Summer of Netflix Day 6 - The Dark Crystal
Joel, Chris, Megan and Jason all review Jim Henson and Franz Oz's The Dark Crystal Joel's Thoughts: It’s hard to imagine flat out disliking this movie. Even if fantasy is not your cup of tea and you’d prefer your Henson full of slapstick and silly comedy (Though he does that amazingly as well) you can’t help but just be in awe of what is accomplished in this movie. Henson and company set out and succeed in telling a fantasy epic in a live action movie with no humans. It’s not the best puppet work ever captured on film, but at the time it was. Remember, at this point we had The Muppet Show, and the first Muppet Movie had been released. But the intricate and ambitious character design in this movie is like nothing that had ever been attempted at that point. The movie proves that puppets aren’t just useful for comedy gags. The movie is completely serious and plays the characters straight with never a wink to the audience. It works and it creates a thrilling epic that is s...