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very cool, each one being different and having extra limbs or parts shrunken or enlarged. The action scenes are an unusual mix of lasers and bio-weaponry. In other words, visually this movie is striking, beautiful, and powerful enough to overpower the occasional weaknesses of
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pleasant to watch. The designs of the alien wildlife are all suitably otherworldly and imaginative. The people in the film are basically just blue humans (except Sylvain who for some reason if a weird pink color), but their outfits are interesting to look at. The Deformed are
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are certainly some things that could be talked about in this movie, such as utopias, time-travel, or my old favorite technology vs nature, I picked this movie mainly because I really like it and wanted an excuse to watch it again; if I had really wanted to discuss themes I
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Day 16 - A Film That Has a Director Who is Dead
Gandahar/Light Years (1987)
"Gandahar" was directed by Rene Laloux, a French animator who was also responsible for "Fantatstic Planet" and "Time Masters" and who unfortunately passed away about 15 years ago. While I think that
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before the events that have been taking place this year which have more than ever shed a light on how thoroughly nasty certain segments of the police forces can be I didn't enjoy seeing movies about them. I don't want to use my normally limited free time to watch a movie about
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OVA series, but was repurposed into an action/comedy and expanded out into a theatrical feature, with pretty much all of the original animation scrapped except for a bath scene that makes it pretty clear that B-ko's desire for "friendship" with C-ko falls short of the
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time, but there are several instances of complex action seeming to go in slo-mo to maintain fluidity. I have great nostalgia for this film, but still think it is worth checking out if you're in the mood for somewhat unconventional fantasy movie.
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and strange artwork of Wayne Anderson, who illustrated the original book. Everyone is really lumpy or ugly or wrinkly, but it at least makes for an interesting watch. As a whole I think the thing is smoothly animated, strange for a direct-to-video production from the
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individual element of the story is wholly original, but it all works smoothly and I think it ends up being greater than the sum of its parts with many of the characters that surprisingly likeable. The character design appear to have been heavily inspired by the very detailed
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