Fun fact.... Jim Henson's imagination was so creative this movie was intended to have no English in it. Each species had it's own unique language, but when it was shown at a test screening the audience had no idea what was happening in the movie, so they went back and created an English dialogue track to add to the movie.
They never actually tell us, until the end, that the two races are counterparts of one another-- one being. But the movie does *SHOW* us as we go along. When the Chamberlain's hand is injured, one of the Mystics' hand starts to bleed. When that slaver guy falls down the shaft and dies, his counterpart disappears.
I grew up on stuff like this and Labyrinth, Black Cauldron, The Last Unicorn and the Lord Grade Hobbit cartoon. The 80s cultivated a super creepy dark aesthetic in us socially outcast latch key kids.
Yes, I was too young (turned 3 in 1980) for most of that to watch it right away, but that´s a great lineup. I also enjoyed and feared "The Secret of NIMH" by Don Bluth.
Guy in room full of Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers, Chucky, and Killer Klowns: these kids movie puppets scare me :D Anyway, I’m glad you liked it. I saw this in the theatre when I was 6 and it’s been one of my favorites ever since. By the end I could tell you had bought into the creatures and their world and didn’t see them as puppets anymore; that’s part of the genius of this movie.
it's unfortunate that this gem of a film gets watched by people that can't get over the 'oh so creepy' thing and lack the sensitivity to apreciate the depth and the beauty.
As a kid, I was absolutely obsessed with this movie! Had to rent it from the video store every week, which annoyed my mom, lol. These days, we can just watch online! The Netflix series was a dream come true for me!
@@AbrasiousProductions I looked her up and I couldn’t find anything about Prell playing her. I don’t even think she worked on the Dark Crystal. Though she was in a lot of other Jim Henson movies.
Jim never wanted to be known as a man who made stuff for kids. He wanted to make puppeteering a serious art form. Something serious movies could be made from. He got famous off kid shows but it was sort of a double edge sword. Yes, he was getting creed and money, but he was further cementing the idea that puppeteering was for children. This was the movie he always wanted to make. A sort of Mangum Opus. To show what kind of media puppeteering could do. It was dark, and creepy and serious and mature. And it didn't do great at the time, though it is quite easy to see his genius now. I was a child when I watched this and it was very difficult for me to figure out if the Gelfings were people in costume and make-up or a puppet. (It took a couple more views before I realized it was both) it was scary and yet amazing and really pushed me into that high fantasy that I love so much now as an adult.
If anything, Jim Henson actually succeeded in making the art of puppetry something that could be taken seriously by mature audiences. If you look at stuff like Henson's Labyrinth, Peter Jackson's Meet the Feebles, Team America: World Police, The Happytime Murders, and the musical Avenue Q, regardless of whether they were any good, they're strictly adult-oriented productions, but they heavily use a medium that would otherwise be stereotyped as kids' entertainment. That should be the ultimate legacy of Jim Henson, if nothing else.
The designs were a collaboration with fantasy artist Brian Froud.. jim was in love with his art. Both Brian and his son worked on the Netflix prequel series with the Henson company.
@@JCARTSARTS982 the series is like a big expensive, gorgeous love letter to Jim Henson and puppetry. And it'll fills you in on the lore of the Dark Crystal universe that the movie only hinted at. It also improves on some things the movie didnt quite have a lock on.. character development, humor, and the puppet tech (especially the gelflings) have all been drastically improved.
Glad you liked this movie. I read in a book on Sesame Street that Jim Henson was very upset when this movie didn't do well and told one of the Sesame Street creators that they 'ruined' him since everyone only expected kiddie fare from him. I'm glad the more mature movies of his have found their audiences. :)
Not necessarily true. Jim Henson actually enjoyed working on Sesame Street, both because it gave him a national exposure for himself, his puppets and his team of performers, and because he received a 50% cut of the profits from Sesame-licensed merchandise, enough money to help him fund and produce future projects. It's only when he tried to produce content for adult audiences, while Sesame Street was on the rise in popularity, that it became a bit of a problem.
@@tysargent9647 That doesn't contradict what I'd said. He was only upset when Dark Crystal didn't do well. This was mentioned in the book "Street Gang" IIRC and he said it to Joan Ganz Cooney. He had said it not only because the film didn't do well initially, but also critic reviews focused on Henson doing 'kiddie fare' and thus decried the film for not fitting that mold.
Heh...Thing about Ogra...She's old. And she knows about the skeksis, and the mystics. And she knows they're but pale, hollow shades of their former potential. So forgive her, if she's a bit...unimpressed.
A woefully under-reacted to movie. I saw this 6 times in the theater as a kid. In one of of the documentaries or commentaries they talk on how this was shown to some modern film students and they were not sure what they were looking at.
Saw this when I was maybe or 76 and it taught me that no one is completely good or evil, the purely good or bad creatures melding meant we had to be both. Oh, and I saw a documentary about the sequel series made by the same puppeteers who made the movie. It's all puppetry, no people in costumes. The draining the life stuff terrified me at the time, I kinda get your little kid freak.
I love this film. I was more of a Labyrinth person myself until I watched the series, which pushed me to re-watch the movie and appreciate it way more. Jim Henson was a genius of creativity.
80's movies I recommend: Red Dawn, Spies Like Us, Raising Arizona, Weird Science, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clash of the Titans, Flash Gordon, Johnny Dangerously, Top Secret
@@JCARTSARTS982 The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. i do remember seeing the 1982 movie about a year after it`s release, it`s still 1 of my favourite movies :):)
Catfish sloths lol My fave part is when they tell Fizzgig gets told he can't go with them to the castle and he opens his mouth "AHHHH!!!!" LOL awesome review :D
One of my favorite memories as a kid was one time I was watching this with my dad, who had never seen it. He sat pretty silently through much of the movie until that part when Fizgig starts crying and opened his suddenly giant mouth and you the double row of teeth and my dad was like..."Goddamn!!" and it made me laugh and laugh.
The art direction and design seems to have been overlooked by the awards people; but then, the Oscars have only recently (since Lord of the Rings) considered anything but historicals for things like costume design. When the film was released, the costumes, props, and bits of set and miniatures were exhibited at the Los Angeles museum for folk art. Which confused a few people, but let us see this wonderful work in detail and close up at our leisure. Fantasy done right.
This VHS sat in a forgotten corner in our household because my mom heard on the news that this and other fantasy movies/games had ties with witchcraft and devil worship, so we weren't allowed to watch haha! I recently watched for the first time and was tripped out, but liked it! The Netflix series is good too !👌
I think you missed the point with this movie a bit. You kept referring to it as not "Kid friendly", but Jim Henson's goal with this was to make an movie starring solely puppets that was for adults. This was never meant to be for kids. Now I loved this movie when I was a kid, and to this day I watch it every chance I get. To me it's a masterpiece and if you watch the making of the Dark Crystal documentary it was truly a masterful feat of puppet engineering. The new Dark Crystal series made for Netflix is just as incredible and prequels the movie's storyline.
There are no human actors in this movie. Written and directed by Steven Spielberg stars the story of Jen, the last of a line of gelflings on a quest to repair a crystal. However, the skeksis are trying to prevent it
Jim Henson worked with Brian Froud with this movie. He is a writer/artist and did much of the concept art. In 1981 they turned a book of his into an animated TV special called Faeries. It was one of my favorites as a kid due to its fantasy setting and also it being pretty dark for a kids' TV special. In my opinion it still holds up today. It's available on UA-cam if you are interested: m.ua-cam.com/video/wa_NWD_ytyE/v-deo.html Best Regards!
Yeah, we honestly were just made differently back then, 😆 When this came out on vhs I made every babysitter watch it with me for a year. Recently, I finally got my teenager to watch it and they really liked it (creative artist gothic type). Next, I’ll see what my littlest girl thinks! ;)
Sad Fact: Latex, a material used heavily in these 'performers' is highly degradable, and difficult to keep in pristine condition for years. I am afraid that it's likely most of these have deteriorated long before they could become celebrated as collector items.
Some are/were on display in the puppetry museum in Atlanta, Georgia along with various Muppets, Labyrinth characters, Sesame Street characters, and more. They also had original concept art. It was amazing to see.
Hey Jordan, so glad you reacted to and liked this classic Henson film. This always takes me back to my childhood. My uncle would visit us in the 80s and bring his VHS player with him and tapes of this and Airport 77 every year to watch lol
There's a game for watchers of the Raiders of the Lost Ark: how would the story have gone if Indy hadn't bothered? The Dark Crystal has the same problem in another way. The villains sending their monsters after the gelfling boy results in the monsters chasing him all the way to their castle, even chasing him off a balcony onto the Dark Crystal itself. Where he finally figures out where to put it / himself. It might be a cynical comment on the pointlessness of heroic actions...
This is one of my most favorite movies of all time that I watched the thousand times when I was a kid and I never once thought of the mystics chanting as a burp. Lol
Yeah you might consider watching the prequel series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance on Netflix, it's a pretty enjoyable series even if it's just one season. But yeah the detail on all the puppets and just the general scope of the story is pretty epic....but that's just my opinion lol
When he says that like I don't want to go alone all right alone and then walks off a lot of people like put him down for that but honestly I would say something like that and I've been a lot of people would too 😅 I know I would
A masterpiece reaction to a masterpiece movie😂😏👍 This movie STILL spooks me when I look at it. I see killer klowns from outer space in your room AYYYYOOO
You should like read some of the books or look at some of the comics and then make videos about that because you'd be surprised about all of the stuff people have come up with all the like lures behind everything all like the future stuff like you would just be impressed with all the stuff people have come up with and the artwork people have done for it 🤗
Seconded. The movie always felt like there was a lot of background lore that wasn't fully explained but was concluded with the movie's plot. That's where Age of Resistance (and the comics) come in, to fill in the holes by letting us see the world of Thra as it used to be and why everything became the way it was in the movie.
Loved your reaction to this film which I enjoyed back in the 80s as a kid! I can see why many of the puppets freak you out. May I suggest you check out the prequel series to this film on Netflix.
yes The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance it's really good actually. Lots are great stars doing the voice acting like Taron Edgerton, Ana-Taylor Joy, Mark Hamill, Simon Pegg, Andy Samberg and more. And I love that they did the puppetry and only used cgi to enhance certain details only like adding small facial movements and blinking to look more realistic. They wanted it to be mostly practical. I actually really liked the making of documentary film of the series too.
I love this movie, I wish there were more reactions of the movie and the show. I enjoyed your reaction a lot, if you'd react to the series that'd be awesome. Not forcing anything on you though.
Good ups. The sequel show that came out a year or two ago is worth the watch as well. Puppets. Look. If you wanted to get crazy you could. I wouldn't stop you if you wanted to watch Meet the Feebles. I would tell you that you might not be ready for it, but I aint gonna stop ya.
Never seen this Movie before. Was it only released in America? Have no idea what is going on with this Movie. I only watched this for your reaction, which I always enjoy. Please don't stop being you. 😛
Saw this in the theater when I was 8. The Chamberlin's creepy "hmmmmm.."'s stayed with me for years. Story's kinda weak but man is it a beautifully off-putting world.
This movie was meant to be eerie. Don't know why you keep referring to the creatures as creepy when you know damn well this is a fantasy film. Puppets weren't meant to be cute and cuddly. Perhaps you should stick with Sesame Street.
I think what you are struggeling with concerning the puppets is the uncanny valley. Michael Stevens from the YT channel Vsauce made good video about it ("Why Are Things Creepy?").
The Black Cauldron is an extremely poor Disney adaptation of a series of books called The Chronicles of Prydain. It’s not a god awful film in my opinion, but they tried to adapt like 5 books into one film.
A very weird and creepy film. The story isn't particularly special, but the production design is so stunning that it still all blends into a great although a little off putting experience, as contradictory as that sounds.
Everyone knows nowadays CGI IS THE LAZY VERSION AND DOESN'T SHOW REALISTIC DETAIL, ESPECIALLY FOR ACTION MOVIES IT DUMB DOWNS THE BRAIN TO LESS THEN A MILLASECOND CUTS FOR NEW GENERATIONS.....OLDER GENERATIONS LOVE TO SEE EVERY DETAIL THE BLOOD GORE AND ALL MORE THAN A MILLASECOND...LOL
it's unfortunate that this gem of a film gets watched by people that can't get over the 'oh so creepy' thing and lack the sensitivity to apreciate the depth and the beauty.
Fun fact.... Jim Henson's imagination was so creative this movie was intended to have no English in it. Each species had it's own unique language, but when it was shown at a test screening the audience had no idea what was happening in the movie, so they went back and created an English dialogue track to add to the movie.
But Aughra and the Chamberlain still speaks pidgeon English, which I love.
Except the Gelflings. Their language would still have been represented by English.
They never actually tell us, until the end, that the two races are counterparts of one another-- one being. But the movie does *SHOW* us as we go along. When the Chamberlain's hand is injured, one of the Mystics' hand starts to bleed. When that slaver guy falls down the shaft and dies, his counterpart disappears.
I grew up on stuff like this and Labyrinth, Black Cauldron, The Last Unicorn and the Lord Grade Hobbit cartoon. The 80s cultivated a super creepy dark aesthetic in us socially outcast latch key kids.
I'd add the TV cartoon show 'Dungeons & Dragons' to that list! :-)
i was born in 2003 but luckily my mom raised me on the same kind of media i feel blessed for having such a wonderful mother
Yes, I was too young (turned 3 in 1980) for most of that to watch it right away, but that´s a great lineup. I also enjoyed and feared "The Secret of NIMH" by Don Bluth.
Simon Pegg did an absolutely fantastic job voicing the Chamberlain in the netflix series, would really suggest giving that a look as well.
He voiced the Chamberlain in the prequel series. Frank Oz, who voices Miss Piggy voiced Chamberlain in the movie.
Simon pegg did chamberlain’s voice???
Damn, he was spot on to the movie chamberlain!!!!
@@biguy617 Not exactly. Oz puppeteered the Chamberlain in the original film, while actor Barry Dennen did the voice.
Guy in room full of Jason, Freddy, Michael Myers, Chucky, and Killer Klowns: these kids movie puppets scare me :D
Anyway, I’m glad you liked it. I saw this in the theatre when I was 6 and it’s been one of my favorites ever since. By the end I could tell you had bought into the creatures and their world and didn’t see them as puppets anymore; that’s part of the genius of this movie.
it's unfortunate that this gem of a film gets watched by people that can't get over the 'oh so creepy' thing and lack the sensitivity to apreciate the depth and the beauty.
As a kid, I was absolutely obsessed with this movie! Had to rent it from the video store every week, which annoyed my mom, lol. These days, we can just watch online! The Netflix series was a dream come true for me!
Fun Fact: Ogra is played by Frank Oz who was also the puppeteer for Yoda from Star Wars and many of the Muppets such as Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear.
- and voiced by Billie Whitelaw, a British actress, going wonderfully 'over the top'. ;-)
i thought she was voiced by karen prell
@@AbrasiousProductions I looked her up and I couldn’t find anything about Prell playing her. I don’t even think she worked on the Dark Crystal. Though she was in a lot of other Jim Henson movies.
@@doryanburlison6998 it seems Billie Whitelaw voiced her. she sounds remarkably like karen prell
@@doryanburlison6998 Including Fraggle Rock and Henson's next major fantasy project, Labyrinth.
Jim never wanted to be known as a man who made stuff for kids. He wanted to make puppeteering a serious art form. Something serious movies could be made from. He got famous off kid shows but it was sort of a double edge sword. Yes, he was getting creed and money, but he was further cementing the idea that puppeteering was for children. This was the movie he always wanted to make. A sort of Mangum Opus. To show what kind of media puppeteering could do. It was dark, and creepy and serious and mature. And it didn't do great at the time, though it is quite easy to see his genius now.
I was a child when I watched this and it was very difficult for me to figure out if the Gelfings were people in costume and make-up or a puppet. (It took a couple more views before I realized it was both) it was scary and yet amazing and really pushed me into that high fantasy that I love so much now as an adult.
If anything, Jim Henson actually succeeded in making the art of puppetry something that could be taken seriously by mature audiences. If you look at stuff like Henson's Labyrinth, Peter Jackson's Meet the Feebles, Team America: World Police, The Happytime Murders, and the musical Avenue Q, regardless of whether they were any good, they're strictly adult-oriented productions, but they heavily use a medium that would otherwise be stereotyped as kids' entertainment. That should be the ultimate legacy of Jim Henson, if nothing else.
The designs were a collaboration with fantasy artist Brian Froud.. jim was in love with his art. Both Brian and his son worked on the Netflix prequel series with the Henson company.
Brian's son was also the baby, Toby, in Labyrinth.
Thank you Dan Jackson for the comments that means a lot !, I have heard about the series and would love to react to it at some point hopefully !.
@@JCARTSARTS982 the series is like a big expensive, gorgeous love letter to Jim Henson and puppetry. And it'll fills you in on the lore of the Dark Crystal universe that the movie only hinted at. It also improves on some things the movie didnt quite have a lock on.. character development, humor, and the puppet tech (especially the gelflings) have all been drastically improved.
Glad you liked this movie. I read in a book on Sesame Street that Jim Henson was very upset when this movie didn't do well and told one of the Sesame Street creators that they 'ruined' him since everyone only expected kiddie fare from him. I'm glad the more mature movies of his have found their audiences. :)
Not necessarily true. Jim Henson actually enjoyed working on Sesame Street, both because it gave him a national exposure for himself, his puppets and his team of performers, and because he received a 50% cut of the profits from Sesame-licensed merchandise, enough money to help him fund and produce future projects. It's only when he tried to produce content for adult audiences, while Sesame Street was on the rise in popularity, that it became a bit of a problem.
@@tysargent9647 That doesn't contradict what I'd said. He was only upset when Dark Crystal didn't do well. This was mentioned in the book "Street Gang" IIRC and he said it to Joan Ganz Cooney. He had said it not only because the film didn't do well initially, but also critic reviews focused on Henson doing 'kiddie fare' and thus decried the film for not fitting that mold.
10:37 "They will get there in exactly.....10 years" I lost it Hahahaha
Heh...Thing about Ogra...She's old. And she knows about the skeksis, and the mystics. And she knows they're but pale, hollow shades of their former potential. So forgive her, if she's a bit...unimpressed.
She lost her eye looking at the first conjunction as well. She's seen some stuff.
A woefully under-reacted to movie. I saw this 6 times in the theater as a kid. In one of of the documentaries or commentaries they talk on how this was shown to some modern film students and they were not sure what they were looking at.
Surrounded by iconic horror memorabilia, and it's Gelflings that freak you out.
The puppeteers had to wear a large body suit that was extremely heavy to put on
Saw this when I was maybe or 76 and it taught me that no one is completely good or evil, the purely good or bad creatures melding meant we had to be both.
Oh, and I saw a documentary about the sequel series made by the same puppeteers who made the movie. It's all puppetry, no people in costumes.
The draining the life stuff terrified me at the time, I kinda get your little kid freak.
I love this film. I was more of a Labyrinth person myself until I watched the series, which pushed me to re-watch the movie and appreciate it way more. Jim Henson was a genius of creativity.
80's movies I recommend: Red Dawn, Spies Like Us, Raising Arizona, Weird Science, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clash of the Titans, Flash Gordon, Johnny Dangerously, Top Secret
Thank you so much for the recommendations !!
@@JCARTSARTS982 The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. i do remember seeing the 1982 movie about a year after it`s release, it`s still 1 of my favourite movies :):)
i feel like even if the skeksis did win they'd all slowly die out in about 10 years time
Catfish sloths lol My fave part is when they tell Fizzgig gets told he can't go with them to the castle and he opens his mouth "AHHHH!!!!" LOL awesome review :D
One of my favorite memories as a kid was one time I was watching this with my dad, who had never seen it.
He sat pretty silently through much of the movie until that part when Fizgig starts crying and opened his suddenly giant mouth and you the double row of teeth and my dad was like..."Goddamn!!" and it made me laugh and laugh.
Skeksi DNA detected. Skeksi DNA acquired and available! - Omnitrix.
The art direction and design seems to have been overlooked by the awards people; but then, the Oscars have only recently (since Lord of the Rings) considered anything but historicals for things like costume design.
When the film was released, the costumes, props, and bits of set and miniatures were exhibited at the Los Angeles museum for folk art. Which confused a few people, but let us see this wonderful work in detail and close up at our leisure.
Fantasy done right.
The Dark Crystal is extremely Gothic
The beastmaster. Pretty cool too.
This VHS sat in a forgotten corner in our household because my mom heard on the news that this and other fantasy movies/games had ties with witchcraft and devil worship, so we weren't allowed to watch haha! I recently watched for the first time and was tripped out, but liked it! The Netflix series is good too !👌
Black Couldron came out 2 years after this btw
8:13 YESS!! Exactly!!! I also got Black Cauldron vibes from this movie
"go on ya fucking peacocks" that cracked me up
5:17 *"Went out like a fucking Jedi"*
*FACTS* Except dark crystal came out before star wars so-
I think you missed the point with this movie a bit. You kept referring to it as not "Kid friendly", but Jim Henson's goal with this was to make an movie starring solely puppets that was for adults. This was never meant to be for kids. Now I loved this movie when I was a kid, and to this day I watch it every chance I get. To me it's a masterpiece and if you watch the making of the Dark Crystal documentary it was truly a masterful feat of puppet engineering. The new Dark Crystal series made for Netflix is just as incredible and prequels the movie's storyline.
There are no human actors in this movie. Written and directed by Steven Spielberg stars the story of Jen, the last of a line of gelflings on a quest to repair a crystal. However, the skeksis are trying to prevent it
Jim Henson worked with Brian Froud with this movie. He is a writer/artist and did much of the concept art.
In 1981 they turned a book of his into an animated TV special called Faeries.
It was one of my favorites as a kid due to its fantasy setting and also it being pretty dark for a kids' TV special. In my opinion it still holds up today.
It's available on UA-cam if you are interested:
m.ua-cam.com/video/wa_NWD_ytyE/v-deo.html
Best Regards!
Omg if you haven’t seen it, could you please do the labyrinth!!!
I have seen Labyrinth I am sorry Hayley :( please keep recommending stuff to me though !!.
All good, have you seen Flight of the Navigator? Its more of a sci-fi film but you might like it.
@@hayleycameron4591 Now that one I have not seen !! lol
I wonder how a small kid from modern time would react to the puppets with creepy designs and dark tone of this movie.
Yeah, we honestly were just made differently back then, 😆 When this came out on vhs I made every babysitter watch it with me for a year. Recently, I finally got my teenager to watch it and they really liked it (creative artist gothic type). Next, I’ll see what my littlest girl thinks! ;)
believe it or not the skeksis were quite vibrant and colorful once but they're greed and evil corrupted their bodies as much as their souls.
I love they didn't have much CGI and actually put more effort and money in what they can use back then
If you haven’t watched Willow please watch Willow
Sad Fact: Latex, a material used heavily in these 'performers' is highly degradable, and difficult to keep in pristine condition for years. I am afraid that it's likely most of these have deteriorated long before they could become celebrated as collector items.
Some are/were on display in the puppetry museum in Atlanta, Georgia along with various Muppets, Labyrinth characters, Sesame Street characters, and more. They also had original concept art. It was amazing to see.
Hey Jordan, so glad you reacted to and liked this classic Henson film. This always takes me back to my childhood. My uncle would visit us in the 80s and bring his VHS player with him and tapes of this and Airport 77 every year to watch lol
The Netflix prequel series tells how the Gartham are created
There's a game for watchers of the Raiders of the Lost Ark: how would the story have gone if Indy hadn't bothered?
The Dark Crystal has the same problem in another way.
The villains sending their monsters after the gelfling boy results in the monsters chasing him all the way to their castle, even chasing him off a balcony onto the Dark Crystal itself.
Where he finally figures out where to put it / himself.
It might be a cynical comment on the pointlessness of heroic actions...
Epic
i must've been a different kid, i loved this movie, it was a rad adventure lol
Jim Henson voices Jen. Frank Oz voices Aughra, and the Chamberlain
Great movie.The prequel is nice but the orginal had the vision of Jim Hemson.
You should definitely react to more 80's fantasy flicks; like Excalibur, Legend, The Princess Bride and Labyrinth.
please watch "Willow" if you haven't seen it. it's an action/adventure/fantasy/comedy/drama. Val Kilmer and Warwick Davis are golden in it.
Haha thank you Albert I think I will be getting that soon, so be on the lookout for a reaction at some point :)
There are no human actors in the entirety of the movie. The narrator is voiced by Alec Guinness who you would know as Obi wan Kenobi in Star Wars
@@spiderfingers86 That is not Alec Guinness. It's Joseph O'Connor
16:32 "big bill beak f*ck"
I died LOL 😂
This is one of my most favorite movies of all time that I watched the thousand times when I was a kid and I never once thought of the mystics chanting as a burp.
Lol
Yeah you might consider watching the prequel series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance on Netflix, it's a pretty enjoyable series even if it's just one season. But yeah the detail on all the puppets and just the general scope of the story is pretty epic....but that's just my opinion lol
Yes, I really liked the show and having these things elaborated on.
Yeah the series was surprisingly awesome. A shame they cancelled it. It really captured what made the movie special.
The show's awesome
I absolutely love this movie, I have own numerous copies and I watch it very chance I get.❤️🍀❤️🍀❤️🍀
When he says that like I don't want to go alone all right alone and then walks off a lot of people like put him down for that but honestly I would say something like that and I've been a lot of people would too 😅 I know I would
I love the style of the puppets and feel it's what makes this movie unique
A masterpiece reaction to a masterpiece movie😂😏👍 This movie STILL spooks me when I look at it. I see killer klowns from outer space in your room AYYYYOOO
Hey thank you so much for the support CrazyfistX :) I appreciate that so much, And oh yeah massive fan of The Killer Klowns from Outer space :) !.
@@JCARTSARTS982 Yup...
We had this on video 🤣 growing up,shows my age
ah, my all time fav movie
Skekung is a bad ass . I like his rise to emperor in this. That trial by stone scene is epic.
Right now I’m 12 and I have always loved The Dark Crystal since I was 4. I mean it really is an amazing movie!
The narrator is Alec Guinness
Should watch the new series they did for the dark crystal. Which is set before this film. Is very good.
You get closer to the characters
You should like read some of the books or look at some of the comics and then make videos about that because you'd be surprised about all of the stuff people have come up with all the like lures behind everything all like the future stuff like you would just be impressed with all the stuff people have come up with and the artwork people have done for it 🤗
This was the first movie I saw in the theater. As a four year old it scared the shat out of me.
ive always wondered why the chamberlain makes that noise.
If you liked this, hope to see your reaction to the Netflix series Dark Crystal Age of Resistance, the prequel to the movie
Seconded. The movie always felt like there was a lot of background lore that wasn't fully explained but was concluded with the movie's plot. That's where Age of Resistance (and the comics) come in, to fill in the holes by letting us see the world of Thra as it used to be and why everything became the way it was in the movie.
Loved your reaction to this film which I enjoyed back in the 80s as a kid! I can see why many of the puppets freak you out. May I suggest you check out the prequel series to this film on Netflix.
Thank you so much Jason !!!
I watched this movie when I was 5 and I’m 20 rn
This movie still gets me 😂
There is a miniseries on Netflix that v is a prequel story to this
yes The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance it's really good actually. Lots are great stars doing the voice acting like Taron Edgerton, Ana-Taylor Joy, Mark Hamill, Simon Pegg, Andy Samberg and more. And I love that they did the puppetry and only used cgi to enhance certain details only like adding small facial movements and blinking to look more realistic. They wanted it to be mostly practical. I actually really liked the making of documentary film of the series too.
I love this movie, I wish there were more reactions of the movie and the show.
I enjoyed your reaction a lot, if you'd react to the series that'd be awesome. Not forcing anything on you though.
"Hmmm?"
"HhMMmmm!"
Lmao that shall now be a running gag on this channel I swear !!.
@@JCARTSARTS982 In *The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance* series that Chamberlain character is voiced by Simon Pegg! Will you be reacting to it?
Good ups. The sequel show that came out a year or two ago is worth the watch as well.
Puppets. Look. If you wanted to get crazy you could. I wouldn't stop you if you wanted to watch Meet the Feebles. I would tell you that you might not be ready for it, but I aint gonna stop ya.
Well it's a prequel
Never seen this Movie before. Was it only released in America? Have no idea what is going on with this Movie. I only watched this for your reaction, which I always enjoy. Please don't stop being you. 😛
A suggestion to watch Henson's 1965 experimental short film "Timepiece" shot just before he joined Sesame Street.
Chamberlain lay down that scepter !!!
From a D&D perspective, I see Kira as the Druid. I'm still not sure what Jen's class would be. Paladin, maybe? Bard?
this movie: mmmMMMMMMmmmmm
child me: nope!
Saw this in the theater when I was 8. The Chamberlin's creepy "hmmmmm.."'s stayed with me for years. Story's kinda weak but man is it a beautifully off-putting world.
One of my earliest memories is seeing this at a drive-in and being scared out of my mind lol
Omg I was born in 2003 but when I first saw the movie I couldn’t watch it because whenever it did that noise I always cried because it terrified me 😟🤣
This movie was meant to be eerie. Don't know why you keep referring to the creatures as creepy when you know damn well this is a fantasy film. Puppets weren't meant to be cute and cuddly.
Perhaps you should stick with Sesame Street.
You REALLY should watch the Netflix series. It tragically will never get a second season, but it's a superior prequel to the movie, imho.
I think what you are struggeling with concerning the puppets is the uncanny valley. Michael Stevens from the YT channel Vsauce made good video about it ("Why Are Things Creepy?").
You should watch the show next 🤗
Every movie you referenced as being similar came after this movie.
It won emmy for best fantasy film
You should react to Age of Resistance now.
PLEASE watch The Rescuers and The Sword In The Stone
epic soundtrack
The Black Cauldron is an extremely poor Disney adaptation of a series of books called The Chronicles of Prydain. It’s not a god awful film in my opinion, but they tried to adapt like 5 books into one film.
oh you thought the jen puppet was scary
You shouldve looked at his earlier designs,
just be graetful you ended up with that thing.
A very weird and creepy film. The story isn't particularly special, but the production design is so stunning that it still all blends into a great although a little off putting experience, as contradictory as that sounds.
Kira is hot!
I am emperor !!!!!
They were all muppets
The puppets are supposed to be creepy.
I bet you think this is a children's film.
Did you see the movie return to oz
I have really enjoyed how dark it was !.
i made a video if you could react to it ill leave a link to it
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Everyone knows nowadays CGI IS THE LAZY VERSION AND DOESN'T SHOW REALISTIC DETAIL, ESPECIALLY FOR ACTION MOVIES IT DUMB DOWNS THE BRAIN TO LESS THEN A MILLASECOND CUTS FOR NEW GENERATIONS.....OLDER GENERATIONS LOVE TO SEE EVERY DETAIL THE BLOOD GORE AND ALL MORE THAN A MILLASECOND...LOL
it's unfortunate that this gem of a film gets watched by people that can't get over the 'oh so creepy' thing and lack the sensitivity to apreciate the depth and the beauty.