FINAL FANTASY THE SPIRITS WITHIN MOVIE

The problem is the script, which reads like a Pokemon reject, confusing gibberish about the earth's spirit that does not do justice to the beliefs of environmentalists or pantheists. Based on a popular video game series, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within combines state-of-the-art technology with Neo-Pagan theology for a summer sci-fi hit. The dialogue is passable, delivered with panache by first-rate talent (Buscemi, as always, is a highlight). The post apocalyptic-settings are complex and believable.

FINAL FANTASY THE SPIRITS WITHIN MOVIE

The movie represents four years of work and 140 million dollars to make.

I am, like many other critics, torn by the elements of the story and the craft involved in making it. A scene with a soaring eagle is breathtaking, genuinely touching. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within does contain some incredible animation and visuals. The monsters are extraordinary creations, somewhere between dinosaurs, dragons, jellyfish, and squid. Movie fans might also find it distracting to hear such instantly recognizable voices (James Woods, Ving Rhames, Peri Gilpin, Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Donald Sutherland) coming from faces so incongruously different from our associations. But when we see something with so little difference from humans, it just makes clearer how important that difference is. Meanwhile the hero, Aki, is trying to prove that they need to go around and find 8 spirits that have something to do with Gaea, the soul of Mother Earth, and then they can heal the. ItвЂ™s all about these soldiers going around shooting ghostly alien monsters on a post-apocalyptic earth. In more standard animation, the conventions allow for a level of exaggeration and omission that allows us to project human-like reactions onto a character. Remington produced and directed all motion capture for the first theatrically released motion capture film, FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN. But the story just isnвЂ™t involving at all. They do less well when it comes to talking and, well, acting. Any thoughts movie-going audiences might have had to the contrary should be instantly quashed.The movie's effects work best when the 'actors' are moving, because their movements are based on that oldest of animation techniques, rotoscoping. In short, whether it be Toy Story or Final Fantasy, CGI is still little more than another form of animation. The first was recorded by co-director Motonori Sakakibara, sequence supervisor Hiroyuki Hayashida, sets and props lead artist Tatsuro Maruyama, and Phantom supervisor Takao Noguchi the day after. The first disc includes two feature-length commentaries.

In much the same way Toy Story, or this years вЂњShrekвЂќ were beautiful films. The special edition DVD of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within can keep you occupied for hours. ThatвЂ™s not to say Final Fantasy isnвЂ™t a BEAUTIFUL film, it is. When you look at the screen you donвЂ™t think вЂњooo wow look Doctor RossвЂќ you think вЂњooo wow look at that computer generated image, see how it almost looks real?вЂќ Well for anyone paying attention, weвЂ™ve been saying computer generated images look almost real for about a decade now, and despite the fact that they seem to get more detailed, in point of fact they donвЂ™t look any more real now than they did ten years ago.

And no matter how many strides we make in CGI, it still doesnвЂ™t look real. The problem is that the characters arenвЂ™t real. Huddled in shielded cities, man wages a losing battle against these inimical life forms, and Doctor RossвЂ™s research to collect the вЂњ8 spiritsвЂќ of Gaia may be earthsвЂ™ only hope.ДЄt first this вЂњphoto realisticвЂќ all CGI film may seem really cool, a giant leap forward for the cinema experience. The future is a bleak one, in which the earth has been invaded by life sucking aliens, whose mere touch rips the life force from any and every living thing it encounters. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within stars the vocal talents of Ming-na as Doctor Aki Ross a scientist in the year 2065.

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