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THE JOURNEY OF JEN

Advantages: It's a mysterious, magical fantasy
Disadvantages: It is actually creepy in parts!

The Dark Crystal - Collectors Edition. I loved this film as a child. I remember being both intrigued and fascinated by the elf-like fantasy, and also scared and left a little confused from the creepy skeksis! I have this on video and it was by strange coincidence I was chatting to someone about the film, so imagine my delight when I picked the Special Collectors Edition up from ASDA at £5.67. Yes, it really was that low! #Background The film ...
...follows closely to a mythical, dark storyline where there is a fantastical journey to save the land from evil. The film involves adventure, friendship, trust, loyalty, bravery, and fantasy-fiction. The film is rated PG and runs approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes. Even though the film involves puppets I must issue a caution for there are some small creepy parts. There is a warning on the DVD case: "contains mild horror". The films released under ...

fabfrog5 09.02.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Dark Crystal (Collector's Edition) (DVD)

The Dark Crystal

Advantages: Brilliant special effects
Disadvantages: May be scary for younger children

...is wrapped up in the dark crystal, Jen is the last of his gelfling kind and has his part to play in fulfilling the prophecy surrounding the dark crystal. This isn't your typical good vs. evil film. It is much better and done the George Lucas/ Jim Henson way.The evil skeggsies are great (especially the one that goes mmmmm). I'm sure there are some deep underlying moral stories in the film but try not to be analytical. Just enjoy the film. The Henson ...
...it will ruin the magic. I'm sure I read that this story was going to be part of the original star wars film (but then again I could have just dreamt it). A great family film but some younger children might be scared as it is quite dark in places. ...

vicki.lyon 06.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Dark Crystal (DVD)

I dont want to be a skekses!

Advantages: A Jim Henson story
Disadvantages: not too sure yet

-The Dark Crystal the film was written by David Odell which was taken from a Jim Henson story. -It was directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz -94 minutes long (1hr 34mins) -Rated a 'pg' - presented by Jim Henson Home Entertainment, Columbia Tristar Home video - the best price is £1.85 from amazon.co.uk , I checked and i couldnt find out whether you had to pay for post and packaging though. -The film was released in 1982. - a science fiction film. ...
...was infamously known as the dark crystal from then on.this then divides the world into two halves where one side is controlled by the evil vulture looking skekses [skek-seas] and the other is occupied by the peace-keeping mystics. there was an ancient prophecy made that if the crystal was going to become pure once agian and the evil occupants of the world overthrown then a member of the gelfling race could only do so.Therefore the skekses over a ...

prawnface 15.01.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Dark Crystal (Superbit) (DVD)

Avalon

Advantages: Visually unique mix of art film and sci-fi movie - half Matrix half Eastern European masterpiece and yet better than most of either
Disadvantages: The dodgy aria that is sung throughout the film

...by anime director Mamoru Oshii, Avalon is a live action film, written, produced and directed by the Japanese but filmed in Poland, in Polish with Poles in all roles. Hardly what you would expect from the director of the influential Ghost in the Shell and its sequel, but then again maybe it is. On the surface Avalon looks to be one of those movies influenced, like so many alongside it, by the matrix - but, frankly, it's nothing of the sort. Without ...
...novels (Neuromancer et al), though Avalon is very much its own entity. The story, on the surface, is really rather trite. In a rather nameless city, whether or not it's meant to be Warsaw is never explicated, and a rather timeless setting of gothic romanticism, Ash (played with deliciously icy detachment by Malgorzata Foremniak) is one amongst many who plays an illegal computer game - the titular Avalon - (that rather like in the Matrix, you have ...

No_name 09.02.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Avalon (Subtitled) (DVD)

You Look Like a Radioactive Tampon

Advantages: Great Direction and Acting
Disadvantages: Too Slow for some

Moon reminds me a lot of those big weighty Sci-fi films of the seventies where it was all about atmosphere, storyline and your imagination rather than riotous special effects and wise cracking aliens. This film is utterly beguiling, its tense but strangely relaxing, all of these is down to two men, the director Duncan Jones and the star Sam Rockwell. This is Jones' first feature film and its an incredibly impressive debut, he eschewed using his father ...
...it is a really fantastic film which is a credit to him. Starring Sam Rockwell as Sam, the only worker on an automated lunar mining complex. He has been working on his own for nearly three years and nearing the end of his term in space he feels lonely, isolated and confused....as anyone would, I imagine. With only a droid, Gerty (Voiced by Kevin Spacey) for company, Sam is alone and starts to feel a world apart from Earth, he feels he is alone but ...

paulie1975 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Moon (DVD)