[ SECRET POST #4040 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4040 ⌋

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Comments

[liz_marcs]

I'm actually old enough to have seen it in the theaters as a really wee one.

It's dated by today's standards.

But at the time it was released, it was absolutely breath-taking on the big screen. There had literally been nothing like it before. It pushed the technical boundaries of puppetry forward in a very big step (if not a leap). Henson Company was touting it as a big technological break-through for them.

In all seriousness, if you can find any contemporaneous reviews on the or behind-the-scenes featurettes on the Web, you'll see that it was a big honking deal.

Plus, without the Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, you don't get Jim Henson's Creature Shop (which was specifically created to support the movies).

Without Creature Shop, you don't get Farscape.

So, yes, today Dark Crystal looks shabby, but it laid the groundwork for a shit-ton of what came after.

Now, get the hell out of my yard, yungun! /jk

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I'd say the stilt-walkers likely changed the way FX people did creature performance. No one had any idea if that trick could be pulled off without breaking the performer's neck. Then 10 years later, you had Jurassic Park, which involved performers in suits for key scenes moving like a murder chicken rather than a human in a rubber suit.