I just finished watching this movie and I noticed something. It has the same sci-fi aesthetic as a bunch of other works that came out from 1995-2005. Where everything is made out of bulky stainless steel plates and covered in blue lights.
Has anyone come up with a name for this aesthetic yet?
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Warehouse Futurism
Also, the background of Aki Ross and Sony's plans for her in other movies is an interesting slice of pre-millennial web 1.0 hopefulness.
Qrd?
Techno Steelcore
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Never played the FF games. Loved the movie. How different is the movie from the videos games? I don't even know anything about the FF video game universe or what they're even about.
>How different is the movie from the videos games?
The FF games have more in common with Lord of The Rings than they have with the FF movie
There literally is no universe. Every game is it's own universe. Movie came out right around FF10 did so if you want something similar start with that but FF7 (not the remake) is widely considered the best
It's a long running series of jrpgs with no real connections between games other than some names and general themes (fire, ice, lightning, and heal magic, etc). Usually they're about a main character who becomes part of a larger group of kind-hearted outlaws or freedom fighters and opposes an evil empire that wants to take over the world but their plan will actually cause the destruction of the world. Lots of the games feature hidden stuff that you can't go back for later. Swords and guns are equally viable in combat.
The movie isn't based in any of the games, it's an original story. It's only called Final Fantasy because it mixed sci-fi with fantasy and pushed the graphics envelope.
It hits a lot of the FF notes though.
It does, and it doesn't. TSW never feels like you're recruiting a party to go on a quest
>Has anyone come up with a name for this aesthetic yet?
Black person, that's just general scif- aesthetic, its been around since the 1970s
Still the movie had some unique looking sets
Well general sci-fi is too vague. It lumps Alien, The Hunger Games, and Buck Rodgers together in one category. Those three can be more accurately described as cassette futurism, everything is an ipod in the future, and raygun futurism.
Imma go ahead and say it. FF8 >FF7
You're the Dark Souls 2 sperg of Final Fantasy fans
FF7=FF9 > FF8 > FF6 > FF10 > FF12 > Dogshit >>>>>>> POWERGAP>>>>>>>>> FF13
anything after 13 isnt really final fantasy anymore
Nah bro. But this ain't the right avenue. So I'll just give you a warning. Stay outta Cinemaphile and we got no issue.
>Stay outta Cinemaphile and we got no issue.
13 is better than 12
>13 better than anything
Just because you ejaculated ungodly amounts of semen to Lighting porn does not make the game any better
I didn't fap to Lighting, the game has just better combat than 12
sure thing bucko
Yes. 12 is extremely bad
>equip two characters with axes
>buff them with berserk
>rape 99% of enemies and bosses in the game
You're even worse than he is having 8 that high at all
I never finished 7 but I loved 8
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>there's an official 4K version of the movie
Damn homie now I'm curious
Huh. Might give it a rewatch. I just rewatched the original this spring.
>While Square ruled out any chance of a sequel to The Spirits Within before it was even completed, Sakaguchi intended to position Aki as being the "main star" for Square Pictures, using her in later games and films by Square, and including the flexibility of being able to modify aspects such as her age for such appearances.
They also had hopes that other studios would want to rent Aki for their own movies.
What is it with squenix people trying to make their waifus happen when no one wants that shit? Also the voice actors made that movie better than it has a right to be.
I just watched it on vhs, and I think it adds to the charm. Makes it feel like I'm watching an hour long ps1 cutscene.
Its not much better than the bluray
The Mass Effect series took inspiration from this movie alone
I'd count Mass Effect as being a seperate look. Its got lot of hard angles and bright colors.
I won't deny the design lineage, but I'd count them as deifferent enough to be seperate
Yeah, okay.
But where's the rep in Opera Omnia???
To this day I remember NOTHING about this movie except that Steve Buscemi was in it
It's called 2000's core, it's from the same era that made these shades and those big transparent mac computers that owen wilson threw on the ground in zoolander
On a side note everyone hates spirits within but I rewatched it recently and it hits all the right notes as a final fantasy game and also as a japanese sci fi dystopia film
and the animation is really fricking good I don't know what people hate on it so much the voice actors were really good too 🙁
It was billed as photorealistic but it's not quite out of the uncanny valley.
>and the animation is really fricking good I don't know what people hate on it so much the voice actors were really good too 🙁
It was top notch when it was released, but now it looks absolutely ridiculous. That's why animation studios usually stay awain from realistic CGI.
Isn't that called "frutiger aero" ?
The Fifth Element is the real Final Fantasy movie.
I'd say its more of a Heavy Metal 2.
Funny thing about FF:TSW, was that remember Tom Hanks freaking out against the movie, being afraid of how 'life-like' CGI could replace actors....and then a few short years later, he was in the Polar Express.
Wait, really?
normal mapping was relatively new. you got a lot of mileage out of shiny brushed metal future buildings.
this movie might be one of if not THE greatest flop of all time. Square spent 40 million to create a studio from scratch just to START spending more money on the rest of the movie.
sakaguchi had made hundreds of millions of dollars for square with the final fantasy IP up until this point then got exiled from the company due to how much money this lost.
the movie itself is generic scifi but the story of its production and the aftermath of its flopping is very interesting.
Frutiger Aero is what it's called.
>Toy Story, Antz, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Dinosaur, Shrek, The Spirits Within
It was the 7th computer generated animation film.
If you're only considering the American ones, yes.
fun fact: this movie was such a financial failure that it would have bankrupted Square if FF:10 had not come out a few weeks later and sold amazingly well.
Frick off zoomer. Stop putting genres and names and labels on absolutely every new thing you come across.