― 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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