Himechi | 27 points | Sep 11 2017 15:54:31

https://mega.co.nz/#F!luxCVBRC

IXc3MkpwZFZwNGFaLWJrcVFDbm9JVkE= (base64decode.org)

This link is to a folder containing the movie and a flac rip of the soundtrack CD. I am working on gathering an expanded version of the score and I will add it to the folder. That should be in about a day's time.

[edit] The expanded OST has been added to the folder.

First off, this movie has little-to-nothing to do with the video game series of the same name, a point of confusion that may not have helped it during release. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was a box-office bomb that did get some positive reviews, most notably from Roger Ebert who gave it 3.5 out of 4 stars. Ebert had said elsewhere that one of the jobs of the movies is to show us things we've never seen before, something this movie is very successful at.

The reason to see this movie is simply, gloriously, to look at it. Aki has dream scenes on another planet, where a vast celestial sphere half-fills the sky. We see New York City in 2065, ruined, ghostlike, except for the portions under the protective dome. There are action sequences that only vaguely obey the laws of gravity, and yet seem convincing because we have become familiar with the characters who occupy them. Shots like the one where we look straight up at Aki standing on the surface of a shimmering lake. And the infrastructure of the protective dome, its corridors and machines surpassing any possible real-world sets... It all comes together into a kind of amazing experience; it's like you're witnessing a Heavy Metal story come to life.

- the stats -
Overall bitrate 4005kb/s
All audio tracks are AC3 passthru
3 Commentaries
- animation director Andy Jones, editor Chris S. Capp, and staging director Tani Kunitake
- co-director Motonori Sakakibara, sequence supervisor Hiroyuki Hayashida, lead artist Tatsuro Maruyama, and creature supervisor Takoo Noguchi (Japanese language, subtitles included)
- isolated score with commentary by composer Elliot Goldenthal
English subtitles for both the movie and the Japanese-staff commentary
* Chapter markers

The isolated score was included on the dvd release but they dropped it from the blu-ray. I have muxxed it back in.

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