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[PontiusPilate]

Disapointed.

Action- 10/10 (best ive ever seen)

Sound- 8/10 (guitar ruined some moments for me at times)

Dialogue 7/10 (Incredibly cheesy dialogue)

Story 7.5 (Not good, not bad, just ok)

Overall- 8.5 ( didnt live up to FF VII standards)

[Ishin Ookami]

Just thought I would add my 2 peso's worth.


the movie itself, I give a 3/10

First of all, it was stupid. I mean really stupid. Yazoo shoots cloud point blank and his shades block the bullet? Tifa matches Loz move for move until all of a sudden she decides to just stand there and let herself be hit? the kids drinking up kadaj's scat and then becoming leaping ninja zombies? Marlene hating cloud, then forgiving him for no reason other then she was contractually obligated to do so or be deleted (bit of CGI animation humor there)? Cloud's survivors guilt being resolved in two seconds? Tifa being a whiner? Aeries doing everything but the dishes in the film? And WHERE did these three new jenova spawns come from? I mean the list just goes on and on and on.

Then the action scenes, Ive pretty much seen it all before. Cloud being tossed? It's a vertical recreation of Iron Monkey's final fight scene. Motorcycle combat/chase scenes? Pick a john woo film and call AC the sincerest form of flattery. Sword fighting/flying through the air supernaturally? Hong Kong films have been doing that for almost 30 years now. Problem is AC tries so hard to look like matrix, that it fails to incorporate any real drama or intensity to the fight scenes. And the animation itself is pretty awful at certain points.

The soundtrack itself was pretty bland. I mean Uematsu has done better then that when all he had to work with was a midi program. I dunno, I expect so much more from uematsu, yet the soundtrack just feels bland and generic. almost as bad as the FFX-2 soundtrack. I just hope it came from Uematsu being fed up with FF and now being on Mistwalkers payrole full time.

Yah, the Turks rocked, rufus rocked too. Thats all that was good. And I did hear some of the english voices, and all I can say is that I didnt think the film could get any worse. I saw the scene in the airship while Cloud is fighting Kadaj, and all the voices sucked. Barrett sounded like a 13 year old mall rat who listens to way too much fifty cent, Vincent sounded like he's smoked one too many cartons, Cait Sith is about [-] <----- That close to exceeding the annoyance factor of jar jar binks with his english voice. And dont even get me started on Cid, Tifa, and Yuffie.

I just hope this doesnt make more $$$ then spirits within. I would hate to think that this is the only way square can reverse its fortunes. and maybe this would be a good time to say that I LIKE spirits within on the acct that it actually has a decent story and the director knew how to communicate more then just the pretty animation.

[PontiusPilate]

Originally Posted by Ishin Ookami

Just thought I would add my 2 peso's worth.


the movie itself, I give a 3/10

First of all, it was stupid. I mean really stupid. Yazoo shoots cloud point blank and his shades block the bullet? Tifa matches Loz move for move until all of a sudden she decides to just stand there and let herself be hit? the kids drinking up kadaj's scat and then becoming leaping ninja zombies? Marlene hating cloud, then forgiving him for no reason other then she was contractually obligated to do so or be deleted (bit of CGI animation humor there)? Cloud's survivors guilt being resolved in two seconds? Tifa being a whiner? Aeries doing everything but the dishes in the film? And WHERE did these three new jenova spawns come from? I mean the list just goes on and on and on.

Then the action scenes, Ive pretty much seen it all before. Cloud being tossed? It's a vertical recreation of Iron Monkey's final fight scene. Motorcycle combat/chase scenes? Pick a john woo film and call AC the sincerest form of flattery. Sword fighting/flying through the air supernaturally? Hong Kong films have been doing that for almost 30 years now. Problem is AC tries so hard to look like matrix, that it fails to incorporate any real drama or intensity to the fight scenes. And the animation itself is pretty awful at certain points.

The soundtrack itself was pretty bland. I mean Uematsu has done better then that when all he had to work with was a midi program. I dunno, I expect so much more from uematsu, yet the soundtrack just feels bland and generic. almost as bad as the FFX-2 soundtrack. I just hope it came from Uematsu being fed up with FF and now being on Mistwalkers payrole full time.

Yah, the Turks rocked, rufus rocked too. Thats all that was good. And I did hear some of the english voices, and all I can say is that I didnt think the film could get any worse. I saw the scene in the airship while Cloud is fighting Kadaj, and all the voices sucked. Barrett sounded like a 13 year old mall rat who listens to way too much fifty cent, Vincent sounded like he's smoked one too many cartons, Cait Sith is about [-] <----- That close to exceeding the annoyance factor of jar jar binks with his english voice. And dont even get me started on Cid, Tifa, and Yuffie.

I just hope this doesnt make more $$$ then spirits within. I would hate to think that this is the only way square can reverse its fortunes. and maybe this would be a good time to say that I LIKE spirits within on the acct that it actually has a decent story and the director knew how to communicate more then just the pretty animation.

I agree with you in just about everything except the last paragraph and what u said about the action.

I also thought Vincent's voice was the only cool voice in the movie. And jesus christ, whats with all the cheesy lines? And as for Cait Siths voice ...(* pulls out a gun and aims at head*)

[smurph]

In my opinion SE gave fans what they wanted..cloud and sephy duel..everything else was just a plus but more info on vincent wouldof been nice but there giving us a whole game for that so no complaits here 9/10..becuase i want more!!

[PontiusPilate]

Originally Posted by smurph

In my opinion SE gave fans what they wanted..cloud and sephy duel..everything else was just a plus but more info on vincent wouldof been nice but there giving us a whole game for that so no complaits here 9/10..becuase i want more!!

I wish they would have added him in more than just 7 minutes of the movie

[smurph]

When i first watched the movie i couldof swore that vincent was about to transform and start killing everyone during the bahamut fight but all he did was give cloud a boost...

[Ishin Ookami]

The actor who played vincent, is the same actor who played Spike Spiegal the english dub of cowboy bebop. And anyone who's heard his performance know this guy can act way better. Problem is his voice is more suited to playing the cool guy's instead of the mysterious brooding ones. He had to force his voice outside of his natural range and growl way too much in order to create something close to the image, and his acting suffered for it.

You know, when I saw the plot outline for the movie, I thought Nomura was going to pull a chris clairemont and have the new villains be so superpowerful, that it would take the hero's all teaming up and using their various abilities to overcome them, get battered and bruised, but still win. Then sephiroth is resurrected and kills our heroes, but still take some minor wounds. Then the planet revives the heroes who attack with renewed vigor and wear sephiroth down and defeat him with cloud landing the final blow. I mean you had one gunman, one swordsman, and one martial artist among the new villains. It would have been interesting to see how well they did move for move against the hero's who have similar abilities. But instead the film focused way to much on cloud which I thought was a huge mistake.

[smurph]

Yea u watch cowboy bebop on adult swim and knew i herd vincents voice somwere else..yea spikes voice is totally badass SE should of took spikes voice and made it one of the remnants....sephs voice was the best out of all of them