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[Amin_Strife]

Hi there all..first post here in the forums^^

Anyway, i wanted to give my toughts about the movie. For me...it was dissapointing. The story lacked plain and simple. Now of course i dont expect them to create a legendary epic in a 90-minutes movie but still, lower the action scenes and put more effort in to the story. Instead of such a damn long Bahamut fight, bridge the gap between FFVII and the film more. I've had a lot of discussions with my friend about this. He adores it...and he thinks i have too many expectations which is ''lame'' according to him. Well sorry...i dont know about you guys but if suddenly since almost 10 years the news arrives of a movie sequel of my favourite game ever complete with an absolutely awesome trailer(which showed Kadaj attacking Cloud and Cloud walkin in the church..short but very sweet..i found some of those scenes better than the actual scenes in the film itself) then i DO get pumped up. I DO expect a lot. Heck, Square Enix knows that FFVII is popular. Sure the action scenes are terrific, but i felt that it's all that. No story..just fight-scenes. Again, i found the Bahamut fight way too long. And then there's Sephiroth...it felt forced imho. Like: '' hey lets put Sephiroth in so everybody can drool over him again''. I love Sephiroth as a character. Heck he's my favourite character ever with Cloud. But it felt he was just there for show. I wanted more story. More bridging the gap from this and FFVII. Instead they come with 3 villains(which are really cool designed imo) that just come for ass-kickin. Sure, there was story..no doubt. But rather than all the Jenova/Mother stuff i wanted to know what all the characters were doing. Cloud is in the spotlight. Sure Tifa as well..but Cid.. Red XIII...Yuffie..Vincent..etc. all just in that way too long Bahamut scene. And i do agree with Loz being really dumb. When he said that line: ''You meenie'' i swear i wanted to kill him. What the hell is that for cheesy stupid line. Come on..at least you can make it sound more mature and realistic. And we know Loz is childish..but that line just ruins him totally imo. All in all i can talk hours about my dissapointments and the things i liked about the film. The film looked great(not as realistic as Spirits Within and anyone who disagrees go ahead..bite mexD), i really liked the rock music...and that scene where Kadaj sits down and looks up to Rufus and flashes of Sephi's face show up is awesome. But this wasn't what i expected. The oldest trailers had scenes that were so cool but eventually all left out from the final film. The story is lacking...i applaud Square Enix for making such a big step and continuing FFVII. I liked it overall..but when you look at the total package of story and character dedication..it lacked. I hope the Compilation of FFVII brings good stuff worthy of the FFVII name(unlike DoC which was really bad aside from the FMVs imo) and while AC wasn't terrible..it doesn't hold up to that name either. Luckily Crisis Core looks great so i just have to wait and see.

[Great Sephiroth]

Hey, I watched film again and again. It is quite perfect and motive me to play FFVII again. When you played and beat FFVII, go to watch FFVII:AC....It is a super-duper combination trust me!!
Anyway, I watched the film's early version. So, if you ignore what I wrote, don't surprise, maybe they fix them in the final versions.
I see that, in the film a lot of low-frame points and weaker graphics (different than general graphics) like a PS2 CGI movie...For example, when Cloud rides Fenrir to catch Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo in the tunnel...When Cloud give a slash to Loz's motorcycle and blow it up, Loz's face is in very very bad quality graphics...Am I wrong? So, maybe they fix it eh?
Anyway, I find some stupidity in AC:
1) Why Rufus have a eye-band? Near the end, we saw that Rufus' eye is healthy? It's so ridiculous...
2) How Kadaj hug Jenova's head and turn-out Sephiroth? Why Loz or Yazoo didn't do this? OR, what if Loz and Yazoo were still alive? How can they turn-out Sephiroth? A three-silver haired man combination-and Jenova's head=Super Sephiroth (or like my nickname Great Sephiroth )??
That's all for now...
p.s:Amin_strife, we have same avatars

[Jon Thompson]

That's what I thought his movie was, a piece of turd. I was looking forward to it, thinking it would be similar to Spirits Within (not graphically) but in terms of quality. No, none, at all. Didn't much care for the plot. It was alright but the last twenty minutes simply killed it. I know it's set in the final fantasy world but the last bit looked so ridiculous on film it was ridiculous. Some things work in movies, some do not. So many final fantasy fans hated Spirits Within because it was nothing like final fantasy. Simple because there were no chocobos, moogles, magic powers or anything of the sort they didn't recognize it as final fantasy. It was, at it's core final fantasy. Characters/plot are final fantasyesc. If you took away materia from Final Fantasy Seven the plot, for the most part would be exactly the same. The story does need those things but GAMEPLAY does. I give Advent Children 3/10

[Silver Haired Brothers]

I'd give it 120%. Amazing. Great story line. Although It would maybe be hard to understand quite a bit if you hadn't played the game.

[play-on-4eva]

I thought visually the movie was brilliant. the camera angles and scenery were both great but i did find the story hard to understand proberly because i havent play FFVII.

[IronOcean]

the movie was great. Something more for all of us who loved the game. I agree the flow of the movie is not that good and you have to read alot on the internet to find out alot of what they dont tell you. But look at how long they took to do it and how well they did it. It left me wanting more which we may never get but i give it a 9/10

[No.78]

This film is worth nothing to me without the action scenes

[LynetteCloudburst]

The game was awesome and the movie was awsome! loved it! XD