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Summary: OH MY GOD...!
Review: I can't believe that I wasted two hours of my life that I will never get back. This movie was incredibily bad. Just awful. Animation aside, no cohesion, no flow, no interest, no kidding. Probably the single most worst movie I have ever seen.
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Summary: Better Than Anticipated
Review: Pure curiosity is to blame for my decision to purchase the film "Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within," and at the time, honestly, I was becoming bored with computer generated movies. (Shrek, Antz, A Bugs Life, Monsters Inc.....) Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed those films, but I felt as if CG film could produce more than just comedies, and "Final Fantasy" proved that. Full of unknowns and an original story line, this film isn't just another science-fiction "save the world" flick. (Although the world is saved within the film...spoiler??) "Final Fantasy" is saturated with facinating enviornments and situations. (Not to mention that the sound effect quality is outstanding in surround sound) ;-) All in all I would recommend that anyone who hasn't seen this enjoyable film run out and get it, it is more than worth your time.
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Summary: Aki Ross Needs Braces
Review: All of the characters have a strange over bite and walk around with their mouths open. This movie is a step forward for computer special effects. However, the "over bite" situation becomes annoying after awhile. Plus the story could have been better.
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Summary: Awful
Review: I just watched this movie and I have to say I am sorry I wasted an hour and 45 min. I started watching it because it looked so real. Once I started I wanted to see what was going to happen. When it was over I was soooo mad I watched it. I give this movie 1 star just for the animation.
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Summary: Great movie
Review: I loved this movie. I thought it was only going to be a special effects flic like so many other movies now adays. Even though it is all computer graphics it does have a plot, and the movie makes you care about the characters, even though they are only computer generated. The love subplot is a great one, and places the movie from 3 stars all the way to 5 in my book. Thank you for a great unexpected movie.
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Summary: One of the few examples of what Sci-Fi movies can be.
Review: No comments about the plot.
No comments about the actors.
No comments about how "real" it looks.If you are the kind of person who can appreciate what this movie really has going for it...The following is for you. I have read, collected, re-read, loved, appreciated...and gone out to buy more Science Fiction novels than I have book shelf space to hold over the last 20+ years.
Hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of great works of sci-fi live in my spare bedroom. And while I was enjoying these great written works...I grew up.
I started to realize how things worked. And I realized pretty quickly that two things were going to be real stumbling blocks between the idea of taking a really good science fiction novel/story/idea/concept and ever seeing the realization of a good movie translation of said novel/story/idea/concept. First is being able to "show" visually all of the things, that with a written piece of work, you only have to describe it with words. This movie is damn good evidence that we are very soon going to be able to scratch item one off of our list of things to worry about. The second problem with getting a good "book" to "movie" translation hinges on the whole concept behind having to do a translation in the first place. Too often the process of adapting/translating a book into a movie seems to be mostly about dragging the "understandability" level of the movie down to the lowest common denominator. So by the time you have reworked a good written story into a movie that everyone who is apt to sleep or talk thru half of it can still understand and follow with only the slightest amount of attention wasted...you have no longer got yourself a good story. This movie does a pretty good job of not even realizing that as movie makers they were supposed to be doing that.
Much like the *COUGH* good *COUGH* version of a certain Ridley Scott film; if you actually pay attention, you can follow the story. They just aren't going to bring their spoon this time.
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Summary: One of the Worst Movies I Have Seen in a Long Time
Review: To call "Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within" science fiction is an insult to the genre. The appallingly badly written script is not about science, it is about some hokey earth-spirit mysticism connected with ghosts, and splices together all the usual clichés of the late 20th century: beautiful "mother earth", an evil technocratic dictator, a final noble sacrifice for love... It bored me to tears. Even the animation, which was supposed to be its selling point, was unconvincing. The planes and angles of each character's face may be well rendered, but they moved like marionettes, and the prevaling darkness of all scenes - probably a deliberate attempt to give it a film-noir look - just made it visually muddy and confusing. My advice: save your money. There is nothing about this movie that is redeeming enough to make it worth owning.
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Summary: They do it again
Review: I love the final fantasy series and I found this movie/anime do be great right along side the rest of the amazng series. I liked all the characters and even the story was awesome!
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Summary: NONSENSICAL PLOT
Review: ALTHOUGH I AM A SCI-FI FAN, AFTER WATCHING THE MOVIE, I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND WHERE THE ALIENS CAME FROM,WHY THEY CAME, OR WHAT THEY ARE. I ALSO COULD NOT MAKE HEADS OR TAILS OF THE MYSTICAL OVERTONES ABOUT THE "EIGHT SPIRITS". I DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE ENDING OF THE MOVIE EITHER- IT MADE NO SENSE. ALSO, THE CHARACTERS MOVE LIKE STIFF PUPPETS- I WAS NOT IMPRESSED AT ALL BY THE SPECIAL EFFECTS.
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Summary: Story within?
Review: This movie had great CGI, but the story falls a little short. The vocal talents were excellently cast. I enjoyed watching all the artwork, but the story could have been less abstract. Basically space ghosts come crashing to Earth and kill most of the population.
There is a conflict between the scientists and the military as to how to rid the planet of the space ghosts. The scientists wanted to track down different sprits and combine their sprit waves. What ever!! Why couldn't they just synthesize the stupid wave?
Over all a so so movie. The DVD had a lot of extras. Sorry to say it did not have a lot in the way of cast interviews.
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