first review: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
 

DVDtown.com has what i believe is the first review of this disc.. i haven't seen it reviewed anywhere else on the regular sites i visit... looks like an awesome disc.

check it out:
http://www.dvdtown.com/reviewspec.asp?reviewid=838

"...looks like an awesome disc..."

...a DVD-9 with a movie, some extras, a commentary... whats' awesome' about that?... and why no dts sound?...

(signed) Call Me Blasé

. . . :o . . .

This may sound crazy, but the mere presence of the Thriller video on this disc is my reason for a purchase.

wow, I didn't know this DVD is already out there!

Grizzly, please add "suedia" to your sig... nothing like good old, plain Latin! :)

well, the reviewer gave it 10/10 for video, 10/10 for audio and 10/10 for extras which ought to mean that it's perfectly valid to use the word "awesome" to describe it.

DVD File agrees. They just posted a review and gave it a perfect score for video quality also.:)

If Columbia-TriStar actually fouled up this DVD they'd have to be the biggest idiots ever to be in the DVD biz. Thankfully they didn't and so these great reviews were happily predictable. This movie was made in an audiovisual sense from the highest possible digital quality material from front to end--you start with a great element set, you can end with a DVD like this. I only wish I had the home theater system worthy of its purchase...as it stands, I can't get with the film in any terms other than its visual, so I have to pass. If I find the behind-the-scenes stuff to be superb on a rental, I'd consider it. :)

The movie abosulutely sucked. It was just awful. It also did terrible in theatres. SUre it looked good, but that doesn't mean it was good.

My question is this: Since this movie sucked so bad, why are people so anxious for it on DVD (if you haven't seen it, that is understandable, but I have read comments by people who saw it and hated it, yet they can't wait for the DVD)? I mean is a bad movie worth owning just because of the extras? No matter how well you disguise a pile of crap, it always is a pile of crap, right? I'm just really confused on this one.

Likely for the same reason some people are looking forward to the DVD release of <b>Phantom Menace</b>, <b>AI</b>, <b>Pearl Harbor</b>, or any other title; individual tastes vary.

Besides not everyone hated the movie. Critics were split. For a different take on FFSW check out Ebert's review: http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_...07/071101.html

Well, I don't know about others, but I actually enjoyed the movie immensely. I started watching it with very low expectations, thinking "yet another cartoon"... and at the end, after enough twists and turns, and seeing a lot of great images (art-wise), I was more than pleased. Since it's the first of its kind, I want it on DVD, and I expect a lot of good things from the DVD itself.

I'm also a SF buff, and unlike others, more willing to forgive things that American audiences are hell-bent on criticizing ("Ben Affleck's face with Alec Baldwin's voice" and "Luke Perry dubbed by Steve Buscemi" are two of the most frequent reproaches I saw... little does anything else matter, seemingly, for some "critics"...)