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Summary: Bad Plot
Review: This movie is sorely disappointing. The show is talking about some aliens spirit creating havoc and destroying people life and how the heros in the movie going to save this world. This is one of the worst plot I have ever come across. Maybe they are not interested in telling a story but more interested in showing off their CGI. No doubt the CGI is great, but the movie should be at least have some substances. Why not follow story in the PS games? At least it is more fantasy than this. But luckily, the dvd is a gem. It contains many goodies that might worth seeing.
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Summary: Nice CG, Bad Plot
Review: I watched this show with great expectation. But sad to say, this show does not live up to its hype. I enjoy playing Final Fantasy PS games. Hence, I thought this show is about "monster, spells, cool weapons and special powers". But no. It is about some aliens ghost trying to terminate Earth. How these lead cast save the world. Bla Bla. The CG is nice but the plot is really unbearable. However, it is "still watchable" for the sake of special effects. But the contents of this DVD are a gem! So it is up to you.
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Summary: "Real Life" Animation
Review: This video is computer technology to the max! It looks increadibly real, I forget sometimes its animation and not real people. It is so defined, you can see single pieces of the characters hair. It also incorrporates several things from the Final Fantasy games.
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Summary: Final Fantasy-Fantastic
Review: In what is sure to be a DVD classic, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is just an awsome display of CGI technology.And when seen on DVD, you will appreciate the 1000's of hours it took the creators of FF to put this all together. Hironobu Sakaguchi's opus, if i can call it that,started many years ago as a designer of many popular games for computers {final fantasy 1-8 inparticular}. In 1997, Square pictures was born, and work began in earnest.The film Final Fantasy; The Spirits Within, debuted in July of 2001. Unfortunatly for Sony/Square pictures, the film was a box office bust, primarily because of very poor advance advertisement, and the unrealized hopes of Final Fantasy "gamers", who thought the movie would depict more game related genre. This was unfortunate for those who did'nt see it on the big screen, as the movie really was worth the price of admission. Aside from the obvious CGI accomplishments, some of the character roles are memorable as well. The most outstanding {loved?} character would be Dr. Aki Ross, a brilliant and beautiful scientist, who at 27 yrs. old, shows lots of grace and poise under pressure. Other worthy mentionables are Dr. Sid, aki's mentor, and Grey Edwards, the love of her life. In the DVD special addition, you get a 2nd disc as well, with lots to see and do, including things to do on your PC with the disc. There are also some hidden "eggs"- special hidden sequences on both disc's that can be accessed through a series of commands thru your DVD remote {there are web sites that tell you how}. The story in FF could have been better scripted, but the movie itself was extremely entertaining, as well as frightningly realistic. EVERYTHING is computer generated. Final Fantasy; The Spirits Wihin, is sure to be a favorite among DVD'ers and a "Must Own"
mainstay in your personnal library. Even though box office wise the movie failed, I think DVD wise it won't. The more you watch the character interplay and CGI gymnastics, the more you will appreciate them. It is said that FF 2 is coming in the future, although it is not known when, and in what form. What is almost certain is that the character of Aki Ross will be the mainstay in any sequel, as she is easily the most impressionable character to come out of FF. Take a look. You won't be dissapointed. All those who did'nt see FF in 2001 will wonder why not. And don't be surprised if Dr.Ross holds a special place in your heart afterwards. *****
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Summary: 2 hour waste of time
Review: As you can see by my title,this movie this was a big waste of valuable time in life that you can spend having a lot more fun if you avoid this craphole of a thing called a movie.Only thing remotely good about it was the special effects,otherwise you will be treated to an absolute borefest.Terribly written junk.Buy and watch at YOUR OWN RISK!!!
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Summary: Just darn good
Review: I don't know why people hate this movie. It has a pretty easy plot to follow and has really cool action scenes. It is very fast paced and plays out like a Japanese anime. I would recommend this movie to any body who likes anime or wants a great action movie with a cool plot. I feel like people don't like it because it is a serious CGI movie unlike a comedy like Shrek or Toy Story. In closing this is just a review and if you haven't seen it see it because if you read every review of a movie you would never like a movie because of people badmouthing the movie.
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Summary: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Review: Ah yes, Final Fantasy. This is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. And by that, of course, I mean one of the worst.
Let me say that I agree, the animation is groundbreaking, wonderful, and so forth. Other people have already covered that, so I'm talking about the "plot". The story starts off with our beautiful, perfect, utterly annoying star searching for a plant. If that isn't gripping and exciting, I don't know what is. You get your basic "The apocalypse has come" imagery, and some pointless action. Our other heroes come swooping in, including the ever hilarious (unintentionally) Ben Affleck clone, Gray. What do you know, he and Aki have a "past". I never would have guessed that. And then the exposition starts. And there's no going back. We get endless scenes of talking about something about the planet dying and the spirits, but it doesn't really matter, because look at the animation, isn't it pretty? We also get some dream sequences, a great excuse to zoom in on Aki's eye, isn't it pretty? Also some more pointless action to showcase their pretty "ghosts". After some hilariously awkward "romantic" scenes with Aki and Gray, and some delightfully cliched "character defining" scenes with such fleshed out characters as "the token black man" and "the tough chick" not to mention "the wisecracker" and the
"professor", and my personal favorite, "the evil man" who wears black all the time and raises his eyebrow a lot in case we didn't get it. ....
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Summary: You just have to see it
Review: Even if you have zero interest in fantasy or sci-fi, this film is worth watching at least once. You will find yourself constantly blown away by the animation, and the shock of just how realistic it is lasts all through the movie. The subtleties like having background items slightly out of focus, just like a real camera would have done, are startling and you have to be impressed by such attention to detail. You won't stop saying "WOW!" all through the movie. The plot is not bad at all, and the actors did a great job, but the real star here is the animation and it is truly a feast for the eyes. See it.
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Summary: Good animation but bad acting and awful plot.
Review: This video game turn movie needs a lot of retooling and better storylines. I see Shrek and that was a 100 times better. This movie no doubt spoiled the other video game turned movies. I just don't like it. The action wasn't that bad, however it could make it more interesting.
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Summary: "I'm Confused", I Am Sick Of Hearing That!
Review: It confuses me why so many people do not understand the plot. Some people also call the plot "weak", "non-existant", or "lame".
Hmmmmmmm. Anyone who says that must only be able to understand cheap films with no plots like Tomb-Raider. And with all of those descriptions above applied to this movie, something must be desperatly wrong with america. First of all, for all the idiots out there who thought the plot was weak and non-existant, maybe I should give you a little re-cap:
In the distant future, earth has become a wasteland. Alien biengs, called "phantoms" patrol the earth. Humans cower in domed cities. Dr. Aki Ross, who is fighting the remains of a phantom inside her body, is trying to destroy them. She and her partner/mentor Dr. Sid travel the world collecting spirits, or souls for all you hyper-religous types out there.When they collect eight special spirits, they can create a wave that is the oppisite of that that the phantoms generate. This wave effectively wipes out the phantoms. Opposing them is General Hein, a hot-headed military official who wants to blast the phantoms to hell with his giant orbiting laser called the "Zeus Cannon". But the Zeus Cannon could destroy the earth. Other characters include Aki's lover, Grey, who looks disturbingly like Ben Afflec. Grey is part of a rag-tag band of soldiers called the "Deep Eyes".
Now, tell me that is not a complex plot. And if you can't, I pity you for your ignorance.
Now, besides the excellent plot, the film has the best CGI of any film previous. It is completetly CGI. Sometimes I forgot that the CGI characters were not human! All in all, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a groundbreaking film that deserves compulsery viewing.
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