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Horrible?

posted 17 years ago by metallicdragon
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Okay, my friend keeps cracking these jokes on how unbelievably bad this movie is and that it is the worst piece of sh*t on the planet and we should all be burned for watching it. I haven't seen it and ironically he has. He also tells me that the DVD is over 200 dollars, I found that unbelievable. But the more he tells me how crappy it is and how ridiculously over priced it is, the more I want to see it! Like it is driving me mad, I have to see it now! But he refuses to let me see it, he won't let me on his computer, he keeps me away from his stack of DVDs, and now I come on here, it gets a 7.8, and that's really good compared to other movies so what's the deal? Does it suck? Is it good?

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[–] malditoduende18 17 years ago

I have a question........Okay i think i saw this flick a while back...... is there a character that is on a planet dies and somehow gets sent back to that planet and is greated by some strange beings i remeber some of them being blue and others having faces in their stomachs.....i have been looking all over for that flick and this one almost resembles it...would this be it????

[–] Rei_Lilith 17 years ago

Your description seems to fit this movie. You should check it out.
But please put spoiler warnings in your post.

"No one here is exactly what he appears..."

[–] malditoduende18 17 years ago

Sorry about that.....um no i had the wrong movie....even though i saw some clips of this one and wow.....i realy want to see it but i cant find it anywhere at a reasonable price....the movie that i mentioned is also a french movie and it is called Gandahar...

[–] clong_clong 17 years ago

Both made by René Laloux though (in collaboration w/ others : Time masters is made with the famous Moebius/Jean Giraud, for instance)

[–] Chicken_lord 16 years ago

From your description, I would say you'ree talking about Light Years (Gandahar in French) which is by the same director and equally good, if not better actually.

[–] Xcalat3 17 years ago

its not horrible but not very good either

5/10

I Worship The Goddess Amber Tamblyn

[–] jordan-97 16 years ago

The thing about René Laloux films is that they have this amazing ability to be both actually rather good films – decent and both artistically and narratively deep and moving ('Les Maîtres' even approaches Takahata Isao at times) and absolutely, amusingly craptacular, all in the same film. It's all the fun of a good movie, and of bad one, all in one.

'Les Maîtres' shows this particularly obviously in the sharp contrast between the animation of Piel, the Wah-Wahs and so on, and that of Jaffar and the other people up in space. The former is some of the very best, most life-like animation I have ever seen (look at how the whole of Piel's face moves realistically when he tries to eat the red fruit!) – the latter is some of the very worst; I haven't such unskilled mouth flaps since 1960's TV series anime.

[–] HollyHop 14 years ago

Yes, I saw that too. There must have been different animators for each character types. Jaffar, the Prince and the woman was very stiff while Piel, the Wah-Wah and the telepathic creatures were beautiful animated.

Evolution is a part of nature and nature kills, simple. Right?

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