Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

This animated movie os one of my absolute favorites for many reasons. First of all, it's subject matter really struck a chord with me, in that the story line is futuristic science fiction, yet spirituality is weaved throughout the story. The animation is amazing, the voice acting is memorable, and some of the voice actors are some of my favorite live-action actors as well. Ving Rhames, Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods and especially Steve Buscemi's presences all lend a feeling of crediality to this films exisctance.

From Wikipedia: "

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a computer animated science fiction film by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the Final Fantasy series of role-playing games. It was released on July 11, 2001, in the United States by Columbia Pictures.^[2]

Although bearing the title Final Fantasy, the film shares few aspects with the original Final Fantasy video games, establishing itself as a stand-alone film instead. The story follows scientists Aki Ross and Doctor Sid in their efforts to free Earth from a mysterious and deadly alien race known as the Phantoms, which has driven surviving humanity into "barrier cities". They must compete against General Hein, who wishes to attack the aliens with the Zeus space cannon to end the conflict.

The film received mixed reviews and was a box office bomb. The film was the first attempt to make a photorealistic rendered 3D feature film."