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[Oasis Writer]

Legitimate statement, thank you very much for your imput. What do others have to say, regarding what others have or what your own thoughts are?

[darkchrono]

I kind of wonder how you guys can call this an awesome movie when the plot, the story flow (meaning how well all of the scenes meshed together) and the newly made characters were all extremely weak.

I have noticed that all of the people who say that the movie is awesome bring up the graphics, voice acting, or the action scenes. But never say a thing about the plot or the character development.

Advent Children was two thumbs down in the two most important aspects that make up a movie. So I don't think it could be considered anything other than just average at best even with the great animation, good battle scenes, and good voice acting (for the most part).

[Oasis Writer]

You have to take in account, the character development for most of the characters were all ready made in the game. If you were to have them go back and explain everything about what happened, we would have one) had to wait another year or two for this to come out: two) would have been a 30 hour movie: and three) taken away from the aspect of the movie. If you know the story, then you know the plot and the characters, while, if you've never played, they catch you up to speed, long enough to understand who they are.

[darkchrono]

When I implied poor character development I implied it about the newly made characters for the movie (who were all poorly thought out and poorly developed).

[Oasis Writer]

Depends on how you look at it. Ex-Soldiers that were the same suicidal followers of Jenova, just like the first one. That was my first thoughts. They had cells of Jenova, so they were in Soldier, and they wanted to be the best, like Sephiroth, so they had to want the same things. The men in the black capes in the game, I think is where they fall under the catagory. That's what I was thinking. And I understand what you were thinking, it's a very good point. I think more along how they acted, as in the voice with the mouth movement was off, making their characters a little less likeable with me. But they seemed fine, other than the repeatition with "Mother"

[BG-57]

I think character development and action are equally important in an RPG or adaptation of one. AC feels like it was edited down from a longer movie though. An additional 30 minutes of well-written character interaction would have been enough.

As it it feels like it's rushing headlessly from one action sequence to the next, which are exciting in of themselves but have to be grounded in the characters and their goals to be the most effective.

I found the fights involving the Turks more exciting because it was clear they were fighting with all their strength just to keep up, and their personalities heavily influenced their fighting styles. Much more than say, Tifa or Cloud. Even secondary characters like Barrett and Cid clearly showed their character more clearly in the way they fought.

There is a lot to like in this movie, but character interaction was half of what made the game so great in the first place and it was more lacking here.

[sephiroth3991]

i really like it 10/10 for me I thought the voice acting was good except for Kadaj's lackies Yazoo and Loz and Loz was such a...dumb character the graphics were good the plot was good everything was good but yeah the mouthing was off.

[Noctiluca]

I thought the movie was the godsend Anti-Uwe Boll I've been wanting all along.

Since it's a story continuation, I think it can get away without a lot of character development... As we all already know what happened and why they are the way they are. As for the baddies, they were just like Sephy... Mommy obsessed, what's to know.

I thought the idea of Jenova's cells infecting people through the lifestream, Sephiroth's intentions made clear at the end, Cloud's anti-social behavior, Rufus's manipulations, everything involving Reno, and the general state of the world were quite brilliant pieces of plot actually.

The movie is worth 20$ just to hear Barret say "Thaz some crazy water GAHAHA" at the end.