Yet again rewatched The Dark Crystal

As a very small child, The Dark Crystal was absolutely one of my favorite movies - maybe in my top two, alongside My Neighbor Totoro. It's the Eiffel Tower of puppet media. It's a tremendous human accomplishment, visually fucking nuts, and very deeply strange in a couple of completely unique ways... Strange even in comparison to similar movies like Labyrinth. The movie has so many puppets in it! Some of them are only onscreen for, maybe, three seconds. It has some of the most incredible full-body puppet/rubber monster suits I've ever seen. There are maybe four different species of human-sized, full-body-costume rubber creatures in this movie. In some scenes there are between ten and twenty of them onscreen seemingly at once. If you've never seen this movie, you gotta check it out. We watched the 4k version this week and I was kind of blown away. You can see so much detail on the characters - particularly on the villains! - that it was almost kind of distracting for me. I grew up…

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