his parents were never killed, they dumped him on his aunts because james was extremely autistic. his aunties had no patience for his autism but kept him out of guilt or possible welfare checks. the rhino serves as a metaphor for his autism, aka the thing that ruined his relationship with his parents. its unclear if james aunts lied to him about his parents or he just has trouble understanding why his parents would leave. In the end James overcomes his autism and moved out into the world and gained surrogate parents as a result.
because Tim Burton designed it for Nightmare Before Christmas in 1993.
Henry Selick directed James and the Giant Peach and Nightmare Before Christmas, and Coraline.
Tim Burton is a b***h with no talent.
While I cant speak fondly of his recent work, you're moronic if you think Burton has no talent. The first decade of his career was perfection with a few gems sprinkled over his next 30 years of cashing out. Henry should kiss the feet Tim Burton walks on for even throwing him Monkeybone.
oh......oh god. at last i finally see. like all the other demoralization propaganda millenial children were subjected to in school its abook about child abuse....
Nightmare Disney. Their partnership with Burton was one weird decision for Disney. I guess that was their soft-start into bizarre transgressive shit, but still. Burton's Disney output is fricking weird. Also surprising Dahl has become uncancellable due to his enduring popularity and the nostalgia of his work even though he fricking hated israelites. Also he was the inspiration for James Bond. How does one man get so influential and based in one lifetime?
this movie is an actual insane nightmare
I hate that this movie is such an excellent translation of that inescapable dread that you feel in a nightmare even when nothing is wrong
that evil feeling at the beginning of the movie lingers throughout and that rhino keeps appearing like the creatures that try to hurt you in your dreams
his aunts accosting him in the big city is like a waking nightmare where something terrible is going to happen to you and no one is listening
at least it ended well
I had this movie as a very young child and watched it alot but don't remember anything about it, I'm starting to wonder if this had a bad effect on my psyche
No, the dream I had two weeks ago was literally one: >dream I'm in 1960s office building >in middle of meeting >wake up but am still half asleep so still in middle of dream >feel like I'm switching between two realities >boss and coworkers in dream look at me strangely >"Hey, Earth to Major Anon! You there?" >finally fall asleep and go back to my 1960s life >when I wake up that morning I question if I was a 1960s office clerk day dreaming about being a neet or a neet dreaming about being a 60s office clerk
Andy Partridge was supposed to do the soundtrack originally, I think the story goes that as Burton was producing James he approached Partridge after he fell out briefly with Elfman, which is poetic really considering the Boingo and XTC connection
That's the Life was good imo, but if you don't like Randy Newman you're not gonna like the soundtrack.
I didn't realise people were negative on this film, I thought it was great as a kid. Then again I always enjoyed weird, grotesque visuals and fever dream stuff. Haven't rewatched it in a bit though.
Watched it about a year ago for the first time since the 90s probably. I don't remember anything specific except there were multiple "wait what the frick?" moments
James stowed away to America on a cargo ship and all he had to eat was a single peach, and due to malnutrition, fear of discovery, and extreme loneliness, he began talking to bugs and hallucinating. He also felt like his head was swelling up as a side effect of malnutrition and not getting enough fresh air.
The stuff about the giant peach and crocodile tongues and stuff was all just him living in an escapist fantasy due to being abused by his aunts. Those escapist fantasies allowed him to have the imagination to escape but from there on out. He desired to pick the only peach on the tree despite his aunts telling him not to, because they plucked all the other buds from the tree so they could grow a large one for a competition. He finally picked it, and then ran away when he realized how much trouble he was in.
I fricking loved this movie as a kid! My favourite character was the centipede. It's actually a little concerning I related with the angry misfit who kept to himself even as young as 7...
"Live action boy turns into an animated version of himself around the start, spends most of the runtime in that animated form having an adventure with other animated characters, and goes back to his live action form towards the end" trilogy.
>Arthur and the Minimoys came out in 2006, while previous examples came out in mid 90s
Luc Besson is based for bringing back that concept after so long.
How the frick is Roald Dahl considered a "childrens author"? His books are a bit morbid and kind of cynical though I guess to a kid it might not appear that way...
Tales for children always used to be a bit macabre and scary, look at the original versions of various Grimms' tales
Fun fact Roald Dahl was also an intelligence asset for the British government under the RAF, and he was assigned to spy on the US and stir pro-British sentiment
Dahl was a rare gem of a "children's" author who respected kid's intelligence while also giving them what they really wanted. He knew they could be told a story without sugarcoating (adults can be jerks, the world is unfair, real danger exists, teachers are able to hurt you, some kids are more fortunate than you), but also pay off with a satisfying victory at the end. To give you an example, Matilda spends a lot of time showing you how much of a b***h Trunchbull is, only to finally have Matilda win graciously.
Sometimes, kids just wanna see an butthole villain suffer what it deserves.
>Following the Literary Review article, Dahl told a journalist from the New Statesman: "There's a trait in the israeli character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason."
>In 1990, during an interview with The Independent, Dahl explained that his issue with Israel began when they invaded Lebanon in 1982: “they killed 22,000 civilians when they bombed Beirut. It was very much hushed up in the newspapers because they are primarily israeli-owned. I'm certainly anti-Israeli and I've become antisemitic in as much as that you get a israeli person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism. I think they should see both sides. It's the same old thing: we all know about israelites and the rest of it. There aren't any non-israeli publishers anywhere, they control the media—jolly clever thing to do—that's why the president of the United States has to sell all this stuff to Israel.”
The book was even more fricked up.
>giant storm rhinocerous kills your parents
what did zeus mean by this?
What did his parents do to anger and be killed by some obscure African thunder god/spirit that also has hit out for their son?
his parents were never killed, they dumped him on his aunts because james was extremely autistic. his aunties had no patience for his autism but kept him out of guilt or possible welfare checks. the rhino serves as a metaphor for his autism, aka the thing that ruined his relationship with his parents. its unclear if james aunts lied to him about his parents or he just has trouble understanding why his parents would leave. In the end James overcomes his autism and moved out into the world and gained surrogate parents as a result.
james had a psychotic episode and somehow travelled international waters. hes a wily autist
Colonialism and keeping slaves
Was the rhino a metaphor for autism?
it was a metaphor for the real rhino that kills and eats his family in the book
but could the rhino have been a metaphor for his persistent autism that drove away his parents?
frick man I'd blocked that out for decades now
He was actually saying wino and I don't think I need to explain that.
So there’s this moron in our cousins family and my wife pointed out the other today this kid in this movie looks just like him.
That moron's name?
Albert Einstein.
Why did they never go after Tim Burton for ripping off their designs?
Henry Selick directed James and the Giant Peach and Nightmare Before Christmas, and Coraline.
Tim Burton is a b***h with no talent.
because Tim Burton designed it for Nightmare Before Christmas in 1993.
While I cant speak fondly of his recent work, you're moronic if you think Burton has no talent. The first decade of his career was perfection with a few gems sprinkled over his next 30 years of cashing out. Henry should kiss the feet Tim Burton walks on for even throwing him Monkeybone.
Why does Roald Dahl like giant fruit?
>not banging your 2 milf aunts
They obviously need a good fricking which is probably why they're so angry all the time.
Anon he literally lives in their peach
oh......oh god. at last i finally see. like all the other demoralization propaganda millenial children were subjected to in school its abook about child abuse....
Nightmare Disney. Their partnership with Burton was one weird decision for Disney. I guess that was their soft-start into bizarre transgressive shit, but still. Burton's Disney output is fricking weird. Also surprising Dahl has become uncancellable due to his enduring popularity and the nostalgia of his work even though he fricking hated israelites. Also he was the inspiration for James Bond. How does one man get so influential and based in one lifetime?
I really hate thinking about this movie for some reason
because it's fricking grotesque and uncanny looking
This movie is depression in a bottle. It made me feel depressed watching it as a child and it still does today.
It's from the same director as Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline.
Why did you leave out his latest masterpiece wendell and wild in that list
Wendell and Wild was so bad it literally killed Netflix's animation department kek
this movie is an actual insane nightmare
I hate that this movie is such an excellent translation of that inescapable dread that you feel in a nightmare even when nothing is wrong
that evil feeling at the beginning of the movie lingers throughout and that rhino keeps appearing like the creatures that try to hurt you in your dreams
his aunts accosting him in the big city is like a waking nightmare where something terrible is going to happen to you and no one is listening
at least it ended well
This. It’s that feeling of existential dread you have after waking from a terrible three hour nap.
>feeling of existential dread you have after waking from a terrible three hour nap
i hate this, why the hell does it happen?
>tfw no french spider gf
I'm pretty sure this is what gave me my spider girl fetish
moron
I had this movie as a very young child and watched it alot but don't remember anything about it, I'm starting to wonder if this had a bad effect on my psyche
>autistic fever dream
No, the dream I had two weeks ago was literally one:
>dream I'm in 1960s office building
>in middle of meeting
>wake up but am still half asleep so still in middle of dream
>feel like I'm switching between two realities
>boss and coworkers in dream look at me strangely
>"Hey, Earth to Major Anon! You there?"
>finally fall asleep and go back to my 1960s life
>when I wake up that morning I question if I was a 1960s office clerk day dreaming about being a neet or a neet dreaming about being a 60s office clerk
i can't believe you thought people want to read about your dream
shut the frick up
Hey anon you should check out Corner Office 2023 if you haven't already. Think it might be up your alley.
I found it interesting tbqhwy
>This is Halloween, Jack's Lament, What's This?, Town Meeting Song, Jack's Obsession, Kidnap the Sandy Claws, Making Christmas, Oogie Boogie's Song, Sally's Song, Poor Jack, Finale/Reprise
>My Name is James, That's the Life, Eating the Peach, Family, Good News
As a musical, it's a big step backwards from Nightmare Before Christmas.
Andy Partridge was supposed to do the soundtrack originally, I think the story goes that as Burton was producing James he approached Partridge after he fell out briefly with Elfman, which is poetic really considering the Boingo and XTC connection
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That's the Life was good imo, but if you don't like Randy Newman you're not gonna like the soundtrack.
I didn't realise people were negative on this film, I thought it was great as a kid. Then again I always enjoyed weird, grotesque visuals and fever dream stuff. Haven't rewatched it in a bit though.
these dumb homosexuals deadass went 9 days before realizing they was literally standing on food
for real? sheeeeit
Literally remember nothing from this movie other than the sexy spider
same, i lost count of how many spiders i cornered and jizzed to death in my room because of this movie, so hot.
She was sexy spider mommy but I had yet to go through puberty so it was a weird experience
ruined
Tame compared to the source material but yeah, this shit gave me nightmares for months
It gave me nightmares after I saw it as a kid
>WHACK!!! WHACK!!! WHACK!!
So they were telling him to whack off?
People who don't like this movie have 0 taste
Watched it about a year ago for the first time since the 90s probably. I don't remember anything specific except there were multiple "wait what the frick?" moments
It was one of my first kinos as a baby.
>1996 was 27(twenty seven) years ago
>haha good one ano-
>Its true
James stowed away to America on a cargo ship and all he had to eat was a single peach, and due to malnutrition, fear of discovery, and extreme loneliness, he began talking to bugs and hallucinating. He also felt like his head was swelling up as a side effect of malnutrition and not getting enough fresh air.
The stuff about the giant peach and crocodile tongues and stuff was all just him living in an escapist fantasy due to being abused by his aunts. Those escapist fantasies allowed him to have the imagination to escape but from there on out. He desired to pick the only peach on the tree despite his aunts telling him not to, because they plucked all the other buds from the tree so they could grow a large one for a competition. He finally picked it, and then ran away when he realized how much trouble he was in.
Shut up
I fricking loved this movie as a kid! My favourite character was the centipede. It's actually a little concerning I related with the angry misfit who kept to himself even as young as 7...
why use that terrible deviantart tier ESB poster and not a drew struzan one like the others?
tis wasn't available but I admire the autism
ms spider is my queen
Any time I see a shot of clouds I imagine a big evil cloud rhino running out of them and I giggle
"Live action boy turns into an animated version of himself around the start, spends most of the runtime in that animated form having an adventure with other animated characters, and goes back to his live action form towards the end" trilogy.
kino
>Arthur and the Minimoys came out in 2006, while previous examples came out in mid 90s
Luc Besson is based for bringing back that concept after so long.
Glad I wasn't the only one who thought this movies art style was strange and not in a good way
kino
How the frick is Roald Dahl considered a "childrens author"? His books are a bit morbid and kind of cynical though I guess to a kid it might not appear that way...
Tales for children always used to be a bit macabre and scary, look at the original versions of various Grimms' tales
Fun fact Roald Dahl was also an intelligence asset for the British government under the RAF, and he was assigned to spy on the US and stir pro-British sentiment
you should watch grizzly tales for gruesome kids
Dahl was a rare gem of a "children's" author who respected kid's intelligence while also giving them what they really wanted. He knew they could be told a story without sugarcoating (adults can be jerks, the world is unfair, real danger exists, teachers are able to hurt you, some kids are more fortunate than you), but also pay off with a satisfying victory at the end. To give you an example, Matilda spends a lot of time showing you how much of a b***h Trunchbull is, only to finally have Matilda win graciously.
Sometimes, kids just wanna see an butthole villain suffer what it deserves.
Because kids love those books.
Penguin edited it so that it can be enjoyed by trannies. Kek
I am going to FRICK that spider
my siblings used to always pick this movie to watch cuz they knew it gave me nightmares
i havent watched it in over 20 years
gives me anxiety just thinking about it
delete this thread
actually a great film, going to have to rewatch it, it's been at least 20 years since i last saw it
>tfw had a poster for this film above my bunk bed that they gave away at the theatrical screenings
>Following the Literary Review article, Dahl told a journalist from the New Statesman: "There's a trait in the israeli character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason."
>In 1990, during an interview with The Independent, Dahl explained that his issue with Israel began when they invaded Lebanon in 1982: “they killed 22,000 civilians when they bombed Beirut. It was very much hushed up in the newspapers because they are primarily israeli-owned. I'm certainly anti-Israeli and I've become antisemitic in as much as that you get a israeli person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism. I think they should see both sides. It's the same old thing: we all know about israelites and the rest of it. There aren't any non-israeli publishers anywhere, they control the media—jolly clever thing to do—that's why the president of the United States has to sell all this stuff to Israel.”
really loved the dreadful atmosphere of this movie as a kid
the shark was a bit of a lame villain however
>This shit is like some kind of autistic fever dream
stop-motion animation requires autism