I still haven't forgotten that scene

I’d take that over my generation’s childhood trauma any day:

- official canon
Here's some more trauma:
The novel it's based on makes it clear that The Neverending Story is a psychic parasite that traps young readers in an escapist fantasy, never growing up, never facing your real fears, just endless running down an egocentric treadmill of main character syndrome.
- I read the book (as a kid) and didn't get that from it at all, but that sort of subtlety would have gone over my head. I'll have to read it again if I can bring myself to do it.
  I do remember seeing the movie after reading the book and being pretty annoyed as the movie only covers about the first half.
Artax! Don't give up!
Hey, I caught both of these! Yay?
You're gonna have to fill me in here. I don't know this reference.
- The Neverending Story. That's the scene where Artax the horse gives up and let's the bog of depression drown him
- The Never Ending Story (1984)
- Never ending story the horse is with the kid through thick and thin then gets stuck in a swamp and kid has to leave him behind.
Yeah this was way more traumatizing than anything Signs had.
- And Signs had Mel Gibson, so that's really saying something.
100% what I expected on the sign
Good news bad news, I loved that movie as a kid and have zero recollection of that scene. I’m guessing I didn’t get the implication. “Oh he lost his horse”.
indistinct yelling of mothers name
- How did a guy like that ever end up married to a lady named Moon Child?

The aliens that were allergic to water invaded a planet that's 71% covered in water. Such a stupid movie, such a bad director.

They're not aliens. They're demons.
You never actually see a spaceship. They don't ever show any technology or even clothing.
And they're defeated with an act of faith.
- Source? Or speculation? I'm genuinely curious.
That movie was fucking dumb. Nothing of value was gained by watching it.

Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake's plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan. It spun in. There were no survivors.

That's real childhood trauma.

Most of the “childhood trauma” people are citing are things that weren’t aimed at children to begin with. Try some Watership Down (1978) at 2pm on BBC1 during the Christmas holidays.

The hardest part is realizing other kids weren't wanting this tbh, great movie.

This movie got a lot of grief, but I liked it. It was simultaneously a let down and scary to see the alien. As far as aliens go, it’s a pretty boring generic biped. But the suspense and buildup to seeing it, and the way they presented the scene as the viewer seeing it recorded alongside terrified people was great. Nailed it.

Maybe the worst aspect of the movie was the beyond-the-grave prompts regarding water and baseball bats. Meh. But the rest was pretty good.

Yes, the entire movie got retroactively bad because of that really atrocious ending.
If you watch half of it and then stop, it's probably a good movie. But that first half is bad if you know the ending.
- If you see it as a movie about demons and not aliens it makes way more sense

SFW version of trauma ("There's Something About Mary", zipper scene)

What scene is that?

It's from Signs. It's the first time you see the aliens, from a shakycam newscast. Scared the hell out of little me.

What's þe scene from?

Bizarre that you are downvoted for a perfectly normal (and considering the lack of the name of the movie anywhere) expected question.
- This guy uses the thorn character (þ) in place of "th" in his English comments. It's basically the same sound, just a different way to type it.
  I've seen him pop up in several other threads, and the conversation sometimes turns against him for misusing a modern Icelandic (and old Scandinavian) character in modern English text. He sometimes gets downvoted for it.
  EDIT: I just glanced at his profile and he gets downvoted a lot. Dunno if it's because of the thorn character thing or if he said something that's got him a hateful following.
- He gets downvoted for using þ instead of th
Since no one else answered
"Signs" (2002) by M. Night Shyamalan
- Ah. I've seen it, but found it an eminently forgettable movie. It was þe crop circles and religious overtones one, right?
Signs.
- Signþ
- That was the dumbest movie. Their weakness is water? If you get in a fight with them, you can win by peeing on them. Children with super soakers could take them out. Hell, even an army of excitable Chihuahuas could. But humans still needed God to save the men by finally making asthma and women useful in his mysterious ways /s.

One of the goats in my opinion

Could’ve easily been a screenshot of the last air bender

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.

Thank god I got traumatized. If I would’ve seen the movie as an adult, I would have hated it.

It was so weird. People liked i that movie enough to go and start making crop circles in the cornfields outside town.
Yeah, it's not a good movie. I did enjoy the mystery of it though, it does build up nicely until the big reveal of what they look like.
- This describes most of his movies. Good build up to the mystery with a payoff so bad it retroactively makes everything before it worse.