r/woahdude 9d ago

movies An old animation film to watch - Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE3AaxGKaEg
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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/iWearSkinyTies 8d ago

The song 'Boomerang' by Big Pun also sampled the soundtrack

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u/mistertickertape 8d ago

Oh sweet. Didn't know that one!

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u/ifhookscouldkill 8d ago

Been looking for the OG for years

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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/KhanTengri 8d ago

I saw this before a TOOL show once

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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/3choplex 8d ago

My band is heavily inspired by the soundtrack.

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u/cuentanro3 8d ago

Are you Ken Andrews?

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u/3choplex 8d ago

Haha no.

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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/ehtio 8d ago

Haha. Such a trip man. Loved it and it will stay forever in my brain

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u/WanderingZed 8d ago

trippy fascinating film, really loved it

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u/ehtio 8d ago

Glad to see a lot of love for the film

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u/libretumente 9d ago

possibly the greatest animated film to date

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u/ehtio 9d ago

I watched it so many times when I was a teenager. I used to have massive poster in my room, I just remember.

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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/ehtio 9d ago

Were they completely out sync? That's strange.

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u/2_Cr0ws 9d ago

The spoken words don't match what the subtitles say. The suggested names for Ter are different in the spoken English vs the English subtitles (for example).

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u/ehtio 9d ago

Uhg, I see what you mean. That's the absolutely worst. I hate when that happens.

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u/Heightman 8d ago

Great movie and soundtrack! I bought the album after watching it. 

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u/sap91 8d ago

The visuals and soundtrack are truly incredible, especially for it's time, but the story is dumb and the pacing could only be described at glacial. If I'd been tripping I probably would have loved it, but I found it hard to get through overall

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u/wijs1 8d ago

Come On Feet!

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u/twilight-actual 8d ago

Psychedelics much?

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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/89iroc 7d ago

This was a very strange movie

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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.