2002-01-03 18:56:46+01 by TC 6 comments
Ok, I haven't seen half the films mentioned in his list but I may have to use his recomendations as a contrarian indicator. His list places LOTR on equal footing with films like Final Fantasy in the honorable mention category, sheeeesh.
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#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:34:09+01 by: Shawn
d00d! Ebert's smokin' crack. Those are the two best films of the year!
#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:34:09+01 by: Dan Lyke
No matter what the criteria, putting Final Fantasy![[Wiki]](/adbanners/lookingglass.png){kind=small}
along side Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring for any reason other than "spent a lot on effects" is kinda weird.
#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:34:09+01 by: Shawn
Why? I think they've got a lot in common. They appeal to/come from the geek-fantasy corner, I've been waiting three years to see each of them, and they (mostly) lived up to my hopes. (Actually, FF more than LOTR - but who's splitting hairs ;-)
#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:34:10+01 by: Dan Lyke
Alas, Final Fantasy didn't live up to my expectations, and I wouldn't sit through it again, but I'd conteplate a third viewing of LoTR, actively look forward to the next two, and think it was probably a better experience than the book.
#Comment made: 2002-02-21 06:34:10+01 by: TC
Hmmm FF met my expectation exactly. exceptional eye candy with with an uncompelling story and characters that are difficult to identify with. I say this as a person that has comlpeted FF VII & VIII am playing IX and will probably purchase X for my oldfashioned PS2. LOTR is in my top 5 movies of all time, sure I can pick on parts of it but found it to be a gloriously entertaining and can't choose which slot of the top 5 it merits because I am still in it's afterglow.
#Comment made: 2002-01-04 17:41:02+01 by: Shawn [edit history]
Oh my.
Dan: I can't agree about LOTR being better than the book. It was fun and entertaining, but I still felt that there were several points I would have done differently than Jackson. Things that would have kept closer to the original text and yet still been appropriate for the medium and time constraints.
todd: I found the story in FF to be much more compelling than I had expected going in. I was pleasently surprised - so much so, in fact, that we bought it on DVD. The defining factor for me (all I had hoped for) was whether or not I was able to forget (at times) that this was an animated feature. During several of large portions of the movie I was able to do just that. I was exremely impressed overall.
I don't know if it has any bearings on my perceptions, but I've never played (or even see somebody else play) the games.