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DiscountDelight - Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children (2-Disc Special Edition)
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List Price: $26.96
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Directed By: Takeshi Nozue, Tetsuya Nomura
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0043396118966
Format: AC-3
ISBN: 1404991018
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2006-04-25
Running Time: 101
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2004-11-30
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Summary: A great movie
Comment: I have never played the games. I didn't think I'd be too impressed after watching the preview. Boy was I wrong! I was as excited by this as Fellowship of the Ring.
It manages to be fantastical in a science-fiction way. It has breathtaking battles, realistic artwork, deep angsty characters that you love to watch, and realistic problems.
I love watching the long clothing they wear swirl with their complex fight moves. My eyes have trouble keeping up with them in a fight.
Some scenes I would have sworn came from the matrix.
The music was both invigorating and stunning. I love listening to it.
Some characters were mostly for comic relief, and they had my family laughing so hard we cried.
The world is in choas, and might just get worse just as it was rebuilding itself. A deadly virus slowly kills mostly children and a some adults. Three men seek the creature responsible, wanting to create a new future. An eccentric cast of tragic characters fight to prevent them from finding it.
The people who made this include little details like hair, raindrop shadows, and movement under clothing. The english voice actors manage to make most of their lines match the mouths. Both the english and japanese voice actors voices match their characters very well (though I think some of the english voice actors were better)
The first disc holds the movie and a special.
The second isn't very interesting. It has things on the games, some background material, and the film clips in japanese with different lines.
Buy this movie. You won't regret it.
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Summary: not too bad
Comment: Could have been a little better, but overall not too bad. This was one of my favorite video games of all time. It was nice to see the story continued.
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Summary: A note for those unfamiliar with Sony's landmark RPG game...
Comment: As an avid FFVII player & fan, I could easily dribble 5000 words on the beautiful animation and incredible fight sequences. However, most (if not in all probability all) of those who have never even heard of Cloud and Sephiroth are going to have trouble following along. I really wanted my girlfriend to watch it with me so I took about 40 minutes to prep her for what she finally understood to be the sequel to the game (this was extremely tough considering the game can easily take about 99 hours of thorough playing to finish). And alas!, even with the summary and endless answering to a barrage of questions like "What is mako?", "What is Jenova?", "Sephiroth's will?", she still didn't quite understand what the movie was about. In the end, my desperate and equally futile attempt in proving her time wasn't wasted sounded something like, "Well the fighting was cool wasn't it?".
My own personal disappointment was that the English dialogue differed so greatly from the Japanese version. While neither were great in and of themselves, the Japanese dialogue was superior to the cheesier and sometimes dorky English version. (The only improvement, in my opinion, in the Japanese to English voiceover was the actor who spoke for Vincent. Good voice for dark character.)
All in all, this is a movie exclusively for FFVII aficionados (like me), CGI fans, and anyone who really appreciates excellent fantasy fight sequences--and for good reason, the creators didn't attempt to pander to any other target audience.
Conclusion. If you fit one of the people groups above, have at it. Otherwise, sidestep what you probably couldn't appreciate.
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Summary: Makes you want a remake for PS3
Comment: I've been waiting, well let me rephrase that, I think every FF7 fan has been waiting for this movie. With the years we've waited, I think we got what we wanted. Great visual effects, great voice-acting (japanese), and story. NICE. HAVE TO BUY THIS!!!!!!!
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Summary: Great Movie,
Comment: This movie has all the main characters from Final Fantasy 7 like: Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Vincint, Yuffie, Cait Sith, Red XIII, Marline, it even had Aeris at times!! and some new charaters!! the animation is AWESOME! there's nothing like it ((at the moment)).
Plot: 8/10 there are some down points worth questioning. but still very interesting! also very origanal!! i don't want to give away anything!!
Animation: 10/10 BEAUTIFUL! LIFE-LIKE!! everything seems so real!
Music: 9/10 GREAT JOB WITH THE MUSIC! there is some very good new music, some old ((from the video game!)) and also some remixed ones like "One Winged Angel" from the part where you battle Sephiroth in the game-- only this time the battle is in the movie!
English Dubbed version: 10/10 there are usually down points in the dubbed versions, but not this one!! the mouths actually FIT THE WORDS BEING SAID! and the lines aren't stupid!!
Overall: 10/10 This movie is SOOOOOO GOOD! it keeps you going with plot turning points, cool music, people dying, GREAT ACTION! also wondering if Cloud is going to survive, etc...!!
I love this movie, and it is a MUST BUY for every Final Fantasy fan out there! even if you don't like the Final Fantasy 7, or any of the games, i still think you would LOVE THIS AWESOME MOVIE!
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Editorial Reviews:
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The question facing any viewer of the Japanese CG feature Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is: do you have to know the games on which it’s based in order to understand the film? And the answer is: it certainly helps. But even complete novices (i.e., most parents) in the Final Fantasy world will find some entertainment in its wealth of fantasy-based action, and the animation never fails to astonish. Picking up two years after an epic battle between the forces of good (represented by brooding soldier Cloud) and evil (Cloud’s former general, Sephiroth), FFVII opens in the devastated city of Midgard, whose youthful occupants suffer from a ghastly disease known as Geostigma. A trio of brothers arrives with what appears to be a cure for the plague, but their gesture conceals a more sinister purpose: to revive Sephiroth and bring about the end of the world. Cloud and his companions must once again rise to the occasion to stop the siblings and the revived Sephiroth from unleashing total destruction. Complex and self-referential to the point of occasional incomprehension, Final Fantasy VII will definitely be most appreciated by fans of the game series, but if others can look past the numbing dialogue and frenetic action (which is a bit too intense for very young children), the film offers a carefree and action-packed viewing experience. The two-disc set contains the original Japanese language version of the film as well as an English-dubbed edition (Rachel Leigh Cook and Christy Carlson Romano, among others, provide the vocal talent) and a version edited for the Venice Film Festival. A 30-minute featurette that recaps the Final Fantasy story up to VII, as well as a making-of documentary, deleted scenes, and promotions for future Final Fantasy VII games and products round out the extras. --Paul Gaita
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