Comments on: Final Fantasy: The Spirit Wilted

By: starlady

starlady — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I quite enjoyed it. I thought the animation was lovely and the plot, while contrived, was a standard Final Fantasy plot, which is what I was expecting. (Were this a game, you would have been expected to collect all 8 ’spirits’ in order to defeat the enemy.)

Of course, if I’d been planning to see Moulin Rouge (mmmm… Ewan McGregor) I’d probably have been disappointed with FF as well. There couldn’t be two more different movies.

Jess.

By: domesticat

domesticat — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Okay, I'll come out of hiding.

Brian, I didn't like it either, though I think my complaint is much, much simpler than yours.

I just wish they'd taken the money they were gonna spend on CGI and redirected it toward the scriptwriters.

That was a lame and painful script.

The visuals were pretty. I gotta give 'em that. But the story to back it up didn't have much of a backbone.

Worth the price of a rental for the CGI, but not for a theater ticket + in-movie munchies.

By: brianr

brianr — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Suzanne had the same comment as Kat. Actually, it was more like "they blew all their money on CGI so they hired the producer’s fifth grade son to write the script". It was a cool idea that turned into a bad cliche all too quickly.

I’m still pissed about the Earth’s blueberry filling.

By: solarmax

solarmax — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I liked it, because it was Final Fantasy. The dialogue was a bit mundane, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they had the people who write the dialogue for the games help write this.

But holy mother monkey butt, was it gorgeous.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Ummm…Visualy stunning….But if yo have seen any of the aliens movies youve seen FF. And being surrounded by EarthLink people one of whom is a Ex-GF’s Ex-Husband (don’t ask) made the experiance that much more thrilling. =)

By: Gee-off

Gee-off — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

You know you have a terminal case of lackanookie when you start looking at the CGI characters and going, "Damn, I wish she were real."

By: wintersun

wintersun — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I have to agree with Starlady. Anybody who went to this movie, expecting a good script must not have understood the point of the movie. It’s a movie based off of a game, thus the plot is going to be just like a game.

As for the animation, it was absolutely gorgeous. There were several scenes where I could have sworn it was real and not CGI. I’m glad that I went to see this in the theatres rather than home video, because my TV still can’t do complete justice to beautiful animation like that.

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I have to say that I liked the CGI but after wanting to walk out half way in to the movie even thought I expced it to be a bacic FF plot it will be a wile till I go see a nother movie. But thinking that it was a game plot it was not as bad as it could have been, It also had the chance to be good if it would have had a plot.