JustinGibbs.org » Fantasy http://justingibbs.org An artist impersonating a knowledge worker Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:08:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Dark Crystal http://justingibbs.org/2009/10/31/the-dark-crystal/ http://justingibbs.org/2009/10/31/the-dark-crystal/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:09:19 +0000 justingibbs http://justingibbs.org/?p=307 Continue reading →]]> I hadn’t seen The Dark Crystal since I was a kid. I remembered it fondly and it didn’t let me down, but watching it again I noticed the heavy reliance on narration and lack of true conflict. It’s really more of a spectacle movie. The protagonist just kind of floats along. But the puppets are interesting and it creates a vibrant fantasy world.

I was shocked to see how popular it was in Japan, well at least according to Wikipedia.

In both France and Japan, The Dark Crystal was the highest-grossing box office release for the year (1983) and outgrossed E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as the most successful foreign film in Japan until Titanic took over the spot 14 years later.

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