six and a half stars This looks a great movie for TBS's Movies for Guys who Like Movies in the sense that it's visually stunning, great animated set ups (though some are a bit too off the wall, even for anime-style fighting). Somethings just made me groan.
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Things that were good: Graphics/Art were absolutely gorgeous. You won't find better animation anywhere else.
Reno and Rude were great characters, three stoogish like behavior and good comical relief.
Vincent was done quite interestingly.
Rufus was an interesting character and his short fight scene was intense, as short as it was.
Things that were sort of icky: The movie would have ended a LOT better if they let Cloud die. It would have been a nice, sad, melancholy ending.
I found it was interesting how quickly Cloud caught up in the final bike chase scene. It wouldn't seem like his bike was that fast since in the opening scene, his bike was the slowest of the three that were fighting.
Waaay too many Aeris scenes, and none of them were surprising. I called every single Aeris scene 10 seconds before it happened.
Barret sucked. He's like the tank for the video game, and he got his butt saved twice in the last scene.
Not enough Cid. He was a great looking character, he looked very interesting. They showed almost no shots of him.
The scene where Kadaj gives a speech to the kids, that looked really awkward. I don't know why.
Rufus vs Kadaj scene. The order of falling is box-rufus-Kadaj. Kadaj jumps and passes up rufus quite quickly, but can't seem to reach the box. One might even say there was more space in between Kadaj and Rufus than Rufus and the box. Then he inexplicably takes 5 seconds to get closer to the box (And doesn't get it before Rufus shoots it), and takes a second and a half to pass up Rufus. (I'm very picky) "Cloud's death scene". I did not know using a gazillion materia at the same time created a giant flamethrower. Go figure. Things I despised: The "Everyone throw Cloud into the air" scene. Everyones chucking him straight up into the air, including Yuffie, who PASSES HIM UP running up a wall, then catches him in mid air, and throws him up. How did Tifa get that high? I figure Vincent got that high because he can "teleport". Aeris should NOT have been in that scene, that was absolutely retarded.
Campy ending. Cloud gets shot in the back, and then gets blasted by who knows how many materia. Then he suddenly wakes up around everyone and everything is all happy and YAY. I suppose they were going for that warm fuzzy feeling, but I didn't watch this movie for a warm fuzzy feeling. I wanted to see balls to the wall action and nitty gritty, not happy happy. If I wanted happy happy I'd watch a Disney movie. Cloud should have totally died. Anyway.
Yargh. Nuff ranting.
Basically...
Guy part of me screams YES!!!! Nit picky part of me screams just as loud, NO!!!!
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Things that were good: Graphics/Art were absolutely gorgeous. You won't find better animation anywhere else.
Reno and Rude were great characters, three stoogish like behavior and good comical relief.
Vincent was done quite interestingly.
Rufus was an interesting character and his short fight scene was intense, as short as it was.
Things that were sort of icky: The movie would have ended a LOT better if they let Cloud die. It would have been a nice, sad, melancholy ending.
I found it was interesting how quickly Cloud caught up in the final bike chase scene. It wouldn't seem like his bike was that fast since in the opening scene, his bike was the slowest of the three that were fighting.
Waaay too many Aeris scenes, and none of them were surprising. I called every single Aeris scene 10 seconds before it happened.
Barret sucked. He's like the tank for the video game, and he got his butt saved twice in the last scene.
Not enough Cid. He was a great looking character, he looked very interesting. They showed almost no shots of him.
The scene where Kadaj gives a speech to the kids, that looked really awkward. I don't know why.
Rufus vs Kadaj scene. The order of falling is box-rufus-Kadaj. Kadaj jumps and passes up rufus quite quickly, but can't seem to reach the box. One might even say there was more space in between Kadaj and Rufus than Rufus and the box. Then he inexplicably takes 5 seconds to get closer to the box (And doesn't get it before Rufus shoots it), and takes a second and a half to pass up Rufus. (I'm very picky) "Cloud's death scene". I did not know using a gazillion materia at the same time created a giant flamethrower. Go figure. Things I despised: The "Everyone throw Cloud into the air" scene. Everyones chucking him straight up into the air, including Yuffie, who PASSES HIM UP running up a wall, then catches him in mid air, and throws him up. How did Tifa get that high? I figure Vincent got that high because he can "teleport". Aeris should NOT have been in that scene, that was absolutely retarded.
Campy ending. Cloud gets shot in the back, and then gets blasted by who knows how many materia. Then he suddenly wakes up around everyone and everything is all happy and YAY. I suppose they were going for that warm fuzzy feeling, but I didn't watch this movie for a warm fuzzy feeling. I wanted to see balls to the wall action and nitty gritty, not happy happy. If I wanted happy happy I'd watch a Disney movie. Cloud should have totally died. Anyway.
Yargh. Nuff ranting.
Basically...
Guy part of me screams YES!!!! Nit picky part of me screams just as loud, NO!!!!