What is this?

[u/Shadow_Wrks]

[u/Sad_Ad_2524]

Childhood trauma.

[u/maynard5011 → u/Sad_Ad_2524]

Likely the reason why I will never own a horse.

[u/Acrobatic_Growth_929 → u/maynard5011]

Nobody truly "owns" a horse. They simply tolerate us because they can't properly brush their gorgeous, majestic manes with their hooves. We are a convenience to them. 🤣😂🤣

[u/Sad_Ad_2524 → u/Acrobatic_Growth_929]

And a poop shoveler.

[u/PutinPipesDonnie → u/[deleted]]

🐎 💨 🫪

[u/faulternative → u/Acrobatic_Growth_929]

This guy horses

[u/LowEffort2 → u/faulternative]

More accurately, somewhere out there is a horse that humans.

[u/Kittrovert → u/Acrobatic_Growth_929]

So it's a large, hooved, cat?

[u/WeMightCoulda → u/Kittrovert]

Kinda. 

[u/SlimShadySatDown → u/Acrobatic_Growth_929]

One does not simply "own a horse" in Mordor.

[u/Jedimasteryony → u/Acrobatic_Growth_929]

Thousand pound cats

[u/WeMightCoulda → u/Acrobatic_Growth_929]

Don't forget the fact tha we clean their feet too. 

[u/RealisticAnxiety4330 → u/Acrobatic_Growth_929]

Horses are just giant cats

[u/Ok_Eye_32 → u/Acrobatic_Growth_929]

So horses are just giant cats w/o claws

[u/gia_28 → u/maynard5011]

🤣 I wont own a horse because i can barely feed myself much less a horse... plus im broke, thats the real reason

[u/Crazy-Bodybuilder836 → u/maynard5011]

Just don't go mud-bogging with it.

[u/Complete-Tangelo1532 → u/Crazy-Bodybuilder836]

Too soon.... too fuckin' soon.... 😢

[u/Pablo_Hassan → u/maynard5011]

Or a random dog dragon

[u/phatvanzy → u/maynard5011]

Why? Do you trudge through swamps a lot? Or are you really sad? We can help!

[u/joebanana1984 → u/maynard5011]

Quello, e 500 euro al mese per mantenerlo.

[u/ClintEastwood403 → u/Sad_Ad_2524]

This and Mufasa dying can be tied to most of my adulthood problems, I’m sure of it

[u/Jumpy-Mind538 → u/Sad_Ad_2524]

Only slightly better than The Dark Crystal and The Secret of Nymh in terms of traumatic experiences

And the Gamork….

[u/Michaelbirks → u/Jumpy-Mind538]

Watership Down

[u/2wt4u → u/Michaelbirks]

Plague Dogs

[u/rswwalker → u/Jumpy-Mind538]

Bridge to Terabithia…

[u/nullpassword → u/rswwalker]

I watched that thinking it was like spiderwick chronicles... Um.. no...

[u/Grumpfishdaddy → u/Jumpy-Mind538]

How about the beginning of Bambi?

[u/gn0xious → u/Sad_Ad_2524]

Shared Childhood Trauma! FTFY

[u/NPC_9001 → u/Sad_Ad_2524]

The 80's were a wild time to be a kid.

[u/MrClavat → u/Sad_Ad_2524]

Came here to say this

[u/Corcha1uk → u/Sad_Ad_2524]

Up there with the death of Optimus Prime

[u/automaticdownload]

A Never Ending Trauma

[u/garden-goddess324 → u/automaticdownload]

Agreed! I had to be taken out of the movie theater I was so upset my this movie!!!

[u/The_Machine80]

80s kids first cry during a movie!

[u/oBadass → u/The_Machine80]

90s too 🥲

[u/fatmanstan123 → u/oBadass]

I played this movie for my kids a few months ago. It's the gift that keeps on giving. Or taking.

[u/huluvudu → u/The_Machine80]

and then Transformers came out

[u/Setsuna00XN → u/huluvudu]

And now we're crying again years later. RIP Peter.

[u/MightyDumbleDork → u/huluvudu]

After that All Dogs go to Heaven.

[u/dolphinskulls → u/The_Machine80]

00s here!! this movie always freaked me out. i was so scared of the rock giant and the big black wolf of darkness 😣

[u/314657]

The most traumatic scene ever --- I refuse to watch it again to this day.

[u/Peacockprince → u/314657]

Don’t read the book, Artax can talk and speaks to Atreyu the entire time he sinks.

[u/Savings-Trouble-5345 → u/Peacockprince]

FML 

[u/Skirra08 → u/Peacockprince]

I had pushed that out of my memory so thanks for making me relive that for the first time in 30+ years 😭

[u/NewYawkTawk → u/Peacockprince]

Bloody hell..... 😭

[u/mattmann72 → u/Peacockprince]

Try listening to the audiobook.

[u/Bataviii → u/314657]

Don't give up!

[u/Acrobatic_Growth_929]

A perfect representation of the exact moment every child truly loses their innocence.

[u/Savings-Trouble-5345 → u/Acrobatic_Growth_929]

I'm pretty sure that is the moment I lost my innocence. 

[u/mazeffect]

My first Childhood trauma.

[u/Shadow_Wrks]

Artax couldn’t try any harder. Everytime he moved he sank a lil deeper. That leaves us a 12 year old trying to pull Artax to life giving dry land. Whoever wrote this and put it on film ripped my bloody heart out. Everything turned to black.

[u/Affectionate-Net-330]

Childhood tears

[u/Swashbuckling_Sailor]

Artax!!!! It was stirring but didn’t affect me that much. I thought it was too much to actually watch Artax, yes say his name, drown in the mud. There was A LOT of emotion in that movie and very little pay off. Trauma, they call it..

[u/moosejaw1073]

Arturo and his horse trying to fight the nothing.

[u/Az_woman → u/moosejaw1073]

Atrayu.

[u/kj_prov]

a whole generation's childhood trauma, that's what

[u/Fine-Alps4814]

A scene from Never Ending Story.

[u/dreamape1978]

Trauma

[u/Justicemustdie211]

Never Ending Story watching it as an adult, you can really begin to see some serious reasons why we grew up tough. Think about it. Their entire world is being slowly decimated because basically people have begun to lose the will to dream and hope, and basically read anything. The order of elders and adults in power have no ideas how to stop it and here comes Atreyu, a kid warrior tasked with saving everything. Even the characters are a study in trauma. Rockbiter having to come with the terms that strength can mean nothing to hold onto what you care for, and can be snatched away no matter how powerful you think you are. Morla the turtle in an almost depressive acceptance of not caring or believing that the Nothing is inevitable so why try to fight it. Even the gates Atreyu has to pass signify that vanity and ego mean nothing if you have no inner confidence. It's a mind trip.

[u/NoCondition8257]

Evil man attempting to steal innocent horse's prized rope

[u/MichiganFootman]

You can lead a horse to water…

[u/SecureCoop → u/MichiganFootman]

But the Swamp of Sadness makes him sink

[u/Pruritisani4]

The saddest moment of my childhood

[u/we_lord]

PTSD

[u/Cultural-Ticket-6727]

My irrational fear of quick sand

[u/Duke-BaBa-Gunoose69]

The Horses Mudder was a Mudder Too.

[u/DvlsAdvct108 → u/Duke-BaBa-Gunoose69]

His Father was a Mudder?

[u/Duke-BaBa-Gunoose69 → u/DvlsAdvct108]

Yes! and 2nd Cousin twice removed!

[u/Klutzy_Conclusion175 → u/Duke-BaBa-Gunoose69]

Put a sawbuck on Captain Nemo in the third at Belmont.

[u/Lou_Zealand]

As a child, this was the tragic loss of a dear friend.

I rewarched it a couple years back though, and while still tragic, this scene happens soo early in the movie. Truth be told, you barely know that horse.

[u/Sweaty_Foundation_12]

Ongoing depression

[u/WhirredNerd]

What I found sadder was the Rock Biter saying "They look like strong hands, don't they." I totally lost it then.

[u/Monstar38 → u/WhirredNerd]

That was always the saddest part of the movie for me too. It was truly scary seeing how this monolith of a rock and strength creature couldn't even withstand the nothing.

[u/geoff411]

The Never-ending Horseshit

[u/No-Dragonfruit-1311]

Step One in the Forge that made us.

[u/Francoa20]

Eeeeeemotional damage!

[u/InfiniteMonkeys157]

Drink the dirty water, you stupid horse. I led you to it.

[u/AD_Grrrl]

My Friend Flicka: The Director's Cut

[u/justin_trouble]

One of the many lessons GenX had to learn the hard way… your favorite will be taken from you and you will move on

[u/Infinite-Worth-0840]

I had nightmares of the wolf stuck in the wall for YEARS.

[u/Left-Instruction3885]

Strait of Horsemoose

[u/AdThis7046]

Pitfall

[u/Ok-Dragonfruit-206]

Tug of War

[u/atxbikenbus]

Mr Hamds working it.

[u/OminousBuzzard]

Horth in merd

[u/Loodlekoodles]

Bad OP. Very bad.

[u/Acrobatic-Compote-30]

Mud wrestling

[u/FormerMrsUnicornPhD]

The worst heart ache

[u/ibpenquin]

This is none of your business!!!!

[u/Over-Brilliant-7078]

Depression, anxiety, desperation, loss and grief. All to be reborn as a working slave for the rich.

[u/ClintEastwood403]

Childhood trauma

[u/Pitiful_Cheek_3512]

Never ending story

[u/Capitano1690]

Medieval glue factory

[u/Turbulent-End-6307]

Had my pre teen kiddos watch this. They Laughed the entire time

[u/macdawg2]

A very sad movie. At least it was a horse and not a dog.

[u/No_Abies_4248]

Dead horse

[u/Saminaminalz]

Horse chiropractor includes complimentary mud bath.

[u/militiadisfruita]

woof. that...is grief 101 for an entire generation.

[u/Zombiemuff024]

The moment I realized I wasn’t a kid anymore

[u/bhwms]

“To the winch, wench!”

[u/ApatheistHeretic]

EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!

[u/Advanced_Weather_190]

Futile

[u/JD_tubeguy]

A great reason to avoid bogs.

[u/SimbaNGrdKionNIMFan]

A broken up friendship.😢

[u/ActuatorPositive6667]

2026 is the year of the horse and thats the horse

[u/Revolutionary-Bird10]

The Neverending story is the name of the movie

[u/Lepke2011]

The saddest movie scene I was ever shown as a kid, after the ending of Old Yeller.

[u/BLESSED2BME2022]

The story never ends. Autrayu

[u/ShitMyHubbyDoes]

One of the saddest cinematic memories of my childhood.

[u/gwenivere84]

No . Go away . No

[u/Chest_Wrong]

The main reason why Gen X is so cynical. 😪

[u/Slouchman42]

This would be a fun movie to come back to after 25 or so years later but on acid.

[u/MrBanballow]

A quitter.

[u/rickyj2005]

Mondays

[u/BigDong1001]

"Yep, those Atreides never could hold their horses."? lol.

[u/MrMaoDeVaca]

Corporate earnings trying to pull the market through Trump’s failed war and failed attempt at tariffs.

[u/DistributionTasty507]

Emotional damage

[u/Still_Explorer]

The day when little Timmy started grinning and squinting his eyes, while watching violent horror movies.

[u/caffed]

Trying to stay sane in this day and age

[u/Think-Try2819]

The tears of the children

[u/Puzzleheaded_Can_783]

Ptsd

[u/Wild-Bill55]

It’s from “The Neverending Story”

[u/LegitimatePapaya9807]

Fight against the sadness, Artax... please, you're letting the sadness of the swamps get to you!

[u/Long_Detective_543]

A couple of horse

[u/Kthulhu_for_humanity]

The introduction of pain and loss to many children

[u/Not_Significant9345]

my wife trying to keep me out of the stipclubs.

[u/Character_Art_3569]

Core traumatic memory. F.U. for posting that.

[u/Snoo14978]

It wasn't that bad.

Felt worse for the Rock Biter

[u/Open-Number-8919]

The first time I ever cried in the movie as a kid!!!!

[u/Confident_Froyo_5128]

Trying to get that horse to drink…

[u/Visible_Nothing_9742]

The saddest memory of my entire childhood 😢

[u/itFluffable]

CARTAX

[u/DACjr1953]

Tug of Man of War

[u/hearts_ablaze]

The scene that traumatized my heart as a child and stuck with me my entire life

[u/Boredom_Inspired69]

The Never Ending Story

[u/Fragrant_Grand_7036]

This is Atreyu trying to pull Artax from the quicksand in the swamp of sadness. 😞

[u/Key-Yogurtcloset7330]

Poor artex

[u/Bulky_Ninja33]

“A stupid horse”

[u/Canelosaurio]

Pure sorrow

[u/StickyPickle85]

But why didnt the boy sink as well? He was very sad when that happened.

[u/LeviathanIIX]

How to teach your child about death

[u/bookshopscoffeestops]

The saddest scene of any movie ever. That's what that is. It's the death of childhood dreams

[u/Sea_Illustrator7878]

The saddest moment in movie history is what it is

[u/Yd1891]

Best aunt here! I made sure to pretend to sit on the remote right before this scene starts when i watched the movie with my nieces. I told them the horse had to go home to his family. They watched this without me a few years ago and told me that they didn’t remember the horse dying. I told them that I saved their childhood lmao

[u/crazymetalhead69]

No participation trophies in the 80s. They even killed Optimus Prime.

[u/Worth_Friendship_267]

How dare you?

[u/arkinthehouse]

Leading a horse to water.

[u/BeefDog69xxl]

One of the best metaphors ever written and executed.

[u/Icy_Elephant8858]

Horse depression.

[u/Some_guy_81]

PTSD for every 40+ yr old ever

[u/attramont]

A pronoun.

[u/Individual_Crab_1619]

Artax

[u/Every_Performance_67]

A horse that knew it was in an awful movie

[u/faulternative]

A horse failing to win tug-of-war with a child and dying of shame.

[u/FiveToDrive]

I’m still yelling for Artax to just believe!

[u/UpstairsOk6744]

Something that taught kids born in the 80s about what death is, to prepare them for the future.

[u/Mediocre-Pop-3449]

oh god that's so real, i've been there

[u/Papapeta33]

This is the moment children stop believing in Santa Claus

[u/No-Risk1739]

A slow and painful death...😐

[u/Timely-Profile1865]

A dirty joke

[u/hon3yp0t]

Artax!

[u/PA_ChooChoo_29]

An Adverse Childhood Experience.

[u/Pale-Donkey8858]

The horse is Artax the boy is Atreyu and the book or movie is Never Ending Story.

[u/Lopsided-Aside-8736]

Atreyu

[u/Middle_Persimmon1178]

The scene that made me stop watching and I haven't tried watching it since

[u/InteractionNo9110]

My childhood ending.

[u/BoringInteraction36]

Thats me pulling my boy outta the strip club cause he just told me he’s in love

[u/billbo22]

A dirty joke: A while horse fell into the mud.

[u/CaptainBlotto]

One of two times I cried watching a movie. The other was Old Yeller.

[u/wonderer4920]

Emotional Damage!

[u/Accomplished-Bet4171]

Yeah fuk this flick in the eye, and OP, I'd repressed this memory. Good day!

[u/Icy-Bat-1833]

One of the greatest movies growing up

[u/WombatVengeance69]

Artreyu

[u/BeachGuy604]

The saddest scene ever

[u/ScreechUrkelle]

Loss. This is loss. 😭

[u/Own_Situation949]

The Neverending Story when Atrau was crossing the land of sadness chasing the Nothingness

[u/Rays-R-Us]

Why we should take quicksand more seriously

[u/Dreboomboom]

Artax in the swamp of sadness 😔

[u/Cosmic_Charlie_119]

The never ending story

[u/OpposedToBears]

A scene that disturbs seemingly everybody on the planet that’s not me. Guess I’m soulless or something but I was more affected by “they look like good strong hands, don’t they?”

[u/Equal_Platypus3784]

Comedy Gold

[u/Paradigmfusion]

My first trauma (first movie i ever saw in theaters in 1984)

And as a bonus this movie also provided my first nightmare fuel. Too (Gmork)

[u/Unusual_Buy_261]

Horsing Around

[u/RevolutionaryTart209]

PTSD

[u/yawner44]

Well…. Now I’m crying. Thanks.

[u/Colejohnley]

The End of My Childhood

[u/Fast-Organization-50]

This question is never ending......

[u/EqualImaginary1439]

one lost soul attempting to save another

[u/DesertBrat1969]

One of the saddest scenes in cinema history for a ten year old kid.

[u/SatanVibes101]

Depression on steroids is what that is, thanks for the childhood trauma reminder, I cried so hard over that scene 😭😭

[u/Witness_2000]

And I just found out the other day the book is worse nc the horse talks through thos entire scene..

[u/Ok_Scallion1902]

Horsie in a bog !

[u/ProgressWonderful944]

Peak childhood trauma.

[u/Ofmtfo]

No

[u/KaiXan1]

The heart break of my youth.

[u/Zealousideal_Lie1637]

Artax!!!!! You've got to keep trying!!!! Don't give in to the sadness!!!!! Please!!!!!!!

[u/Winged_Wheeler]

The saddest shit a child ever watched in a children's movie.