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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?
Bien means "well"
Bon means "good"
Ah well... Anyway, this is nothing new. I saw the Family Guy movie months ago. In fact, when I went to the IMDB to post about it, I noticed an exchange to the effect of the following:
Guy 1: Teh Family Guy movie is teh awesomes!!
Guy 2: Stupid fanboy, the movie isn't out yet. Don't review something you haven't even SEEN!
Guy 3: Umm.. The movie's been out on the net for several weeks, and we've ALL already seen it. stfu
Hell, a friend of mine's office is running a massive DVD piracy ring with their fancy new DVD duplicating machine (officially used to make demo DVDs for clients).
I don't need slashdot to tell me $movie was released early: I just assume all movies are, and I'm most usually right.
Now, what to do about this is another matter entirely...
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i tried it out with bits on wheels and only got an error message from the tracker. maybe some clients have compatibility issues, or it's slashdotted by now and only working for you because you already have direct connections to peers going on? oh, and what's up with that site that offers the torrent link? it looks like a pretty official site, or at least a site made by dedicated fans of the movie (or ff in general), but if it really is, why do they provide the link?
but what do i know, i'm just a model.
If the subtitles are anything like Episode III: The Backstroke of the West, I'm not so sure this is a good thing.
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.
All the reviews from hardcore FFVII+ fans that I have seen have praised the movie.
All the reviews from casual people or FFVI- fans have been less than glowing. The FFVI people not liking it for a variety of reasons, and the casual people not understanding anything (supposedly no backstory is presented) and seeing the movie as mostly convoluted nonsense.
I thought it was fan service, not much more.
Rent before you buy (for those that still rent and buy movies).
Get them here.