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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 7, 2008 21:50:29 GMT
"Stench? Of what speakest thou?" These films have had at least five Region 2 DVD releases so far, which isn't bad going. Righto now I'm just savouring the 4-disc set released the month before last. Both films have new commentaries by the extremely talented goblin artist Brian Froud, who designed all the characters and creatures. Dark Crystal looks great, but Labyrinth is probably my favourite film of all time, thanks largely to Terry Jones' brilliant script. Martin |
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Post by legios on Jan 7, 2008 22:25:36 GMT
"Did... did you say, hullo?"
Curses, I didn't even know about this set when I recently upgraded my copy of "Labyrinth" from VHS to DVD. I am very tempted to upgrade again now. I have a lot of time for "Dark Crystal" - it is a technical tour-de-force in a lot of ways, and was a very brave risk in its conception. (One that I think really paid off).
"Labyrinth" however, is a film I genuinely treasure. Always able to lift my spirits when I am feeling down. One of those films I feel like I know inside and out by now, but that I never tire of watching.
Hmm. I get paid again in a few weeks time. I might well be considering getting this set come the day of pay.
Karl
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 7, 2008 22:34:43 GMT
The new documentaries are quite good. Sentimental and nostalgic, which seems fitting. Brian Henson's getting old now!
Labyrinth was the product of three geniuses - Jim Henson, Brian Froud and Terry Jones - coming together to make a perfect film.
Martin
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Post by Gav on Jan 7, 2008 22:47:45 GMT
Labyrinth is one of my all time favourite films, but I've never been partial to The Dark Crystal. Always bored me to tears, to be honest.
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Post by Hero on Jan 8, 2008 23:06:46 GMT
Isn't Dark Crystal having a sequel made?
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Post by elliotthopkins on Jan 9, 2008 9:41:51 GMT
I was thinking about Layrinth on the way in to work and in particular the very scary codpiece/leggings combo Bowie wears in a childrens film.
Disturbing.
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Post by panderson on Jan 9, 2008 13:22:11 GMT
Especially when he is playing with his big silver balls
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Post by Stomski on Jan 9, 2008 16:44:49 GMT
When I first saw the trailer for Labyrinth as a young boy, I thought the Bowie was a woman.
Truth.
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Post by elliotthopkins on Jan 9, 2008 17:51:27 GMT
THE Bowie. Ace.
I forgot about the balls.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2008 20:41:44 GMT
I've got the Dark Crystal on DVD and it brings back memories when I first saw it at Junior school and was scared shitless when the leader of the Skesis crumbled and died. Pretty tame though compared to some things I've watched over recent years.
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Post by Dark Stranger on Jan 10, 2008 9:02:40 GMT
Brilliant Martin!! Those two movies are my girlfriend's favourites, this'll make a lovely present.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 10, 2008 18:58:40 GMT
Watched The Dark Crystal last night. While it would be tempting to simply view it as a practice run for the main event that is Labyrinth, I think that would be treating it unfairly. You just have to be in an atmosphere-soaking-up mood rather than an instant-gratification mood to get the best from it.
Both films will live forever for the simple fact that they are rare (or even unique) examples of the film-making techniques employed in that small interval between the mastering of puppetry techniques and the advent of CGI. No-one would make films that way now. And yet the puppets have an edge of realism that CGI may always lack, being actually performed in real-time. (When will CG characters be able to interact with humans in unscripted live interviews like Kermit and Miss Piggy, and seem as alive?)
But it's true, the Terry Jones screenplay in Labyrinth makes all the difference. DC is really second fiddle.
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Post by Cullen on Jan 11, 2008 11:01:49 GMT
Thanks for spending my money Martin. Labyrinth is one of my favourite films - can't believe I don't have it on DVD already.
Just noticed one of the Google ads for this thread is 'Bowie Sheath'. Disturbing!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 11, 2008 17:49:47 GMT
The adbot also plugs the Retro Dance Magic Dance T-shirt. When it's not inflicting that annoying Mechquest animated GIF on poor diall-uppers, the adbot can be rather intelligent. Martin |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 11, 2008 18:00:26 GMT
That mechquest gif is bloody annoying but sadly there's no way to filter out ads.
All this talk of robots doesn't help our chances of avoiding it!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 21, 2010 7:44:17 GMT
I re-watched my favourite film (of more than twenty years) last night, and it's still my favourite film. Magnificent, and now it also has the added benefit of being a breath of fresh air after all the lifeless CGI characters that plague today's cinema.
Labyrinth is an example of how to do your own thing in an original way in a genre at first sight intimidatingly cornered by the classics (in this case by Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz). Because of the genius of Terry Jones as a writer (supported by Brian Froud and Jim Henson), he didn't need to sell it as a re-imagining or a re-boot of either of the pre-existing classics, and made it sufficiently different and jam-packed with original concepts and creativity to stand on its own alongside those two.
If you truly have a new story to tell (Tim Burton clearly didn't in his recent Alice), you are doing it a disservice by dressing it up as a re-imagining/re-boot/homage of an existing success story. Any company in the future that thinks of re-booting Transformers again and has any pretensions to creative talent and originality could take courage from the example of Labyrinth and decide instead to do their own thing.
Though while it would gain my respect, whether it would be a wise decision commercially, I have no idea.
Anyway, back to Labyrinthine goodness:
And one for Zudobug...
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Post by The Huff on Mar 21, 2010 8:26:39 GMT
This is one of my fave's too - and my two daughters. We regularly watch it together. Great puppet characters with lots of life in them.The ending always brings a bit of a lump to my throat (the 'if you need us..' bit).
Also a good lesson to kids who say nasty things they don't really mean.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2010 11:34:46 GMT
I think I recall watching bits of this film many years ago but have never seen all of it. Because I like these kind of films I'll have to give it a watch some time. There are a great many classic fantasy films made in the seventies and eighties that utilize puppetry and animatronics to bring the story to life - and none of them needed CGI at all.
Some of my favourite puppetry and animatronic films made are Return to Oz, The Dark Crystal and The Neverending Story. All of them are wonderfully told.
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Post by legios on Mar 21, 2010 21:19:59 GMT
I have a huge soft spot for Labyrinth myself. It is one of those few films that I have loved ever since I first saw it and my appreciation of it has not dimmed.
I think what I love about it is that it has a a wonderfully skewed approach - on the one hand it clearly loves fairytales and understands them but on the other there is a strong vein of subversiveness to it as well.
(Also, it was the first time I really understood how the "One of us always lies, one of us always tells the truth" paradox actually works. I had encountered it several times before but it was only when I saw Labyrinth that it clicked into place for me.)
It also has one of the most entertainingly demented mass battles in fantasy movies. "Rocks Friends" indeed.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2010 10:36:49 GMT
The film has the excellent fantasy elements of the kids movies of its time and also the surreal craziness of Terry Jones which make it a worthy film to watch. If it ever comes on TV again I'll be sure to watch it.
On a side note, has anybody ever read the manga sequels Return to Labyrinth. I found out about them via the Wiki entry on the film and I was wondering if anybody here has ever read them.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 22, 2010 18:31:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2010 18:39:40 GMT
Some of the original artwork for these films are excellent stuff. I haven't got any of those kind of books but I have seen in various places before the kind of artwork associated with films such as Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal. Even the artwork for the Lord of the Rings films impressed me even though the films did not.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 22, 2010 19:17:59 GMT
Some of the original artwork for these films are excellent stuff. I haven't got any of those kind of books but I have seen in various places before the kind of artwork associated with films such as Labyrinth and the Dark Crystal. Even the artwork for the Lord of the Rings films impressed me even though the films did not. and Alan Lee were artists for the JRR Tolkien books long before the live-action movies were proposed. Likewise, Brian Froud was a painter of faeries and Goblins long before designing the creatures of the Labyrinth and Dark Crystal. All three are tremendously talented and imaginative artists. Martin |
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Post by Kingoji on Mar 22, 2010 19:43:42 GMT
Awesome! Just when I was having trouble deciding what to watch!
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Post by Nigel on Mar 23, 2010 10:35:04 GMT
Funnily enough, I was listening to the Labyrinth soundtrack the other day. That stands up well by itself and is worth picking up if you're a fan of the film.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 23, 2010 19:26:51 GMT
Funnily enough, I was listening to the Labyrinth soundtrack the other day. That stands up well by itself and is worth picking up if you're a fan of the film. Yeah, got it, and two other soundtracks by the same composer (Gulliver's Travels and Merlin). Martin |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2010 23:26:45 GMT
Some 80's movie soundtracks are excellent to listen to. As some of you lot know (because I've bored you all many times) I'm a fan of many things 80's and 80's music is one particular fave of mine. When it comes to movie soundtracks of that era they seem to have an atmosphere all of their very own that, in one way, tells the story of the film musically. I have watched quite a few films made in the past twenty years and very few of them have such a rousing soundtrack as 80's movies do.
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Post by Stomski on Jan 11, 2016 22:14:35 GMT
Just finished a viewing spurred on by today's sad news,
The film is still great, I think that's all our views.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 12, 2016 17:48:22 GMT
Just finished a viewing spurred on by today's sad news, The film is still great, I think that's all our views. In honour of the passing of the Goblin King The Goblin poet Bregg will recite something: "Ode to a Twark's Egg" From the humble Twark you come, or do you? O, Egg, I seem to see right through you! You are like a Night-Troll's visit. That is so quite, so brief, so is it? Do you exist, O Twark's Egg, tell me? If not, how is it I can smell thee? Nay! I can taste thee from afar ... Hey! Just whose corduroy trousers are they? Source: www.crazyattic.com/tgl/gc/plate35.htmMartin |
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