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Summary: The Great Rip-Off of Final Fantasy 7!
Review: This movie was great in theatres! I was very excited to see it in theatres when it came out back in July. And the DVD package is worth the price, you get to rearange scenes, look at charactor profiles, look at theatrical trailers and much more....... however. The story-line was lame. Just totally lame, they killed off all the marines which will make a lot of fan boys really mad (like myself) and the story-line was a huge close similarities of Final Fantasy 7. The Dues Cannon, can any Final Fantasy fan see the Mako Cannon from Midgar in all this. Gaia was a close similarities of Life Stream, General Hein was a close similarities of Rufus from Shinra and I noticed several other close similarities. All and all this is an ok movie. It's story line is lame however you will be enticed by the special effects and voice acting. If Square Soft didn't spend all their time on the special effects, this would have been a great movie.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Final Fantasy: The Spirits within is the best movie I've seen since Lord of the Rings. As you can imagine from the title, it's based on the popular Final Fantasy video game series, but its story is completely new. It seems to take place on a futuristic Earth, one that is a desolate waste. The planet is being devoured by a race of insubstantial aliens known only as the Phantoms, who devour the spirits of living creatures. Though most humans have already been destroyed, a few have retreated to some cities which they protect with energy barriers that seem to ward off the Phantoms. All this time, the main character, scientist Aki Ross, has been experiencing some strange dreams which she believes hold the key to discovering the secret of the Phantoms. She has discovered that there are eight Earth spirits that have the power to disable the Phantoms, and, having acquired six of them already, is on a quest to find the last two before it's too late. During her quest, she discovers that, far from being an alien invasion, the Phantoms are in fact the ghosts of an alien race whose planet was destroyed. A large chunk of this planet, which most people believed to be a meteor and form of transportation for the Phantoms, crashed onto earth more than thirty years ago, since which time the ghosts have been searching for a way to find peace. She embarks on a quest with her mentor, an elderly scientist named Sid, and her lover, a troop commander named Gray Edwards and his band of troops, hoping to find a way to lay the Phantoms to rest and spare their world. However, they are racing against a general who seeks to destroy the Phantoms using a recently developed space cannon, and will not consider any other consequences of using such a powerful weapon. Far from believing that the Phantoms are only ghosts, this general will stop at nothing to see that they are destroyed, and does not listen to Sid's warning about the possible dangers posed to the already ravaged planet through use of the Zeus Cannon. The beam is so powerful that, not only would it destroy the meteor and the Phantoms along with it, but it could also obliterate the entire planet. This is a movie I think you ought to rent at least. Then if you like it you can buy it.If you don't, you don't.
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Summary: I want my two hours back
Review: What a pitiful little attempt at an epic movie. And what sad, sad people to have actually produced this garbage. What makes it even worse is that they spent years of work with the latest, most cutting edge technology to create this. I guess it's darkly humorous in a way.
Aki is the absurdly nondescript female lead, and Grey is the muscle-head action hero with no personality. There's the one guy who in theory is funny, with his blank-faced female audience, and then there's the unspeakable mess of a plot involving some entity called Gaia and a lot of really uninspired action sequences trying to hold it together.
No one should be forced to bother with this swill, so don't watch it or buy it. And when you see the special collector's book "Making of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within," be sure to laugh contemptuously.
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Summary: What have you dune to final fantsy?!?!
Review: Okay this movies a must see but if you want to buy it get the DvD it has some very cool stuff on it's 2 disc set,but one thing I did not like about the movie is...its just not Final Fantasy..no Chocobo's,Moogles etc.. theres not even magic in this movie. Just think of this movie as FF8 with no magic chocobos or moogles. But dont worry more than likely you will love this film the dvd's well dune and if you like the final fantasy games you will not wanna miss this dvd.
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Summary: "Turning Japanese ..."
Review: Computer-animated film marked a minor breakthrough in photorealism, but flopped dismally with American audiences. Perhaps that's because the film strongly reflects a Japanese sensibility, and exposes a substantial cultural divide between "West" and "East." The pantheism, the fatalism, and the Shinto-influenced theology -- all of these are foreign concepts to most Americans, but vitally important to the film. Viewers who found _Final Fantasy_ muddled and incoherent on its theatrical release may do well to approach it again from a different point of view. The "special edition" DVD is full of gorgeous extras, including an obvious "Easter Egg" which displays a sense of humor largely absent from the film.
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Summary: the future looms
Review: This movie is quite possibly a shape of things to come.Not Star Wars and not Mickey Mouse but a combination we will likely see more of. Elements of the current crazes for video games,computer graphics and the comeback of sci-fi are brought together to give us a new experience.It is fascinating to watch. Even though the plot is rather run-of-the-mill science ficition I would still recommend not missing this movie.It's a unique experience.And who knows?You might even be able to say some day that you watched Aki Ross before she was a star!
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Summary: A good one.
Review: I just got a chance to watch this movie. The graphics is really astonishing.
What I want to add a comment on is the plot line.
The plot line is a kind of simple....not the plot line itself, but the way it is expressed is not the way favoured by Americans. From my personal experience, Americans favor those SHALLOW but SHARP tastes. (Maybe that's why they watch movies--they don't watch to be educaed, but to get a little bit relaxation) SHALLOW means that if they don't have a similar experience in life, you can't count that they can understand your feeling easily. SHARP means instead of expressing a feeling in 10 scenes, you'd better finish it in one scene.(I don't mean they can't be strengthened over and over, but they must be understood from the beginning.) One final commen: American can accept phantoms, but only human phantoms. To say that everything even the earth itself has some spirit is really beyond most american's imagination.
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Summary: READ THIS!!!
Review: Well first to all the critics out there, open up your eyes and visualize what this movie did for future generations. This is a small step in the right direction. I personally despise sci-fi, BUT this movie changed someone as stubborn and old fashion as me.
I was shocked by how far we came from the Toy Story animation. A few years from now we could be looking at obsolete Denzels and Pamelas. Not only are these characters lifelike but they really boast physical perfection even with purposely animated skin flaws.
Yes, the theme was some what complex and hard to grasp but we're talking about amateurs in the Movie business. Although like others they can and will learn. I look forward to a time where spoiled, egocentric, drug influenced, actors/ actresses are replaced by pure CGI characters. Then maybe Holly Wood wouldn't look like a housing for most of America's corrupting sources.
I'm also looking forward to the new CGI movie with Aki, it will be interesting to see her playing a different role. SAW THE DVD VERSION.
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Summary: I wasted 2 hours of my life...I want my 2 hours back!
Review: I have seen Final Fantasy the game so I know what I am used to seeing from F.F. genre. This movie was pure [junk]. For those who saw this movie and liked it let me say it again if you didnt hear it the first time and from my title of the review, PURE [JUNK]! IT [STUNK]! The plot of this movie was horrendous. There were a few struggles but when it came down to the end it was just...angering, no good story plot. They try to make it up with a bunch of graphics but the audience isnt stupid. When it was done I had the same thought I had for Star Wars The Phantom Menace: THATS IT! I think you get the point...If you value your time on this planet dont watch this movie...
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Summary: An exotic experience for those enticed by CGI
Review: This movie really showed me what CGI is capable of. I enjoyed every minute of this interesting SCI FI film. I had to see it twice for I was too busy gazing at the excellent job they did on the characters and scenery, that I didn't pay any attention to the plot. Great movie for people looking for something new and unique.
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