Has anyone of you seen The Dark Crystal?
It's a very dark fantasy film by Jim Henson, our beloved Muppets inventor. Go google it; for the time it came out, it was a very impressive movie! There were only puppets on the stage, no actors were in the puppets themselves and although the story is much like an afterthought to the visuals, the visuals were truely amazing!
The movie revolves around the advents of a gelfling (ehh halfling anyone?
) who, according to a prophecy, needs to make a dark crystal whole again, inserting a shard of the crystal into the crystal itself. The crystal broke a thousand years ago (thousand... always one thousand years, but hey that's fantasy for ya) by a race then split in two races, an evil race and a good one, each one bound to the fate of one in the other race. If the prophecy is not fulfilled by the time the 3 suns' conjunction, the evil race will rule forever.
Pretty dark story for a movie intended for kids
Ehhh if it was intended for kids..
Aaanyway, in 2008 there'll be a sequel: Power of the Dark Crystal. If the Henson company makes the story somewhat more interesting than the first movie, it might even make a good box office hit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Crystalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_the_dark_crystalReally, a must-see when it comes out! The classic 1982 original too, of course.
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