An underappreciated 1982 fantasy epic from Jim Henson and Frank Oz about an alien world where a powerful universal source called " The Dark Crystal" has created two races, the cruel evil skeckis and the peace loving Mystics. Thousands of years ago, the Skeckis has ruled gaining enternal energy from the crystal by the sun's power, now the three suns will soon line up to make power on the Crystal so the Skeckis will rule forever, however there is a prophecy which a gelfling ( Elf-like being) that must find the long lost missing shard of the crystal from a wisewoman named Aughra then joins up with two new friends and has to head to the castle of the crystal so he can heal it before the three suns touch or else the world and galaxy will be doom.
It's a unique and one-of-a-kind fantasy experience unlike you've never seen before, it's performened entirely by puppets and animatronics with great special effects and it's totally amazing even in these days of CGI.
Strongly recommended! it's been a favorite of mine for so long yet i still love it.
I greatly admire Jim Hensons work, and The Dark Crystal, along with labyrinth, truly displays the man's genius creativity. Not to mention the incredible afford put in to those movies, everything is hand-made and animated using puppeteers and relative simple mechanics, yet it looks soooo cool. Jim Henson was capable of making moss appearing as the best pet in the world, just by making it move gently while blinking innocent eyes...His attention to detail has yet to be matched.
The Dark Crystal is in fact the first movie that actually that scared me (ok, saw it for the first time at the age of 8 or something) and introduced me to a world of movies beyond the sugar-coated disney-crap.
Even now I find myself greatly affected to the characters when I see the movie. While, after all, they are just puppets.
Well, I guess it's hard to dislike the Muppetshow, but if you're curious about the true depth of Jim Hensons talent, go see The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth
That movie seriously freaked me out as a kid... Great movie though and I've watched it many times since. I think it started me on the path to loving movies that scare me.
Give me a mediocre creepy movie over even the best comedy any day.
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I remember seeing The Dark Crystal when I was little. The Skeckis scared the crap out of me. Of course, I was only four back then.
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I have to see this movie and labyrinth. Everybody keeps talking about how great they are. Well i have around two years to see it so I have enough time. Why two years. On comingsoon.net It's been mentioned that a sequel is in the works '' The power of the dark crystal '' due in 2007.
__________________ The end of the world part I:I am speechless...Boom!!!!! To be continued...
The end of the world part II:Maybe the world just blew up and shattered into a billion pieces but time will never end,My friend To be continued...
The end of the world part III: The big bang has just been redone and the earth is a darker, colder, stranger and different place
The saga is complete! Buy the beginning of the end trilogy in stores today
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