I'm healing my inner child watching the Never Ending Story with my noise cancelling headphones the government let me buy with their money. The same way I wish I could tell kid me they would one day have all the music they needed, I wish I could say, hey, one day, you'll have your own TV with streaming, and a DVD player, and whatever movies you want, and you can lie on your own couch, in your own place where nobody can stop you and you don't have to worry about your parents being annoyed with that shit since you had it on repeat. It was probably just as well we didn't own these as kids, I'd have destroyed my copy anyway.
I'm sure Falkore probably scared kids the way G'mork is supposed to. The puppetry in this isn't bad, it's on par for the most part with Jim Henson's work, and they did the third movie. This is now I'm finding out the girl who played the Empress was in a movie recently which included the Creature Shop team, and I don't remember hearing about it, it doesn't even have an RT score, it only has two reviews so clearly nobody bothered to market it well.
Also, using headphones makes the soundtrack a lot clearer, which I also recently bought (maybe a year ago nearly) when I was horribly depressed but needed to cry a lot. I can't not get choked up at this funeral dirge level shit when you're seeing a real horse drown in a swamp and a big rock puppet man lamenting the loss of his friends and being killed by the Nothing. I mean, this is how I got in touch with questionable people on the internet who pretended to be young gay boys in love with 80s movie stars. I was finding out their names then going on forums with perverts who'd then send me material that was highly illegal. Our innocence was so easily exploitable. But kid me didn't know that either, kid me grew up without the internet, so it left me longing for all the things that soothed me because they were never readily available. If I'd been a kid in the early 2000s it would've been easier, but I'd have also missed out on what I did like. I can't see myself being nostalgic for shit that was popular after I grew up. And I think the music played too big a part in the gutkicking moments, so if I'd had the soundtracks at the very least, I might've been okay. I got by with the Labyrinth soundtrack for most of high school, but yeah, not having the videos until my late teens was kinda sad.
I also had no idea Bastian yells "Moon Child" which is supposed to be his mother's name, so I'm going to say that was her flower child name she got from some beatnick before marrying Bastian's stuffy dad who likes egg yolks in OJ. Like, what chance did Bastian have, really? Jeez. And it's not like he gets it easy in the book, so a movie that dealt with that better than the second movie did could be kinda cool. The headphones work really well you can hear the people Falkore terrorises really well. Kid me really liked this bit.
Kid me had it rougher than they should have. They honestly just wanted everything I have right now. They had to tough out a lot to get it. But they got it.
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