Another CG MOVIE! no, not by Square, BY...

NAMCO

Thats right, when i checked the new MGS2 trailer posted in other  thread, i also checked the site were it was located, so the news are in Portuguese (Brasil) that can be found here: http://outerspace.terra.com.br/news/2001/novembro/01g.asp


Heres the translation:

Even with the low profit gained by square with the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, another software house has anouced its investing in the cinema business.

Namco has stated that is Developing a complete CG movie named: Axis

Coming out final 2002.

Well it didn´t tell much, but hey let it come, i loved FF:tsw
But i still like to know what type of movie is it going to be?
Action? sciencefiction? Adventure?
Any one here has more info about this? ill be glad to find out more.

Blagh ! Even though I love complicated Japanese sci fi/drama cgi movies, the FF effort by Square has proven it\'s still not a commercial succes at a mass market audience ; so it\'s still niche.
Somewhere in the back of my head I remember that this Axis movie idea by Namco is in that same genre... but maybe I\'m wrong about this.
Anyway I think they\'d better make a Klonoa CGi movie. Good action, lighthearted humor, a heroic quest for Klonoa and I\'m sure everybody will love it. Succes guaranteed.
Knotter8

I\'m glad to see that Square\'s failure isn\'t stopping others from trying the \'risky\'.  Personally I did my part for FF:tSW

Theatre views - 4 stubs (@ 8.50 3x and 11.00 1x)
2 DVDs @ 24.00 (one gift)

Niche?  True, perhaps...  But I wonder at the same time about just how much advertising $$$ Square put into this movie.  The good Lord knows they put bucket-loads into developing it...but I live in Richmond, VA -- a city I won\'t consider exactly small...and just how much did I see this movie advertised on TV when it was heading to the big screen?  Twice,...maybe three times.  Sure, none of us can see every commercial; so its entirely possible that it played much more often than I was aware of...but the fact is, we have "tinny-bopper" movies that market their a$$es off and the kids and the parents have just flat-out got it in their faces.

This was a beautiful movie.  A fine [yes, if sci-fi-cliched] story.  Yet what was Star Wars as far as a story?  Any less cliched?  No.  Beautiful?  Well...we were in space with action like never before...  Did I like it?  Yes.  Did it make toooooonnnnnnns of dough?  Booyeaaaah!  Did it get marketed to the hilt?  Absolutely!  How many other movies equate their success to cliche & marketing?  Too many to count.  And I say this b/c there was more to this failure than a cliche.  There was more to its failure than "lips that don\'t move in-sync with speech".  IMO, FF:TSW failed because it was not "fed" to the public in a way that they could appreciate it.  Its hype was played on its technical advancements in CG...instead of on simply letting us recognize an up-and-coming sci-fi movie that we could simply enjoy as another enjoyable opportunity for entertainment.

Too bad.  I hope the DVD sales improve its overall profits and open the opportunity for more such movies.  I hope Square markets the DVD well!...but then again, as a gamer, I knew when it was coming out...did you see it marketed much through TV advertisments?  Well?  So, who knows its out there?  I can\'t tell you how many folks I have to *ExPlAiN" this movie to -- by that I mean, that my responses received to, "Hey, have you seen FF:TSW?" are nothing short of "What?  Never heard of it."  Just sad...and now the DVD is out...and folks once again seem to be just as ignorant of its presence...  Marketing, marketing, marketing.

IF someone would just make a movie with a story that is not about some whackass spirit or magical bruhaha with just a straight-up humanistic element that most people can relate to, then they would do a lot better.

I thought the story behind FF7 was great, but I thought the story behind FF:TSW sucked donkeyballs.  And I\'m a man who knows about donkey-sex, let me tell you.

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Originally posted by EmperorRob
IF someone would just make a movie with a story that is not about some whackass spirit or magical bruhaha with just a straight-up humanistic element that most people can relate to, then they would do a lot better.

I thought the story behind FF7 was great, but I thought the story behind FF:TSW sucked donkeyballs.  And I\'m a man who knows about donkey-sex, let me tell you.

^^^^^

This man speaks the truth.

Niche!?  The only niche FF-TSW fits in with is the forgettable niche.  The movie was so bad... on so many fricken levels.

The only valid reason to see it was purely for artistic reasons... which is why I went to see it.