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The NeverEnding Story
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing. From TMDB
209 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 31, 2026 · last updated Oct 31, 2026 · How this works
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| TMDB reviews * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 adventure fantasy family film, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver and Tami Stronach.
- 193 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews
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60 of 209 · most liked firstTwo characters from my favorite film growing up, the Neverending Story. Atreyu and the Gmork, lifelong adversaries but, since the story never ends, maybe they make up later in the tale... again and again and again... #nsfw
positive · AI labelView post →The Neverending Story. The movie was traumatic from the jump, but when Artax drowned, my mom had to take me home from the theater.
negative · AI labelView post →The best analogy I can offer is the slow yet inexorable advance of The Nothing seen in the 1980s film The Neverending Story You can see the storm spreading over the land, but it seems to be unfolding at such a high remove that it saps even your ability to strategize how it could possibly be stopped
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Neverending Story which is not a particularly good movie but it is a very pretty movie
neutral · AI labelView post →The Neverending Story had like 5 of these and that's why it was the greatest fantasy movie to have ever traumatized multiple generations of children
positive · AI labelView post →Rainy Saturday afternoon so you KNOW I’m revisiting THE NEVERENDING STORY, a truly bizarre film that I watched minimum 30 times as a kid. You can say “They don’t make em like this anymore” about it but mean like a dozen different things
neutral · AI labelView post →Might seem like a weird time to say this, but we just watched The Neverending Story, and the message of the movie is the same one that my guides keep giving me, over and over: Joy is the antidote to fuckshit.
positive · AI labelView post →Jack Black, leader of the Nasties in the Neverending Story 3(dogshit movie btw)
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been intermittently rewatching THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984) for the first time in probably 30 years It's way better than I'd hoped it would be, but also it's very weird to experience a love letter to Books that is presented in Movie form
positive · AI labelView post →I was terrified by Return to Oz. So much so that I almost had to decline reviewing a production of Wicked when I was working as a theatre critic. That film did some damage. Also The Neverending Story.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m not a movie remake hater but there are two movies that should never ever be touched, The NeverEnding Story and The Goonies. It’s impossible to make better versions of them and nobody wants to see CGI and AI versions of them either, nobody ✨
positive · AI labelView post →Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 The NeverEnding Story (1984) By Rich Davis
neutral · AI labelView post →Jack Black, best known for his evil turn as the cruel school bully Slip aka "The Nasty" in the fantasy adventure film: The Neverending Story III (1994)
neutral · AI labelView post →Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film, The Neverending Story.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun fact: Batman should have known this because it was on the soundtrack to the Germany-exclusive film The Neverending Story III a full year BEFORE his own eponymous movie came out smh
neutral · AI labelView post →Listen in as we talk Labyrinth and The Neverending Story! Link below - #bowie #davidbowie #labyrinth #neverendingstory #mutantfam #moviesky podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Books to film 📚=🎞️ The Neverending Story (1979) by Michael Ende was filmed (1984) by Wolfgang Petersen. The films adapts only half of the German novel. The meaning of wishes also diverges as Ende despised the film's removal of key philosophy regarding the danger of escapism. 📖🐉💭 #filmsky #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the Neverending Story with the kids, and Bastian is just about the most kid-like kid you're gonna see in film. Doing weird stuff with his fingers while his dad talks to him, trouble articulating himself, sullen shrugging
positive · AI labelView post →This is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film The NeverEnding Story. www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
neutral · AI labelView post →My man looks like he belongs in the Neverending Story movie said with nothing but respect. I fucking loved that movie
positive · AI labelView post →Return to Oz. the Rescuers, The Neverending Story, The Black Cauldron. But also there was some made for TV movie I watched the beginning of as a child that involved people on the beach being buried up to their heads and honestly I have no idea what it was
neutral · AI labelView post →Any fans of the 1984 fantasy movie The Neverending Story?
neutral · AI labelView post →41 years ago, on 20 July 1984, the film 'The NeverEnding Story' was released. This scene traumatised an entire generation, and we all required years of therapy to deal with it. This was worse than Bambi's mum and Dumbo's mum scenes. Brutal.
neutral · AI labelView post →Farewell to film and TV composer Klaus Doldinger, best known for his scores for DAS BOOT (1981) and THE NEVERENDING STORY (1984), both directed by Wolfgang Petersen. #filmsky #moviesky #rip
neutral · AI labelView post →Is it wrong if the new Greta Gerwig movie poster makes me feel like I'm 6yo and watching "The Neverending Story" with a babysitter for the first time in utter awe
positive · AI labelView post →... I wonder what my art would have ended up like had the Neverending Story not been a defining early childhood movie of mine
positive · AI labelView post →"The Neverending Story", my beloved (while the movie does tackle some of Bastian's debilitating depression, I'm talking about the book specifically, which deals with that in a much more striking and complex manner)
positive · AI labelView post →#OneHitHistory #OTD in 1984, fantasy film The NeverEnding Story opened in theaters in America. It lives on in '80s memory thanks to its soaring theme song by former Kajagoogoo frontman Limahl… who earned solo US #OneHitWonder honors for his efforts. #Limahl #TheNeverendingStory #OneHitWondered
neutral · AI labelView post →The Neverending Story. This movie was rated Universal, or "good for children." In this scene, our hero has just been confronted with a desiccated, immolated corpse and is panicking that they will become the same. Nightmare fuel.
negative · AI labelView post →Wiser words were never written on this topic than in the 1984 film The Neverending Story: "If I have to die, I'd rather die fighting!"
neutral · AI labelView post →Where my lore started TV - Sailor Moon Movie - The Neverending Story Video Game - Final Fantasy VII Music - Brittany Spears
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching The Neverending Story with one kid (the other, continuing the family tradition of timidity, noped the fuck out at the first puppet) and I had totally forgotten how much this whole movie is one big prog album cover
positive · AI labelView post →This week's regular Tuesday night movie for Kit and I this week is... The NeverEnding Story. Haven't seen this in many years.
neutral · AI labelView post →#SeptemberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky 9/23: People exploring in a movie "The NeverEnding Story" (1984)
neutral · AI labelView post →Melissa Watkins' review of Daydreamer. Y'ALL, SHE COMPARED DAYDREAMER TO THE NEVERENDING STORY!!! @lightspeedmagazine.com #neurodivergentkids #middlegradebooks #dragons www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/b...
neutral · AI labelView post →First movie of the night: The Neverending Story.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieMadness #MovieChallenge Day 1: Movie That Reminds You Of Your Childhood Movie: The NeverEnding Story
neutral · AI labelView post →If you remember the 2000’s you’re probably old enough to know who most of these are.. Text asks: “You have the power to reverse the death of one movie character. Who do you save?” In boxes below the text are the options of Bambi’s mother from Bambi, Gwen Stacy from The Amazing Spider-Man, Old Yeller from the movie of the same name, John Coffey from the Green Mile, Artax from The Neverending Story, Thomas J. Sennett from My Girl, Mufasa from The Lion King and Yondu from Guardians of the Galaxy.
neutral · AI labelView post →Getting ready to watch The Neverending Story in a movie theater with kiddo and wife.
neutral · AI labelView post →Endorsement: let your kid read The Neverending Story first and then show them the movie and let them yell at the screen We're at BUT FALCOR IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE A LIONS HEAD NOT A *DOG*
positive · AI labelView post →20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you - one film per day, in no particular order. no explanations, no reviews, just screenshots. 14/20 The NeverEnding Story
neutral · AI labelView post →The NeverEnding Story 40th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray. Australian label Imprint Films has informed us that it will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Wolfgang Petersen's [*The NeverEnding Story*](https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-NeverEnding-Story-4K-Blu-ray/369465/) (1984) with a five-disc 4K Blu-ray/Blu-ray combo pack, which is scheduled to arrive on the market on November 27th. Description: Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of one of the most beloved films of all time in this Limited Edition…
neutral · AI labelView post →Herbie Goes Bananas, and disappointingly, not The Cars That Ate Paris, the most misleading movie title until The Neverending Story came along.
neutral · AI labelView post →Multiple "Neverending Story" Films Planned - Dark Horizons. > Michael Ende Productions and See-Saw Films have announced plans for multiple live-action films based on Ende’s 1979 German-language novel “The Neverending Story”. The tale follows a ten-year-old boy named Bastian Balthazar Bux who happens upon a magical book that tells of a young warrior named Atreyu who is given the task of stopping the Nothing […]
neutral · AI labelView post →Gmork, from The Neverending Story film, was nightmare fuel.
negative · AI labelView post →The dragon from The Neverending Story was originally part cat but the movie came to a halt whenever an actor said "Look what the cat dragon."
neutral · AI labelView post →#MayMovieChallenge #Moviesky May 28. Clouds in a movie The Neverending Story (1984) youtu.be/adBmLtE4wwg?...
neutral · AI labelView post →It was definitely the scary wolf in The Neverending Story, but young me loved that movie because my terror was outweighed by my love of weird dark fantasy, my crush on Atreyu, and the mind-blowing delight of "whoa! Those sphinxes have tits!"
positive · AI labelView post →Definitely the LOTR trilogy, the original TMNT movie, 80s dark fantasy like The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Legend, and The Neverending Story.
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a fantasy film that's not Lord of the Rings. The Neverending Story
neutral · AI labelView post →YOU (a comedian): If it was the Neverending Story then how come the movie ended? ME (traumatized, still seeing Artax drown in the swamp of sadness): It never did
positive · AI labelView post →Now let's watch an uplifting adventure, son. I guarantee this will make you feel better. Zero sadness in this film. *pops in The Neverending Story*
negative · AI labelView post →#NewYearsResolutionsChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky Day 9 - Reading a book in a movie (read more books) The NeverEnding Story (1984) "But it's only a story! It's NOT real!" youtu.be/xaILTs-_1z4?...
neutral · AI labelView post →#AprilFilmChallenge #Moviesky April 14: Your favorite family film "The NeverEnding Story" (1984)
neutral · AI labelView post →MEET YOUR OOMF! 😁 • Name: Jason / Jaice • Sign: Aries ♈️ • Sexuality: Gay • Hobbies: Gaming (Sims, OpenRCT, Cities: Skylines, InZoi, Planet Zoo/Coaster), Music, Dancing, Theme Parks, Creating • Fav animal: Dogs • Fav Pokémon: Eevee / Vaporeon • Fav movie: The Neverending Story
neutral · AI labelView post →"this is the most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the movie The Neverending Story."
neutral · AI labelView post →Given how multicultural and multilingual my workplace is, I can't tell you how tickled I am that so many of us turn out to have a shared trauma. (Office kitchen whiteboard question on "what's your favourite childhood film" was answered with The Neverending Story.)
positive · AI labelView post →Name a film that you watched repeatedly as a child. The 80's were full of movies designed to embed a deep existential crisis in kids. Examples: The Adventures of Mark Twain (below) The Neverending Story Something Wicked This Way Comes The Dark Crystal Time Bandits The Secret of NIMH Return to Oz
neutral · AI labelView post →Books to film. 📚=🎞️ The NeverEnding Story (or in its original German title, Die unendliche Geschichte) by Michael Ende #booksky #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →The NeverEnding Story (1984) Entertaining 80’s Fantasy Film with good effects for the time. It’s 97 minutes long which completely contradicts the title. #FilmSky #Movies
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