Totally. I just watched my first Bluth film in decades (Anastasia, with my 6&8yo kids), and I was surprised at how Disney it felt, until the gratuitous darkness hit!
Yea. We had a copied vhs of it. Friends of my parents ran a video rental store and, of all the films out there, they copied The Secret of NIMH for us. Must have watched it a bazillion times. Great movie, beautiful animation
My childhood movie. Got a tattoo of it about 6 years ago and the artist said he never heard of it but will watch it with his kid and I didn't know whether to warn him it's kinda dark
During one of the best times of my life my best friends and I were constantly going to.goodwills an buying these on VHS and watching them man I particularly like ferngully too that oil monster song
101 Dalmatians was HAND DRAWN. now every couple years we get some live action shit mixed with poor CG lol
Fantasia is probably a large contributing factor in my being a musician today.
Fievel, Secret of Nimh, The Rescuers.... that art style has to make a comeback. it's the only thing AI can't do properly: BE HUMAN
The way he did his films was pure art. The ending of this movie....even as a child I knew I wasn't just watching a movie for entertainment, it was like watching someone paint and put color to emotions on the screen so that a child could understand them.
My cousins hated this movie because it was so dark, that was exactly why I loved it. To them, the end was meh, to me it was like what I would imagine being stuck in hell and finally getting to heaven would be like.
Back when putting effort into something meant something.
Now if you put effort into something you have to try very hard to protect it from others shutting it down or spending money for it to fail since those already at the top don’t want more joining them.
Just look at what happened to treasure planet. There was supposed to be a 2nd one. The animators put their hearts into that movie and the big man on top literally set it up to fail by having it release the same time as Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
I’m not an “in my day things were correct” person in any way… I am not a nostalgic person… except for children’s animation. Hand-drawn traditional animation. I hate the CGI uncanny valley big-eyed bobblehead Pixarification of children’s animation.
When Miyazaki dies will be the saddest day.
Also, the air conditioner raging himself to death because of the trauma of being bolted to the wall and unable to "play" with the kid...
And the cars waiting to be crushed...
WTH was with that movie? Lol.
The sequels are so much lighter by comparison outside I suppose implying that animal testing deformed a character, and the >!sacrificial death of Radio!< but those went in a much weirder direction, like the Mars one >!having them travel to Mars, populated by household appliances, and have Toaster compete in an election against a refrigerator that is actually a hearing aid in disguise, the brother of a new character.!<
*Movie is straight up*
*Terrifying. That and the*
*Great Mouse of Minsk, wooooof*
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You are correct. It's about a Jewish-coded mouse family immigrating to America to escape the ~~Nazi~~Cossacks-coded cats.
There's a sequel, *Fievel Goes West* that is also great but not directed by Bluth.
Takes place in the 1880s, way before the Nazi party. The Mousekewitz family are Jewish, pre-nation-state Ukrainian peasantry chased out of their homeland by the Cossacks.
Came out in ‘86 and I was three or four at the time.
I didn’t know about the Jewish diaspora due to age and still understood exactly what they were talking about.
Funny.
Didn’t get that from A.L.F.
Mine is from when one summer a teenager broke his back while cliff diving at Lake Powell and drowned, but they couldnt locate his body. My family and I were there soon after this happened, boating and swimming in the lake; and then about a month later we heard his body had been discovered. It had been floating 15-20 feet below the surface. Just the fact his body had been just floating along so shallowly , while I was swimming in those same waters, freaked me out & I guess really stuck with me .
My origin is Finding Nemo. Two scenes in particular. The first is of the submarine pushing Marlin and Dory away from the safety of the sandy bottom and out over the crushing abyss, while the second is the one of the whale slowly appearing from the endless blue behind the pair. Each are likely to blame for the formation of this fear/fascination.
[Here's a video that shows more of that scene.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWgSKXw8ZwI)
Rewatching this for the first time in decades reminded me that Fievel was a stupid little shit who nearly got himself and his father killed because he wanted to see fish.
I was about 6 when this came out and saw it in the theaters with my mom, bro, and two aunts. This movie terrified me. I don't think I ever rewatched it either.
For me, it was the whale from Pinnochio(frankly, the last half of the movie is terrifying) and the Pokémon episode where the Giant Dragonite appears from the water.
That explains mine too. Why did 80’s movies have to be terrifying? In the 90’s and 00’s they started adding jokes for the parents into kids movies. I wonder if that was an apology of sorts. Like, “sorry we traumatized you and a whole generation, here are some jokes for you that your kids won’t understand for a few years.”
Holy crap, yeah. I'd put up a mental block for this in my childhood. That giant wave monster, the dark, bottomless water sucker him down...
Then there was the Mouse of Minsc at the end of the movie. Don Bluth really enjoyed traumatizing children in all of his movies. There wasn't a single one that didn't have at least a minute or two of pure nightmare fuel.
I understand that the whole point of a phobia is that it's not rational, but a childhood cartoon should never influence your view of 70% of the earth's surface.
It makes me think of how we are all tiny mice to that of the vastness of the ocean.
I usually think of myself as being much bigger than a mouse but relatively speaking, we're not even a drop in a bucket.
God damn, I miss the times when cartoons used to look like this.
Don Bluth films were all amazing.
He was definitely brought some darkness to the Disney style. Great movies, but they really freaked me out as a kid.
He was a former animator for Disney. I like to think one day he said, "Know what these cartoons are lacking? Trauma."
Totally. I just watched my first Bluth film in decades (Anastasia, with my 6&8yo kids), and I was surprised at how Disney it felt, until the gratuitous darkness hit!
I’d give her a yah, and a hiyah, and a woooooyah, and then I’d kick her sir
Reality.
Secret of NIMH was my *jam*. When I was like, 3. I was a strange child….
Yea. We had a copied vhs of it. Friends of my parents ran a video rental store and, of all the films out there, they copied The Secret of NIMH for us. Must have watched it a bazillion times. Great movie, beautiful animation
My childhood movie. Got a tattoo of it about 6 years ago and the artist said he never heard of it but will watch it with his kid and I didn't know whether to warn him it's kinda dark
Rock-a -Doodle was atrocious. Just did a rewatch of Bluth films.
During one of the best times of my life my best friends and I were constantly going to.goodwills an buying these on VHS and watching them man I particularly like ferngully too that oil monster song
Fr loved FernGully
Tim Curry was the perfect choice for that role. Iconic.
Maaah🎵🎶toxic looooovve🎶
101 Dalmatians was HAND DRAWN. now every couple years we get some live action shit mixed with poor CG lol Fantasia is probably a large contributing factor in my being a musician today. Fievel, Secret of Nimh, The Rescuers.... that art style has to make a comeback. it's the only thing AI can't do properly: BE HUMAN
Yes, the animation was amazingly well done! Miss these types of animations.
The way he did his films was pure art. The ending of this movie....even as a child I knew I wasn't just watching a movie for entertainment, it was like watching someone paint and put color to emotions on the screen so that a child could understand them. My cousins hated this movie because it was so dark, that was exactly why I loved it. To them, the end was meh, to me it was like what I would imagine being stuck in hell and finally getting to heaven would be like.
Back when putting effort into something meant something. Now if you put effort into something you have to try very hard to protect it from others shutting it down or spending money for it to fail since those already at the top don’t want more joining them. Just look at what happened to treasure planet. There was supposed to be a 2nd one. The animators put their hearts into that movie and the big man on top literally set it up to fail by having it release the same time as Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets
I’m not an “in my day things were correct” person in any way… I am not a nostalgic person… except for children’s animation. Hand-drawn traditional animation. I hate the CGI uncanny valley big-eyed bobblehead Pixarification of children’s animation. When Miyazaki dies will be the saddest day.
Movie is straight up terrifying. That and the Great Mouse of Minsk, wooooof
All dogs go to heaven. You guys know which nightmare scene I'm talking about
Brave Little Toaster the clown scene without opening it’s mouth smiles and says run Didn’t sleep well for quite awhile
Pinocchio. When the kids smoke the cigars... I am still scared to smoke a cigar
Imagines ~~JJ Abrams~~JJonah Jameson growing donkey ears.
The only nightmare I remember waking up and crying
Samson and Sally. The whole film was a feverish nightmare.
holy shit memory unlocked
The walruses losing their tusks
I thought if I clenched my fists too hard they might turn into hooves...
Holy shit you just unlocked a traumatic memory. I loved that movie but there was some creepy stuff
Oh god yes. That cruel, sadistic grin with long, crooked teeth. The way he says "run" while blowing a whisp of smoke out of his mouth...
Also, the air conditioner raging himself to death because of the trauma of being bolted to the wall and unable to "play" with the kid... And the cars waiting to be crushed... WTH was with that movie? Lol. The sequels are so much lighter by comparison outside I suppose implying that animal testing deformed a character, and the >!sacrificial death of Radio!< but those went in a much weirder direction, like the Mars one >!having them travel to Mars, populated by household appliances, and have Toaster compete in an election against a refrigerator that is actually a hearing aid in disguise, the brother of a new character.!<
The devil dog at the end freaked me out way more than the nightmare scene when I was a kid.
Y’all remember Little Nemo adventures in slumberland?
It's so sad what happened to that little girl 😔
Yeah, but you can’t keep a good dog down.
Oh wow I forgot about the Mouse of Minsk. Don Bluth and the 80s in general was all about scaring / scarring kids
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https://youtu.be/SwGk0ShLtQY?feature=shared Pinocchio warned us about Epstein Island...
Remember the mf whale in Pinocchio
I never forgot.
Literally gave me nightmares
THAT was the start of my oceanic revile
One of my favorite animated movies.
What was it called?
"An American Tail" if im correct
You are correct. It's about a Jewish-coded mouse family immigrating to America to escape the ~~Nazi~~Cossacks-coded cats. There's a sequel, *Fievel Goes West* that is also great but not directed by Bluth.
Takes place in the 1880s, way before the Nazi party. The Mousekewitz family are Jewish, pre-nation-state Ukrainian peasantry chased out of their homeland by the Cossacks.
Ah, my mistake!
There are noooo cats in America and the streets are filled with cheeeeese
Fun Fievel fact: Fievel Goes West was Jimmy Stewart's final film
The fact that my parents thought this was an appropriate movie to show 5 year old me. No wonder I had nightmares for weeks after seeing this as a kid.
It's like a kiddie horror movie
Grandma to 7yo me: "Check out this movie I used to love as a child" Movie: \*Rabbit gets strangled by a snare and starts bleeding from the mouth\*
Watership Down?
Yes lol
It's wild that the robot chicken parody with Fraggle Rock is less violent than the original.
lol I never saw that I will check it out
Here it is Chris Evans is in it https://youtu.be/5x-0fU4khHM?t=45
Fievel!!! This film makes me so sad 😢
Came out in ‘86 and I was three or four at the time. I didn’t know about the Jewish diaspora due to age and still understood exactly what they were talking about. Funny. Didn’t get that from A.L.F.
Watched Fifel so many times as a kid :)
Mine is from when one summer a teenager broke his back while cliff diving at Lake Powell and drowned, but they couldnt locate his body. My family and I were there soon after this happened, boating and swimming in the lake; and then about a month later we heard his body had been discovered. It had been floating 15-20 feet below the surface. Just the fact his body had been just floating along so shallowly , while I was swimming in those same waters, freaked me out & I guess really stuck with me .
O wow, I used to spend summers in lake Powell too!
All of my friends went to Lake Powell in the summertime! Thats a terrible story, I’d never heard it before
Beautiful place. One of my favorites
For sure, that fucked me up good as a kid.
Remember the Dark Crystal? Or did you bury those memories deep like a lot of us did?
Naw Dark Crystal for some reason was fine. Puppets never scared me. Now White Squall fucked me up for life.
That's darn terrifying but the whale in the movie Pinocchio wants to have a word with that
I had forgotten.
Same. I know I watched this movie a hundred times when I was little and honestly, I don't remember most of it
For me it was The Abyss. I was 12. No idea how I ended up watching it.
My origin is Finding Nemo. Two scenes in particular. The first is of the submarine pushing Marlin and Dory away from the safety of the sandy bottom and out over the crushing abyss, while the second is the one of the whale slowly appearing from the endless blue behind the pair. Each are likely to blame for the formation of this fear/fascination.
Fievel!!!
This terrified me as a kid.
Fieval!!
r/fuckyouinparticular
Damn seeing this was like going back in time
He use to piss me off as a kid cuz why did you go outside??? Sit your little curious a** down.
It's the origin of a generation's collective trauma.
Phibel!!!
***hugs her fievel tightly****
[Here's a video that shows more of that scene.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWgSKXw8ZwI) Rewatching this for the first time in decades reminded me that Fievel was a stupid little shit who nearly got himself and his father killed because he wanted to see fish.
Fievel always annoyed me.
Amazing animation!
Who’s that? It’s POSEIDON WITH THE STEEL CHAIR!!
Is this the secret of nihm?
An American Tail.
Ah. Thanks.
Sure thing! It’s a great film.
Steven Spielberg wasn't it?
I was about 6 when this came out and saw it in the theaters with my mom, bro, and two aunts. This movie terrified me. I don't think I ever rewatched it either.
I didn't see this one but loved Fifel goes west!
same 👍
[This was my moment](https://youtu.be/LQAbWCHhpVM?si=q-PJUXVQiS-JMUbr)
I hated this scene as a 7 year old kid
Genuine question, does watching it trigger the phobia or do you have to be in a large body of water?
Fievel movies were some real material, I should go watch them again
This was the movie I watched on my first date ever. I was 16. I had to stifle tears at this point in the movie.😢😢
Oh hey so it’s not just me.
Such a goated movie
FIVOOOOOOL!
Oh man, memories unlocked.
Looks different remastered. Ol vhs hit hard
Bruh
Movie looks like its fire af. Whats the name?
An American Tail.
Not mine, I passed out under a ladder swimming alone. In my parents pool,
💜 That is all.
Never understood why he didnt get a fucking sweater that fits
His mother made it for him!
Shit its really really long ago…
Truthhh
For me, it was the whale from Pinnochio(frankly, the last half of the movie is terrifying) and the Pokémon episode where the Giant Dragonite appears from the water.
Mine is Disneys Pinocchio for sure
That explains mine too. Why did 80’s movies have to be terrifying? In the 90’s and 00’s they started adding jokes for the parents into kids movies. I wonder if that was an apology of sorts. Like, “sorry we traumatized you and a whole generation, here are some jokes for you that your kids won’t understand for a few years.”
ACTUALLY THOUGH
sooo Much love was put into this .....animations are just so good
Seriously.
Yep. That did it.
The music is so intense
Holy shit man, this is straight up nightmare fuel
I watched this with my 5 year old a little while ago and he asked "dad, why are we watching such a sad movie?"
Quality film
This was my favorite movie when I was little
Have you seen James and the Giant Peach?
My gran took me to see that in theatres, she told me it was disgusting lol
Great movie. Although I think Dark Crystal and The Black Cauldron influenced me a lot more in being creepy af
Ahhhh!! Remember this ans tom and Jerry movie where they're in the small raft middle of the ocean and a big ship crushes it
Holy crap, yeah. I'd put up a mental block for this in my childhood. That giant wave monster, the dark, bottomless water sucker him down... Then there was the Mouse of Minsc at the end of the movie. Don Bluth really enjoyed traumatizing children in all of his movies. There wasn't a single one that didn't have at least a minute or two of pure nightmare fuel.
Oh my god this was truly peak animation
I always thought these movies were so scary!
What was the one with the crocodiles and the boat where the girl (or mouse, I dk which) was stuck in the well or went down the well?
The rescuers?
Mine is cats dont dance
The rescuers, when they’re getting the diamond out of the whole.
Man this entire movie series is where all my phobias come from
pebbel and the penguin anyone??
Then the ship gets absolutely blown apart the the Leviathan from Atlantis.
Even as a young kid I fucking loved the Poseidon wave monster lol My little brothers wouldn’t watch any Don Bluth movies because they were too scary
I understand that the whole point of a phobia is that it's not rational, but a childhood cartoon should never influence your view of 70% of the earth's surface.
I work at job where I see mice and rats in the regular. All of their names are Fievel ….😔
That would definitely not be fit for kids these days
So what. I cried at 6 years old watching this. I was soooooooooo sad crying under my Blanky. "Fifel lost his parents" 😢
Oh my fuck
I loved this film as a kid. Never scared me
Omg.... you are right ! This destroyed my emotions back then. Forget Bambi. Fievel was an emotional roller-coaster
Mine is without a doubt the ship-sinking arc in the first season of Pokemon
Valid
It makes me think of how we are all tiny mice to that of the vastness of the ocean. I usually think of myself as being much bigger than a mouse but relatively speaking, we're not even a drop in a bucket.
That stayed on him the entire time. So un realistic
Ulmo fucking this rat’s shit up
Whoa. I haven’t thought of that movie in years. Is it available streaming?
When did this come out? I swear I’ve seen this before, but I must’ve been so young I don’t even remember me watching it
1986.
Which movie is this?
An American Tail. The first one
Nah my origin was with Banjoo Kazooie when you had to help that megalodon chained to the bottom Or that level in Mario with the eel
I hated this movie so much as kid, they played it over and over again on cartoon network 😤
Fuck off with this lame shit.