Gandahar

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pit

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Anyone has seen it?

I remmember watching it as a child. Didn't understand much of it back then, i was too young. But I still like to watch it from time to time, good pice of fantasy imo, great intriguing story, interesting variety of characters and the world itself...
 
pit said:
I still like to watch it from time to time, good piece of fantasy imo, great intriguing story, interesting variety of characters and the world itself...
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Great sci-fi/fantasy film. I highly recommend this adult minded movie to fans of animated movies. I knew this 1988 movie from an alternate title:

Light Years​




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Oh wow. I watched this movie with friends while 'partying' and can't remember a thing about it except that it was insanely imaginative.
By the same director who made La Planete Sauvage, and with art design by the inimitable 'Caza' of Metal Hurlant (not as widely remembered as Phillippe Druillet, Moebius or Enki Bilal, but on the same level easily)!

I need to rewatch it.
 
One of my favorite old animated films.

'In a thousand years, Gandahar was destroyed, and and all its people massacred. A thousand years ago, Gandahar will be saved, and what can't be avoided will be.'
 
Just watched this--it's amazing! You know within a few minutes that it's a René Laloux film. But it's wonderful, and I highly recommend it! I enjoyed Fantastic Planet (also by Laloux) a bit more though...and I wonder if anyone (Starbeast?? :)) has seen his Time Masters?
 
Scary - came across this recently and watched it, great little sci-fi film and whilst the animation is dated it is good. Always makes me sad when I see something like this and all the strange fantasy worlds and creatures only to see the west abandon drawn animation (don't get me wrong things like Avatar are amazingly pretty its just animation has that special sweet spot!
 
Couldn't agree more, Overread! Look at Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind...could that have been done as beautifully with CGI? Not even close, IMO.
 
I'm really sad that they never went back and did another Nausicaa or Princess Mononoke story style film. Ghibli still puts out some solid and great works, but those early ones I feel have such charm and depth to them.

Have you perchance also read the Nausicaa manga?
 
No! But I'd love to read them! I'm tempted every time I order a new Naruto, to add a Nausicaa manga to the order. What do you think of the Nausicaa manga, Overread?(Miyazaki is a God to me.)
 
I would strongly recommend the Nausicaa manga, the story is quit different to the film, a much longer story arch and it takes you much deeper into the world.

As for Fantastic Planet I've seen bits of it, though the style of narration and story isn't my cup of tea; but it certainly has that element of fantasy and sci-fi creations that are just plain strange and fantastical - something we seem to have lost with all the "realism" we like in modern films (Although I attribute part of that to the uses of CGI and animals providing the skeletal and motion structures upon which the motions of the CGI creatures are based).
 
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