No.1062192
The trailer for the Netflix Dark Crystal series dropped yesterday. The nostalgiafags are already creaming their pants over this.
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No.1062196
>>1062192
The most pointless prequel since Rogue One.
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No.1062199
>>1062192
If it has no puppets then whats the point?
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No.1062203
Trailer at least makes it look like it has puppets. I will admit to having no strong connection to the original material, but to be fair I'd prefer this over a bastardization of something like Labyrinth.
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No.1062210
ANYONE has the fan-made director's cut of the original? It was removed from literally everywhere because Jim Henson's son or whatever personally asked the guy who made it to pull it down.
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No.1062215
>>1062210
Have you tried piratebay?
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No.1062217
>>1062199
It does have puppets, are you blind?
>>1062210
>fan-made
>director's cut
That's not how that works.
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No.1062218
>>1062217
He added all the scenes that the studio cut because they were too dark, also got rid of the narration that Henson didn't want in. I agree that the name isn't appropiate but is the best cut of the film.
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No.1062245
What's the point? We already know how it ends.
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No.1062323
Seems like it has a lot of CGI. Getting TFA vibes, where there are a few puppets so people can meme about "muh practical effects", but it's still predominantly CG.
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No.1062324
>>1062323
I heard the only CGI they are using are greenscreening out the puppeteers.
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No.1062335
>>1062324
That's at least comforting.
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No.1062338
>>1062324
Any CGI is too much CGI. They should be clever enough to get around it.
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No.1062363
>>1062324
That's definitely not true. It's obvious in the trailer a lot of flying creatures are CGI along with environments, vehicles, & some moments where they can't have the puppets actually do precise quick movements.
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No.1062366
>>1062338
"I'm a mid-40 virgin neckbeard, bring Harryhausen back."
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No.1062396
>>1062203
For what it's worth, Henson Studios used a lot of practical effects and minimal compositing because of the technological limitations of the era. Also, their budgets were pretty thin. 15 mil for the first Dark Crystal. While doing pure puppetry would be very impressive, the idea was to tell a visually striking story, not necessarily to promote some kind of puppet purism.
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No.1062400
>>1062203
aren't they remaking labyrinth too, but this time with a black man instead of bowie, and instead of trying to defeat him she just has a half caste child with him.
the part of hoggle will be a white male, and he's her ex boyfriend, who decides he's actually a faggot, and then becomes tranny.
sounds enriching
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No.1062483
>>1062218
Shoot, well tell us if you find it and where
>>1062192
I fucking hate Hollywood trailers. Absolutely unimaginative, same shitty fucking pop music to appeal to normalniggers.
>>1062338
>modern filmmakers
>clever
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No.1062498
>>1062338
After Farscape I would tend to agree, but sweeping shots like some in the trailer are hard with practical effects
Greenscreening out puppeteers is almost a necessity, at least, when you consider that the original Ur-mystics were controlled by 4 college students per muppet, all crammed together underneath, during scenes where they walked
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No.1062500
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No.1062558
>>1062324
The way they did that reminds me of that kaiju short film by the director of Shin Godzilla.
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No.1063538
One new image from Pilot TV, the sister magazine to the British mag Empire.
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No.1063541
And video game tie-in has just announced… for Switch
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No.1063569
>>1063541
>9-word title
Impressive.
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No.1063599
>>1062210
>im Henson's son or whatever personally asked the guy who made it to pull it down.
fucking hell why?
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No.1063605
>>1063599
From what I hear Henson's son is a colossal douche.
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No.1063613
>>1063541
Sure to become a beloved classic like Fallout Tactics and 2009's Star Wars Tactics.
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No.1063667
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No.1063672
>>1063667
holy crap, THAT'S IT. someone archive the shit out of this.
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No.1064628
PREVIEWSworld reveals tie-in comic book
JIM HENSON DARK CRYSTAL AGE OF RESISTANCE #1 (OF 12)
BOOM! STUDIOS
JUL191302 - CVR A Mona Finden
JUL191303 - CVR B Kelly Matthews, Nichole Matthews
(W) Nicole Andelfinger (A) Matias Balsa
+ AN OFFICIAL PREQUEL TO THE HIT NETFLIX SERIES!
+ Return to another world, another time, Before the Age of Wonder. The Skesis rein over Thra, but there are distant echoes of rebellion. Gelfling and unlikely heroes emerge to champion what is good and just, but their paths to legend started long ago. Epic tales of adventure, magic, and mystery send us back in time to the Age of Resistance to witness the untold histories that forged these protectors of Thra.
+ Based on a story by Jim Henson's Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance series writers, Will Matthews & Jeffery Addiss, Nicole Andelfinger (Lumberjanes) and Matias Basla (Sparrowhawk) present an official prequel to the next chapter of the pop culture phenomenon, now streaming on Netflix.
In Shops: Sep 25, 2019
Final Orders Due: Sep 02, 2019
SRP: $3.99
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No.1064632
>>1063599
>fucking hell why?
>Son of fag is another kind of fag
What a surprise
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No.1068095
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No.1068096
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
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No.1068345
Format is ten one-hour episodes.
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No.1068353
>>1064628
What's with the west and their obsession with making ugly elves? D&D used to be the same way.
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No.1068372
>>1068096
>The Resistance Begins!
>Your destiny calls to you!
To fail. We know they fail, because we've seen how the original film begins.
What is the point of this? How can it be ten hours of 'Resisting' only to fail? I don't get it.
Were they so afraid to make a sequel that they made a pre-ordained prequel instead? Or were they just so bereft of creativity that they couldn't figure out what happened after the Skeksis and the Mystics were gone?
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No.1068374
>>1068353
They're not elves. They're Gelflings.
>>1068372
Probably just to tell you how all the Gelflings were wiped out/how the original movie MCs are the only ones left.
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No.1068382
>>1068372
Halo Reach formula
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No.1068390
>>1068374
>it's not an elf, it's something that for all intents and purposes is an elf, but with another name.
I suspect their name is actually a portmanteau of goblin/gnome, elf and halfling. AD&D was released 5 years prior, so I can kind of imagine where did they get their doughnut steel idea.
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No.1068399
>>1068353
You do realize that "elves" were invented by the west and that 99% of all material culture referencing elves has been made by the west as well. Outside of Japan, which doesn't really count in this context since they make everything cute, there is no "alternative" depiction of elves than the western one.
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No.1068418
>>1068399
Except Tolkien, the original elf master prime, did describe elves as "beautiful", not as alien abominations. From what I understand, I think the kind of Edlritch horror elf portraits you can see in Baldur's Gate come from D&D. In D&D 3.5e they doubled down on their ugliness.
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No.1068420
>>1068399
>>1068418
Elves were originally non physical spirits in classic pagan lore.
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No.1068433
>>1068374
>Probably just to tell you how all the Gelflings were wiped out/how the original movie MCs are the only ones left.
Why do we need to see that? We're told in the film that the Skeksis rounded 'em up and killed them, because of a prophecy. So now we watch ten hours of Gelflings resisting being genocided, only to fail.
Someone in the trailer said Jim Henson would approve of all this, but I absolutely cannot see it. This series is the visual equivalent of a funeral march and nothing Henson made was ever so bleak and dour; he was eternally optimistic; his favorite song was You Are My Sunshine. I think if he were still alive, we'd be getting a sequel, a story that looks forward, instead of mires in the past.
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No.1068450
>>1068433
There isn't a need. It's all a cashgrab based on nostalgia for a recognizable property. That's how it's always been.
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No.1068455
>>1068420
Did that lore describe what they looked like Also in some mythologies, so called spirits can be interacted with in the same way as the physicial world
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No.1068662
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No.1068664
>>1068374
>>1068433
Am I the only one here who thought the main character looks kind of oddly cute and pretty?
>>1068372
> What is the point of this? How can it be ten hours of 'Resisting' only to fail? I don't get it
Don't you get that an epic drama with a lot of sadness is great to watch?
> nothing Henson made was ever so bleak and dour
Someone on another thread wrote about a directors cut which might have been darker, but it's lost or not publically available.
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No.1068680
>>1068664
The Gelflings can be kind of cute looking but they're also kind of doofy.
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No.1070098
>>1062192
So it's the Horus Heresy with puppets?
I haven't watched the movie or this series.
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No.1070113
>>1070098
I barely understand Warhammer but I'm gonna say no. There's no God King to heresy against. The planet of Thra is essentially the deity beings like the Gelfing center their religious life around. Mother Aughra was essentially created as a secondhand avatar for Thra. She was meant to keep watch over 'The Crystal' is which acts as essentially the heart of Thra. But she was enticed by a gift of an orrery by the UrSkeks. Letting her observed the universe. The urSkeks then used The Crystal to divide themselves into the urRu & the Skeksis. The Skeksis became the "guardians" of The Crystal while the urRu went into hiding. From there the Skeksis appointed themselves as rulers of Thra & all the sentient races. Using The Crystal for their purposes of eternal life by draining life from Thra itself.
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