my review of final fantasy: the spirits within

ive decided im not putting real work into my film reviews on this blog at all, going forward. i hope thats ok

 final fantasy the spirits within (2001) is an incredibly visually and technically impresesive piece of computer type animation especially but not just for being older than me and 9/11.  those couple month it has on us (my buddy 9/11 and i ) are pretty important though, the movie starts out in the desolate ravaged ruins of nyc and a lot of it is set in new new york until it gets completely exxploded and on fire so im glad this movie was released before exploding new york became illegal in moveys.

anyway yeah it's astonishing how good the cg looks. thanks to the one hundred and thirty seven million dollars they poured into this project you get to watch the frizzy bits of our leading wasian* scientist's dry hair sway as she goes about her business. speaking of whom i dont like that she ceases to be a character when she gets a boyfriend; many such cases. we need to stop trying to domesticate  acerbic women but honestly none of these characters have much goin on anyway/. cid is there and i think that and a couple machines labeled Aetheric Fuckatron or someshit of the sort + #gaia were like the only final fantasy parts of this final fantasy movey.

i found its plot utterly fucking trite and could scarcely believe how much runtime it devoted to explaining the concepts of "the ghost-type aliens are actually for real the ghosts of aliens" & "the earth has a soul" and letting the audience come to grips with these revelations. it truly felt like nothing so much as a cutscene compilation for a mid as fuck shooter.

the most fun part of this movey was my freaking ex-wife pogging and pointing as she started to recognize each individual voice actor on this inexplicably star studded cast. watch it with friends or not at all.

* i think. shes voiced  by ming na-wen but the character looks wasian to me (i spent the whole movie trying to deduce whether shes supposed to be) and her name is Aki Ross and they make her speak a bit britishly. as a chinese woman who speaks kind of britishly i think we need fewer of those in the world. to this day i am actively trying to deprogram the received pronunciation brainwashing i recieved as a childlet/.