Talk:Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

message: Reference 15, this link http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=dept_main&dept=Technology, appear to go to a general page and not the one intended.  Xtzou (Talk) 20:17, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, not sure what happened there, in any case the sales figures for north america are backed up by the next reference. I'm removing the variety link and slightly rewording accordingly. Cheers for noticing that. Freikorp (talk) 00:37, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  dead link 

message: The following source should be translated and used to expand the current incomplete article:
* (from the Final Fantasy IX Settei Gashuu V-Jump Special Edition)
Doesn't seem that interesting except for the red box at the bottom right where Sakaguchi says something that probably has never been qutoed anywhere else. Anyone willing to help translate even one page is welcome! Jonathan Hardin' (talk) 15:21, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Updated the link. Jonathan Hardin' (talk) 19:58, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Development information currently not in the article 

message: I think it's noteworthy to mention that the story of the movie is almost a retelling of Hubbards OT3 material.
Movie plot: A war on an alien planet causes alien spirits to land on earth (against their will). They posesses humans and feed on them.
OT3: A war on alien planets causes that alien spirits come to earth (against their will). They possess humans, doing harm.
In both versions, the alien "ghosts" were forcefully "ghostified", and were beings of ordinary flesh before.
In both versions the spirits/body thetans are doing harm not because of evil intent, but because they are "confused".
And in both versions the only way to get forever rid of them is by "cleaning" your own soul/thetan from these beings (by auditing/finding the right "spirits").
:Is there a reliable source available? Is the OT3 material not supposedly secret? Of course, there may very well be a link between the two, but we'll need a source if we're to include it. Rodface (talk) 15:52, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a reviewer who makes the same connection: "And the story is solid, though it does at times bear a frightening resemblance to the "Xenu" origin story told to higher-level Scientologists" http://www.lytrules.com/Reviews/FinalFantasy.htm  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.73.154.103 (talk) 17:33, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That source fails RS. You are going to have to find another one from an established reliable source. Freikorp (talk) 02:06, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scientological themes 

message: I'm no expert on FF games but as far as I know there's little or no continuity between them. Given this, how is this film related to the games other than by its title? It's not obvious from the article.78.86.61.94 (talk) 01:09, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I do recall there was some disappointment amongst fans of the game that the film had almost no connection to the games. By all means if reliable sources are found backing up those claims we can add a paragraph on it to the 'Reception' section. Freikorp (talk) 02:43, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This movie never actually had any connection to the games. The title was the choice of someone on the American side of the movie production. I can't remember exactly where I heard this, but I think it was somewhere in the special features on the DVD. Maybe someone can verify this? IJB TA (talk) 04:26, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Citation needed on that I think. Start with the story, a group of people fighting monsters and bucking authority at the same time, a formula used in many of the games. Then there is a Dr. Cid as in many of the games. Plus Aki is practically a clone of Yuna in FFX. There is little continuity in the usual sense in the FF franchise, but there are similarities in themes and character types, just as Agatha Cristie novels have similar themes and character types.--RDBury (talk) 05:35, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, there are some connections and we definitely need citations if we want to start talking about a lack of them. Freikorp (talk) 07:36, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relation to game franchise 

message: I've redirected the article Aki Ross to this page. I've done this because 90% of the content there was simply copied and pasted from a much older version of this article, Aki only made the one appearance in film so it's unlikely her article would be expanded much further, and this film article falls well within the boundaries of when an article should be split as per Wikipedia:Splitting. Before redirecting the page, I salvaged the very small pieces of information that were unique to that article, including the Maxim photo. Freikorp (talk) 01:10, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aki Ross 

message: That would be a noteworthy thing to mention in the article if it's true. What I've gathered only Tarzan (130m) and Dinosaur (127.5m) came close to this film's budget. --Mika1h (talk) 00:29, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most expensive animated film at the time of its release? 

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czar ⨹ 00:53, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
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