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FFVII Advent Children Leaked
FF7:AC Movie writes "Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children has been leaked on the Internet early this morning by a pirate group from Hong Kong known as BiEN (which incidentally means good in French). The Square-Enix film was due to release in Japan on September 14th 2005 after numerous delays. As for the North American release date, it has been pushed back to a cloudy end of November."
It was inevitable, no one can escape this, especially after all the delays and false hope. It creates grudge from the fans.
But I'm sure most fans will also buy the DVD, if they find a mean of distribution for it...
Daemon
Isn't linking directly to a pirated movie download a bit bald faced for a NEWS SOURCE?
DYWYPI?
Well, this is Zonk we are talking about.
1. Who gives a fuck what it means in Spanish, not to mention what it means in French. It's an HK group name.
2. "Bien" means "well" in French too. The French word for "good" is "bon." The submitter probably doesn't even speak French, so who knows why he threw in that false anecdote. Zonk, I know you get a lot of flak, but this is the kind of irrelevant and incorrect stuff that should be trimmed out of article submissions.
For all the bashing that Final Fantasy: The spirits within has recieved you'd think that it was the worst movie ever created; which it wasn't.
The reality was that FF:TSW was actually a pretty good anime movie; had it had a more traditional animation style and not been named Final Fantasy it probably would be among the most well recieved Anime movies outside of Japan. In my opinion it has become the but of so many jokes because many videogame players (that don't watch anime) decided to see the movie expecting to see a bunch of cut-scenes from final fantasy 7 and what they really got was an original movie.
In many ways this is the mentality that is destroying videogames; people are not willing to accept a well crafted experiance unless it is the experiance that they personally wanted. People didn't want Super Mario Sunshine they wanted Super Mario 64 with prettier graphics; people didn't want The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker they wanted "super-cool 1337 'Mature' Zelda"; and so on and so forth. The thing that really annoys me about this is one minute these brain-dead slobs are complaining that games are getting boring and nothing new is getting developed and another minute they are bitching that a well crafted game was not developed exactly like the previous ones were.
In my opinion you can't have it both ways; either you accept the new ideas and directions that a movie or videogame developer decides to take their product or you accept that there will be no progress in the industry. Personally, I have no desire to play the same game over again anymore (nor do I want to see the same movie over again) so I tend to accept most new directions.
The FFVI- fans never really got into the spirit of any of the Playstation FF games anyways; it isn't suprising that they'd pan Advent Children.
Going back to school for entry-level jobs?
If you loved FFVII, then the movie is gonna be the greated damned thing you've seen since the game.
If you didn't love FFVII then you're either not gonna like it or outright hate it for a number of reasons.
If you never played FFVII, you're gonna think the movie is a total piece of crap since no amount of time spent on the backstory will be enough to explain it to moviegoers.
Overall, expect direct-to-DVD unless SE is willing to risk another FF:Spirits Within.