Final Fantasy: Spirits Within, impressions (No spoilers)

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Anyone else see it?

Adan, the movie is just under 2hrs long. Congrats on Real signing Zidane!

I saw it today too.  First thing I want to say is that there were way too many computer/video game nerds in that theatre!  Doesn\'t Square know that bringing that many nerds to one place at the same time isn\'t safe?!  There was enough brain power in that room to destroy the world!

I don\'t think the commercials for the movie give it credit.  They make it sound like it\'s yet another man vs alien movie, and while this is somewhat true, it is a lot deeper than that.

The graphics were great except for the occational floating-hair effect that the girl had.  Sometimes when the girl was in a room without any wind, her hair was blowing, and floating unrealistically.  I was amazed by everthing else though.

The bad guy was also very cool.  He would have made a great bad guy in a FF game.

I\'m happy to hear it has a complex plot. I would\'ve been dissapointed with a standard affair plot.

Unfortunately I can see my wife and my step-son not liking it that much, but learning to like it when I force them to watch my PS2 DVD version over and over again with their eyes duct taped open.....


I think I need to take Prozak

Originally posted by ddaryl
Unfortunately I can see my wife and my step-son not liking it that much, but learning to like it when I force them to watch my PS2 DVD version over and over again with their eyes duct taped open.....

I know how you feel (\'cept for the duct taped eyes thing... ), that\'s kinda why I gave my word of warning at the start of the thread - I went to see it with a few friends and my sister. My sister loves fantasy novels, and FFVII and she loved it as much as I did, but my friends didn\'t like it much at all.

My gf will probably like it , but I told her straight up not to go see it with her friends as I\'m SURE they\'ll hate it.

I\'m probably going to see it again on Friday with gf (thus preventing her from seeing it with her friends).

Ironfist - you\'re right about the bad guy - he would make an EXCELLENT Final Fantasy videogame bad guy.

EDIT: Ooops, just took out a \'potential\' spoiler. Sorry.

well i gotta say i am one of those people that was disappointed about more than a few things

here is what i was mad about:

1.The characters couldn\'t shoe emotion to well - animation wise - i have no idea why they didn\'t but it seemed that all emotion was done with their eyes because their faces didn\'t show much anything just their voices - also the synching of the voices and the lips were a little akward

2.There was waaayyyy tooo much dialouge not a bad thing at times but a lot of the action sequences in the movie are shown over and over - i am talking about the same scene showed mutliple times - kinda annoying

3. There was no background to the characters at all and this made me mad because you couldn\'t really relate to the characters and therefor i had a hard time really getting into the movie - i wish they would have had some flashbacks or something to tell about the story behind the main people

4.The story while original i think should have touched a little more on the FF aspect as said - it touched on FF7 slighty - i think they should have gone a little more into some how

well thats my bad points and sadly one of my great points and almost only one is the graphics - they are quite stunning and very nice - i have a hard time beliveing that this alone will make sqaure a profit