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[Dragon Mage]

I thought it was very good. Not anything extraordinary, no. But overall, it was entertaining. I think the dialouge was cut short and more would've been desireable.
Action scenes were VERY nice, but maybe a little too fast for the viewer to catch everything that was happening. Some of the details were lost in the speed, and would require the viewer to watch the movie again to catch them.
I think it was too short. There should've been more!
Also, the creators of this movie were very vague (like the game) on quite a few things. That should've been cleared up, even a little would've helped.
The graphics were simply mind-blowing. I can truthfully say that the graphics of this movie inspired me to pursue my career choice. Simply amazing.

Overall, I think it was very good.

P.S. You misspelled 'Advent' lol.

[Dr. Acula]

It was OK, the fight scenes were good and the graphics were absolutely mind-blowing. The story I didn't really get, but the character voices I thought were pretty good (then again, I only saw the Japanese version), but seriously, if you focus on the graphics and the fight scenes, it's a very entertaining watch.

[Sam250]

Just my opinion on some of your points:

Hazzard cried aloud with mirth and merriment

Vincent probably doesn't sound like that, and has more a poetic twist to his voice.

First, how would you know what Vincent sounded like? The game had no vioce acting, so it was up to the player to decide what they sound like. This goes for all your vioce comments btw. If you mean that thats not how you would imagine him to speak, then thats fine.

Anyway, i think Vincent was brilliant, not how i imagined him, but exellent nontheless. He was sorta dark and dry, which completely suited him.

Hazzard cried aloud with mirth and merriment

Sephiroth definitely would sound like that.

Uggh, i hated Sephiroths vioce. Jusy my opinion, but he just sounded so lame.

Hazzard cried aloud with mirth and merriment

Tifa spoke worst than Aerith, and sounded so robotic.

I liked Tifa, she wasn't that bad, but theres only so much you can do with lines such as "Dilly Dally Shilly Shally", and refering to the villins as 'the bad guys'.

Hazzard cried aloud with mirth and merriment

Barret was ruined from the start, when you hear him on the cell phone.

Barret was very sterotypical, but he was like that in the game, he was the sterotypical angry black man. They at least got that much right (that is, they got him from the game to the movie with his 'character' intact).

Hazzard cried aloud with mirth and merriment

Yuffie was what you would expect,

Yes she was.

Hazzard cried aloud with mirth and merriment

and Cid just looked weird.

He looked like he had come from his Sofa with a bottle of bear and a doughnut, straight to the battle, without even a change of his greasy shirt that he'd been wearing for five days. I liked it, hes the sort of character i can relate to

Hazzard cried aloud with mirth and merriment

Cait Sith isn't Scottish or Irish, and how would they programme that voice for him? Reeve wouldn't do that.

Cait Sith is based of a Scotish mythical creature:

Cat Sidhe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So they gave him a scottish accent. It still not sure about the Reeve thing, it been awhile since i played the game. Was Cait Sith Reeve's robot, or just his servant. I think Cait Sith being a robot is a bloody stupid idea, but whatever.

Hazzard cried aloud with mirth and merriment

Reno said a couple of stupid lines, which weren't funny. He isn't supposed to be a comedian, he's the casual guy who everyone loves.

I don't remember Reno much in the game, but i do remember a scene which seems to mirror his character in the movie quite well. Its the one when you first meet him, in the Church, and he steps on the flowers.

Anyway, Reno made a few jokes, but then so did almost everyone else. Reno was the casual guy in the film, and even though he was absolutly put in there for the humour, i think it suits his game character. All the turks (minus mabye Tsung) added humour to the game, and thats what they do here aswell.

Hazzard cried aloud with mirth and merriment

Don't even get me started on how they messed up Rude.

I don't understand, please elaborate.

Hazzard cried aloud with mirth and merriment

RedXIII was quiet, and Kudaj's gang were totally emo. "Where's mum?" I heard that every 2 minutes.

Red XIII wasn't supposed to talk. Mabye because they couldn't find a vioce actor that sounded like a dog, or mabye just because hes the silent type, i dunno, but it worked out fine.

And Kadajs gang being Emo, they was nothing wrong with that.


I think i'm done....

[x-cookies_Nd_milk-x]

The English voice acting sucked sooo much, i couldnt stop laughung.. {Reno sounded good though [;}, but the japanese voice acting was much better, more serious anywayz!.. I kinda expected more from this film, but in general it was okay, but not fantastic..

[Hazzard]

I don't think the rolde they gave Rude, really suited him. He was enigmatic in the game, but a bit foolish in the movie with some events- like falling off the wall, when climbing up after Reno.

They over-exaggerated with all the flashiness, and what I meant about Cid was that he's nearing his forties, and they made him look 25 years old. He looked too fresh, and I expected him to look rougher and more ragged.

[scrumpleberry]

Story sucked, villains sucked, Reno bishification sucked, lack of Elena and Tseng sucked.
(Yea, I know they got about 5 seconds in 3 scenes, but they didn't speak most of the time and you didn't get shiny close ups.)

Pretty to look at, the new costumes are much better.

[Orophin]

It was ok. The story sucked but some of the fight scenes were good. I would give it a 7/10 for the japanese version and 5/10 for the english one since the english voices were horrible for most of the characters...

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The movie was one of the best movies I had saw that month. aslo it DID kick ass in Japanese.