how creepy is The Dark Crystal?

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Blackened-out skies over a pointy-featured castle in which disturbing squawking birdlike Skexis eat fuzzy little creatures live and drain the essences of Podlings.

Discuss the creepy.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Even the good guys in this movie are unsettling!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

SHE TAKES OUT HER EYE, PEOPLE! HER GODDAMN EYE!

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I went to this movie on what was theoretically my first date

I did not hook up. :(

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember this moving being very unnerving. Yet cool.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Fantastic, wonderful film. Easily the best 'live action' (you get what I mean) fantasy film in English for the last twenty years, up until That There Tolkien Adaptation. And yes, very unsettling at parts, very dramatic and strange. A lot of Star Wars hyperfanatics credit it because it's what Gary Kurtz, who produced the first two films, worked on after he split from Lucas to work with Henson.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

ahem, this MOVIE

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Are those Lord Of The Rings movies any good then, Ned?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=2613

Dark Crystal gets copied next year.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Are those Lord Of The Rings movies any good then, Ned?

Eh.

The McKean/Gaiman thing does look promising, hm!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Just playing wit ya!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

It neeed one of these, prob = ;P

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't see it until I was a grown-up, and I saw it right around the same time I re-saw the Neverending Story (which I had loved as a kid).

Perhaps unsurprisingly, I thought the Neverending Story was fantastic still and Dark Crystal was pretty dull.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

What the hell ever happened to Barret Oliver, anyway?

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Scroll down for my thoughts on The Neverending Story. Plug.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a whole load of sexual stuff that I don't quite have the capacity to get into. Yet.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Your wife must be a patient woman.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up for me too, although I would have gone on a bit more about the thrill of the metatextual (one of my favorite books as a kid was "The Monster At The End Of This Book", which probably was my first introduction to that thrill).

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah: Also as a kid I'm pretty sure I found the boys hot. I think.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 21 November 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

But Chris, would you date the Luck Dragon?

Your wife must be a patient woman.

She's a saint, Ned.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

A saintress, whatever.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

A sainta.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 November 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Santa?

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Friday, 21 November 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Would I date the big dog thing? Um... no?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 21 November 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Wuss.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 November 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember being startled almost to the point of panic by that little lion-dog thing (Fizz-Gig?) jumping out of its hole.

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 21 November 2003 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Haevn't seen this since I was a kid, but I liked it a lot then, possibly due to the creepiness/grossness factor.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 21 November 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Really though, that movie is all about one kid's sexual awakening, though. It's all there.

I've never read the book.

(but s1utsky loves it, hmmmm...)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 November 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Read the book -- where the movie ends, it's about a third of the way through the book. (The sequels have nothing to do with it, as far as I can tell.)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 November 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone noticed that Mary Kate and Ashley look just like the puppets from The Dark Crystal?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 21 November 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Their mouths don't move!!

― Stephie (Stephie), Sunday, 23 November 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember when I was a kid I thought Atreyu was really hot. However, now he looks like this:

http://www.markelle.com/inblog/atreyu2.jpg

― Mandee (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 23 November 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, well, great, just crush all my dreams in one post, Mandee. Although I think I might have found Sebastian cuter, I don't remember.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 23 November 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

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