Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Is Tight. Options

[Vitamin D]

Well as some of you know, Advent Children is supposed to drop in a couple of days, at least that's what I read somewhere haha. But I went ahead and watched a fansub of the complete movie yesterday (If you'd like to know how, gimme a PM, I'll hook you up. ). And I must say, this movie was crazy haha. I sure most of you remember how FF 7 ended... meteor...lifestream blah blah blah Red XIII running with some pups after the credits. The part with Red XIII is how the movie opens up to give you that satisfying sense of continuation. I won't spoil any of the movie (besides that Red XIII bit...), but I will say that it turned out really well. The story itself is pretty good, though a wee bit confusing sometimes. The main draw of the movie by far is its fight scenes. If you took a shot for everytime your jaw drops, or say "Oh my God!" Youd be GONE haha. Also, of course, the movie is such a visual juggernaut, you get a true sense of what the world of FF 7 is supposed to look like, and its characters too. Mmmmm Tifa... *cough* ANYWAY, it's a real cool movie and the voice acting too is very well done (Marlene is so damn cute haha). Overall, it's good shit. Go see it. I'm out.

[Crushinator]

I finally got to see it over the weekend too.

Normally I like to call bullshit on over-the-top preposterous action sequences, but in THIS movie's case it was so awesome and well-done that it nullifies any argument to the contrary. Every action scene was superb, and great camerawork so you could actually tell what was going on all the time. Tifa's fight with Loz, the whole Bahamut thing, and the "Final Boss" were especially radical.

What the hell was up with that Denzel kid, though? Why was he even in the movie? I thought since they played him up so much, maybe he was like the reincarnation of Sephiroth or some kind of important role. But it was just "oh noes i'm geostigma zombie... oh wait i'm better now." The whole story was a little dry, but doesn't matter because the movie is just eyecandy and fanservice anyways, you could't ask for much more. And really, only fans would be able to enjoy it fully, because during the non-action parts, I was thinking to myself "Damn, if I had never played FF7 before, I would have ABSOLUTELY no idea what is going on now." The movie just assumes you know everything that is going on with Cloud and Tifa, and then all the sudden it starts throwing these random characters at you (Yuffie, Cid, etc) for no good reason, mouseketeer role-call style.

The only real problem, though, is that I will no longer accept any less quality from ANY future videogame-based movie, OR Final Fantasy game for that matter. Every moment of FFXII should feel like FF7:AC was or I want my $50 back.

As a FF fan, its 's out of 5, for sure.