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Wing Commander (1999): Almost a Cult Classic
Some films misread the assignment. Some ignore it entirely. Wing Commander had the assignment written on the box — beloved franchise, built-in audience, a universe already mapped across a decade of games and books — and it still turned in someone else's homework.
The result is a film that has humanity on the brink, a war-winning MacGuffin in enemy hands, a half-breed outsider nobody trusts, and a ticking clock counting down to Earth's destruction. It sounds like everything you'd want.
It plays like someone describing a great film rather than making one.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001): Almost a Cult Classic
Some films crash, some soar, and some glide beautifully until they forget to deploy the landing gear. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is that third kind — visually breathtaking, emotionally adrift, and endlessly fascinated with its own mythology. It wants to be spiritual sci-fi poetry.
The movie delivers ghosts that steal souls, dreams that think they’re metaphors, and a world that somehow looks spotless after thirty years of disaster. It’s gorgeous, sincere, and occasionally baffling — the kind of movie that almost becomes profound before getting distracted by its own ambition.