Dalton
Screenwriter
I thought it was an okay movie and i will probably get the disc for the reference quality video. I won't have a problem watching it again.
How do you explain the film bombing in Japan? It made around $9 million from everything I've heard.
-Spirited Away?
-9/11?
-Marketing?
Who knows. I tried reading some of the Japan Yahoo user reviews around the time when the movie opened, and it seemed like the majority of those who didn't like it said the story was complex.
Morgan, how long is the FFX trailer and does it contain any CG FMV scenes?
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[Edited last by Thi Them on October 22, 2001 at 10:06 PM]
How do you explain the film bombing in Japan? It made around $9 million from everything I've heard.
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Jeff, I have no idea what you are talking about. please explain. Drama is drama. Good characters are good characters. Involving story is involving story. There are MANY parallels between Japanese films and American films (and German, English, and French for that matter). A good film will transcend. Good Sci-Fi knows no language barrier nor does it care about what country created it.
That is, if it's any good.
Such is not the case with FF.
if good film-making was always universal, Crouching Tiger wouldn't have flopped in China and Hong Kong
Well, by Chinese standards there were significant problems with this movie, most audible of which were the cheesy Chinese accent of Michelle Yeoh (who I nonetheless thought did a good job). So while I think this is a good (but not great) movie, I can understand why many in China would have been irritated by this piece of film-making. Imagine trying to watch classical Shakespeare with a bunch of very heavily-accented Texan actors. It might work in the right context, but most of the time it's just annoying.