Primordial goop of my childhood; trauma; euphoric flying; existentia. Posted a response/review on Letterboxd, repeated below.

I guess to stick with my supposed ‘own your own content’/POSSE philosophy I should have posted it here first, but I didn’t, because I’m not posting anything here lately and I like Letterboxd right now. Going to try to get things going here again, though. Starting with what I have instead of waiting for the perfect moment and getting all the things queued up.

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Primordial goop of my childhood; trauma; euphoric flying; existentia. This was one of my earliest movie theater experiences. I would have been 5 years old, assuming it was the first run. I was traumatized, but also exhilarated by the flying scenes. My main memory of the film, besides the endless goop and guck, and of course the song, was that scene where he’s on the friendly/scary dog-dragon floating with the asteroids in existential space, and everything has disappeared. Terrifying. 

That’s maybe what movies are supposed to be though: terrifying and exhilarating?

Watched this today on an old DVD at the in-law family cabin with my tweenage kids. A little underwhelming now but we could clearly see why I was terrified by it as a kid. I wish I could see this in a theater again now and somehow be overwhelmed by it again. Total darkness, huge screen, floor-shaking sound, flying over the mountains and then floating through the sad asteroid field, wondering if any hope is left. Would it feel the same? Will any movie ever feel like that again?

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Also, need to watch Inception soon as a comparison, another movie I might want to make my kids watch with me.

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Also, enjoyed this post I found through googling this: He Named Her “Moon Child” — Drew Mackie Has a Website

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Also, Neverending Story kid reading all day and all night, compare to Parley P. Pratt in How Rare a Possession reading the Book of Mormon all day and all night 
iykyk

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Also, on my old Letterboxd account I had a challenge-ish list called ‘Borrowed Nostalgia for the Unremembered 80s’ to which this movie is central.

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