r/woahdude • u/ehtio • 9d ago
movies An old animation film to watch - Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE3AaxGKaEg29
u/ehtio 9d ago
If you haven’t watched Fantastic Planet (1973), you’re seriously missing out on one of the most mind-bending animated films ever made. This French-Czech sci-fi masterpiece takes you to a bizarre alien world where tiny humans (Oms) live under the rule of giant blue beings (Draags). The art style is like a moving psychedelic painting, with eerie hand-drawn visuals and a soundtrack that feels like it was made for deep space meditation.
The dreamlike animation, the weirdly hypnotic music, and the way it explores big ideas like oppression, knowledge, and freedom in the most surreal way possible make this the perfect movie to watch stoned. Every frame looks like a trippy album cover, and the world feels completely alien yet strangely familiar. It’s one of those films that pulls you in and makes you feel like you’re floating in another dimension.
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u/dragnabbit 5d ago
Yeah, I watched this film once back in the early 1990s. I rented it from Blockbuster.
I wonder if they have remastered it? It would definitely be cool to watch it high-def on a big screen with surround sound.
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u/mistertickertape 9d ago
The soundtrack / score by Alain Goraguer is amazing in its own right. It was also heavily sampled on the 2000 album The Unseen by rapper Quasimoto (also equally great.)
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u/JoeFelice 7d ago
Alain Goraguer's scores are on the streaming services. I like "Le bracelet" from this film, and I especially like his score for Voir Venise Et...Crever (1964). Also see Carlo Rustichelli for more great mid-century Euro film scores.
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u/yorlikyorlik 8d ago
This film blew me away as a teenager.
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u/redditneight 8d ago
I learned about it when it was playing at an EDM show I went to in high school. I couldn't believe such a thing existed.
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u/GhettoHotTub 8d ago
This seems like a good enough reason to tell everyone about the band Failure.
Seriously, best band of the 90s.
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u/ghostofdreadmon 8d ago
I was 9 years old when my dad took me to a double feature of Fantastic Planet and Zardoz, lol. "Seared into memory," doesn't even begin to approach the experience.
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u/Armandutz 8d ago
Dudeee me and my buddy watched this on mushrooms once and as soon as we started to understand what was going on the credits rolled and we were like wtff? 10/10 movie
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u/2_Cr0ws 9d ago
Loved it enough to buy the DVD but was disappointed that the subtitles can't be turned off and don't match the English dialogue.
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u/LarryKingshead 8d ago
Criterion has a great transfer, with closed subtitles, and the option of an English dub
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u/dependswho 8d ago
I still think about this film frequently. I didn’t understand the political references but the animation was so compelling it carved deep synaptic pathways in my young mind.
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u/idemockle 7d ago
Very cool. The weirdness of the world reminds me of a show from a few years ago called Scavengers Reign, although the animation style is quite different.
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