Dark clouds and lightning dot the horizon with a monstrous castle looming in the distance. The movie begins not with a whimsical shot of nature, or even the dark crystal itself, but of a bleak and dark wasteland. Was there something special about this movie that people didn’t see originally?Īs a passion project by puppeteer extraordinaire Jim Henson, Dark Crystal was a movie that had a rich and developed lore even before a single frame of the movie was shot, which is very evident in the final product. And yet here it is, revived for the modern age. Netflix reviving a classic property to get a second lease on life and try to build up their library before Disney completely destroys them, so what? But why Dark Crystal? The original movie released in 1982 and while it did do fairly well commercially, critically the results were mixed. That in and of itself isn’t that big of a surprise. So why am I doing a Deep Analysis of Jim Henson’s 1982 classic The Dark Crystal? Well a prequel series, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, just released on Netflix. We all have our preferences and tastes, with fantasy being a taste I’m not particularly fond of. That being said, I still don’t really gravitate towards fantasy movies unless I have to, though this time it isn’t due to my unfamiliarity with the genre and more that I’m just not interested in the style. I could understand what aliens and monsters were, but learning specific terminology for how a world worked and operated? Clearly that was only associated with fantasy movies and sci-fi movies never have had complex mythologies whatsoever.Īlright, so it’s pretty clear that I didn’t have the most subtle of opinions as a kid, but I would eventually grow out of my stigma against fantasy movies as I got older. Fantasy movies just seemed too dense for me to wrap my head around. Shows like Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Digimon, Power Rangers, and movies like The Iron Giant and Treasure Planet was what I gravitated towards. Back then, if I was going to watch a TV show or movie aimed for kids, I was more interested in sci-fi properties than I was fantasy ones.
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