The Dark Crystal (1982)

Movie Reviews (part 6) (50 movies items)

" The Ups: Impressive fantasy without a single human being in it. It just happens to be great creations from Jim Hensons puppet factory. The ending is extremly intense for it's time and target group and let me devastated for years. The atmosphere is out of this world. The Downs: It is slow-moving and the story could have needed an extra polish. "

Films and the critics who hate them (732 movies items)

"The screenplay by David Odell, based on a story by Mr. Henson, is without any narrative drive whatever. It's without charm as well as interest. - Vincent Canby, New York Times"

Banned (10 movies items)

"Iran (ceremonial imagery)"

200 new movies in 2012 (154 movies items)

" Sep 27, instant watch "

Interesting film facts (365 movies items)

"The little hairy things that crawl across and that the Creatures eat are modified wind-up toy robots that run like crazy on two legs as a round rolling central body that houses the wind up motor. The wind-up key was removable. Early drafts of the script featured Jen and Kira traveling through the underworld where they encountered a race of underground mining creatures. This concept was later integrated by Jim Henson into Fraggle Rock and served as the partial basis for the story of The Power o"

Phillydude's Movie Log - August, 2012 (28 movies items)

" Watched August 31st - Amazon Streaming - Rewatch "To save our world, Gelfling, you must find the shard before the three suns meet - if not, Skesis rule forever." - Mystic master Keeping with my tradition by closing out the month with another 1982 classic. I don't think I have seen The Dark Crystal since the 80's - it is a Jim Henson created fantasy world where a Gelfling is sent on a quest to find a crystal shard to save his world from the evil Skesis - although created by Henson, this is n"