Just Watched Advent Children

[bluejeans07]

Best Things about Movie
1. Reno
2. Cloud's sword. Look Ma! It slices! And dices! And comes apart for MORE SLICIN' AND DICIN'
3. Really really good and well thought out designs. Very pretty movie! Visually stunning, action-packed and all that! Fight scenes were fun to watch... although the same effects and shot ideas being used over and over got really boring after awhile.
4. Reno
5. Crispin cast as Rude? AWESOME.
6. Reno... and Vincent.
7. Vincent's Cape of Doom attack!
8. Cait Sith's Scottish accent. And Cid's cowboy accent. Because it made me laugh really really hard.
9. And did I mention Reno?

Worst Things about Movie.
1. THE STORY SUCKED. It was NON-EXISTANT. I got very bored after watching it after awhile. OMG END ALREADY! IT'S OVER! IT'S OOOVEEEER!
2. Ummm English translation script had terrible writing. Or maybe it was just the script in general.
3. Whoever played Tifa could NOT voice act. She had a very pretty sounding voice but her acting was terrible.
4. MONSTER OF NO BACKSTORY APPEARS AND TERRORIZES THE CITY! O NOES!
5. Everyone boosting Cloud into the air seperately? LAME. And melodramatic.
6. Lifestream and Aerith= DEUS EX MACHINA. Booooooooring!
7. So much of the movie felt like a cell phone advertisement. And with all the spiffy machines and designs that the movie had, WHY COULDN'T THE CELL PHONES LOOK SPIFFY? THEY LOOKED LIKED REGULAR CELL PHONES.
8. Rufus Shinra did NOT look bacon fried although supposedly 'barely escaped from a building that blew up'. I DEMAND BACON FRIED SHINRA, DAMMIT! If Anakin Skywalker can be fried, SO CAN RUFUS SHINRA!
9. Okay, main bad guy was that one dude with the hair in his face... and we all forget his brothers exist at some point in the movie! Wheee forgetting important evil characters exist! FAIL! :P

All in all, Advent Children was a BEAUTIFUL movie. The story just sucked.

Comments

[chobit001.livejournal.com]

Watch the Japanese version, the acting is much better in it. :-)

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

And it has Maaya Sakamoto! But the English version does have very good acting, they got some GREAT voice actors to be in this movie. However, the script does get rather lame and it turned out that Rachel Leigh Cook was cast as Tifa... and she could never act anyway so why begin now? XD

[nekomimi-ruri.livejournal.com]

Gah... see, it's funny because I've never seen the movie, but about 80-90% of the people who have say the story sucks or is just bad in general. And it's funny because I KNEW it was going to be like that: looks pretty, no story.

These past couple of years, Square hasn't been able to create a decent storyline with anything really -_- Well, mostly anything FF related anyway...

*prepares to get flamed*

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

I totally agree! XD As much as I love playing and watching Final Fantasy games, I haven't actually liked the storyline of a game post FFIX! Basically, I play these games because they're pretty and they're rather fun... but if I want a good story, I'll pick up a book.

[ohmisunao.livejournal.com]

2. Ummm English translation script had terrible writing. Or maybe it was just the script in general.
It's just bad..

4. MONSTER OF NO BACKSTORY APPEARS AND TERRORIZES THE CITY! O NOES!
You HAVE played Final Fantasy haven't you? That's Bahamut, who needs no introduction.

5. Everyone boosting Cloud into the air seperately? LAME. And melodramatic.
What?! That's my favorite part! It's so touching when Aerith lifts Cloud through a giant fireball! XD hahahaha

7. So much of the movie felt like a cell phone advertisement. And with all the spiffy machines and designs that the movie had, WHY COULDN'T THE CELL PHONES LOOK SPIFFY? THEY LOOKED LIKED REGULAR CELL PHONES.
That's because it is one big advertisement.. Those cell phones are for sale, the Turks and Vincent have a large role in the movie because they have new games coming out w/ them in it.. :P Squaresoft is milking the fans and laughing at them.

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

Dood, just because it's Bahamut doesn't mean that it should SUDDENLY ARRIVE IN THE STORY WITH NO WARNING! It *does* need an introduction or some sort a built up to it's arrival because it SERIOUSLY ARRIVED FROM NOWHERE and started doing its Godzilla impression! It's a BIG DEAL that it's there but it there's no real point for it to be there in the first place!

[ohmisunao.livejournal.com]

Summoned creatures never get introductions in the games.. why start now? ;D And it didn't come from nowhere.. that dude with the white hair summoned it with a Bahamut-summon materia. ;D

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

Because it's not a video game, it's a movie! :P

[magnum0pu5.livejournal.com]

And... more Reno X3

[bluejeans07.livejournal.com]

Always more Reno!