg, I forgot there was a book . . . .

@@Zodia195 The movie only contains the first half of the book. The second half is about the boy getting into the book, diving into it, living his dreams of becoming the hero, with no flaws, forgetting where he came from, forgetting why he was there, looking all motivation to ever go back.

@@krux02 OH! Wait that was covered in the 2nd movie though. I know others didn't like it, but I enjoyed it lol. I never read the original book.

She is also a lady of somewhat cosmopolitan origins. By birth, heritage, and upbringing, she is an Iranian-Scottish-Israeli-Californian, and currently a New Yorker.

I know she's gone on to a great career elsewhere, which is awesome, but kind of a shame that she never really acted again. She had such charisma and power that you just don't often see in a child actor. Heartbreaking is exactly the right word

She became a dancer right after the movie - but to this day her eyes are ridiculous, she could have been a great hypnotist 😆

Never ending-ception?

"Bastian" 🙂

Such a subtle 4th wall break

I always look for this comment, it's so true but not many reactors ever realize this or say it. :)

The friends we made along the way are the never ending story?

Conan the Barbarian

Ladyhawke

The Princess Bride.

The Last Unicorn.

Dragonslayer

Beyond the implication of lack of imagination allowing control by society, family expectations, the government, etc, the movie was also prescient regarding how much modern Internet has contributed to kids having much more difficulty managing their own boredom by creating their own fun when they don't have access to their electronics.

@@taejaskudva2543 The second half of the book goes much further when the boy enters the word of the neverending story and creates his own adventures. Sadly the secord part of the book was not really made into a movie. The 2nd does not really address anyhing the book cares about.

A timeless quote.

Also the voice of Man-At-Arms (who is the most similar in tone to Falkor) and half of the other HE-MAN villains.

He's the bomb >.>

And Christopher Nolan made a whole movie about his life!!! But seriously... that's awesome

What a wonderful man he is too, total gent

@@fnglert I see what you did there. 😂

Yeah, they kind of show this by the endless desert behind the first gate, but then a blizzard in front if the second.

Right? So cool how the swamp fed. Some creatures use traps, some use speed to hunt their prey but this thing uses your own emotions. Must be an amazingly complex life form.

As everything in Fantasia is the manifestiation of some person's imagination, the Swamp is just the bottom of despair that a depression sufferer can reach. No more creativity, no more color. Just a wish for the End.@@user-tt4jz3tm6t

Artax was an aid. When you're depressed it seems those things/ people/places where you draw strength from, lose meaning. They die. But you have to push through, even without your aid.

Not essentially committing suicide, he did. In the book Artax could talk and was taken by the sadness and told Atreyu he wanted to die

@@IDiggPattyMayonnaise Yep. To add to this the reason Atreyu didn't succumb to the swamp was because he was protected by the magic of the auyrn.

and as a geeky book kid, did you than actually reed the book?

@MusikCassette Not at the time. This was pre-internet, and we only had a mom & pop bookstore in our town. Most of what I read was from the school and public libraries or bought second-hand from garage sales. I'm kind of glad, though, because my image of the movie and love for it is a singular thing, unifluenced by the original work, or the author's opinion of the film. I did read it years later, though, and would love to see a well-made series explore its ideas.

@@jeffevans9853 I remember the time before the internet. As far as I remember bookstores could order the books you want. ^^

@MusikCassette Well, feel free to go back in time and tell 12 year old me. It'll probably blow his mind. Until then. I'm not sure what the point of this line of thought is.

I don't think I understood the movie was based on a book until I was an adult anyway, at which point I did read it. I guarantee that I didn't bother watching the credits so wouldn't have found it there. For a lot of us nerdy, bookish, pre-internet kids, our knowledge of the world was pretty well limited to what we gathered from our friends, because obviously we already knew everything that was worth knowing...

the book is so good. Grograman was always my favorite character.

I read 2/3 of the book when I was 20 before forgetting it in a train. I wish I had read it when I was a child. It deserves to be a classic

The second half of the book is a lesson in “power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely” as Bastion becomes a tyrant. It was a great book, but it would be a very jarring sequel.

The second part gives also the ultimative answer to the wish of all wishes: the one to be able to love The ending of the book always makes me cry

@@janranft9397 Yeah, I especially loved the part where he's in the house of Dame Eyola, and his return to being a child instead of a hero there. It was such a soothing part.

I was looking for this comment

RIP Lionel Hutz!

Immediately thought of this

If you type "funniest" , you don't have to type "most"

@@frenchynoob And if you are going to correct someones grammar, it would help to end your own sentence in a full-stop as well. 😉

I second Flight of the Navigator.

Both that and the original book.

Wolfgang Petersen lent Spielberg the submarine prop to use in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Petersen was filming Das Boot around the same time as Raiders

Not for this version tough. This is the german original version. Spielberg helped him with the international/usa recut.

@@Dacre1000 While there are different scens sure but the Auryn and Book would of been the same prop.

He's written some great books!

@@QuayNemSorr He despised this movie, though. Called it "disneyfied".

Yeah, well the movie is basically only the first half of the book. The whole wish thing disaster, recreating Fantasia and reuniting with his highly depressed dad was left out @@misterknister18

@@misterknister18 he was right...though this one kinda holds up ok... the sequels were worse

Ende’s “Momo” is a masterpiece and grossly underread by non-German speakers.

In the original German novel her name was Mondkind.

The director said it wasn't supposed to be audible.

so it wasn't Lindawhatever?

so his mom was a hippie?

@@PanzerShrek94Or maybe Native American or Native Descent.

George: "it's a snake?" Me: 🙄

It's been a long time since I read the story but I didn't think at the time the adaptation was that terrible for a short movie. It's missing the second part however which is the most interesting one imo.

Moonchild? In the Hungarian dubbing, he shouts: Mag-da-le-na. Don't ask why...🤗

@@csabagall8811 Typically Content in TV and Cinema is changed, so that the Audience in that Country got it easier to adapt. I learned that a long time ago when I went to Spain from Germany and the mentality was so different but also the preferences in TV and Cinema were very different. For Example most of what you could watch in TV was Bull Fighting, Soccer or States Lottery. Unthinkable in Germany at the time. European Countries are extremely different.

Petersen had experience with the author of the book hating his movie. Das Boot was also hated by the author.

I feel like the mention of his mother's name was a red herring, especially considering how hard it was to hear in the original audio. In the book, he decided the name when he read the description of the empress.

The nothing is more coming from his father's demand to grow up and stop dreaming and living in the fantasy world of his books. His mother's death of course adds to this. In the book the Aurin fulfills wishes (so pretty much standing for the ultimate fantasy, that everything you want becomes truth), but with every fulfilled wish you lose a memory. So while Fantasia is dying when you stop dreaming and fatasizing, your self dies, when you lose yourself in it. Near the end of the book, there is a whole town where all those who lost themselves remain, having lost themselves to the fantasy world in their heads, whatever it looked like in reality. It's an allegory. Atreyu is Bastian's idea of heroism (that's why Atreyu is seing Bastian in the mirror, since Bastian is his own origin). Artax death in the swamp of sadness that also almost kills Atreye is most likely coming from Bastian's experience with death regading his mother. And the Childlike Empress, the core of Bastian's fantasy, is his Anima, his inner female self (a girl would have an Animus). By givin her a name he accepts her as 'real', that his fantasy is an important part of himself and not just "childplay" as his father calls it and wants him to deny it. Fantasia's destruction wouldn't kill Bastian, but it would destroy an important part of himself, making him grow up as an adult without joy and happiness. Doing the opposite and denying reality, only wanting to live in Fantasia would hurt him the same - just in the opposite way.

@@miriamweller812 "um actually" I think the nothing can be interpreted in various ways. This is the film, not the book and I knew all of that other stuff. ✌🏻

did you read the book? so much is left out in the movie.

@@MusikCassette yes I read the book. This was more a post honoring the movie and my mom.

I had the luck to sit on him back in the 90's in munich

​@kaypirinha1982 me too! Although now I'm thinking about it it may have only just barely been the 90s. The studio museum there was great even though it basically had Das Boot, Neverending Story and a sci-fi movie I can remember literally nothing about. The Das Boot stuff was fantastic, I'd just watched it for German Class when we went and was probably more hyped to go on the Sub than ride on the Dragon.

@@Buggins I think the SciFi Story was " Enemy Mine" Another Movie from Wolfgang Petersen, also filmed at Bavaria Studios in Munich.

@@Buggins enemy Mine - geliebter Feind is the name of the sci-fi movie

What’s her name? Cause the debate it’s between Moon child and an other name

Never went without one when I was at the mall.

Egg whites were replaced with Cream of Tartar, since it's cheaper/safer

Huh, so like s Whisky Sour uses egg white? Interesting

Had many as a kid with egg, just like that.

OMG orange juliuses were the best!!! Many people tried to copy it.... nobody ever did. Decades later I still remember how awesome they were. Never had a "true" one since.

Und gute Musik 🎶 von Bowie dabei!!!

the creepy part is 70s rock star with blatant bulge abducts baby to lure it's underage sister to him so he can seduce her...

Ich höre heute noch ab und zu mal die LP von America mit allen Songs vom 🎥 📺 ❤😊

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) is one that gets overlooked too often.

@@ThreadBomb yes Hans Albers on the flying Canonball!

Georges chatter is annoying though.

You were 4 when it came out

@@nsasupporter7557 yup that's the math for when it was released in theaters. I also didn't say I literally saw it in theaters. VHS movie rental would have started for it by say 85 or so. I was definitely under 8 by the time I'd seen it a few times. it's also why I qualified my statement as "fascination/crush".

We had the best movies in the 80s and entertainment in general was the greatest! My how it has changed...

I wouldn't say "All Gen X trauma" until they have watched Watership Down. 😉

@@frizzlethecat2084 That's another level. There's bittersweet trauma and then there's holy fucking shit trauma.

​@@frizzlethecat2084The Black Hole. Dragonslayer. Etc. So many "these are fine with kids" films with massive doses of enormous horror sprinkled on top!

@@johnirving5949 That's the 80's baby! Darkness and trauma hand in hand with wonderment and whimsy. What a time to be a kid. God I miss it.

@@johnirving5949 Don't forget _The Land Before Time._ I loved it as a kid but it was so goddamn heartbreaking that even though I own it on DVD, I still haven't been able to bring myself to watch it again even at the age of 40

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) - a girl goes on a wild adventure with an old baron who tells extraordinary tales.

I think the only reason it didn't end up traumatizing me was because they all come back in the end, including Artax

@@lucianaromulus1408 Yeah. I was hoping I wasn't the only one in the past 40 years to pick up on that.

In the behind the scenes you see the director watching that scene as they film it. That kid was so good even he got tears in his eyes.

The Land Before Time was pretty sad too. Bambi, Brave Little Toaster, Legend...plenty of traumatic moments

Well Momo is based on a book by the same author as never ending story

@@matsudoambition2509 Oh that makes sense! The book was in our shelves aswell, so it seemed natural to me

@@Edninety another recomendation might be Jim Knopf then too, albeit the cinematic adaptions vary in quality (my personal fav is still the puppet one from the augsburger Puppenkiste, albeit that might be a ton of nostalgia)

The name takes away so much from the scene. I prefer to feel the name as opposed to knowing it.

I think it adds something. Looking at the time period and the age of his father, Bastian's mom was likely a hippie free spirit. I wonder what his dad might have been like as a young man. Consumed by the realities of adulthood, and choosing to put his own feet on the ground, he is the very thing the Gmork is talking about. Someone who lost his dreams. Losing his wife only cemented it and now risks doing the same to his son. Now this is my own interpretation, so grain of salt and all that...

Hippie name

And Bastian named her Moonchild! I like that for Simone.

It was the design of the Oracle gate with the boobs he didn't like and the deal breaker was Bastian passing over into the real world in the end. That was breaking all the rules that had been established in the book.

In fairness, the Southern Oracle in the book was just a disembodied voice, which makes it less impactful on screen. But for sure, big '80s console palette-swap vibes 🤣

This exact same thing happened to me. I can rewatch this one any time, but I will never watch (or read) Watership Down again.

Same for me except it was plague dogs.

I still can't bring myself to rewatch Watership Down, it hit too hard. On the plus side, never been hurt by a film since. Watership Down is like a vaccination against emotional damage.

@@launchsquid to this day I ask my parents if they had me watch it as a form of punishment

But Watership Down is an amazing book and as an adult, it should definitely be read. But the fallacy of thinking "Oh, it's an animated movie about cute rabbits, it MUST be for kids" is probably the reason for so many traumatized children. Man, still - such a great book.

It truly is a great book - I also love Momo by the same author. And I would truly like to add "Die Stadt der träumenden Bücher" ("the city of dreaming books") by Walter Moers. Maybe not the same level as Unendliche Geschichte but I can't recommend it enough.

@@frizzlethecat2084Totally agree with the city of the dreaming books. Too bad there won't be a third book.

@@frizzlethecat2084 totally agree on The City Of The Dreaming Books. Too bad there won't be a third Mythenmetz-book.

Infamous

It’s right up there with the death of Optimus Prime.

That scene rocked me to my core when I was a kid, total gut punch

100%, George edited out any scenes with the theme song to avoid copyright strikes. It's one of the easiest ways for reaction channels to have problems if something detects music used without permission. He's mentioned it before in previous films that they just can't include songs.

@@TheYakusoku I looked it up. The original German version doesn't have the theme song. You'll notice in this video that there's a score playing when Bastian wakes up, and the dad opens the fridge. In the international version (which has the song), you don't hear a score when Bastian wakes up, and it cuts to the dad already looking inside the fridge.

Nope. Original German cut with the English voice track.

Interestingly, my experience with modern movies is that the kids i know find the more grounded plot points of being embarrassed in front of other kids, of being discovered to have lied to their parents or friends etc is way more difficult and traumatic, while horrific fantasy elements are scary but manageable because its not real. My kids will “happily” cry their way through the death of Anthrax, and feel great about Atreyu overcoming his grief… but refuse to continue watching a movie where a kid lies to a friend. I’m trying to coax them back “they will be forgiven in the end, just keep watching”, but nope.

Old Yeller was required reading for many of us...

They were watching the European version. For the American version, they dubbed them over. This also means that they didn't get to hear the opening theme song we are used to

@@juliomella5977 Yeah they were NOT watching the International Version, which the majority of us watched growing up, but instead watched the original German Version, with English soundtrack, which was released on Blu Ray in 2013.

For sure. At first I was confused why only George was edited in.

They watched the original German cut without the song unfortunately.

@@TomVCunningham Sadness. That was a highlight of the movie.

It must have gotten more attention following the reference in Stranger Things.

What the wolf says is even more terrifying as an adult. It is literally happening right now in our world. The nothing is winning.

To be fair she's still a looker today.

Or Atreyu.

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