I AM WATCHING TEH NEVERENDING STORY

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BEST MOVIE EVER

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

CRY HEARTFELT EMOTION TEARS WHEN THE CREDITS ROLL.

The scene where the wolf thing bites that dudes arm has the fakest looking blood evah.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:37 (nineteen years ago) link

EAR CLEANING TIME

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link

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― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Author Michael Ende decided that he was unhappy with the film's version of his story, and refused to have his name placed in the opening credits. A small credit appears at the end with his name.

The nighthob says a profanity in the opening scene where the rockbiter appears running down all in its path. This profanity is often dubbed over by the grumble of the rockbiter's scooter, so that it can be shown as a children's film.

The film was shot in Germany in the summer of 1983. It was Germany's hottest summer in 25 years.

The original Auryn for this film now hangs in an enclosed glass display in Stephen Spielberg's office.

Was the most expensive film ever produced in Germany at the time it was made.

Noah Hathaway was hurt twice during the making of the movie. During his horse riding training he was thrown off a horse which then stepped on him. Then during the shooting of the drowning sequence in the "swamp of sadness" his leg got caught on the elevator and he was pulled under water. He was unconscious by the time he was brought to the surface.

"The Childlike Empress" wasn't just child-"like". She was portrayed by Iranian born dancer Tami Stronach who was only 11 years old when the production started.

The film itself actually "ends" about halfway through the book.

The name of the mystical land in the original novel was Fantastica, not Fantasia, but the original German name Phantásien translates more accurately into English as Fantasia.

The theme song was sang by Limahl, who was the second half of the pop duo Kajagoogoo.

The makeup team on the movie tried to paint Noah Hathaway green, just as Atreyu is in the book. "It wasn't believeable. I looked like fungi!" Hathaway said.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I just watched it a couple days ago.

"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONCHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLD!!!!!!!"

Wonder if Michael Ende was a Crimson fan.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link

THE ROCK BITER RIDES A SEGWAY

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 January 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, speaking of the Rock ...

http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/03/carey/the%20rock.jpg

...how about those sideburns, huh? That's a big belt.

― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Thursday, 13 January 2005 01:48 (nineteen years ago) link

that is a big belt. he must be polish or a hipster.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link

No, that's Cutty!

― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

So yeah, a hipster.

― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

HOLLER AT ME BROADZ

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

HE DOES LOOK LIKE CUTTIE

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:06 (nineteen years ago) link

...w-w-w-wait, isn't the rock GAY?!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link

his wife/beard is HOTTT

― American Apparel and Jeanne-Claude (deangulberry), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link

he has big muscles, the mark of a true gay. cutty can you do the people's eyebrow? CAN YOU SMELL WHAT THE CUTTY IS COOKING

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 13 January 2005 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw this film very recently and wrote about its notable gay subtext on my now defunct blog.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:05 (nineteen years ago) link

can you please share these gay thoughts with us adam?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 January 2005 03:08 (nineteen years ago) link

i would probably be a significantly different person if i had never seen this film.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Dude, all the main characters are like 11 years old. Is Atreyu supposed to be some projection of Bastion's ideal gay lover?

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link

OMG NEVERENDING STORY = FIGHT CLUB

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

The dog is gay for the boy. We talked about it before.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

ha!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Which boy? Or are they the same person?

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

http://djuna.nkino.com/movies/t/the_neverending_story_2.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

it all makes sense now!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I watched this movie w/ Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes. Take that, noiz3 dudes!

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

did youmake out with him during all the falcor scenes?

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

He can stop tweaking long enough to sit down and watch a movie?

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Also Atreyu is the androgynous/asexual/bisexual dream alter-ego of Sebastian, one that would exist in an idealized, genuinely sexually liberated society.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah see, like fight club

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

on Dance Dance Revolution, i always choose the trance version of Never Ending Story!!

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I always thought that song was sung by a chick when i was little, but its that dude from kajagoogoo innit?

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I still can't believe there's a band ghey enough to name themselves after Atreyu from this movie.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 13 January 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

That book is like customized right? The movie implies that anyone who read it would get a customized story about their own innermost fantasies which would then come true, so therefore Atreyu = Tyler Durden. Bastian fantasizes about an ideal hero whose quest is to save the world. Then it turns out that HE is the true hero, and it was him the whole time. Like when the narrator of Fight Club discovers that he is really Tyler Durden, sole founder of Fight Club and Project Mayhem, his true subconscious desires made reality. Plus it's gay.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I liked one of the Atreyu singles that came out a couple years ago, the video was pretty nice too IIRC.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Basically the whole movie is about the coming out of a rather irritating Canadian child with mother issues.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah ok, I wanna read the book though.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

wow, that's really what he says at the end, "moonchild"? that is kind of gay.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, Moonchild. Listen for it.
I mean the Micheal Ende book, not the magical one that turns you gay.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

the child-like empress is alive and well in nyc!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I actually don't want to know.

― .adam (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah someone posted pics of her on Something Awful. On the thread about whether the horse really died or not where some guy pretended to be Noah Hathaway. She looks ok.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Never-Ending Story: the book.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

http://artifact1066.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/newnoah.jpg
http://www.tamistronach.com/biography/images/tami_hs2.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

not bad for a persian dancer.

― Aaron Hertz (AaronHz), Thursday, 13 January 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

Google Doodle for the anniversary of the book's original release:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/neverending-story-google-doodle-marks-8745274

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 September 2016 04:08 (seven years ago) link

needs some little beep-beep-beeps

― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 1 September 2016 05:52 (seven years ago) link

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