"Titan A.E"

[Fearless Freep]

Just say Titan AE this weekend.  I thought it was a pretty good movie.  Great visuals and a decent story.  Iwas under the impression it didn't do too well in it's theatrical run and I'm sorta wondering why

[Flangepart]

Not enough U.S. anime folks, to counter act the "Toons is for kids" crowd, who can't accept a toon with an adult story?

[Neville]

Saw it, didn't like it. Has a good story and some great visuals, but somehow I couldn't really enter in the movie and stayed detached for the whole running time. I thought it was just me, but some reviewers pointed out the same defect in the movie. What can I say? If a movie that features Earth exploding in the first minutes fails to create any emotions in the audience, there is no doubt it doesn't work. I will acknowledge this, though, that Don Bluth and his team deserve kudos for producing an animation film set in space and aimed to an adult audience.

[Ash]

It was awesome on the big screen.

For the most part I loved it...there was just something lacking that I couldn't put my finger on.

They also tried to end it on a funny note by nicknaming the new planet "Bob".
I did not find this funny at all.

Also, the scene when they play cat & mouse in the giant ice field was a blatant rip-off of the nebula scene in Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan.



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[Fearless Freep]

For the most part I loved it...there was just something lacking that I couldn't put my finger on.

It seemed to lack character development at the expense of the epic story.

But then again, so do most greek myths so that's not inherently a problem, just a characteristic

Also, the scene when they play cat & mouse in the giant ice field was a blatant rip-off of the nebula scene in Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan.

I didn't think so it at all.  It was much faster paced and wasn't build around the difference in experience levels of the characters

[Nathan Shumate]

I thought it had plenty of little problems which, added together, dragged it down considerably.

Little things like Drew Barrymoore's voice, which sounded exactly like she was speaking into a microphone.

Or the late-introduced and barely-used "zany" alien crewmembers.

Or the fact that every plot point didn't just feel once-used, it felt crusty with a thousand uses in better films.  Notice that the finale rips off both "Enter the Dragon" and "Star Trek 2" at the same time -- and that's the great stroke of originality right there.  (And let's not talk about how the main plot device bore a chilling resemblance to that in "Waterworld".)

[dean]

ah movies, originality is a thing of the past.  anything relatively new is just taking an old idea and putting a spin on it that is a bit fresh.

but speaking of animations that didn't go so well in the cinema, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, remains to be one of my favourite movies of all time, yet it is ranked as one of the biggest losses in film history.

yet there are so many good points of the story [though i admit there are many improvements i would've liked to make]

great effects, great basic idea [though some improvements could be made]

and steve buscemi, what a choice :D

any comments?

[JohnL]

>but speaking of animations that didn't go so well in the cinema, Final Fantasy:
>The Spirits Within, remains to be one of my favourite movies of all time, yet it is
>ranked as one of the biggest losses in film history.
>
>yet there are so many good points of the story

I found the story confusing. Even while watching it, I didn't understand all the ideas about searching for spirits.

>great effects, great basic idea [though some improvements could be made]

I agree about the effects.

[Neville]

I enjoyed "Final Fantasy". I thought it was a fantastic movie, and that its problems (the main being lack of secondary character development) could be fixed in the following series. I never took the film for a finished work, but, if you wish, as a v1.0, as a great starting point for a series of films using similar animation techniques.  Needless to say, I felt very disappointed to hear there would be no sequels. They even dismantled the studio when the film flopped.

[Evan3]

My brother loves Titan A.E. but i just dont get the big deal. I found it for the most part to be plodding and predictable. I actually liked the opening sequence, but I really, like most animated movies nowadays, didnt allow me to really care for ANY of the characters.

I think the last three great hand drawn movies were the terribly underrated "The Iron Giant", the hilariously underrated "Emperor's New Groove," and Hercules, despite its massacuring of the myth.

As for Final Fantasy, the special Effects were mind blowing, but like SWAT, without a good story or telling dialogue, eye candy gets too old after 20 minutes.