Any other Gen-Xers here who grew up on Jim Henson's magnum opus, The Dark Crystal? Admittedly, it borrows a little from Tolkein's LOTR in that the story is a small, shy humanoid who has to take a small but EXTREMELY powerful magical talisman on a dangerous journey into enemy territory. Where, if successful, he'll not only save the world, but give it a peaceful, positive awakening full of great lives! But when it comes to such creative, heavily-detailed "alien world building," The Dark Crystal ranks at least as high as Lord of the Rings in that regard! It sure blows away Jim Cameron's world-building lifeless, worthless, overblown Avatar (I liked Avatar's story better the 1st time I saw it when it was called "Dances With Wolves.") which is basically Dances-With-Wolves-on-Alpha-Centauri.
When I first saw The Dark Crystal when I was around 8 or 9 little kid, I was a fanatic about it for years. I used to constantly ask my parents to rent it for our VCR. Even today as a 40-something
adult, that powerful, ferociously epic climax in which the Skeksis & Mystics joined back together in a huge, flaring scene.....that STILL brings tears to my middle-aged adult eyes. What an exercise in sheer wonder it was.
When I first saw The Dark Crystal when I was around 8 or 9 little kid, I was a fanatic about it for years. I used to constantly ask my parents to rent it for our VCR. Even today as a 40-something
adult, that powerful, ferociously epic climax in which the Skeksis & Mystics joined back together in a huge, flaring scene.....that STILL brings tears to my middle-aged adult eyes. What an exercise in sheer wonder it was.
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