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The BFG

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An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world. From TMDB

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  • 🎃 Out Of Context International Dubs 🎃 @outofcontxtdubs.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2026

    Movie: The BFG (2016) Language: Uyghur Country: China

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  • General Godzilla @generalgodzilla.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2025

    "Blimey! She's a big lass, ain't she?" (The BFG '89 movie is a classic~) #giantess #SizeSky #VanillatheRabbit #CreamtheRabbit

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  • The-Autistic-Artist 🥥 🎃 🍉 🏳️‍🌈 Halloween Era @theautisticart.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2025

    When Steven Spielberg made The BFG (2016), he offered Gene Wilder a cameo, as he had played Willy Wonka in fellow Roald Dahl film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He ultimately declined. Sadly, Wilder died weeks after The BFG's release. One has to wonder what role he was offered.

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  • Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2025

    i am genuinely staggered by the fact that Sainsburys have based their Christmas adverts on the 2016 film The BFG, a film with almost no cultural footprint, for the SECOND YEAR IN A ROW

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  • DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 20, 2025

    🎵 Hello darkness my old friend, I’ve come to talk to you again, I have a question you may know the answer, About the dog belonging to the actor, Who played the role of the BFG in Spielberg’s film of the same name, (The same name), Is this the hound of Rylance🎵

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2026

    Spielberg is one of the greatest but I don’t feel automatically compelled to see his latest movie. I didn’t see RPO or the BFG because I didn’t think I would like em. I saw and was very disappointed by THE POST. But he’s on a hot streak this decade and I’ll be there for his latest

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  • Corey Atad @coreyatad.comBluesky · Sep 21, 2023

    you're forgetting The BFG, never forget The BFG. actually his worst movie of this late period. worse even than Ready Player One. i like to give Steve a pass on The Post. watching Trump take office was a weird time for everyone.

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  • Burger Snail @surlaw.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

    The only Spielberg movie that I've actually thought was bad was The BFG so I'm feeling real sour seeing posts on here that say he hasn't made anything good in over a decade

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  • Christopher Bird @mightygodking.comBluesky · Jun 9, 2026

    Ten fave Spielbergs: 1. Ready Player One 2. 1941 3. Hook 4. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 5. War Horse 6. His quarter of The Twilight Zone: The Movie 7. The BFG 8. The Lost World: Jurassic Park 9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 10. Always

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  • Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2025

    between this and TG Jones I feel like I've been transported into a parallel version of Britain, one where the BFG was a big enough movie to justify a major supermarket using it in the branding for the most lucrative marketing period for TWO YEARS IN A ROW

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  • Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2023

    The BFG to me is the exact same as the fake Scorsese tumblr movie. I’ve never seen it bc it doesn’t exist and no amount of prankish Wikipedia editing that it’s real is going to fool me.

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  • Chris Fredda 🩷💜💙 @seeyouinnj.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 26, 2026

    And on top of that, their “amazing” AI looks like the BFG whereas the one in the actual movie is literally a real guy just big so looks fantastic.

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  • Jesse Gomez @itsjessegomez.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 26, 2024

    This might be a uniquely British horror, but I rewatched the 1989 animated film "The BFG", and unlocked a few deep rooted childhood memories. Most of this film is a watercolour nightmare, and I haven't even shared what the other giants looked like... Bonkers film.

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  • Jay Price Cartoons @jaypricecartoons.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 29, 2026

    You know Disney's 2016 film "The BFG" wasn't the first time the Roald Dahl story was made into a film? There was a British animated version made in 1989 that was "direct to TV". (technically making the 2016 film another Disney remake). If you've seen both versions, which one do you prefer?

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  • HeyYOU!who?YOU? @mccoydatiff.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 13, 2025

    Thanks, algorithm 🥺, I see them up so close everyday.. it's weird when you've always seemed to scare off critters, even when well meaning 🙂. the point is not us, it's them so small dealing with the BFG 🧐 The girl hides in a nasty veggie,.so if it's watched the movie.. it'll 🫩 you. or you succeed!

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  • Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2025

    DISCLOSURE DAY is Spielberg's first contemporary-set film since THE BFG in 2016. Prior to that it was WAR OF THE WORLDS in 2005.

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  • William (comms closed) @lee-s0a.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 20, 2024

    Seeing this movie poster hit me with a hard flashback; I had a brief obsession with Disney's The BFG back then that I made a silly lil bookmark abt it. Let me tell u rn I don't remember anything about that movie 👁️👄👁️ #art #tradart #bookmark #yanovel #sge

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  • Lucas @ljdomac.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 11, 2024

    I stayed up too late writing poetry and thinking about how in 2016 they released the kids movie The BFG about a big friendly giant, but all the Quake/Doom players collectively went, "A Big Fucking Gun movie?"

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  • 🧇WaffulSyrup🧇 @waffulsyrup.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 9, 2026

    The BFG (2016) A nice little film with comedy sprinkled in really enjoyed it with my buds

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  • mayonnaise spookboy @paintedsky.caBluesky · Dec 24, 2024

    john fetterman looks like one of the other giants from the BFG movie, who were all really stupid and ate people

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  • bookandfilmglobe.bsky.social @bookandfilmglobe.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 3, 2026

    The BFG Podcast goes from Gen Z horror to the French Riviera to a galaxy far, far away. Neal Pollack, Stephen Garrett, Daniel Aaron and @danfriedmanme.bsky.social • "Obsession" • Cannes 2026 • "The Mandalorian and Grogu" bookandfilmglobe.com/film/bfg-pod... #Movies #FilmPodcast #Cannes2026 #Horror

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  • Daniel Spencer @duckyz.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2025

    #NowWatching The BFG (1989) #TheBFG #Animation #Filmsky #Moviesky

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  • The-Autistic-Artist 🥥 🎃 🍉 🏳️‍🌈 Halloween Era @theautisticart.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2025

    20 of your favorite Disney films. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs. Day 5: The BFG (2016) #FilmSky #DisneyFilmChallenge

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  • And George Wendt @trumancapps.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2026

    I love Spielberg and The BFG is his worst movie by a country mile. Actively terrible by nearly every metric. A river of shit. Only worth watching if you want to do a podcast about how bad it is

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  • The Rori Horror Picture Show @missrori.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2025

    Tonight's the-holidays-are-for-kids film was The BFG (2016). Coming right off of Like Stories of Old's video on the failings of modern Hollywood cinema's visual tendencies, it's all the more obvious how Disney's New Tens house style can cramp even our greatest filmmakers, but it's not a wash. 🧵

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  • Archangel Softworks - Highway Noir out now! @archangelsoftworks.co.ukBluesky · Apr 9, 2025

    Controversial opinion: Doom Annihilation is way better than Doom With The Rock In It. No, I'm not saying it's an amazing film that everyone should see. But at least they got the BFG semi-correct and there were some actual demons in it! This thread is lots of fun too

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  • The Revisionist’s Almanac 🎥🎞️🍿 @revalmanac.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 8, 2025

    Mark Rylance is the king of picking weird film roles with crazy accents. His character in The BFG oddly might be his most normal? #filmsky

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  • Megan E. Human * free Link @zombiscribe.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2026

    HE MISSED WITH THE BFG I apologize... I got heated. It was a fun movie but come tf on!!!

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  • The Rori Horror Picture Show @missrori.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    Between those three they worked through almost all of the Dot movies, many Sanrio Films efforts, Katy, Peter-No-Tail, Raggedy Ann and Andy, Elm-Chanted Forest, Gallavants, Babar the Movie, The BFG, Gulliver's Travels, etc.

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  • An A180 @psyched180.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    An A180 Watches a Movie a Day Saturday, June 27, 2026 The BFG Dir. Steven Spielberg 2016 ★★★ #A180Watches2026

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  • chris @yrpalchris.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2026

    Spielberg's worst 21st century film by far is The BFG imo because it just kind of sits there without much incident, doesn't even do enough to be considered a debacle or to have tried things that don't quite work, just kind of dull

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  • The Rori Horror Picture Show @missrori.bsky.socialBluesky · May 28, 2026

    Spielberg and his crew deserve credit for making The BFG more of an actual movie than most of Disney's 2010-onward output because many other filmmakers like Burton and Condon and Ritchie could not overcome their Everything Is Computer Sludge aesthetics.

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  • potch 🤏 @handle.invalidBluesky · Mar 24, 2026

    Oh!! I haven't read the BFG I was thinkin maybe everyone had taken the term from the Ghibli movie that's loosely based on the books (The Secret Life of Arrietty)

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  • Spooky-Orange-Wotsit @un-ness-assary.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2026

    OoooooOOoo fizzy 😅 Made me think of the BFG movie. Fizz pop, pizza bang 🤣

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  • Goblin Horde Studios @goblinhordestudios.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    It's good to have a back up lol The Black Cauldron is a weird movie but it is really well animated and I like dark fantasy so had to add it to my collection. I still need to find The Last Unicorn, The Flight of Dragons, The BFG and the Rankin Bass Hobbit movie.

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  • bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2025

    He's got a few stinkers (he wouldn't be as great without taking some risks), but the BFG is completely unwatchable. I think unless you're Miyazaki you can get too old to make a kids movie, and the VFX felt dated before the end credits ran.

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  • Frenchie (Tom) @frenchtom34.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2024

    Self care is making mac n cheese for dinner and watching The BFG with a hot chocolate

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  • barleybap but she's dressed as a skeleton @barleybap.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2026

    We had it preserved on a copy of the British animated movie version of The BFG that we taped around the same time. My little brother was obsessed with the movie and watched it repeatedly, so the ad hung around in our household for much longer too!

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  • Kai GreyFang @kaigreyfang.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2026

    about what the characters look or sound like (for instance Blanka in the game doesn't talk) just as long as they portray the characters as they are in-game. That said Andrew Koji has a WICKED way he produces the hadoken .. its after effects similar to that of the BFG from the Doom movie

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  • bookandfilmglobe.bsky.social @bookandfilmglobe.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 15, 2026

    This week on the BFG Podcast: 🧠 America's first national Jeopardy! Bar League championship 🎬 Supergirl, Toy Story 5, Minions and Monsters, and Jackass: Best and Last Neal Pollack, Jessica Babbit, and Stephen Garrett break it all down. bookandfilmglobe.com/podcasts/bfg... #Podcast #Movies #Trivia

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  • 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚐𝚜 🖊️ 🎥 #𝕎𝔾𝔸𝕨 @thepeterbriggs.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    31 The Post 32 West Side Story 33 The Color Purple 34 Twilight Zone The Movie: Kick The Can 35 The BFG 36 Hook

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  • Jason Muhr @jasonmuhr.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 15, 2026

    I'll see any movie Spielberg makes. The Paper. West Side Story. The BFG. I'll go along for the ride. And Jaws may be my favorite movie all time. So I'm happy to say Disclosure Day is some Grade A, vintage-ass Spielberg. I really dug it.

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  • Joel Cunningham @joelevard.comBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

    Weird that they ranked The BFG that high since that movie doesn't actually exist.

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  • Dammit Franky @frankyplata.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2026

    I worked on the BFG (3D conversion comp) and I always forget that movie was a Spielberg joint

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  • MD437 🎃👻🧛🦇 @themd2930.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2026

    gonna watch a shorter movie, I recalled seeing a handful of trailers when it was coming out but thought it looked kinda ugly #NW The BFG

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  • Animation Jukebox @animationjukebox.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    Greetings toon heads. A new episode of Animation Jukebox will be premiering tonight at 6:00 PM BST. Expect songs and scores from A Goofy Movie, Titan A.E., ChalkZone, X-Men '97, The BFG, Seis Manos, and more.

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  • Liselle ᚂᚔᚄᚓᚂᚂᚓ @sellybeth.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 15, 2026

    Don't think I have a movie springing to mind but I read Roald Dahl's The BFG and The Witches and Lorenzo Carcaterra's Sleepers way way waaaaaay too young.

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  • Dans Dans Revolution @thebroadcaster.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2026

    I’ve been reading “The BFG” by Roald Dahl to my son. We’re almost done, and I’ve been thinking about showing him the movie when we finish. Now I’m rethinking that. He has a visual world he created in his mind from our reading; if I show him the movie, Spielberg’s BFG is going to replace his.

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  • Kenneth Russell @kenrussell92.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2026

    I read both The BFG and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - the original texts too - over the holidays. I will say Dahl's rep. for weirdness is well deserved. And the Chocolate Factory book is even weirder than either of it's film versions. 💙📚

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  • Shania Pain @cheche300.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 10, 2025

    im made up cos ive got a felt BFG decoration for my tree from sainsbos 🥹 i loved, and still love the BFG story and OG animated film, even though some bits of it scared the absolute shit out of me as a little un

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  • Aly Lallister @lallyallister.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2025

    The BFG (1989) one of my early Christmas memories, maybe my 1st, was the tv premiere of this on Christmas day and what a huge deal it was (earlier this year I actually found an old BFG coloring book of mine from this movie in my parents attic!) it’s been a lifetime but time for a rewatch! #FilmSky

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  • Brickfilmer's Guild @thefourmonkeysbfg.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2025

    Hey y'all! ✿(◠‿◠)✿ You have until the end of the year to enter the 2025 Brickfilmer’s Guild Film Festival. www.brickfilmersguild.com/2025-brickfi... Also, your nominations for the BFG yearly honors need to be in by end of the year also. www.brickfilmersguild.com/2025-brickfi... Good luck to all!

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  • thefourmonkeys @thefourmonkeys.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2025

    Hey y'all! ✿(◠‿◠)✿ You have until the end of the year to enter the 2025 Brickfilmer’s Guild Film Festival. www.brickfilmersguild.com/2025-brickfi... Also, your nominations for the BFG yearly honors need to be in by end of the year also. www.brickfilmersguild.com/2025-brickfi... Good luck to all!

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  • ChainPaul Man: The Movie - Reze-less Arc. @plh85.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 3, 2025

    Steven Spielberg is maybe the greatest living filmmaker. And whenever people get into the topic of "What is his worst movie?" most go to READY PLAYER ONE or KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL or THE TERMINAL as his worst (all 3 rule by the way) when the correct answer is THE BFG. A film that is real.

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  • Revolutionary_Jack 🕷🕸! @elvingjack.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2025

    Spielberg hasn't made a bad film since ''The Lost World'' (still fun to watch). In the 21st Century, his weakest movies: "The BFG" and "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" are still good. He's just been making non-stop great films since then: The Post, Ready Player One, West Side Story, The Fabelmans.

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  • Dr. Waluigi @drwaluigireviews.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2025

    And finally, these are my rankings for each movie: - The Witches ('90) - The BFG ('89) - Willy Wonka - James and the Giant Peach - The BFG (2018) - Matilda - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Fantastic Mr. Fox - 36 Hours - The Witches (2020)

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  • Dr. Waluigi @drwaluigireviews.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2025

    The BFG Remake: When I saw this in the theater with my brother, I thought it wasn't that great. But seeing it a second time I have a much higher opinion of this movie. It's not as fantastical as the original but it does have the same heart as the original. A much better watch the second time around.

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  • Dr. Waluigi @drwaluigireviews.bsky.socialBluesky · May 18, 2025

    The BFG: This is such an underrated animated 80s movie. The songs are wonderful, the designs are very unique compared to other movies of the time period and the two main characters are adorable. If you haven't seen this movie yet I highly recommend checking it out now

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  • Wolfgang Baur @wolfgangbaur.bsky.socialBluesky · May 17, 2025

    It is the Doom movie from 2005-ish, and the figure from Doom: Dark Ages for Xbox X. The movie is mostly terrible, but the BFG and the practical effects are pretty great.

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  • ChainPaul Man: The Movie - Reze-less Arc. @plh85.bsky.socialBluesky · May 6, 2025

    So many of the replies are saying READY PLAYER ONE cause groupthink has settled in. The book is trash and everything it preaches is awful but the movie rips and does its own thing. Incredible technical filmmaking throughout. The correct answer is THE BFG.

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