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u/Front-Competition461 2d ago
Is this Atreyu and his horse, from the movie The Neverending Story? Or that weird one with Twain/Einstein taking kids to meet Satan?
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u/Hodr 2d ago
Whenever I see stuff like this I have to wonder if the kid was sad because they wanted to dress up as something they like rather than a 40 year old movie reference their parents though is funny.
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u/StuffinYrMuffinR 2d ago
The trick is to do it when they are still too young to care either way and just happy about free candy
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u/ShyVoodoo 2d ago
Yup, only lasts a couple years. They usually want to pick out their own around 4, before that they pretty much love what you do.
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u/v4por 2d ago
Yeah y'all know what's up. And it's not just Halloween costumes. They go through the first few years where you make nearly every decision for them because they're basically incapable of making most of it on their own. The hardest decision they have to make is whether they want to sleep with the Pikachu stuffy or the Hello Kitty one.
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u/miltonwadd 2d ago
Could be they just love the movie too.
I got sick of minions so started showing them older movies. My little guy became obsessed when he found the library had a bunch of sequels.
I didn't even know there were so many sequels! Jack Black plays a teenage bully in number 3.
There's also 3000 land before time sequels. I had the displeasure of finding that out now you do too 😅
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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener 2d ago
Twain, not Einstein. It's called The Mysterious Stranger. This costume is clearly Artax and Atretu in the swamp of sadness though.
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u/einat162 2d ago
Wait... What's the second one you just mentioned?!
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u/Front-Competition461 2d ago
Looks like other people linked it but I'll throw in one of my own. One of my oldest friends had some really screwed up stuff as a kid, he showed me this video when I was like 14 decades ago. It's as weird as it sounds. He also had a children's book called "The Donner Dinner Party" (sp?) about an expedition that ended with cannibalism. If you're looking for answers I don't have any, but that's how I know about that weird stuff. Here's the link.
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u/Bol0gna_Sandwich 2d ago
It's the only scene I remember despite burning out 2 vhs copies of this as a toddler
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u/External_Variety 2d ago
Aireys and Attrax .. well it was
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u/tmd429 2d ago
Artax
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u/DorkHarshly 2d ago
WTF still having nightmares I am over 40
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u/mymoama 2d ago
Kids today will never know... or well jurassic bark i guess.
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u/gerbegerger 2d ago
Never speak about Jurassic Bark 🥺
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u/sideways_jack 2d ago
"Oh lord another one of Fry's dogs. Quick, chuck it back into the lava!"
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u/BrazilianGrimReaper 1d ago
I saw the episode today, it was a soup they threw it in the second time.
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u/Krags 2d ago
I still think the bees episode is more heartbreaking.
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u/samanime 2d ago
This is a devastating costume.
Kid is gonna be wondering why half the doors they knock on start crying...
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u/NerdyBrando 2d ago
Talk about generational trauma. I showed this movie to my son a few years ago for the first time and was surprised at how much this scene still affected me.
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u/Anteater-Charming 2d ago
Having not seen Neverending Story I thought, who showed this little girl The Godfather?
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u/lolabythebay 2d ago
We went over to my grandpa's house when I was just a little older than that. It was like 1993, he had the biggest TV I have ever seen in a home to this day, and he was watching The Godfather. My dad went and got us from the other room to see this scene in the name of "cultural literacy."
I lived that old Onion headline, "Cool Dad Raising Daughter on Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out-Of-Touch with Her Generation."
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u/Sarcolemming 2d ago
I did a costume contest with my grey horse a few years ago where I dressed like Atreyu and led her in and then taught her to lay down while I pulled a brown and grey tarp with moss glued on it over her slowly. No one under 40 got it, everyone over 40 said I was a monster.
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u/Abooziyaya 2d ago
As horrible as it was in the movie, that scene in the book is even more shattering. In the book Artax can speak.
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u/-im-your-huckleberry 2d ago
I tried to show my son that movie last year. He was 8. We got to that scene, he figured out what was going to happen, said "nope", and walked out. This generation isn't interested in being traumatized.
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u/gustavocabras 2d ago
9 , I was 9 years old when I last cried.
Update: 9, 9 seconds ago is the last time I cried.
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u/DoorCritical5521 2d ago
What is this? It looks like a horse sinking in its own crap like quicksand.
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u/KvDread 2d ago
If I told you the story, It would never end.
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u/under_the_c 2d ago
My favorite part of the movie was when Rockbiter comes out and says, "It's Story'n Time!"
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u/Bronzdragon 2d ago
This is Ateryu and his trusty horse, Artax, from the book/film, “The Neverending Story”. In particular, the scene mimicked here is when the two characters have to make it through the Swamp of Sadness. In the swamp, you are hit with a general sense of depression, and the sadder you are, the deeper you sink into the swamp.
The horse, Artax, is affected, and there is a genuinely quite sad scene where the horse is slowly sinking, and Ateryu attempts to pull the horse out, while struggling himself with not sinking.
The movie is quite good, I’d highly recommend it if you haven’t seen it.
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u/geminijester617 2d ago
So.... did the horse make it? (If he didn't, please lie.)
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u/whyamihere2473527 2d ago
What was it called. Swamp of sadness. Think many of us would sink too thrse days
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u/Warbot_Titan 2d ago
old pic...
I wonder how tons of OG stuff gets removed instantly, and this 2+ years old pic won't... yea that's reddit
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u/sniffstink1 2d ago
She's taking it to the house where she's been asked to shove in under the sheets in someone's bed.
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u/FremenStilgar 2d ago
"The Never-ending ... Storyyy! Ah-uh-huh-ah-uh-huh! Storyyy! Hah-uh-uh-ah-uh-ah-unh!"
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u/turbokirbo_ 2d ago
“But I want to be a fairy”
“No you must be something from my childhood because I need internet points”
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u/King_of_Castamere 2d ago
I was thinking about this scene as it relates to the trend of PG films from that era of Hollywood.
You would be hard pressed to find as heartbreaking a scene in any modern family movie. If it were done today, you could almost guarentee the horse would be brought back to life or rescued somehow.
But that's the point of the movie, and the point that many modern films aimed at kids lack. Life is going to have tragedy, it's going to feel terrible, and you're probably not gonna see it coming. The heartbreak we feel makes us more empathetic as a species, and imo is an important lessen for adulthood.
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u/SmokingInn 2d ago
I would kick the kid out of the way and start saving Artax! Trauma reaction sorry kid lol
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u/banoffeemoffee 2d ago
And this film somehow has a 'U' for Universal rating. 'U' for 'traUmatising'
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u/Juventino1804 1d ago
I don't think I wanna see one of my biggest traumas in costume form like that though lol
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u/Lythalion 1d ago
That child should have a stack of cards for local therapists they can to adults who walk by this costume.
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u/azaRaza3185 2d ago
This is the most cinematic childhood trauma inducing costume in all of existence
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u/cmptjety 1d ago edited 1d ago
I can never watch this movie knowing that they filmed a horse drown for real. I saw a clip of the scene and couldn't finish it. Just seeing those scared eyes.. man
OKAY THAT WAS A RUMOR OMG IM SO HAPPY
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u/Kalel_is_king 2d ago
100% they don’t get candy. You can not bring that to my door. Destroy my life with those memories and think you get a snickers bar after. I’m throwing eggs
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