Square Enix Final Fantasy: Advent Children

Wait, then how'd some people here see it already?

 

Well, i guess i got more info than you then. It IS true on the part that Advent Children got released in Japan, however, it hasn't been released on DVD yet.

The movie is currently playing on theaters. The entry is free, however, there's a catch. Only those by invitation are allowed entry to go watch the movie. How to get invited? Be a member of the official Shinra site before august 1st. All those people got in.

As for how some people already saw it, it's the same thing as how everyone gets anime in Japan, exept I belive it's illegal.

-Seishin

 

You're illegal!

Besides, it's probable that the people who couldn't wait to watch this and just downloaded it are the serious FF fans who were ticked it wasn't released when originally promised. The ones who have been waiting up to 8 years since Final Fantasy 7 was released to find out what happens afterwards. I bet most who did that will buy it when it's released here to add on to their Final Fantasy collections.

I watched it with a friend, it was non-stop action but still a great storyline. It's what we wished Spirits Within were like back when we anticipated the release of that.

 

I watcheed with some of the guys from college. The fight scenes are things that The Matrix could only hope to dream about. And i love the sound track for this film, i think i'm going to buy it when it comes out cause it was really cool.

Its amazing how real the film looks, i really started to find myself wondering weather some of it was actually live action.

 

My opinion...

I got an eerm... "evaluation" of this movie and well, i was kinda disappointed. Knowing that this is a sequel, i understand perfectly that some elements depend on a previous story.

However, i strongly disagree with making this a sequel. Why not a remake of the original story? Some, no, MANY things were left to be explained... and I didn't understand who was the person talking to Cloud in his "dreams" or whatever. I doubt this movie will have more success than "Final Fantasy: Spirit within", because... well, I couldn't understand what the heck was going on.

Spoiler: final boss battle

Specially in the final fight with Sephirot... what the heck? Cloud did some trick with his swords? How? And what happened to Sephirot?

This alone made me have a face... I only wish that the Final Fantasy guys would have given us a more understandable story that didn't require having spent 8 + hours playing a videogame.

Maybe in 10 years, this might actually happen.

Oh yeah, that cellphone scene at the beginning was somewhat ridiculous. I appreciate the homage to the original FF games, but... it kinda didn't fit.

 

Oh god, please tell me GameStop isn't right like it's always been.

http://www.gamestop.com/product.asp?product_id=067985

If that's the date that it's coming out, I'm already getting the download. I WAS gonna wait for DVD to watch it in sweet definition and surround sound, but screw that, my computer can handle it just fine.

-Seishin

 

***Warning, possible spoilers ahead***

To a person who hasn't played the game, of course this will make little/no sense. If you have, it makes perfect sense. The movie was originally meant to be 30 minutes long. But they got carried away a little and made it 1hr 30. It really was exclusive to the game as they didn't waste time with the story explanation. The brief re-tell Marlene gives at the beginning I thought was sufficient to jog the memroies such as myself.

I assume you have played the original game, please don't tell me you didn't know who either Aeris or Zack (Zack I reckon?) was (In the dream). Otherwise you would have missed quite a bit of the story.

I thought the cellphone using "victory fanfare" as the ringtone was a nice way of giving it a cameo appearance. If you consider that that theme doesn't really fit to be part of the soundtrack alone, having it as a ringtone was suiting (and funny as well... in fact I thought it was great).

Spoiler: spoiler

I too was a bit disappointed that Sephiroth had a resurrected appearance (though I wasn't complaining when they started fighting), but not seeing him physically die just gives me a feeling... will he be back? Which isn't something I want.

- Shen

 

According to the DVD release, there will be a 25-minute 'Anime' episode called "Last order" accompanying it, which bases around Zack more.

I've seen it. Nothing new to what we know from the game, but was still a nice addition.

[edit]Found out that it was meant to be a teaser OVA for the coming FFVII: Crisis Core set to be released on the PSP[/edit]

- Shen

 

Yes it has. The day it "came out", there were DVD-rips floating around everywhere, if one knows where to look. That's where people in the US got it, and yes, it is illegal.

 

Actually, Last order of FFVII is in fact in Advent Children. How do you get it? You buy that preety little 250 USD limited edition. Which brings that, a brand spanking new version of FFVII (since they stopped making it), the FFVII OVA Last Order, a shirt, a small yet ultimate bada** figure of Cloud in his Fenrir, and loads of other stuff.

Still, 250 sounds expensive, even for FFVII. As for Crisis Core:Final Fantasy VII, I read that scenes from Last Order were only shown, since maybe they had no gameplay yet, but like you said, it's gonna focus all around good ol' Zack.

As for my illegal comment, yes, i said it was illegal, but i never said this kind of illegal was wrong did I?

-Seishin

 

The movie is very, very pretty, but has a really bad storyline. Additionally, all of FF7, Cloud was all emo and didn't think he was strong enough, only to realise he was in the end and rise as a hero.

So why does he do this again in the movie? He'd already worked out the problem, for pities sake.

In my opinion, the movie is pretty much just fanservice. Very, very pretty fanservice. Great fights and animation, but that's all. Kind of reminds me of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, like that.

 

It was expectedly exclusively made for FFVII fans. From a fan's point of view (who's finished the game, mind you), the story was sufficient. (Other than the origins of SHM). Though from a newbie's point of view, all they can comment on is the graphics... but they not appreciate it as much because they don't know the characters and may say the fighting is used too over-excessively, whereas a fan wouldn't mind all too much.

- Shen

 

You forgot to mention that Tseng seemed to also survive.

 

As far as I'm concerned, Pretty + Dumb = Pretty Dumb.

 

Yes, people that agree! ^ ^
I thought the movie was cool in all, but I had friends bowing to it,
calling it the "greatest movie ever made." All my friends are now FF7
dorks and it's all they can talk about. It kinda slowly starting to bug me.
I miss good old anime, and manga with my friends, but they all
going on and on about the new movie and ova/oav, and I feel stuipd for
not getting what the big deal is. So I'm happy that only one that thought it was fanservice.

I agree with that. All my friends are going to buy it.
But I felt it was "milking" cash. It's sad when companies do that.

 

Lol, unfortunately (if you wish o refer it that way), I was much the same as them... but the effect is dying off a bit now.

Agreed that it was ONLY fanservice. From my point of view I'm not complaining, I'm happy that the makers were aiming for people like me.

- Shen