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title: "Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within (Special Edition)"
brand: "hironobu sakaguchi"
price: "€ 18.61"
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# Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within (Special Edition)

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Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within (Special Edition)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Amazing resolution
  

*by C***N on Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2023*

Nothing

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    Still worth a look
  

*by B***. on Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2022*

The year was 2001. This pioneering CGI movie came out and was a complete bomb.  I could see how fans of the "Final Fantasy" series of games would have been bewildered watching this, since it really didn't have anything to do with the games, so a bit of 'bait and switch' backlash from those guys would have been understandable.Why most everybody else seemed to pan it at the time and still dis it so much today, I just don't get.A lot of people think the plot stunk, but for an animated sci-fi film, I thought the story was quite decent.**Spoiler** - For once, Earth isn't battling aliens, we're battling the ghosts of aliens.  Sure, that's fantasy, but to me, the story made a lot more sense than the plots behind mega-hit films like "Akira".I remembered seeing this film in the theater literally decades ago, had it on DVD at some point, then just recently bought it on 4k out of nostalgia.How has it held up?Well, the CGI is still very good, especially considering that this was made in 2001, but of course a lot of advances have been made since then.  Onscreen the characters display convincing weight (and weightlessness), but the lip syncing is really pretty bad. Hair and facial emotion renderings sometimes look corny. Parts of the story will induce eye rolls.And it's just weird to hear Steve Buscemi and Donald Sutherland's very distinctive voices coming out of CGI "human" characters that look nothing like the actual actors - I'm not saying that's a fault, it's just weird to the point of being distracting, especially if you're a big fan of either of these guys.Still, there's a decently entertaining story here that's as good or better than a lot of the sci-fi films I've seen in the many years since.And it's still worth a look if you've stayed away because of all the bad press, IMHOP.  :)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Beautiful but complex
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2001*

This is one amazing movie, different from anything you have ever seen. It is extremely ambitious. It is the first computer generated movie to try not only to be in 3D but to actually represent reality. A few characters, especially Dr. Sid, can fool you into thinking they are human, an incredible achievement. It is a science fiction story wrapped around a spiritual core, a very difficult proposition. It has adventure, aliens, alien war, romance, valor, tragedy, violence and pacifism. This is a conceptually, artistically and technically groundbreaking work.Does it work? Not quite.The graphics may be much more advanced than anything seen to date, including the contemporary Shrek, but they are flawed. Aki Ross, the main character, has a beautiful and soulful face, but her mouth seems chiseled on her chin, her teeth seem to be planted too far out and look like a fish's, her eyes are not wet but rather seem built of a hard plastic, her hair (each of the 60,000 threads individually animated) looks like a synthetic piece. Her body is too long, and her, uhm, bottom seems all wrong. Still she has an intriguing, star-like presence. Other characters, unfortunately are very cartoonish. All suffer from stiff bodies, their limbs attached to rigid torsos, as you see on plastic toys.By the way, the movie is not really computer generated. Rather the computer is used as a very powerful, knowledge based, colored pencil, under the control of human artists. The resulting visual experience reminds one of a very detailed drawing. Live actors were used to help the animators use the computer to render the movie's characters. No wonder, the whole thing cost 100 million dollars to make.The storyline is built around a complex spiritual core, which is revealed little by little in the movie. (If you haven't yet seen the movie you may want to jump to the next paragraph.) It proposes that each life bearing planet holds a spirit in the ground out of which each life form is born from and to which it returns after death. These planetary spirits are formed from some kind of wave, and, significantly, they are incompatible and deadly to each other. A fragment of an alien planet destroyed by nuclear war, has fallen on earth and has disgorged many deceased individual spirits of that planet, which move around like phantoms and lay waste to much of our life sphere.Well, this is a rather complicated background for most of the movie going public, not to say slightly derogatory of the Christian world view. Star War's "the force be with you" was a much simpler proposition. The joy in Final Fantasy is in taking in the beauty of the realistic but completely human-made world it depicts. Less spirituality and more laughs and sexual tension would certainly have made it more successful. This movie takes itself too seriously for its own good. Shrek's creators were smarter in this sense.I understand that Final Fantasy has been a financial flop. This is a great pity. Personally I would love to see Aki Ross again in a few years time, at 10 times better rendering technology. If a movie deserves a sequence, this is one. The movie's creators must realize that they own much more than the first photo realistic picture in human history, they also own the first human-made movie star. Let's hope they will be able to build on top of this amazing achievement.

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