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To this day, TLU still remains one of my favourite movies (and books). Marred only by the horrible singing (not including the several tracks by America, those were great).
Beautiful animation, achingly tragic and bittersweet and haunting. The Red Bull didn't scare me. Neither did the skeksis in The Dark Crystal.
Loved Cat and Molly Grue and the skull.
Sounds like TlU should be on my "must see" list.
The Horses of the Hobbit.
Gah, I love The Last Unicorn. I don't even think I can be coherent about it, because it was one of the most enduring and affecting touchstones of my childhood, and I can't really look at it with a critical eye. But it is beautiful, incredibly moving, and occasionally terrifying.
I think I read it once. I remember being baffled.
The Skeksis didn't even register amidst the nightmares brought on by that scene where the Podling shriveled up when her essence was drained: [link]
"Why do you come to me now, when I am this? "
Broke my heart.
Broke my heart.
For realz.
I'm kind of overcome thinking about it, that scene, the whole story.
that scene where the Podling shriveled up when her essence was drained:
OH GOD WHY WOULD YOU LINK TO THAT??? Sadist!
Ah, children's movies.