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vyelkin posted:According to List of films based on video games, the best reviewed video game movie ever, with a whopping 44% on Rotten Tomatoes, was....... Final Fantasy The Spirits Within Not really that surprising, it had little to do with video games (I'm not that familiar with FF, did it have anything real connections to any of the games?) so it was essentially just a movie. And people were really impressed with the CG animation at the time.
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Improbable Lobster posted:it bombed both critically and commercially and almost killed square right before the square-enix merger Yeah it did, the post I was quoting mentioned that it only got 44% on average which isn't very good, though I wouldn't exactly call it a critical bomb, that's just below average. But for months before and after its release people wouldn't shut up about how cool it looked and how it marked a new step in special effects and computer graphics etc. And for over a year after it came out, I remember electronic shops were still using its DVD to show off the latest TV's. The film was terrible but it did have an impact in the early 2000's. Oh and I just looked at the wiki page for it, and one of the really enthusiastic cheerleaders for the film was Roger Ebert. The guy who hates video games and video game movies really loved this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_The_Spirits_Within#Critical_reception quote:Roger Ebert was a strong advocate of the film; he gave it 3½ stars out of four, praising it as a "technical milestone" while conceding that its "nuts and bolts" story lacked "the intelligence and daring of, say, Steven Spielberg's A.I." He noted that while he did not once feel convinced Aki Ross was an actual human being, she was "lifelike", stating her creators "dare us to admire their craft. If Aki is not as real as a human actress, she's about as human as a Playmate who has been retouched to glossy perfection."[48] He also expressed a desire for the film to succeed in hopes of seeing more films made in its image, though he was skeptical of its ability to be accepted Yes, let us all admire Aki's craft 
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