Thanks to this thread, I went out and bought the DVD tonight. I also got Dark Crystal, another of my perennial favorites. Damn you people, I just got a DVD player last week and am all too tempted to buy DVDs! But these I HAD to have! You guys all know why!
whiterabbit–yes we know.patpats It’s ok…just get up in front of the rest of the group, state your name and say “I am addicted to Labryinth” like the rest of us.
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I WAS addicted to it years ago. I had the book, too! I wish I still did.
'Scuse me, I’m off to watch it!
sniff You all love ‘The Dark Crystal’, too?
[LARGE]GROUP HUG!![/]LARGE
sniff You all love ‘The Dark Crystal’, too?
[LARGE]GROUP HUG!![/LARGE]
I don’t want to associate with anybody who does not love Dark Crystal.
“I don’t have wings!”
“Of course not! You’re a boy.”
In case any of you were unaware our two Gelfling heroes were made into dolls just a year or two ago. They’re 12"etailed, and sell for about $30-50
Every now and then, I toy with the idea of getting some surplus steel canes from a relative and making a Landstrider costume.
Back To Labyrinth-
The metal guard assembled by closing the main gate is still my favorite.
Re-Hoggle Peeing
I don’t see how this is inappropriate for kids. Henson, Shel Silverstein, and Roald Dahl all understood children very well. Their work often comes across as 'Hey kids! We’re on your side against the real Grown-Ups!"
Sarah has just been transported to a land of fantasy and magic. Does she meet a genie? A unicorn? Nope. She surprises a guy who's not much taller than the kids. Is he wise and learned? Nope. He isn't even expecting her. Is he grand and noble? Nope. He's peeing in a fountain.
Sir Diddymus is grand and noble. He may be small and ridiculous, but he embodies all the grand ideals of a knight in shining armor. Looking like a dog, and riding one, his nobility and bravery shine through. BUT, he’s standing sentry next to a lake of burping and farting.
BTW-Labyrinth was also made into a computer game. I know of the game only through catalogue’s included in other games I bought. I’ve never found a copy and don’t know if a pc version was made( I know they made versions for the Commodore 64 and whatever the current Apple model was.)
I don’t think they ever made a PC version of the game and I DID own a copy of the C64 version which was unfortunately sold at the same time my mother sold our C64. 
BTW…it was for C64, Apple II and Apple IIe, IIRC.
I’ve seen the Dark Crystal action figures (they’re not DOLLS, they’re ACTION FIGURES,darn it) at a ToyRUs and wished I could afford to buy them.
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“I hit sometheeng, yes?”
I love that line.
2 things I never understood-
She chose down! What was she thinking?
And
The knocker was so unhappy to have the ring stuffed in his mouth. Why didn't Sarah use the knocker to open the door, then remove the ring for him? Oh sure all the folks dancing in her room are happy. But the poor knocker is still out there somewhere mumbling his grief past a big brass ring.How could ANYBODY not love Dark Crystal???
I love my DVD player. It’s just about the best damn toy I ever bought for myself, apart from this computer! Now if I’d only been able to stay awake enough to watch the whole movie. I guess I’ll just have to finish it tonight.
I love Henson’s work. I’m also collecting the Muppet Show DVDs. He was just amazingly entertaining in so many different ways…
The Dark Crystal scared me.
Guys, did you look at the novel I linked to above? It’s…not very good, IMO. I think someone should rewrite it. hint hint
I concur. The only inappropriate things in this movie are things most kids won’t notice at all (I sure didn’t) – such as the creepy and heavyhanded Freudian symbolism. What’s practically the first thing our menacingly sexy villain does at the beginning of the film, when he’s alone in zee boudoir with our dewy adolescent heroine, who’s just been ranting about how she wants to have her daddy to herself again? He throws a snake at her head. Let me say that again. He throws a snake at her head. And it goes on like that from there. I blame George Lucas.
I watched Labyrinth practically every weekend with my best friend as a kid, but after seeing it again for the first time in years when I was a sophomore in college, I realized it’s essentially Electra Complex: The Musical. It was still fun, though. Disturbing, yet fun…like so many other things I enjoy.
Wow, first time I started a thread that ran two pages. Cool!
Incidentally, the last time I saw Labyrinth I discovered the answer to something that had puzzled me for years. The rest of you may have noticed that sinister characters in science fiction and fantasy films often have posh English accents. This is often true even when it makes no sense at all, when the character couldn’t possibly be English but comes from another planet or another dimension or something. I often used to joke that there must be some magical, secret English boarding school that everyone from Jareth to Dr. Frank-n-Furter attended.
I was right. I know now, because one of the many wrong names Jareth called Hoggle is “Hogwart”…perhaps because he was thinking of the name of his old alma mater? Clearly he was a Slytherin House graduate, along with most other fantasy film villains! It all makes perfect sense now.
DocCathode - I just watched the movie again and had the EXACT same comments.
Who the heck chooses down?
“She chose DOOOOOOOOOWN!”
“Why the hell did she do that?”<–My reaction just last night, when we watched it again.
Lamia–Nah…he wouldn’t be in Slytherin. Jareth’s not really all that bad, just a little well…he was just doing what he had to do to please Sarah, to live up to her fantasy of what the Goblin world and the Goblin King should be like. I think if he DID attend Hogwart’s he would’ve been in Ravenclaw personally.
I found this analysis to be interesting. You might wanna check it out.
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Sounds like a visit to Arnold is in order.
You forget, Slytherins aren’t all evil. Snape certainly isn’t.
Oh, I’ve seen that page. In fact, I wrote one of the articles.
I didn’t know that. Ain’t that a koinkydink!
Ok, sure…Snape’s not evil NOW. But he IS a former Death Eater, so it means he was evil at one point and even if he’s reformed, he’s still got evil tendencies. Which Jareth does not. Everything Jareth ever did was because Sarah wanted it that way, even if it seemed to make him terrifying and totally horridly evil at the moment.
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I watched the movie again today…well, I left it running really while I was cleaning my room.
Why does it surprise/amaze me every single time that Jareth knows what plastic is?