Final Fantasy VII Advent Children

[Atomi]

I just saw this movie and :O It was really awesome. Lots of action, some talking, maybe there should've been some more of that, though. Best game-based movie by far! I leapt up from my chair when overwhelmed by nostalgy and seeing people again. It was great I tell you. Maybe this should've been in the film forum but since no-one reads it I posted it here.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385700/

[Pesmerga]

Eminem .... Mr. Coates


Oh.
My.
God.




Brilliant.

[Gorgon]

LOL d/L LOL.......... 15 mins left

its out on DVD 2moro...........

[Atomi]

Don't trust the imdb actorlist. It was pure Japanese and mr. coates wasn't even in it. The music was great also.

[bvasgm]

I assume full understanding of this movie requires a bit of background information. Since I never played Final Fantasy 7, somebody mind going over the basics of the games plot so I'm not totally lost?

[Dekstar]

that's a whole load of kinky!

[Pesmerga]

I assume full understanding of this movie requires a bit of background information. Since I never played Final Fantasy 7, somebody mind going over the basics of the games plot so I'm not totally lost?

Even if you did play FF7, you'd still be ****ing lost.

But Cloud Strife is a badass. That's all you really have to understand.

[Epyon]

Are there english subtitles in this one and does anyone know when its coming out in the US?

[Dekstar]

Even if you did play FF7, you'd still be ****ing lost.

But Cloud Strife is a badass. That's all you really have to understand.
And Tiffa > Aeries

EDIT: but then again I have a Cait Sith Fetish :x

[Absinthe]

FF is for pansies.

[Icarusintel]

shouldn't this be in the movies section?

[Pesmerga]

And Tiffa > Aeries

EDIT: but then again I have a Cait Sith Fetish :x

Tiffa is a slut. They are both hot, but I'm going to have to support Aeries.

She's cute.

I wished they were real. And in my room. And bisexual.

[diluted]

IS there an english subbed version yet? Not that I'm planning on downloading it, I'm just uhm... wondering... :E

[Asuka]

It came out.....?

Oh well better see it then!

[destrukt]

lol, it was leaked (dvd quality) 2 or so days ago, with japanese audio.

there are english subtitles availale, if you know where to look ;)

[socK]

The internet is shipping it to me right now. :]

[poseyjmac]

heh. you can always tell who the warez newbs are, the ones who come up with some wannabe-witty remark because they think they are special when they get something illegal and early. so they try and impress their peers. in a few years time, once it sinks in, they'll realize that most people warez and the act of warezing is nothing special.

so go ahead. announce here that you have 'l33t c0nn3ct1onz'' and you are downloading ff7. you are totally awesome! wow!

[operative x]

When the hell is this thing coming out???? Hasn't it been release for like a year already in japan? When is it out in theaters/DVD?

[Jintor]

Tiffa is a slut. They are both hot, but I'm going to have to support Aeries.

She's cute.

I wished they were real. And in my room. And bisexual.

QTF!
sixchar

[Anthraxxx]

I just finished watching it myself......*puts on new pair of pants*

[Gray Fox]

What are the best aspects of this movie, the asction, the looks, the style. Does it a ctually have a plot.

[Atomi]

Some plot, great action, good music most of the time, style and the final fantasy characters!

[Dekstar]

heh. you can always tell who the warez newbs are, the ones who come up with some wannabe-witty remark because they think they are special when they get something illegal and early. so they try and impress their peers. in a few years time, once it sinks in, they'll realize that most people warez and the act of warezing is nothing special.

so go ahead. announce here that you have 'l33t c0nn3ct1onz'' and you are downloading ff7. you are totally awesome! wow!
Well I got Advent Children Before the PS1 came out. Do I count as special?

[Gorgon]

Hey, did anyone notice the KillZone2's graphics for PS3 is excatly the same as this movie :)

excellent movie

[Icarusintel]

SPOLIER - Red XIII dies
Disclaimer: I have no idea if this is true, but it sounds good

[Smallwood2000]

www.aresgalaxy.org

but im not saying use it for anything illegal hell no, should use it to increase ones knowlegde

[kupocake]

Hey, did anyone notice the KillZone2's graphics for PS3 is excatly the same as this movie :)
Yeah. I'm sure they were both rendered at 5 FPS and increased to 60 as well. (check Gamespot - they actually admit the demo was pre-rendered)

[Atomi]

SPOLIER - Red XIII dies
Disclaimer: I have no idea if this is true, but it sounds good

False. He speaks though.

[CyberPitz]

My roomate d/led it, told me he had it, I'm not going to check it out, BECAUSE IM GOIGN TO BUY IT DAMNIT! I support things I am in love with.

damn when does this come out?

[Icarusintel]

False. He speaks though.
Rock on, but sadly I can;t get hold of this movie, unless someone could send it to me through gmail....*hint hint*

[Javert]

What are the best aspects of this movie, the asction, the looks, the style. Does it a ctually have a plot.
It's a confusing plot, for they use names as if you were supposed to know them, minor characters and all.
But the action is spectacular. It's nothing you've ever seen before.
The music and editing choices can use some smoothing, they utterly crash the movie at certain areas, as well as flip between past, present, and future at a whim.

[Murray]

Awesome animations and neat fights, but I still preffer the storyline of FFVII the game.

[EVIL]

AWSHENS
WOAH!! ****ING BRUTE!!

[Atomi]

My roomate d/led it, told me he had it, I'm not going to check it out, BECAUSE IM GOIGN TO BUY IT DAMNIT! I support things I am in love with.

damn when does this come out?


I buy things I support very much even if I had downloaded them first.

[kupocake]

SPOLIER - Red XIII dies
Disclaimer: I have no idea if this is true, but it sounds good
Any FFVII fan should be able to tell you that he's alive 100 hundred years after the end of FFVII. You know, the scene after the credits where he runs with his cubs to a cliff overlooking the ruins of Midgar? He's the one character guaranteed not to die!

[Atomi]

Any FFVII fan should be able to tell you that he's alive 100 hundred years after the end of FFVII. You know, the scene after the credits where he runs with his cubs to a cliff overlooking the ruins of Midgar? He's the one character guaranteed not to die!

Wasn't it 500 hundred years? It's in the movie's beginning also.


We should wrap this whole topic in spoilertags.

[AmishSlayer]

Any FFVII fan should be able to tell you that he's alive 100 hundred years after the end of FFVII. You know, the scene after the credits where he runs with his cubs to a cliff overlooking the ruins of Midgar? He's the one character guaranteed not to die!

Nonono, that didn't happen 100 years later. That happened in like 2 years or less. 2 years is the gap between the end of FF7 and FF7AC.

My buddy used to insist that all humans died at the end of FF7 because Holy defended the planet and killed anything that was poisoning it (including humans). He felt silly when I told him Advent Children was taking place after FF7.


Sweet movie though. My roomate downloaded it and I'm gonna watch it again today. Definitely gonna buy it when I get the chance.

[Fliko]

Yeah... sure... your roomate downloaded it.
We want proof!

[AmishSlayer]

Yeah... sure... your roomate downloaded it.
We want proof!

Heh, well it's on my computer now too, so it doesn't exactly matter who downloaded it :P I'm just as guilty as him. I don't feel bad though since I'm gonna buy it for sure.

[EVIL]

ditto on the buy thing, I want to see this thing in HD quality

[Fliko]

Heh, well it's on my computer now too, so it doesn't exactly matter who downloaded it :P I'm just as guilty as him. I don't feel bad though since I'm gonna buy it for sure.
Could you show me the video
...
...
For proof of course... nothing else!

[socK]

Watched it again, the movie is amazingly good. I want to replay FF7, but I cant put up with the horrible graphics, there was a FF hack site a while ago and some crew was actually re-writeing the FF7 engine to include higher polygon stuff, dont remember where it went off to though, it was called like QUIFFM or something weird.

[theotherguy]

Meh. never really liked final fantasy... it was the first and the last RPG I ever played...'nuff said.

[Iced_Eagle]

Watched it again, the movie is amazingly good. I want to replay FF7, but I cant put up with the horrible graphics, there was a FF hack site a while ago and some crew was actually re-writeing the FF7 engine to include higher polygon stuff, dont remember where it went off to though, it was called like QUIFFM or something weird.

Cookie for anyone that finds this! :D

[Atomi]

Well, they said on GameSpot that Square MIGHT be considering the possibility of thinking about starting some work on developing a ff7 remake for ps3. If it was to be like in the PS3 tech demo or something like the movie, then it would be AMAZING. FF7 as it is now is great, but imagine the world and the people made with the graphics they can produce today.

[Kanehdian]

FF is for pansies.
Correction: FF cosplayers are pansies. :dork:

[beraiviodk]

yea it's leaked. go get it now!

[kupocake]

Having now seen it, it's nothing to write home about in the list. One and Half hours of Fanservice. "Ooh, I wanna see this character in CGI! And this one too! But OMG, don't kill ANY of them!". The plot is so minimal that I got paper cuts from just watching it. Not to mention that the main attraction - the CGI - is awfully ropey. It's more or less perfect on the major characters, but the kid's animation looks like Final Fantasy X in-game and some backgrounds are none too impressive either.

That and I simply don't go in for the Matrix x40,000 fight sequences. They look ridicullous, hard to follow, and devoid of any cleverness. Odd what's happened to the basic laws of gravity... I your character can't even jump in the original game, and that's probably because if he did, he'd be able to fight in the stratosphere so long as his team mates "boost" him, however the hell they were doing that. The Turks were quite fun, but alas, they were just fanservice. I'd say I was disappointed, but I always had this markedout as bottom chocolate anyway.

[Fliko]

Having now seen it, it's nothing to write home about in the list. One and Half hours of Fanservice. "Ooh, I wanna see this character in CGI! And this one too! But OMG, don't kill ANY of them!". The plot is so minimal that I got paper cuts from just watching it. Not to mention that the main attraction - the CGI - is awfully ropey. It's more or less perfect on the major characters, but the kid's animation looks like Final Fantasy X in-game and some backgrounds are none too impressive either.

That and I simply don't go in for the Matrix x40,000 fight sequences. They look ridicullous, hard to follow, and devoid of any cleverness. Odd what's happened to the basic laws of gravity... I your character can't even jump in the original game, and that's probably because if he did, he'd be able to fight in the stratosphere so long as his team mates "boost" him, however the hell they were doing that. The Turks were quite fun, but alas, they were just fanservice. I'd say I was disappointed, but I always had this markedout as bottom chocolate anyway.

Your characters could jump in the original game. They just couldn't jump inless needed to (Walk up to a small cliff and hit action.)
Oh, yea, sorry to mention. This is based off a game, not reality.
You can't expect the movie to be based off of real physics etc. if the characters can cast magic, summon, and is based off a fantasy game.

IMO, the detail was great, they made the CGI perfect. I loved the backgrounds, though, this is my opinion.

The combat scenes were awesome. I found them easy to keep up to, I didn't find this ridiculous.

Whats so bad with fanservice, without fans, you might as well throw away everything in the world.

I've downloaded it after pressure of my friends getting exicted about the soon to be release. Definatly going to buy it and watch it while traveling intill my eyes start to bleed.

[diluted]

I'm not really sure what the point of this movie was. It hardly added anything of interest to the FF7 story, so really... I don't get it. It's a bunch of nice CGI and cool fight scenes, but that's about it. WAs still better than the other FF movie though, because FF7 pwns.

[KagePrototype]

Fun as hell movie, definately a treat for FF7 fans. :thumbs: Reno and Rude were brilliant as well. :laugh: No mindblowing revelations, but still great IMO.

[WhiteZero]

Fun as hell movie, definately a treat for FF7 fans. :thumbs: Reno and Rude were brilliant as well. :laugh: No mindblowing revelations, but still great IMO.
Yah, I gotta say, Reno in this was my favorite character.
:D

[kupocake]

Oh, yea, sorry to mention. This is based off a game, not reality.
You can't expect the movie to be based off of real physics etc. if the characters can cast magic, summon, and is based off a fantasy game.
That's bullshit. Just because something is Fantasy doesn't mean that it doesn't establish scientific laws and limits. Impossible jumps were limited only to limit-breaks in the game - hence, breaking physical limts, jumping impossible heights. In fact, in the few places where you *can* jump in the game, your characters struggle to reach across tiny gaps in bridges and scenery. Here, the characters never stop flying around. It's pathetic, a substitute for any really clever movements by just making the space any fight inhabits as gravity-less as possible, as far removed from the authenticy of the Real World or even the game on which it is based.

In fact, the one thing the movie reminds me of over anything else? The Power Rangers. No shit. It's a bunch of colourful characters jumping around, waving their arms around and grunting. The clincher is that "dragon" which i'm told is supposed to Bahamut (it looks greatly different from all 3 "Bahamuts" in the game). That thing looks like (http://gallery.point-blank.cc/ffac/aiw) a plastic toy based on a something from a saturday morning kids show (http://members.fortunecity.com/jillun/gg5/ggkobald.gif). It's a nasty design and probably the least scary dragon i've ever seen.

[CyberPitz]

This kind of falls in line a bit. Just watched Final Fantasy VII: The Lost Order. That was a nice rehash of Nibleheim. Relearning/learning a few things about Zach. I enjoyed it. Great watch.

[KagePrototype]

That's bullshit. Just because something is Fantasy doesn't mean that it doesn't establish scientific laws and limits. Impossible jumps were limited only to limit-breaks in the game - hence, breaking physical limts, jumping impossible heights. In fact, in the few places where you *can* jump in the game, your characters struggle to reach across tiny gaps in bridges and scenery. Here, the characters never stop flying around. It's pathetic, a substitute for any really clever movements by just making the space any fight inhabits as gravity-less as possible, as far removed from the authenticy of the Real World or even the game on which it is based.

In fact, the one thing the movie reminds me of over anything else? The Power Rangers. No shit. It's a bunch of colourful characters jumping around, waving their arms around and grunting. The clincher is that "dragon" which i'm told is supposed to Bahamut (it looks greatly different from all 3 "Bahamuts" in the game). That thing looks like (http://gallery.point-blank.cc/ffac/aiw) a plastic toy based on a something from a saturday morning kids show (http://members.fortunecity.com/jillun/gg5/ggkobald.gif). It's a nasty design and probably the least scary dragon i've ever seen.

I'm guessing you're not an anime fan. :p

[destrukt]

In fact, the one thing the movie reminds me of over anything else? The Power Rangers. No shit. It's a bunch of colourful characters jumping around, waving their arms around and grunting

lol, best thing i've read on here in a long time.

[kupocake]

I'm guessing you're not an anime fan. :p
On the contrary, i'm a huge anime fan (I have a model of the goddamned Turn-A Gundam on my desk. That's like a niche of a niche of a niche!). I just don't go in for this Dragonball Z BS, no matter how pretty it looks.

Anime doesn't begin and end at people with stupid hair jumping around hitting things you know :p

[Sui]

I saw nothing wrong with all the jumping around personally, with the minor exception of when they were all giving Cloud a "boost"... which looked a bit silly.

The story was rather bad considering the depth and complexity of FF7, but it's worth watching just for the cool fight scenes in my opinion. And yea, Reno was great :laugh:

[AmishSlayer]

I saw nothing wrong with all the jumping around personally, with the minor exception of when they were all giving Cloud a "boost"... which looked a bit silly.

The story was rather bad considering the depth and complexity of FF7, but it's worth watching just for the cool fight scenes in my opinion. And yea, Reno was great :laugh:

Yeah, the story was weak compared to the game but the fights were amazing.

[Dekstar]

Loved it. The Tiffa fight was really cool. The Bike scenes were a bit meh (Except the one when they were in the tunnel)

The story was weak, yeah. But tbh I just watched it for the graphics :p

[Laivasse]

Watched it again, the movie is amazingly good. I want to replay FF7, but I cant put up with the horrible graphics, there was a FF hack site a while ago and some crew was actually re-writeing the FF7 engine to include higher polygon stuff, dont remember where it went off to though, it was called like QUIFFM or something weird.

Cookie for anyone that finds this! :D

qhimm.com (http://www.qhimm.com/)

I'm afraid I'm going to have to decline that cookie though, because there's nothing there that's quite as amazing as a redone FF7 or anything. It's mostly enhancements to the music for the PC versions. It's still a great resource site for the PC versions of FF7 and 8, and the message board was still getting lots of traffic last time I was there, despite the age of both games.

As for Advent Children - I didn't have high expectations after The Spirits Within, but I must say I enjoyed it quite a bit. Seeing all your old favourites rendered in glorious CG makes you all teary eyed and smiley.

But BEWARE - strictly as a standalone movie this ISN'T very good. The pacing is terribly dodgy and the story is incomprehensible. If you haven't played FF7 you might want to steer clear altogether. The best way to watch it is as a tribute to a great game from the past.

[Fliko]

I saw nothing wrong with all the jumping around personally, with the minor exception of when they were all giving Cloud a "boost"... which looked a bit silly.

The story was rather bad considering the depth and complexity of FF7, but it's worth watching just for the cool fight scenes in my opinion. And yea, Reno was great :laugh:
I have to agree with the boost thing.
That, and how everyone happen to appear at the most convientent of times.

Cloud was doing a limit on the Bahamut summon. So, he did an impossible jump.

[kupocake]

Cloud was doing a limit on the Bahamut summon. So, he did an impossible jump.
Yeah, but he never stopped doing impossible jumps any other time. It's just a case of him doing an uber impossible jump when limiting, a slightly less than uber impossible jump the rest of the time.