IT RULED!

EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE IT!

actually, I kind of forget why I'm here..................
(edit) oh nevermind, to redirect this dude I guess.

But for all it's "looks", the movie was total zero when it comes to new or original content. Most of the story was just a boring, badly written and under-developped screenplay which only served as an excuse to have great animation.

have to disagree with wistiti though. I didn't think any of the "actors" came anywhere close to expressing real human emotion.
But let's be honest, that animation was simply amazing.

some nice humor.

If any parents are reading this:

Don't take your kids to see this movie. The s-word is bandied abotu a few times. If you do, make sure they shut the f*** up during the film.

I did not love it but I did in fact dig it. It is not a great movie, but it was an above-average anime type film with some amazing visuals. It IS worth seeing, and it is decent. Although I found it tiresome in many points, overall it was pretty good and a sight to see. This is the future, so go see it.(They will never beat a real human but it was cool anyways.)

The score fit fine and I have no beefs with it. Good all around score.

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Originally posted by wistiti:
Sometimes the faces on the characters were much more expressive than those of most real actors

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Did we actually see the same movie?

I liked the movie a lot. The animation was great, yet not as well done as I expected from the previews. Some scenes were so life like you had problems believing it was an animated movie, others however did not have that effect and attention to detail.

Yet it was a super film, miles above and beyond the Laura Croft crapp we got dished earlier this year.

Scott

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Originally posted by Hasta:
Why do I say this...EVERY single review I have read...even the positive ones, complained about the simple story and trite dialogue. It doesn't sound like opinions when this many people say the same thing, it sounds like facts

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Critical reviews are never facts, but always opinions. A fact is that the movie was computer generated images. To say the story was simple is not a fact...it's an opinion. To a three year old the story would not be simple, to an 80 year old it might.

If the majority opinion at anyone time would establish the fact about a movie, then Fantasia would still be considered an aweful mess (as it was during its premiere time).

In conclusion, I guess what I'm saying is that often what seems to be a fact is nothing else but opinion. In fact, facts are hard to come by, opinions are all over the place.

Scott

The excellent visuals and score aside...the movie is a top-notch sci-fi experience. Far more engaging than A.I....one of the best I've seen this year.

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Originally posted by Hasta:
Jesus I haven't seen this big a bomb forever

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And by "forever", you mean the 2 months it's been since TOWN AND COUNTRY was in theaters, right?

Remember - this weekend everyone went to go see LEGALLY BLONDE because their girlfriends had to suffer through SCARY MOVIE 2 last week - and it's payback time!

Hardly.

What a terrible piece of trash this film was. So disappointing, I can't even start to describe. If nice visuals are enough to hold you through a film with an extremely weak and uninteresting story, not to mention just about every cliche in the book, see it. Even so, the animation IMO doesn't make it worth seeing. There were one or two moments of awe, but otherwise it has all been done before, and MUCH MUCH better. The dialogue was atrocious, I cringed at just about every word every character muttered. Though there were some pretty good actors casted, they really did a pretty mediocre job, but again this could be blamed on the weak script. Great score by Goldenthal, but it couldn't save this film if it were the best score of the century. I saw it with about five other friends, all who have different tastes... How many of them liked it? 0.... One friend, who has played and beat every one of the video games and was looking forward to this movie for quite a while, fell asleep 3-4 times. It's BAD, BAD sci-fi and in all honesty crono, I don't know how in hell you cannot be disappointed after waiting 10 years or so...