This movie generated a lot of press when it came out. It might seem silly now, but watching the trailer as a kid, I wondered if it was live-action or not. Nowadays, super-realistic CGI is commonplace, but in 2001 it was unheard-of. There was serious talk that Aki Ross, the female lead in the movie, would become a "star" in her own right, and act alongside people in live-action movies.
"I can't picture people sitting down in a theater and watching this..." Look mate, I sat down and watched this when i was a kid. You callin' me a liar?
okay, but what is even the connection between FF VII and FF IX? Or FF XIII? How about VIII and XV? I mean, they are all different worlds and universes, I don't feel like there's any kind of "pattern" that each Final Fantasy game follows. 🤷♂️ Sure, this would probably be the least imaginative FF story, or the "closest to actual reality" one, but still.
There's a party of characters that go on a journey around the world to collect a specific number of macguffins, and there's a guy named Cid who's a scientist.
@@mandarinduck really goes to show the best games are good in spite of the formula, and the bad ones highlights how boring and uninspired that formula can be in the wrong hands
I remember when I watched this movie and my grumpy dad walked in and asked how they defeated the aliens in the end and I told him they just all turned from red to blue and he was like: Ah, the cheapest special effect, changing the color.
"I told you, I'm not gonna leave this place! There are fricken spirits out there!" -"That may be. But there are SPIRITS WITHIN too." *both turn and look at the camera*
Fun fact: If you have the original Dvd copy of Spirits Within. There's a secret button on the Disc 2 menu that shows you a slideshow of the main female character in a bikini
Also: remember this came out in 2001. The same year as Shrek and Monsters Inc. I'd say when it comes to 'realistic human' it has both those movies beat. I'd say Monsters Inc is the most visually impressive overall tho
That's what gets me. Ragging on the graphics of a near 20 year old movie. Super low hanging fruit. They tried making something revolutionary and failed spectacularly. It's a trainwreck but I sorta respect the attempt
The CGI is actually good, it's just the designs are bad. The design and the environments in Shrek/Monsters Inc is more interesting to watch. Everything there is so much more expressive and fun to look at, this though is just CGI people talking in closed rooms, something you could have made look better by just doing it in real life. The main benefit from doing this would've been having monsters who feel like they're in the same universe as the humans, instead of having CGI monstrosities alongside real people, but they didn't even do that.
@@rctecopyright Yeah, like what did they expect? it's *old* CGI. This movie sure did a lot of things wrong, but the graphics are impressive for its time.
I saw this in the theatre as a senior in high school after years of growing up playing FF and let me say, my friends and I were not thrilled. It was just so antiseptic and had none of the earned emotions of a FF game. Also, my friends and I all thought it's design was all too influenced by FF8, a very mediocre entry between the all time great 7 and the all time underrated 9
"it's literally the cheapest option" except no it's not, because rendering transparent/translucent, PLUS emissive objects, which affect global illumination, is literally combination of the two most expensive options, performance-wise.
I might be wrong but I don't think their renders have any reflection/refraction information. It literally just looks like the default "glow" material in Houdini with the "inverted" turned on. So it's actually a pretty cheap render! As for the illumination they could very well have used animated lights to recreate it, or just a specular indirect map coming from the glow material :)
That would be the case now, or at any point within the last 10-15 years, but this is 2001 - they were a) almost certainly a separate pass that was then composited in with translucency, and b) _certainly_ not affecting global illumination because it wasn't yet close to being used in film renderers - the lighting would have all been faked by hand, including lighting from emissive objects.
@@KillahMate What. Real time coloured dynamic lighting was in IDTech 3. In 1997. Raytraced lighting for static renders was a thing in the 80s. Did high budget CGI honestly use prebaked lighting in 2001?
fun fact lmao this movie was made back when the company was just "square" (who made final fantasy) and enix (who made dragon quest) - enix had a bad financial year and had been struggling for a minute. Square was making hella money at the time but this film was such a catastrophic failure that they ended up doing a merger to survive
@@ThejollyFrenchman you're probably right, I remember reading this in a magazine when i was a tiny baby boy (would have been k-zone or playstation magazine). the fact that video game journalism did not do quite as good a job of fact checking 15 years ago leads me to potentially doubt the story's validity - but damn is it a fun story to tell hahah
Sans Argonauts There's a series on RUclips called Wha Happun that does a deep dive on the background of various game and movie disasters. They recently did one on Spirits Within. I'd recommend it, if you're interested on getting the full story. There were a lot of bad decisions going on in the background.
Everyone I talked to about this movie hated it because "it has nothing to do with the games so it's not really a Final Fantasy movie". Meanwhile none of the Final Fantasy games have anything to do with each other at all.
Thats true but they all have atleast a couple things in common like magic or summons i think thats what people are going for when they say nothing to do with final fantasy
Yup. Storywise, it's much closer to the older FFs than FF12, 13, 15, and even 7 and 8. But it was full sci-fi so it's not FF. Fans can be so stupid sometimes.
Fun fact: when this movie bombed at the box office Enix held off of merging with Square because it looked like they were going to go bankrupt due to how much they spent to make this movie and how little they got on their return. Enix only became convinced to merge because Final Fantasy X and Kingdom Hearts were huge financial successes.
J.R. But Squaresoft already huge with the past Final Fantasy games and this movie was right after FF7, FF8 and FF9 which were all really successful games they had tons of Cash on hand already
From what I've read Square/Enix has always had serious financial issues up until FF14 relaunch and the mobile games. I could be mistaken because I read about it years ago.
I saw this in theaters with my parents, I was like "YES I'll get to introduce Final Fantasy to my parents, they're gonna love it!" ...I was embarrassed
Saying “they made the enemies translucent to only make half a render” is like saying “they didn’t film it in front of a green screen, that way they won’t have to remove the green screen behind the actors!” It’s not easier that way, it’s harder.
Imagine this being your introduction to FF as a kid I remember seeing the games on shelves for the first time and thinking 'wait, there's HOW many of these? Why does that dude have a sword? WHERE ARE THE SPACESHIPS?'
I wish the *THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS* caption would fly in front of my face every time I comptemplated the outcome of something stupid I was about to do, music included.
You say that but without warning that would be terrifying, like imagine if you thought “what if I randomly died eating this sandwich lol” and you hear the music in the distance
Fun Fact: Square Enix was pushing for a new form of actors and actresses. Basically, they were attempting to make Hatsune Miku before Miku. Their plan was to promote the CGI actors so that all future movies would use these actor models.
I saw this in theater and loved this movie as a kid. Looking at it now I feel like it was close to being good, with a bit better writing and pacing it would be vastly improved. A lot of things they are referencing in this vid actually hadn't even come out yet (like Halo).
I was 17 when this film was released and deemed cutting edge back in 2001. As a fan of Final Fantasy 7, I was expecting something a lot less sci-fi related. However I enjoyed the story and the philosophical elements. Years later I had my thirst quenched when I watched Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children 🙏🏾
@@puppetstudio4989 "Bionicle" is the name of the series/story. It comes from "biological" + "chronicle". The (main) creatures themselves are called "Toa".
when I was a kid and saw the trailers for this movie, me and my parents were excited for this movie. I unironically loved this movie as a child. at the time I didn't know final fantasy was a video game series, it just looked cool to me and my parents. This movie was my first experience with final fantasy. Then my older brother came back from the military in 2003 and introduce me to the video games. he first show me kingdom hearts and explained the final fantasy characters in the game, then told me about final fantasy 10, then final fantasy 8, then final fantasy 7.etc... the first final fantasy game I beat by myself was final fantasy X-2 when it first came out. I've been a final fantasy fan ever since.
budakbaong siah you know, Chocobos, support items like potions, tents, Phoenix downs, legacy characters like Cid, Biggs and Wedge, Cactuar, stuff like that
I saw this in theaters when it came out. I was a very confused child when I left the theater with my mom. She called it "the dumbest thing Ive ever seen"
I watched this movie in theatres when I was like 12 with my friend. We were the only ones in the theatre, so we ran around and played hide and seek and shit. Good times.
16:55 - One of the reasons Pixar decided to make their first ever fully-CGI movie about Toys was that the technology couldn't yet render realistic-looking people. As you ca see in Toy Story 1, the humans look really creepy and everyone's skin looks like plastic. So might as well go with comical toy designs that ARE supposed to be made of plastic, to cut down on the Uncanny Valley Effect.
When this first came out, it was a little embarassing how desperately it was advertised to the comic-book/video-game crowd, with no clear coherence to the pitch. And nobody cared.
They kept saying this movie didn't feel like Final Fantasy, but yelling "WTF is happening?" at the screen while some vague but pretty cinematic plays is the most Final Fantasy thing I can think of.
I remember seeing this bullshit in theaters and being completely confused the whole time. I still don't remember what the story is about. The souls of soldiers being ripped out by ghost aliens is the only part of the movie I ever seem to remember. The only upside for me as a viewer was not being a FF fan as a kid so I wasn't disappointed on that level, unlike a buddy of mine who is a huge fan. I asked him how well this held to the games and you can imagine the disgust that accompanied his very hateful words. 😂
I kind of liked the movie but the explanation is something you forget the next day. I think it has something to do with finding the wavelengths that complement the bad spirits and and cause destructive resonance... basically it's like sound cancellation. I think. Maybe.
I hadn't played any Final Fantasy at the time this came out and I still was super disappointed. I want to see Dragon Ball fights and those dumb giant swords, and crazy designs with spiky hair. I just got value-brand Aliens.
It's honestly unfair to pick on the visual, 'cause it was at this moment, a fucking crazy achievement. Motion capturing wasn't developped at this movie time, so everything you saw is fucking hand drawn, then animated by hand, sorry it's incredible
This movie obviously didnt age well, but i remember how cutting edge this was when it came out. A fully cg experience with non cartoon looking models was unheard of at this point.
@1:30 I did go into the theater to watch it. I had to walk through ten feet of snow to get there. I was barefoot at the time. You young whipper-snappers will never know the hardship of trying to see Final Fantasy movies.
In 2001 I was 20, so yes I’m old. I am disappointing too, correct. It just didn’t feel like Final Fantasy to me. It’s bland. I will say, in 2001, this shit looked amazing to us, but I haven’t rewatched it since then (other than this video) and it definitely didn’t age well, heh.
I watched this in the theater as a kid and I loved it. The concept of the intangible alien ghosts had me on my toes the whole movie. Even now I don't think it's half as bad as people say it is
This movie did end up paying dividends in the long run because it got Square to invest in their own animation studio and rendering tech which is one reason why even their modern games done Unreal Engine or whatever still look so distinctive.
To think this was my first introduction to FF, I honestly can't remember if my family liked this so much that they watched it a lot of times, or if it was simply too long and boring so I remember like they watching multiple times, but it was actually just once.
I've never played any FF game, but from what I know about it and I have seen this movie doesn't even remotely resemble FF apart from it's animated. It absolutely looks like a loose adaptation of Lost Planet, Dan hit the nail on the head with that comparison.
This movie bombed, but the motion capture tech they used for the characters was pretty advanced for its time and it became a mainstay for videogame CGI and movie effects! So at least we got that out of this............
Advent Children was a visual spectacle, but as part of the Final Fantasy VII canon, it achieved nothing and made some things worse in hindsight. Actually, every FFVII spinoff did that...
I remember I begged my parents to buy me this DVD for like $27.99 at the Virgin Records store when I was a kid. They always overpriced their new DVDs but I remember feeling really bad for that when I didn’t even bother to watch the movie a 2nd time.
(7:56) Literally the Metroid suit interface. Still everything except FF. (15:11) Oml. He's actually reading the stutter directly off of the script. "No d- no drugs." (22:11) "Let me do the sucky. Trust me."
Just weird dubbing issues. The action is stupid fun, and you’re mostly there to watch an HD fight between Cloud and Sephiroth, which was amazing. I’ll be honest though, I don’t remember shit about the plot. There was a plague and something about other JENOVA clones or some shit like that idk, the guy Tifa fights can split me in two.
The phantoms in this used to scare the hell out of me as a kid. They didn't look too scary but the fact that they could move through the walls and all they had to do to kill you was just touch you was terrifying to think about.
This movie was awesome to me as a kid. The visuals were amazing and I loved the design for the soldiers and vehicles. The story puts you to sleep though.
This movie exists simply for he technical feats they achieved. The main technical aspect was the hair on the main character and how it was the most lifelike reproduction of hair in computer animation to date. Individual strands were all rendered on independent paths to allow for more lifelike flow in movement. The money did not go into the script or rest of the production. Donald Sutherland got a huge paycheck if I remember correctly, and then it died a quick death at the theater.
I love this movie. It’s weird but it’s weird in all the right ways. Ghost aliens from a dying planet stuck on earth due to a crashed asteroid, and the only way to destroy them is to sacrifice souls of the living directly into the sprit core. It elevated sci fi and pushed technological boundaries. Truly a pivotal film.
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Fun fact, the main character was supposed to be a "virtual actor" who would appear in multiple movies as different characters. But it, uh, didn't work
lol oof
Thank god we have Hatsune Miku as a virtual celebrity instead
They made Lightning a CK model.
Virtual actor's virality turns out to not be viral.
That sounds terrible I'm so glad it didn't work
„I don‘t need medicine, I need a gun.“ is the most USA-ish thing I‘ve ever heard.
We Americans shoot the wound close, common American medicine.
@@Cassius4 Last time I said american in that context, some dude from south america got mad at me xD
@@royalRoy5 Lol, yes, we hate that. All "Estadounidenses" are "Americanos" but not all "Americanos" are "Estadounidenses".
Literally the Republican party platform
@@artur12300 I’m sorry?
This movie generated a lot of press when it came out. It might seem silly now, but watching the trailer as a kid, I wondered if it was live-action or not. Nowadays, super-realistic CGI is commonplace, but in 2001 it was unheard-of. There was serious talk that Aki Ross, the female lead in the movie, would become a "star" in her own right, and act alongside people in live-action movies.
oh the days of early CGI...
Agree with you !!! At that time, it looked amazing !!!
I was 10 and to me at the time it was almost photorealistic
This movie GENERATED a lot of press...
I see what you did there. Whether you intended or not.
This movie blew my mind with the cgi.
"I can't picture people sitting down in a theater and watching this..."
Look mate, I sat down and watched this when i was a kid. You callin' me a liar?
Pics, or it didn't happen.
Me too... imagine my surprise when there was nothing remotely resembling ff in the movie 😑
@@ChilloHaus yeah hang on, let me get my circa 20001disposable camera out
@@The_Joend 😂 good times
@@ivanb4681 same 🤦🏾♀️
I’m surprised JJ Abrams didn’t add this to the cloverfield universe...
🤣🤣🤣
... Don't tempt fate my friend...
This seems like some Cloverfield shit
Murcia doxial *sweating profusely*
10:30 "It's every movie and it's every game, but it's not Final Fantasy"
Exactly.
okay, but what is even the connection between FF VII and FF IX? Or FF XIII? How about VIII and XV? I mean, they are all different worlds and universes, I don't feel like there's any kind of "pattern" that each Final Fantasy game follows. 🤷♂️ Sure, this would probably be the least imaginative FF story, or the "closest to actual reality" one, but still.
There's a party of characters that go on a journey around the world to collect a specific number of macguffins, and there's a guy named Cid who's a scientist.
Takes place on earth for one
@@mandarinduck really goes to show the best games are good in spite of the formula, and the bad ones highlights how boring and uninspired that formula can be in the wrong hands
I remember when I watched this movie and my grumpy dad walked in and asked how they defeated the aliens in the end and I told him they just all turned from red to blue and he was like: Ah, the cheapest special effect, changing the color.
L0LWTF1337 He knows what‘s up
I'm curious what he said about Mass Effect 3 ending.
lmao to the core of the problem in fewest words
"I told you, I'm not gonna leave this place! There are fricken spirits out there!"
-"That may be. But there are SPIRITS WITHIN too."
*both turn and look at the camera*
Don't invoke a sequel!
Fun fact: If you have the original Dvd copy of Spirits Within. There's a secret button on the Disc 2 menu that shows you a slideshow of the main female character in a bikini
Oh, the utter shamelessness of early 2000s geek culture.
I just so happen to have such a dvd.
@@JurzGarz every generation
Oh Japan...
She was also the first fictional woman to be voted as one of the sexiest woman ever in FHM.
I love how the only tie to Final Fantasy is there's a guy named Cid.
To be fair, that is a cemented point of FF games
*Unsolicited, non-consensual Life Is Strange Footage*
That was so cereal.
God, I hate that game
@@Satherian Me too! Fuck that game!
That was so cereal
I don’t get it but I wanna be apart of this
@@Satherian lol what was so bad about it XD
@@webdude15 Besides it being teen angst simulator for annoying rich white kids?
The main girl could prove to me all the secrets of the universe and I would still not believe her just for her line delivery.
I vote for more Cosmonaut Picture Show
Hunter_F I second this
It is the best content on his channel
I’ve watched the tall girl one like 5 times
I agree amen
Sub to the patreon for the full length reactions my guy.
"Imagine going into the theater to watch this."
Yeah that was me. Still remember seeing it with my best friend at the time.
May he RIP.
F
Rest In Peace homie if Tauramehtar
May he rip and tear.
RIP in peace 😔
Seeing this in the theater would’ve been incredible
Also: remember this came out in 2001. The same year as Shrek and Monsters Inc. I'd say when it comes to 'realistic human' it has both those movies beat. I'd say Monsters Inc is the most visually impressive overall tho
That's what gets me. Ragging on the graphics of a near 20 year old movie. Super low hanging fruit. They tried making something revolutionary and failed spectacularly. It's a trainwreck but I sorta respect the attempt
@@rctecopyright I agree!
The CGI is actually good, it's just the designs are bad. The design and the environments in Shrek/Monsters Inc is more interesting to watch. Everything there is so much more expressive and fun to look at, this though is just CGI people talking in closed rooms, something you could have made look better by just doing it in real life. The main benefit from doing this would've been having monsters who feel like they're in the same universe as the humans, instead of having CGI monstrosities alongside real people, but they didn't even do that.
@@rctecopyright Yeah, like what did they expect? it's *old* CGI. This movie sure did a lot of things wrong, but the graphics are impressive for its time.
I saw this in the theatre as a senior in high school after years of growing up playing FF and let me say, my friends and I were not thrilled. It was just so antiseptic and had none of the earned emotions of a FF game. Also, my friends and I all thought it's design was all too influenced by FF8, a very mediocre entry between the all time great 7 and the all time underrated 9
"it's literally the cheapest option"
except no it's not, because rendering transparent/translucent, PLUS emissive objects, which affect global illumination, is literally combination of the two most expensive options, performance-wise.
I might be wrong but I don't think their renders have any reflection/refraction information. It literally just looks like the default "glow" material in Houdini with the "inverted" turned on. So it's actually a pretty cheap render! As for the illumination they could very well have used animated lights to recreate it, or just a specular indirect map coming from the glow material :)
That would be the case now, or at any point within the last 10-15 years, but this is 2001 - they were a) almost certainly a separate pass that was then composited in with translucency, and b) _certainly_ not affecting global illumination because it wasn't yet close to being used in film renderers - the lighting would have all been faked by hand, including lighting from emissive objects.
@@KillahMate Yeah, if they're doing the lighting by hand that would explain why nearly every scene is bathed in such lifeless grey
@@KillahMate What. Real time coloured dynamic lighting was in IDTech 3. In 1997. Raytraced lighting for static renders was a thing in the 80s. Did high budget CGI honestly use prebaked lighting in 2001?
fun fact lmao this movie was made back when the company was just "square" (who made final fantasy) and enix (who made dragon quest) - enix had a bad financial year and had been struggling for a minute. Square was making hella money at the time but this film was such a catastrophic failure that they ended up doing a merger to survive
If I remember correctly, Square and Enix were already planning to make a have the merger, but the movie's failure nearly scuttled the deal.
@@ThejollyFrenchman you're probably right, I remember reading this in a magazine when i was a tiny baby boy (would have been k-zone or playstation magazine). the fact that video game journalism did not do quite as good a job of fact checking 15 years ago leads me to potentially doubt the story's validity - but damn is it a fun story to tell hahah
Sans Argonauts or you just remember it wrong
Sans Argonauts There's a series on RUclips called Wha Happun that does a deep dive on the background of various game and movie disasters. They recently did one on Spirits Within. I'd recommend it, if you're interested on getting the full story. There were a lot of bad decisions going on in the background.
square soft
That line from Life is Strange is more exciting than this movie.
Chris Pine? Nah, the love interest guy looks like Ben Affleck.
Scrolled way to much looking for THIS
Yes!!!!
the amount of "chads" in this movie are astonishing
Yeah are they blind?!
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who saw that because holy shit it bothered me.
Everyone I talked to about this movie hated it because "it has nothing to do with the games so it's not really a Final Fantasy movie".
Meanwhile none of the Final Fantasy games have anything to do with each other at all.
Thats true but they all have atleast a couple things in common like magic or summons i think thats what people are going for when they say nothing to do with final fantasy
gurl, It's called Final Fantasy not Final Sci-Fi.
Yup. Storywise, it's much closer to the older FFs than FF12, 13, 15, and even 7 and 8.
But it was full sci-fi so it's not FF. Fans can be so stupid sometimes.
Why Not Make A Movie Based on Final Fantasy Vi
@@SonGojit456
It already exists and it's called Star Wars.
Fun fact: when this movie bombed at the box office Enix held off of merging with Square because it looked like they were going to go bankrupt due to how much they spent to make this movie and how little they got on their return. Enix only became convinced to merge because Final Fantasy X and Kingdom Hearts were huge financial successes.
J.R. Was FFX and Kingdom Hearts square soft or square Enix?
KH1 was definitely Squaresoft, I remember that explicitly.
@@Dsrgreyy FFX and KH1 were Squaresoft. FFX-2 and KH2 were Square Enix.
J.R. But Squaresoft already huge with the past Final Fantasy games and this movie was right after FF7, FF8 and FF9 which were all really successful games they had tons of Cash on hand already
From what I've read Square/Enix has always had serious financial issues up until FF14 relaunch and the mobile games. I could be mistaken because I read about it years ago.
7:47 Wow the Sora voice is actually really good, it sounds so much like him honestly.
I saw this in theaters with my parents, I was like "YES I'll get to introduce Final Fantasy to my parents, they're gonna love it!" ...I was embarrassed
That's literally my worst nightmare 😂😂
Man... I feel sorry for you.
I was confused, I had to tell them the video game was different so I didn’t really get it either lol
I loved it. I was 10 years old though and FF10 had come out recently (also had jawdropping cutscenes for the time)
That’s devastating Omg 😭
Saying “they made the enemies translucent to only make half a render” is like saying “they didn’t film it in front of a green screen, that way they won’t have to remove the green screen behind the actors!” It’s not easier that way, it’s harder.
"Square Pictures"
Me: Isn't that a rectangle?
Haha.
Lol my thoughts exactly
Squaresoft logo accentuates the triangle, so yeah. They don't know their shapes.
Isn't every square also a rectangle though?
EakinSnyder yes but it’s called square pictures, not rectangle pictures. Squares are always rectangles but very few rectangles are squares.
I remember when I watched this movie with my refreshing bottle of Pepsi and my cup of perfectly blended noodles
Imagine this being your introduction to FF as a kid
I remember seeing the games on shelves for the first time and thinking 'wait, there's HOW many of these? Why does that dude have a sword? WHERE ARE THE SPACESHIPS?'
This was my intro to FF as well.
LOL.
This was my intro to ff took a few years to become a fan
This actually was my introduction to the franchise. The phantoms terrified me as a kid. I used to have nightmares about them.
Was my intro too, loved this movie as a kid and didnt understand why all the games were so wierd and fantasy lol
Kingsglaive is slightly better.
Oh hey your here
Advent Children is significantly better (will die on the hill that Advent Children is good FOR FF7, NOT MOVIE FANS IN GENERAL)
Apparently there was an anime movie back in the day and an anime series
@@NinjaSox7 Complete edition is even better
I wish the *THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS* caption would fly in front of my face every time I comptemplated the outcome of something stupid I was about to do, music included.
You say that but without warning that would be terrifying, like imagine if you thought “what if I randomly died eating this sandwich lol” and you hear the music in the distance
I like Dan. I think he’s your perfect partner for commentary.
While looking all cute and s*it...
@@ohc1492 thank you for your kind words
He’s the best
@@TheScienceguy77 hey great commentary. Yall had some fun riffs, would love to see more, post covid
i think Marcus and the girl are funnier commentary together
The only thing they got right: They added a guy named Cid
Spelled Sid tho. So not even
@@hind__ Woof!
SID
WHY?
hind damn, they just left the boys Biggs and Wedge
And a Chocobo too
Don’t you dare disrespect the good name of Bionicle by comparing them to this!
Hell, Legend Reborn is better than this!
Ikr!!!
"Imagine going into the theater to watch this" Not only that, my dad took me - might be the first time I felt dissapointed at a film for no reason
Alberto Jara yay for father-kid theater outings! My dad took me to Men in Black 2 and we both left the theater shaking our heads XD
"Lemon, get us back to New York" KJASDLGFSDJGJDLSK
Fun Fact:
Square Enix was pushing for a new form of actors and actresses. Basically, they were attempting to make Hatsune Miku before Miku. Their plan was to promote the CGI actors so that all future movies would use these actor models.
Yeah, the girl even appeared in a magazine wearing, like, a sexy bikini (y mean the cgi girl)
It reminds me of kubrick and his robot actor idea for AI... And it had similar results
I saw this in theater and loved this movie as a kid. Looking at it now I feel like it was close to being good, with a bit better writing and pacing it would be vastly improved. A lot of things they are referencing in this vid actually hadn't even come out yet (like Halo).
Marcus: “I haven’t seen this movie before”
Also Marcus: *Predicts the whole movie*
I mean, it's a 2001 movie, it's easily predictable...
@@fantasmacstrp9239 You call that reasoning? Any movie made in the past is predictable? It's not hard to predict your future..
@@jalderink Ha you got him, what an idiot. only a big alpha brain like you could have worked out that not all movies are the same
Epic Reasoning gamer
@@jalderink 🤦♂️
imagine this sitting right aside, trying to enjoy the film :D
I was 17 when this film was released and deemed cutting edge back in 2001. As a fan of Final Fantasy 7, I was expecting something a lot less sci-fi related. However I enjoyed the story and the philosophical elements.
Years later I had my thirst quenched when I watched Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children 🙏🏾
It’s very interesting that you expected Spirits Within to be less sci-fi when FFVII has so many sci-fi elements in it.
Just had another "holy shit I totally forgot this movie exists" moment. Thanks cosmo
Michael Wong ur welcome Wanda!
“I don’t remember Florida being in Final Fantasy”
Had this DVD as a kid. Never realized it was supposed to be a Final Fantasy movie.
Bionicle started in 2001
okay
But for real using the term "Bionicles" gets you Ganon Banned by the fanbase
...that's stupid so what's the fucking plural then
@@puppetstudio4989 "Bionicle" is the name of the series/story. It comes from "biological" + "chronicle". The (main) creatures themselves are called "Toa".
I remember how the animation in this blew my mind back then.
Kinda shows how far we've come.
It should have been called “Final Fantasy: The Phantom Menace”. Missed opportunity.
I wish all white people looked like Chris pine in real life, I’d feel a lot better about myself
You're mom looks like Chris Pine.
Gavin Erickson are you five
@@triggeredbeetle5370 6 and a half.
TJ Hageli why
TJ Hageli and all. Lack people look like Idris Elba
when I was a kid and saw the trailers for this movie, me and my parents were excited for this movie. I unironically loved this movie as a child. at the time I didn't know final fantasy was a video game series, it just looked cool to me and my parents. This movie was my first experience with final fantasy.
Then my older brother came back from the military in 2003 and introduce me to the video games. he first show me kingdom hearts and explained the final fantasy characters in the game, then told me about final fantasy 10, then final fantasy 8, then final fantasy 7.etc...
the first final fantasy game I beat by myself was final fantasy X-2 when it first came out. I've been a final fantasy fan ever since.
Imagine thinking shrek is comparable to any media.
Imagine thinking Shrek.
Lalaace imagine shrek
It's comparable to Shrek 2
Imagine thin Shrek.
*~imagine~*
"Imagine seeing this in the theater."
I was there. You, uh. . .didn't miss much.
16:56 - 17:14
I love how this short realization just broke Marcus in one fell swoop.
This movie was rendered on the equivalent of a cell phone. I think they're being unfair for the groundbreaking CGI of the time.
The problem is that they named the movie "Final Fantasy".
Yeah, people seem to expect for Cloud and Squall and Chocobo and Bahamut to be in this film.
budakbaong siah look I’m fine with a Final Fantasy installment that is a movie, but you gotta at least have the game staples
@@BetaXeeta
And what are these game staples?
budakbaong siah you know, Chocobos, support items like potions, tents, Phoenix downs, legacy characters like Cid, Biggs and Wedge, Cactuar, stuff like that
Why Not Put Firion
_I’ve been having these weird thoughts lately..._
_is any of this for real or not?_
_None of this makes sense to me_
*simple and clean intensifies*
*WHEN YOU WALK AWAY-*
I saw this in theaters when it came out. I was a very confused child when I left the theater with my mom. She called it "the dumbest thing Ive ever seen"
"I'm Dan."
"And I'm not."
Haha he said that in the video
um.
yea thats the point
Im also not
Mood
I was... But I'm not
I watched this movie in theatres when I was like 12 with my friend. We were the only ones in the theatre, so we ran around and played hide and seek and shit. Good times.
I was so confused watching this movie as a kid, wondering what this movie had to do with the games.
Same lmao I thought this movie sucked ass when I was a kid. So confused and bored
The whole Terra/Earth vs Gaia thing and the Souls kind of reminds me of FF9 but i dunno if thats intentional..?^^
16:55 - One of the reasons Pixar decided to make their first ever fully-CGI movie about Toys was that the technology couldn't yet render realistic-looking people. As you ca see in Toy Story 1, the humans look really creepy and everyone's skin looks like plastic. So might as well go with comical toy designs that ARE supposed to be made of plastic, to cut down on the Uncanny Valley Effect.
When this first came out, it was a little embarassing how desperately it was advertised to the comic-book/video-game crowd, with no clear coherence to the pitch. And nobody cared.
They kept saying this movie didn't feel like Final Fantasy, but yelling "WTF is happening?" at the screen while some vague but pretty cinematic plays is the most Final Fantasy thing I can think of.
Eh, to an extent, but in the good Final Fantasy games you always know why all that crazy shit is happening... even if it isn’t right away.
I remember seeing this bullshit in theaters and being completely confused the whole time. I still don't remember what the story is about. The souls of soldiers being ripped out by ghost aliens is the only part of the movie I ever seem to remember. The only upside for me as a viewer was not being a FF fan as a kid so I wasn't disappointed on that level, unlike a buddy of mine who is a huge fan. I asked him how well this held to the games and you can imagine the disgust that accompanied his very hateful words. 😂
I kind of liked the movie but the explanation is something you forget the next day. I think it has something to do with finding the wavelengths that complement the bad spirits and and cause destructive resonance... basically it's like sound cancellation. I think. Maybe.
I hadn't played any Final Fantasy at the time this came out and I still was super disappointed. I want to see Dragon Ball fights and those dumb giant swords, and crazy designs with spiky hair. I just got value-brand Aliens.
It's honestly unfair to pick on the visual, 'cause it was at this moment, a fucking crazy achievement.
Motion capturing wasn't developped at this movie time, so everything you saw is fucking hand drawn, then animated by hand, sorry it's incredible
I love this movie, but it was basically a overpriced tech demo
Mraknoo Kinda sounds like some other movies he reviewed.
This movie obviously didnt age well, but i remember how cutting edge this was when it came out. A fully cg experience with non cartoon looking models was unheard of at this point.
Steve Buscemi is in an official Final Fantasy project , I love that fact.
When I saw this in the cinema with my dad, we were absolutely blown away by the graphics, we were like, they made real people o_o
i watched this movie when i was half delirious with a fever and for a while i was convinced i dreamt the whole thing
@1:30 I did go into the theater to watch it. I had to walk through ten feet of snow to get there. I was barefoot at the time. You young whipper-snappers will never know the hardship of trying to see Final Fantasy movies.
This was one of my sisters favorite movies when we were kids. Scared the crap out of me. What an odd odd film.
As a kid who had no exposure to the FF games, I was stoked for this movie and loved it when it hit theaters. It was a cool sci fi movie for me.
I did indeed see this in the theater because I was a huge fan of Final Fantasy and I came out incredibly disappointed, hahaha.
Chances are you went in incredibly disappointing to.
I...I believe you
In 2001 I was 20, so yes I’m old. I am disappointing too, correct. It just didn’t feel like Final Fantasy to me. It’s bland. I will say, in 2001, this shit looked amazing to us, but I haven’t rewatched it since then (other than this video) and it definitely didn’t age well, heh.
Dodged a meteor there
Lucky me
We WENT to see it in the theatre when it came out in 2001.
We were 16, huge FF fans and came out of it... Mostly confused. And bored. Also hungry.
"In his ghost hole, HIS SOUL HOLE."
"Oh, NO...!"
Please keep doing Cosmanut Picture shows for quarantine
I watched this in the theater as a kid and I loved it. The concept of the intangible alien ghosts had me on my toes the whole movie. Even now I don't think it's half as bad as people say it is
This movie did end up paying dividends in the long run because it got Square to invest in their own animation studio and rendering tech which is one reason why even their modern games done Unreal Engine or whatever still look so distinctive.
To think this was my first introduction to FF, I honestly can't remember if my family liked this so much that they watched it a lot of times, or if it was simply too long and boring so I remember like they watching multiple times, but it was actually just once.
I've never played any FF game, but from what I know about it and I have seen this movie doesn't even remotely resemble FF apart from it's animated.
It absolutely looks like a loose adaptation of Lost Planet, Dan hit the nail on the head with that comparison.
i remember watching this as a kid and being how tf is this a final fantasy film lol
Freakin same
FF8 kind of went down that road
If you thought THIS was confusing, imagine trying to rationalize this being connected to FF7 because those were the only 2 movies
12:23 everyone who watched this movie said this at least once
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Wrooong definitely looks more like Ben Affleck lol
I kept unconsciously waiting for the movie to fade out gameplay to start.
It's like a PS3 cutscene that just... *doesn't end*
This was my first encounter with Final Fantasy. I was really confused the entire way through.
This movie bombed, but the motion capture tech they used for the characters was pretty advanced for its time and it became a mainstay for videogame CGI and movie effects! So at least we got that out of this............
I thought Advent Children was the Final Fantasy Movie, that everyone liked
>everyone liked
is something but not the best, but the hype it generates is awesome, FFXV movie made it looks like a bitch
It has flaws, but it’s generally well-liked. I don’t know about “everyone.”
Eh, I wouldn’t call it a “good” movie but it’s visually fun to look at.
Advent Children was a visual spectacle, but as part of the Final Fantasy VII canon, it achieved nothing and made some things worse in hindsight. Actually, every FFVII spinoff did that...
I remember I begged my parents to buy me this DVD for like $27.99 at the Virgin Records store when I was a kid. They always overpriced their new DVDs but I remember feeling really bad for that when I didn’t even bother to watch the movie a 2nd time.
"Our world is in peril! Gaia the spirit of the Earth can no longer stand......" I think I've made my point.
"Imagine seeing this in theaters"
Not all of us have to imagine that.
(7:56) Literally the Metroid suit interface. Still everything except FF.
(15:11) Oml. He's actually reading the stutter directly off of the script. "No d- no drugs."
(22:11) "Let me do the sucky. Trust me."
What?!? How have I never seen this video? I’ve rewatched so many Cosmonaut Variety Hour videos a second time not realizing this was here.
I went to the theater to see this, FOR MY BIRTHDAY. I'm still depressed about it
LMAO!!! 🤣
I think this movie would've done better if it wasn't called Final Fantasy. If it was just titled Spirits Whithin i feel it would've been well received
God I love this series it makes me laugh way too much.
Have a nice day cosmo
I saw this in the theater as a really young kid - I recall I really enjoyed it but that was before I was old enough to have taste.
Yo but... "Advent Children" kinda hits different. As far as I remember that movie is pretty dope.
Just weird dubbing issues. The action is stupid fun, and you’re mostly there to watch an HD fight between Cloud and Sephiroth, which was amazing. I’ll be honest though, I don’t remember shit about the plot. There was a plague and something about other JENOVA clones or some shit like that idk, the guy Tifa fights can split me in two.
Just don't watch it dubbed.
Yesel Diaz but you miss out on George Newbern(Superman) as Sephiroth. Which is dope as fuck. So naw fam, gotta watch it dubbed too.
yeah... don't you ever, ever rewatch it then.
The phantoms in this used to scare the hell out of me as a kid. They didn't look too scary but the fact that they could move through the walls and all they had to do to kill you was just touch you was terrifying to think about.
This movie was awesome to me as a kid. The visuals were amazing and I loved the design for the soldiers and vehicles. The story puts you to sleep though.
This movie exists simply for he technical feats they achieved. The main technical aspect was the hair on the main character and how it was the most lifelike reproduction of hair in computer animation to date. Individual strands were all rendered on independent paths to allow for more lifelike flow in movement. The money did not go into the script or rest of the production. Donald Sutherland got a huge paycheck if I remember correctly, and then it died a quick death at the theater.
Last time I came this early my girlfriend broke up with me
Oh my
Because you were so early?
Not your fault my guy
she broke up with you because you came super fast? im sorry dude.
oooof!
I love this movie. It’s weird but it’s weird in all the right ways. Ghost aliens from a dying planet stuck on earth due to a crashed asteroid, and the only way to destroy them is to sacrifice souls of the living directly into the sprit core. It elevated sci fi and pushed technological boundaries. Truly a pivotal film.