Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Impressions

Tim Butler writes "1UP.com has posted impressions of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children from the premiere screening at the Venice Film Festival. The article also reveals that the film won't be ready until next spring -- but may clock in at more than an hour and a half in running time (is a big screen release a possibility now?)."

Comments

Creepy Faces

[Feneric]

I'm in agreement with this article that computer-generated human faces still look creepy. I can't quite place what it is, but computer generated skin (even when done well as it was with Gollum from the LOTR movies) doesn't look right.

Maybe it's that the faces look somehow too regular; maybe it's that they look somehow luminescent.

It's even evident in the little thumnail image at the top of the article.

Aeris!

[JohnPerkins]

If you buy 3 large popcorns, 1 small no-ice Dr Pepper, 1 box of Jr Mints, then enter the hidden theater 5 spaces down and 2 spaces to the left of the ticket booth, you can see the version with Aeris resurrected!

Re:Look at the screenshots!

[mn3m05yn3]

http://www.1up.com/do/slideshow?cId=3133458

aren't THOSE the screenshots? looks like you were referencing pictures of the festival itself...

Re:me want pictures

[semifamous]

How about a preview instead?

Head over to http://anime-kraze.org/ and go to their releases page...

http://anime-kraze.org/index.php?page=releases

Then scroll down to find this link this link here which points to a .torrent file of a fansubbed version of a preview of the movie...

Good thing they changed the plot

[Glowing Fish]

It would have been awesome to just reshoot the orginal Final Fantasy VII, but along with the fact it would be hard cutting the 40 hr long story down to 2 hours, most movie goers wouldn't believe Final Fantasy VII's wild, science fiction plot. Final Fantasy VII would have us believe that:

• Someone can become president just because their father is. If someone becomes ruler because of their father, that makes them a king, not a president.
  
• That a government could be nothing more than a front for corrupt energy company executives, and for a clique of people whose fanatical devotion to a "promised land" blinds them to all reason.
  
• That a country with a large space program would suddenly abandon it, simply to produce more and more deadly weapons.
  
• That a government, when confronted with terrorist attacks, would use it as a way to further clamp down on anyone who was trying to challenge their politcal and economic power.
  
• That a nation's economy could be totally wiped out, leaving industrial areas blighted, while close by, people spent all their money playing in high tech floating gambling palaces.
  
• That energy executives, when their productive capacity is destroyed, would merrily celebrate having to raise rates.
  
  • 
    These are just some of the points that make the plot of Final Fantasy VII, no matter how intriguing, too unrealistic for people to take seriously.