A Dark Crystal prequel series is coming to Netflix

Bet your predictions of HOW Shitflix will fuck with it.

No. Please no. The movie was perfect as is and the comics and novels were all I needed. Please no. This movie is one of my most beloved treasures and it doesn't need a spinoff revival in this age of hack writers and current year syndrome. Just let its legacy and memory shine brightly. Don't piss all over it.

the movie was awful, didn't explain shit, didn't make sense, and the gelflings were creepier to look at than the skeksis

your nostalgia aside, a remake and prequel could benefit this IP quite a bit

This user's right. I watched the full movie years ago and didn't understand a goddamn thing happening at all.

It's going to be shit, obviously. The only thing worth mentioning is that it looks like they're actually going to be using puppets instead of CGI, which is astounding for CURRENT YEAR.

The Skeksis and The Mystics used to be the same race, but when the crystal was shattered they were split into good and evil. The Gelflings fulfilled the prophecy of unfucking what they did by reuniting the shard of the Dark Crystal and stopping the Skeksis from becoming immortal.

I watched this movie when I was 8 and understood it perfectly fine.

It'll be Princeless by stealth

They would look better in CG, the gelfling puppets were uncanny valley as hell, that shit does not work for humanoid characters

yeah, that's an incredibly vague generalized synopsis. when you break it down, the whole story is full of holes

Trump as a skeksi

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Skeksis will probably be Republicans/Right wingers and Mystics/Gelflings diverse resistance

If you honestly liked the dark crystal you should be tortured to death

REEEEEEEEEEEE

Shit opinions are held by one person here.

(you) should be tortured to death
TORTURE THOSE WHO INSULT THE DARK CRYSTAL

nice argument nostalgiafags

Guess we know what time it is now, don't we?

TRIAL BY STONE

YOU GODDAMNED SON OF A BITCH!

It's pretty surreal to realize we'll never have anyone as amazing as Jim Henson ever again…

because you made a shit movie, Jim.
accept it.
Labyrinth sucked, too. If not for cute Connelly and cool Bowie, no one- I repeat - no one, would remember that movie fondly.

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Thanks for proving my point, anons

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Judging by this thread, Dark Crystal was a really polarizing film.

I'd watch the netflix series for the old traditional special effects alone. Looking forward to it.

No one ever said, "hey remember laybrinth? remeber that little jewish goblin that pissed and gassed fairies?"

its all about bowie and connelly, if they went with their original script the movie would have faded into obscurity

It wasn't polarizing, everybody liked it. There's one contrarian faggot here, that's all.

user, you're lying to yourself if you think one person feels this way.

Excuse the Youtube autism, but this guy explains his hang-ups with the writing pretty well, even though he enjoys it and went on to read the comics.

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That's where you're wrong, nostalgia-fag.

It wont be bad. You can shit on netflix's bad all you want but they still put out some really good quality stuff to even it out.

Maybe if you didn't totally focus on the bad all the time.

Give some fucking examples to prove your point then.

Veggie Tales, The OA, Narcos, House of Cards, Stranger Things, Daredevil, Trailer Park Boys, Haters Back Off, Arrested Development, Anne With an E, Peewee's big holiday, and a few others.

There is also a shitton of more mediocre stuff. The actual cancerous shit is far outnumbered by the average to good stuff.

kill yourself, nostalgia-fag

Please provide examples.

The gelfling puppets were really creepy (Kira was qt tough, but that was more due to the voice).

I feel it would've been a better decision to use kids in make ups. Instead the contant transition between obvious mechanical puppets for close shots and kids in masks for far away shots was kinda uncanny.

I should think there are probably rules or regulations or something about decking kids out in that much makeup, I mean how many instances of that can you name? it's why they always use puppets or midgets, or now CGI

I'm too tired for this shit. Just watch this asshole's video

I was about to say Nog but then I remembered he was a midget. Maybe you're right.

besides that, kids have limited time to work due to regulations, right? when you have to take like 5 hours to put em in makeup that would really cripple things

It depends on when the movie was made. Pre Twilight Zone movie there was hardly any regulations. Post Twilight Zone movie there was so many regulations it was easier to use puppets or midgets in place of real kids 99% of the time.

kill yourself kikeshill

repeating digits

Jim himself said its unhealthy for children to never be afraid.

apparently, according to concept art, the gelflings were supposed to have creepy black eyes too

Theodd1sout? An asshole? He's a lot of things, e.g. the leader of a trend of childish "relatability porn" with minimal animation and therefore YT cancer, but he's no asshole.

It's a show about a shitty self-obsessed bitch in a hugbox facing reality. What's bad about it?

I think it makes them less creepy and more like bugs.

I think he's just insulting him as a passive aggressive sort of addressing over legitimately thinking he's a asshole.

Bugs or pixies. I like it; it's cute in a mythical kind of way.

creepy in a pixie/fantasy way is still different than creepy in a puppet-making-the-character-look-like-a-robot-is-jerking-around-wearing-a-dead-persons-skin way

this is why concept art is always better
kira looks like a monkey btw

I think it's just that the puppets ultimately didn't do the idea justice. It's sad, because even the comics don't seem to have the whimsical, beautiful feel that the concept art has.