― Will M. (Will M.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Stepping back to the book, I seem to remember that O'Brien handled the tone of Mrs. Frisby's eventual discoveries of the complicated world her dead husband was a part of very well. (Is it also the kid's equivalent to The Plague Dogs on an antivivisection front? Lord knows that sequence in Secret was pretty terrifying.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
The thing I remember most about the movie was the incredible animation.
― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
You know, you're right! I had the same reaction!
Whatever was done to the story the animation really is stellar. I wouldn't mind seeing it on a fullscreen in a new print. Maybe the last classic Disney-style animation effort in American film history? (Because it sure wasn't Oliver and Company.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Wow, I'm *incredibly* impressed. There's a LOT in that book that I wouldn't have guessed would work with such a young readership; even me at 5th grade would have felt a bit overwhelmed by all the Parliamentary allusions and the rather Tristam Shandy-like ending. (Or would that be Pirandello?)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
i had nightmares about tractors for weeks after i saw the film.
Yup.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― ENBB (expatrica), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap (chap), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), Today 6:36 AM. (Shakey Mo Collier) (later)
whoa!!! weird
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link
The later books in the 'series' are really terrible.
― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.harpers.org/TheEcstasyOfInfluence.html
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― A B C (sparklecock), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link
I just saw it on there!
― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
(I guess spelling "NIMH" instead of "N-I-M-H" was my problem.)
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― mh. (mike h.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Paul Williams sings some song over the NIMH end credits. That said I can still remember the chorus, just.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Nimh music? Hmm. I should watch it again.
― Lukewarm Watery G. Tornado; Less sick than before (The GZeus), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Not the same as:
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Tempted to revisit the book. Would that be a mistake? Childhood illusions shattered, you can never go back etc etc.
― ledge (ledge), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 8 February 2007 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link
this movie wz very intense! I saw it at a young age (seven years at the latest) andu I will never forget the scene where Mrs. Brisby's house is sinking into the mud. Easily the best movie Don Bluth has ever made (though I have a soft spot for All Dogs Go to Heaven.)
― snitch revvy-rev (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 2 October 2010 04:30 (fourteen years ago) link
This book had such a profound impact on me as a kid that I still randomly think of it to this day.
Movie was decent but I remember being really irked by its inaccuracies re the book. Should read again.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 2 October 2010 07:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Never saw the movie, but yes, the book I read and re-read as a child. The thing with the rock in the middle of the field and the lee side in the shadow jumps unbidden into my mind even today, not having read it for oooh, 25 years?
― the too encumbered madman (GamalielRatsey), Saturday, 2 October 2010 09:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Seen the film, haven't read the book. The film is wonderful.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Saturday, 2 October 2010 11:58 (fourteen years ago) link
HMMM.
http://deadline.com/2015/03/mrs-frisby-the-rats-of-nimh-ice-age-5-michael-berg-mgm-1201385967/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 March 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
Ugh. Funk dat.
― Stomach Hurts...And I Don't Care! (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 March 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
anyone who loved "mrs frisby" should read o'brien's first book, "the silver crown." one of the weirdest and most haunting books i ever read as a kid, sort of a more realistic madeleine l'engle-ish quest story with odd conspiratorial overtones. even scarier and more violent than either version of nimh, but an equally strong and memorable protagonist.
unfortunately all the recent editions have embarrassingly terrible covers; i ended up shelling out for a first edition on ebay a few years back just so i could read it again.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 5 March 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
I was initially thinking that this in no way needed to be remade but then I started thinking that there weren't nearly enough songs in the original and that it was way too dark and that it would be much improved by the addition of poop jokes and Poochie-fied comic relief characters that make Dom DeLuise seem like the height of restraint and refinement and then I made an appointment with my neurologist for early next week.
― Wet Pet (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 March 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
its not just an issue that the movie changes it from sci fi to fantasy, but it does so in the service of a bizarre deus ex machina
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 25 January 2019 09:44 (five years ago) link