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THE NEVERENDING STORY lives up to its name...
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. It has seemed for a while that Hollywood has gone remake crazy, but since FRIDAY THE 13TH had such a huge weekend it seems to have spurred a crazy remake rush.
I'm running two remake stories this morning. I'm not sure what to think about this. On the one hand, I've been hearing for years how the original Wolfgang Petersen family fantasy movie isn't a pimple on the ass of the original book... But I've avoided reading it. I honestly don't want to tarnish my love of the movie. That's the second hand there... I love it. It's a kid's movie that we don't get to see these days. It's serious, it's fucked up and scary... I mean, the two big villains of the movie is a godawful creature of nightmare, the G'mork... an evil wolf... and a disturbingly adult and heady concept of The Nothing. I go back and forth on which one freaked me out the most. I mean, as scary as the wolf is, a physical presence, there's something terrifying of everything you know, love and even hate just undoing... blinking out of all existence and memory.
And don't get me started on Morla or The Swamps of Sadness... fuckin' Artax... that horse sinking still makes me cry...
But even with all that, I keep hearing how great the book is and how the movie just scratched the surface. My worry is that an adult, real-risk family fantasy movie can't be made within the system today, so that we're looking at the very real possibility of a remake further disappointing the novel's fans and at the same time thrown in the ever growing "raped my childhood" category.
So, with all that out there, the news might not be all that bleak. Right now nobody has the rights yet, but both Kennedy/Marshall and Appian Way (DiCaprio's production company) are in talks with Warner Bros to remake the movie. And that's good news. If there's any studio putting out ballsy movies these days it's Warners.
What are your thoughts?
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Gooood. Grief.
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First Clue, now THIS?!?!
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Why don't they just remake the freaking Star Wars saga and be done with it? Or the Godfather Trilogy... but only now it'll be an East Coast family of rappers and music producers...you know it'll happen.
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End the Neverending Story.
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Artax and the swamp makes me weep like a little girlie as well. Perhaps THIS would be the one remake (reboot) to see? I do love the original, but this could be decent.
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and all plasticked up with rubbish CGI and those phony magical colour palettes.
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But to be honest, the most traumatic sequence had to be the horse slowing sinking into the quicksand. No way does a remake get even close to being as good as the original.
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Just hear it once and good luck getting it out of your head for a few days.
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doesn't seem necessary...not that that's every stopped 'em before...
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that is...not "every"
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would be a cleaned up transfer of the original. It looks like a swarm of locusts invaded the movie.
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PLEAASE
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Fuck you. Seriously. After a great run of a year of actual original ideas and movies you pull this rank bullshit.
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The first movie is like the first chapter of the book.
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A new adaption is more fitting, rather than screaming "REMAKE"! Books, comics...literature in general as a source material, as opposed to remaking an established film, is more acceptable in my...er...book. I'd rather see another slant on the written material than a pointless remake on someone elses, cinematic vision.
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If you didn't see it within 5-10 years of it coming out, you probably don't give a shit if it gets remade. Not only was it chock full of kiddie cheese, the effects were dated pretty soon even by kid standards. That said, as a kid I saw this at the right moment, but not even I can really object to a remake. I liked it, and it was a good film to see back then, but it's not something I could ever watch these days. Have at it, Hollywood.
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why is hollywood so afraid to take chances?
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having better effects or a more faithful adaptation doesn't necessarily spell a superior or more memorable movie. Think of the contrast between Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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It was a great read, but certainly not one I could read to my son. The original movie was the epitomy of childhood fantasy of the 80s and any attempt to tell the book's story with this title stamped on it will disappoint lots and lots of folks. Let the book be the book and the movie be the movie. And just walk away.
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And, guess what, it's really not that great of a movie.
I'm sorry to say it. There are cool images and ideas and all that. But, I don't know, the acting and story weren't that great. I'm glad they're taking another stab at it. -
And it IS great. It's just the scenes with Sebastian talking to himself are painfully awkward.
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anyone confirm this? urban legend? rumor? hearsay? redundant? synonym?
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Seriously. I had it in my head before i read your post.
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Read it. Seriously.
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there's no way it will be as good as the original. movies nowadays are so FUCKING SAFE.
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Agreed, this will be a corporate-friendly, bland, CG-filled, vacuously acted disaster like the Narnia films. The book is creepy as hell. I'd love to see David lynch make it!
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Nothing is sacred. Anybody else feel that I Atreyu was slightly prettier than the empress when they watched it as a kid? I felt his hair was exceptional. I wished I had hair like that.
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Oh God that still makes me sad. As a kid when that horse sank I broke my fucking heart. Also the book is stunning, and far superior to an excellent film.
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I remember the movie as being a pretty damn faithful 80s adaptation of the book. The movie veers off near the end with instead of Bastian then going on to rebuild Fantasia he instead goes for a ride on Falcor and scares the bullies. A perfectly fine kids movie ending, but yes, not the book.
Neverending Story 2 then tried to do the second half of the book and failed. And the less said about Neverending Story 3 and the straight-to-video series, the better.
But don't diss the original movie. It's a work of art, both sight and sound, and I remember it running in commercial cinemas for like half a year - no other movie has done that since. -
Am I really that old??? Oh fuck, I'm 37 tomorrow! Don't remake the film, that would blow. BUT, you have my permission to do a new adaption of the book. That would be cool and froody by me.
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Inspired choice, but destined to remain a reality only in Fantasia.
How about the guy who just did Coraline? He's appease the studios surely. You could say Tim Burton, but then it'd be Tim Burton's Neverending Story. Otherwise if Where The Wild Things Are works, Spike Jonze. Or Terry Gilliam. -
Yes, i'm well aware it would never happen. Though I did love his version of Dune. Terry Gilliam might be good, if a little wacky.
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Gilliam might even get an audience for that. ;)
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That movie fucked my head up as a kid. It made me think that my imagination mattered in the real world and I thought that I could use it to make bullies go away- talk about your pipe dreams!
Well made and well thought through movie though. Ahhh- the naked breasts of the oracle, the gory death of G'mork, the back and forth shrieking of the nameless princess and Sebastian! Weird stuff, but we ate it up-!
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As a kid, I read the book and then was pretty disappointed by the movie. It's not a bad kid's movie, but the story has much more potential than that. They didn't even adapt more than half of the book!
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I'm cool
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Starring Tyler Perry. There are so many other Michael Ende-books to mess up.
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Hate to nitpick, but: "I remember it running in commercial cinemas for like half a year - no other movie has done that since." Home Alone and Titanic are two movies since the Neverending Story that have done that. Just off the top of my head. I'm sure there are others. And I'm sure they're better than Neverending Story.
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Titanic didn't go that long here, and I don't think Home Alone did either. But considering Neverending Story had an ad campaign going months after the movie's release with a kid saying something like "I've seen Neverending Story 15 times and this weekend I'm going with my friend. She's seen it 20 times." And they used this to advertise the film and it was working, the movie kept screening. Not to mention the theme song. That was in the charts for ages, almost like Bryan Adams' Robin Hood song.
As for Home Alone and Titanic being better... I'm looking at my DVD collection and, let's see... No Titanic. No Home Alone. But, what's that there, could it be, did I think Neverending Story was a more worthy purchase? Seems so. -
Not in the same league as the first movie, but the villain is JACK FUCKING BLACK! Yessir, the third flick entertained the shit out of me, and I liked it alot more than part 2.
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and promptly switched it off.
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Home Alone and Titanic are not better than The NeverEnding Story. Just clearing that up for you.
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I woke up and came here to find a good place to share how glad I was when I woke up and found out it was just a dream. I'm fucking goddamn serious. weird.
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Glad I wasn't alone in that. The horse sinking just seemed to real and for some reason it had this horrible impending sense of doom the entire time, like nothing the kid could do would change the fact that shit was fixing to stop existing forever. Just thinking about it spooks me a little bit, i'm a pussy I guess.
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is now OFFICAILLY RAPING MY CHILDHOOD as i weep into a pillow
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I've read the book and essentially it's just the plot of the first two movies consecutively. I don't consider it to be superior in any way, in fact the book feels like the writer ran out of story half way through.
Certainly the book seems superior to the second film, but that's because TNES2 was shite.
I think the only thing I would credit the book with is letting me know the new name Bastion chooses for the Empress. I could never understand what he shouted out the window in the film, although it seems completely clear to me now I know what he's saying!
I can't really see how a remake is needed, but Hollywood is so creatively bankrupt these days I'm sure feel a bunch of soulless CGI creatures will help sell some toys. -
While I wouldn't mind another Neverending Story, Jim Knop is something that needs to be left alone. I love the puppet tv version too much. Sigh I never wanted to be on that site of an remake argument.
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Sure, if you wanted to split the story into parts, then you would probably do it at this moment in the book before Bastian goes to Phantasia (being German, I refuse the English names in this story). But if you look at the book at that moment, you still have about two thirds of it ahead of you.
When the movie came out I was about 4 years old. I watched it when I was six, read the book for the first time about three years later. I have to say, as much as I love the movie and as much as some of the image -
Otherwise, I don't need a remake of a perfectly good 80s film. But I'm open to it actually being good.
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...The first film perfectly captured the first half of the book. You could definately polish it up now, and perhaps play with the idea of the nothingness more (perhaps instead of blackness, literally have blank film space, so its, well nothing being projected on the screen)...But other than that...why? The second half of the book is fucking crap, so why bother re-adapting it?
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Moroder and Doldinger's classical/synth-mixed soundtrack is still great, and REALLY still contributes to the film's emotional core. "Bastian's Happy Flight"; "Swamp of Sadness"; "Ivory Tower...
"Swamp of Sadness" for me is what really added to the power of the scene with Artex.
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and the sequel is a shitty attempt to make the second half of the book.
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"I've been hearing for years how the original Wolfgang Petersen family fantasy movie isn't a pimple on the ass of the original book"
Absolutely true. The movie is a pile of cheesy, tacky Hollywood crap.
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I was the perfect age when the original came out. the "heady concept" of The Nothing, and true scariness of the Gmok made you feel like you were getting away with watching a movie meant for adults. I, too hope they retain the more serious tones and don't turn this into the next Spy Kids.
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Haha, remember as a kid gazing at the oracle statue's boobs and loving that I was getting away with seeing them. Anyone remember that they made an animated series on HBO?
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...MUST EVERY SINGLE BLESSED PIECE OF CHILDHOOD BE DRAPED AND DRIZZLED IN CGI CHEESE? not that it matters...
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it seems now looking back was the movie they played when we the whole class or school was good enough and we had a movie day. Hey, let's pop in The Never Ending Story. Never watched the other sequels of this.
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...speciality.
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1) I'm extremely disappointed that no one has quoted the Simpsons yet *shakes head sadly*
2) Neil Gaiman doing the adaptation is probably the best hope for it. But to be honest, while I enjoyed the movie as a kid I don't consider it sacrosanct. A remake could probably work
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Officer, I'd like to turn myself in for butchering the English language. Just drop the 'I thought' from that last sentence mmkay.
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Not sure why, beyond the fact that they were both fantasy and from the same era. Didn't both feature swamp scenes that were pretty central to the story? Now a Krull re-make...
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But then I was only 10 years old at the time, if that.
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(unintelligible name yelled)
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We've got to own up, and say, yes, we over used that meme on the Lucas prequels.
To such an extent, that Lucas and Spielberg clearly decided "If you're gonna be hung for a lamb, you might as well be hung for a sheep."
And so they went out and raped our good friend Henry Jones Jr. -
The Neverending Story is such a great fucking movie!
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So stoked for this, NeverEnding Story is hands down my favorite book. Saw the movie when I was 8, went out and borrowed the book from the library...what a mind fuck for a little kid!
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get off your Star Wars habit already, and leave Transformers alone. Hollywood is watching you, and they think they're giving you what you want!
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They are the Nothing. I love this goddamn movie.
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Please Don't remake a classic.
Please, don't repaint the Mona Lisa. Please quit remaking the classics.
You hit the nail on the head with "raped my childhood". -
Let it be ,let it be.Let it be let it be.SPEAKING WORDS OF WISDOM:Let it beeee..hiiiiiii
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That doesn't seem like much of a success to me. Fucking remakes.
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stay away from this movie, it might have a chance. Jezus, those 3 fuckwads suck ass.
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I think Coraline is indicative that movies with genuine, fairly disturbing child peril can still occasionally sneak through. I won't bring up Tideland.
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No hacks for this plz
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I hope that you can't actually hear her name in the remake.
All I can do is hope that they make this film as good as it can be.
I'm a little saddened though, due to the fact that I had hoped to be a director before this happened, so I could try to get this film before some other hack could ruin it. This and Elfquest. -
God I loved this movie ... I hope they do not remake this, but if they do - I hope they keep the scary hard-edge thing going . . .
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'Nuff said lol.
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I was watching this on Netflix the other day with my girlfriend. She was raised on a mountain in Central America when The Neverending Story came out. She had no clue what it was. All she knew about it was that I said it was one of the best movies to come out of the 80's. When it was done she says to me that if I ever call one of her chick flicks bullshit again that she will slap me. Hell, I fell asleep on it. This movie does not stand the test of time and it shows. It was all very rushed. We know that Atreyu and Artax visited various lands before reaching the Swamp of Sorrow, but I think that we need to see what they went though. At least then I'll feel bad when Artax eventually sinks in the swamp. I was watching the movie and I was like, "Okay, his horse sank. Who cares?" Even though I'm tired of all the remakes, I think that this is one that should be done.
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Feb 26, 2009 10:26:07 AM CST
there's something terrifying of everything you know, love and ev
by iamlegolas
yeah it's called DEATH. No one get out of here alive!
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We never could figure it out until we saw it was "moonchild" in the book. When we rewatched it, it's clear that's what he's saying.
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I put The Neverending Story up there with The Goonies and The Princess Bride for sheer 80s greatness. I loved The Neverending Story as a kid and I still love it as an adult. It's a big, beautiful fantasy movie with real scares and thrills and eye-popping imagery and a smart, engaging narrative. I hate the idea of remaking this movie. Talk about "raping my childhood" indeed.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and presume that Moonchild wasn't her name
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it was a fantastic film for its time, it is amazing how that movie only encompasses the first few chapters of a fairly large book. I couldn't believe it when I first read it. I was through maybe chapter 7, with a ton of more book to go through, and had gone through teh entire movie, its crazy. And for the life of me, never could understand after decades of watching that film, what damn name he was screaming out at the end. But now its finally clear.
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Pretty unprecedented!
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For all the people who don't like the idea dont watch it. Don't put any money or effort toward it. It's as simple as that. But the fact of the matter is kids are used to different things now and as awesome as a giant animatronic Falcor might be it isn't going to cut it for today's audience. You can cherrish the original on dvd or blu ray for forever. But today's kids aren't going to be up for the very dated fx and production level. Besides, that's who the movie will be for, kids and not people clinging to childhood memories.
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LOVE this movie. Artax sinking and the Rockbiter lamenting not being able to hold onto his friends when the Nothing came and took them away. I still always hear that theme music when I face the wind in a fast vehicle (boat is the best!).Nothing like it could possibly be made today as all we get is geriatric coffee table bullshit. This will be just like the Bad News Bears Remake except instead of de-balling it, they'll de-soul it and nothing will have any consequences.I predict suck. I also wouldn't even bother watching or care but seeing as how against all my designs, Lucas still managed to fuck up my memories of Darth Vader and now even watching the brilliant Empire, I still hear whiny Vader "It's all Obiwan's fault! He's jealous! Bwahhhh!!!"Ugh...I think I just got a stomach ache...
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Seems like it's shaping up to be an adult, real-risk family fantasy.
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i'm just instantly skeptical of remakes, the original is special to me (and a lot of us) because we grew up watching it. it could be good if some asshole hack doesn't dumb it down. neil gaiman would be nice but doesn't he only work on his own material?
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I think it depends on who makes it. While not remakes, would you say that The Lord of the Ring trilogy had no soul? Or what about the Harry Potter series? If they're going to do a direct remake of the movie, then that I would think would suck. If what they want to do though is remake it, but this time truly translate the book to the screen, then I say go for it.
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Why does anyone wants to remake a mediocre film when the book is totally amazing and expands the universe so much?
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Right on. I'm also quite fond of the Augsburger Puppenkiste-interpretation of Jim Knopf. (Who isn't?) As far as The Neverending Story is concerned, I also wouldn't mind a remake if the people behind it embraced the ambition and complexity of the source material. My last encounter with Petersen's film was a rather shocking realization of how bad and full of camp (to be fair Michael Ende isn't exactly light on the esoteric/new age aspects) it actually is.
Terry Gilliam would be an interesting choice, just as Gaiman and Jonze, if this thing (why would it be a remake if it's an adaptation?) ever gets off the ground. I just read something about the great reception of Michael Ende's work in Japan and a Miyazaki-like version of the book came to mind. But somehow I think this needs to be done the live-action way. -
Guillermo del Toro
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...as the dad? Cause that was the heart and soul of the movie right there...no Rick from SIMON AND SIMON and you're doomed.
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...I'd pay to see either version. Or both.
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This is by far my favorite movie of all time. The song..the characters..everything. I grew up on this, Dark Crystal and Labyrinth as a lot of you here did.
I'm halfway thru and the movie has already ended..there's this whole new ball game after he names the childlike empress.
I must find away to get on this film!!!!
Here's some of my art to anyone that cares!
http://www.bathrobekimono.com/Furwyrm.html
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I showed my niece NES when she was 7 and my nephew when he was 5 years old (they are both 15 and 12 now) and they ATE IT UP! They didn't care about animatronics or "shitty synth" music. They were drawn in by the superior story and drama in the movie. This is proof (at least to me) that children should be talked TO not talked DOWN TO, if you get my meaning. Not everyting has to be dumbed down just because it's a "kid's movie".
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Yeah..one day i looked up the script so i could find what the heck he was saying.
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I say that line at least a few times a year. LOL
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Agreed 100%. And of course I don't think Rings or Potter have no soul...I love those movies (Tolkien is my current favorite writer and I'm a Potter freak for sure...love all of it!).But can we count on the talent behind the Rings movie or the Potter series for a remake of TNES? Even then, I'm cautious as even the stalwarts here have missteps from time to time (don't tell me you think having Legolas surfing on a shield wasn't stupid) but to say they had no soul is not at all the case.I think of it like Diet Coke. Diet Coke is made to taste like regular coke (presumably) except not be as fattening nor have caffeine. Problem is it tastes like demon ass juice (ie nothing like regular coke) so if the pale imitator doesn't cut it, either deal with the original or bypass altogether.That said, I'd love for this to be mystical and fantastic and scary and fills me with both wonder and melancholy like the original did. Someone pulls a Carpenter and takes an original story and makes it a gazillion times better than the previous movie incarnation of that story and I'm fully on board. But what are the chances?
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Dear Hollywood,
Please for the love of all things that are precious and good, STOP RAPING MY CHILDHOOD YOU BASTARDS!
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I wish this movie never did live up to its name because the sequels aren't watchable by any standards. I have no reason to believe a remake would be any different. Crap does this take me back. I think that's why it's "never ending" in my book.
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I finally read the book last year and I'd love to see a remake with some of the other characters from the book - especially Uyulala and the lion in the Desert of Colors. I wonder if they'll call it Fantastica like in the book instead of Fantasia.
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My only beacon of hope for this is because so far Warner Bros is beind it. If it was Fox I would be ranting and raving. So I think there is a chance that we can see something mystical, fantastic, and scary. Now, the shield surf... yes that was corny lol.
Oh, and I wasn't bothered that my by whiny Anikin. For me it doesn't change the fact that somewhere along the way, he turns into the bad ass Vader we see in Empire. That said though, I really do wish that after showing whiny Anikin, that Lucas whould have shown Palpentine gently mind raping, and soul screwing him to the point where he thinks that killing Younglings was the necessary thing to do. I didn't care for the prequals in general. The only thing I took away from them is that the Vader we see in the original trilogy believes that everything he has done was the right thing to do. -
After the first half which is what the movie is based on it goes to hello, it's booooring and long for no reason.
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Their not remaking the MOVIE, their adapting from the source material, the book.
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It's "they're" as in "they are" not "their", you fucktard.
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Someone with the nick "Warcraft" is calling folks fucktards? Pot...kettle... ;-) In any event, whether it's called a remake, or whether it's a new adaptation, it'll still be compared to the original, for better or for worse. For my money, the original film couldn't have been much better, although I do agree that the journey feels a bit rushed. The movie hurries along at a breakneck pace, for sure. But I dunno...maybe that's a good thing. I've seen far too many inferior movies lately that drag on-and-on-and-on. And I hate that in movies more than anything. If it's long, it better be fucking good. Oh, and yeah...what kid who saw this movie didn't want to ride on Falcor and chase the bullies into a dumpster!
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Feb 26, 2009 3:25:47 PM CST
99.99999% of child actors suck ass, are painful to watch and imp
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It's the same reason they'll never make and should try to make Ender's Game into a movie.
Maybe if they'd jumped on this shit when Haley Joel Osment was still a kid I'd be friggin' excited, because if there was a child actor who could convincingly convey the range of emotions you'd expect one to experience while going through that story, it would have been him.
Don't get me wrong, I'd actually like to see the movie done with more advanced technology and special effects - provided they don't fucking CG the hell out of the thing - but I have zero faith in Hollywood being able to do the book or the original movie justice. -
I mean how can you possibly improve on that?
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Didn't you just wax about how amazing it was films like Watchmen and the Dark Knight got made by studios in this current market. I think the same could be done here. It just depends on the vision of the person behind it. (See also, Peter Jackson.)
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...I knew this girl that was a big fan of the book and that Steven Spielberg and the USA ruined it. I told her that was pretty sure Spielberg had nothing to do with the movie.
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Still like most of the fx, music, etc but I would like to see it redone because Sebastian was a bit of a little douche.
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http://tinyurl.com/bkq6vu
This is just... pure evil genius.
And Mel Gibson's next movie ;D
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It's a bit like the LOTR debate - the book has a shitload more mythos to it, goes on way further than the end of the movie, and is a bona fide, stone-cold classic, no doubt. Read it if you want to experience one of the greatest pieces of children's fantasy literature as it was originally intended.
However...
The movie is a near-perfect example of how to streamline something long and complicated, and still retain the power, the tone and the heart of what you are adapting. The movie has the same emotional impact as the book, but fewer events and less plot - yet both reach the same conclusion, in the same way. Neither is less important than the other because of this - both are as highly recommended as I can possibly make them. The book and the movie are both AWESOME.
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and bring her back from acting obscurity, I'm there.
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Guillermo Del Toro to write it and direct it.
Creature designs by Brian Froud, using Phil Tippett's team (SPIDERWICK had awesome creatures, as did DARK CRYSTAL). Add complete creative control, script approval with Michael Ende, and you're good to go. -
it will only encourage this stupid fucking idea.
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I never said anything about dumbing it down, I'm just talking about the dated look and feel of the movie. I'm also talking about the mass audience, kids and people in general these days are used to higher quality production values. Imagine a Never Ending Story with tthe budget and scale of Harry Potter or the Narnia movies.
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In this case, if they go back to the book rather than just the movie, it could be BETTER than the original. The original is a classic of its day - but imagine... a NEVERENDING STORY with the scope of Narnia or a LOTR (as MR FTW says). Imagine that beautiful, epic story as a trilogy!
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Feb 26, 2009 5:01:27 PM CST
Sometimes when I enter the onramp to the freeway and speed up...
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I'l do the Falcor yell: aaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
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It's not a remake? They are just adapting the book? They already adapted the book. The film is already there. Anymore adapting of the first half of the book is just a remake of the first adaptation. Add to which they certainly are remaking it, because if they didn't have the brand recognition of the first film, this wouldn't be happening. For all the people talking about how fantastic the book is, and how much the film sucks...I'm lost. The first half of the book, which essentially covers the film is fantastic. But the second half is garbage. Its maybe a chapters worth of ideas dragged out across another half a books length. And the kid turns into a real asshole. For the remake, you may aswell just get a longer running time, up the effects budget and include more from the end of the first half of the book. One of the key things that will suck in any adaptation of this book is that, well, its very clearly and specifically a book about reading. Maybe if the kid found an old VHS tape or something...Even then, a huge chunk of the themes of the book are lost in translation. (from page to screen, not German to english)
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I just like to assume Bastian's mother was a hippie.I haven't read the book, but it sounds like only a big budget live-action TV series/miniseries would do it justice. (Hopefully, something better than "Tales from the Neverending Story". Which I did watch when it was on.)
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I love that line.
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It's safe to say there will be no script approval from Michael Ende, he died years ago.
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Anyone else remember this chapter of the book? What an imagination. That captivated me as a child.
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Soooo....happy you assholes aren't on strike. What would we do without your recycled material?
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...why can't/don't the Germans make this film?
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"Many fans regard Dieter Geissler, as being comparable to Uwe Boll due to his involvement with the franchise. He has been involved as a producer on all filmed productions since The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter. Most of these projects have been critically panned as having dumbed down the source material in order to appeal to children."
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Here we just sell small rectangular objects. They're called books. They require a little effort on your part, and make no bee-bee-bee-bee-beeps. On your way please.
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Feb 26, 2009 11:43:01 PM CST
You can bet Lionel Hutz had something to do with this....
by iblis_mage
"Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film The NeverEnding Story."
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Seriously, give Harry back the nostalgia-colored glasses. Watch "Neverending Story" again with ADULT eyes. It's not that great of a movie.
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I was 100% convinced a woman sung the theme song until I learned it was a man, needless to say I was shocked, also the Oracle statues had nice boobs
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And was also in PWBA.
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The stuff that used to be marketed to kids man, I don't know if we're better or worse for it but I know after re watching Labyrinth and Return to Oz as an adult I can see where most of my fucked up nightmares came from.
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Pah! Michael Ende's death a hurdle to his having script approval? Nonsense, man! Just get Derek Acorah, Colin Fry, or any of those cold reading fuckos to channel him at script meetings. It's be no more barmy than some exec saying "Hey, I know who to get to make a fourth TERMINATOR movie!" "Who?" "The dude who made the CHARLIE'S ANGELS movies!".
And look how THAT turned out - WE GOT THE BALEBACK!!!! -
What the FUCK? It's not a woman?
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I too am a little concerned that they're making a new "Neverending Story." But I think those of us who grew up on the film need to divorce ourselves from the sentimental aspect this film has on us and look at it more objectively. I absolutely hate all the remakes Hollywood is doing, but I'm a little hesitant to call something a "remake" when the the original was based on a novel. I'm more inclined to look at things like this as another vision of how to adapt the novel. Was the original film inadequate enough to warrant another shot at adapting the novel? I think that's the real debate.
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A major studio will simply not make a movie today with the same emotional breadth as the original NES film had. It will have some superficial pseudo-nod to darkness but will be hollow underneath, like almost everything is these days.However, I fully expect 'Where The Wild Things Are' to destroy us all and succeed in every way that these films we love from the 80s did, and it will shame all the sad imitators, and perhaps encourage a few to make something legit.We can only hope that this ill-considered remake (and yes, I call it a remake, because it wouldn't be getting made if there hadn't already been a prior movie version) waits until after WTWTA; it's the only chance it has to be allowed to have the right tone.
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Wonderful dreamy 80s pop. The only way it could have been better is if they'd also brought in the bassist from Kajagoogoo to play along with Limahl. But every time I hear the song, the weight of years comes off for a little while and I feel the power of my childhood imagination.
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My childhood was FINE. Why do you think you can make it better by replacing it with an inferior copy ? Why? WHY ????
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Feb 28, 2009 4:59:41 AM CST
Oh, and whoever asked whether the horse really died?
by voldemortwearsprada
It was actually the kid, who didn't drown, but went damn close.
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