So . . . I finally saw this movie last night.


I completely agree. CG or non-CG, the action scenes are probably among the best I'll ever see in any movie.

The graphics are quite good, but sometimes, the characters do not move quite as naturally as they should. Mediocre work on the part where Tifa picks up the phone at the beginning, I thought. Perhaps it is just the way the receiver seems to jump into her hand, or maybe I was seeing things. And everyone has beautiful hair. What kind of shampoo do they use? Vincent's footwear looks odd to me.

The plot is all right, but I thought most of it is rather clichéd. Not going to go into detail though. The teamwork bit, nice and cool as it may be, is too mushy. Other than that, much of the plot was rather predictable, which does not make me like it any more. Not saying that I do not like the movie though, because I did.

Musically speaking, Nobuo Uematsu did a great job. In context of the movie, the background music may lose a bit of their effect, but once you listen to the soundtrack on its own, the music is quite well done. One thing I do not like about the soundtrack is that they took "Those Who Fight Further", "Tifa's Theme", and "Aeris' Theme" from the FFVII Piano Collections album instead of making new arrangements. I guess the piano arrangements on that album was good enough for them. Too obvious though, since I recognized those specific arrangements right away as I was watching, and that made me frown.

I am glad, however, that they did not use the Black Mages arrangements of "Those Who Fight Further" (the second time the song appears other than the piano version) and "J-E-N-O-V-A" for the battle themes, and that they chose to make completely new arrangements, which is hard, and for that, I commend Nobuo Uematsu and the sound team.

Also noticed that they wrote a new set of Latin lyrics for "One-Winged Angel", which is neat. The orchestration on this arrangement doesn't sound as full as the one on the FFVII: Reunion album, but the guitar more than makes up for that. There is also an extra/new bridge that they added in, and makes that part sound like a different song altogether.

A lot of old melodies are recycled, but that adds to the nostalgia factor, which I do not mind. Then again, they probably have less impact on me since I have not played the game all the way through, but at least I can say I have heard all of the game soundtrack.

Overall, an excellent movie, but there are some things that could have been better, it feels. Not as good as all the hype made it out to be though.

I just saw the movie and now I'm going all FFVII obsessed. I started a new file and played it for an hour straight after I finished watching. >.<;; That just makes me hope that SquareEnix will make a remake for PS3 or something...

Edit: Did anyone else have problems with the subs? When I was watching it, there were double subs. Or if this has already been asked, just let me know the page number. Thanks. Also, did anyone have problems with displaying the subs on certain players? On my main media player, it wouldn't play the subs at all. So I used Media Player Classic. (this was the one with double subs)

ME WANT TO WATCH FFVII:ADVENT CHLIDREN!!!!!!!!!!! >.<
Anyone!! Please tell me where to download!!!!!!!! I beg you~!!

It is against the rules to beg for download links and to post download links.

Sorry!!
I forgot...

Sephiroth, Kadaj, Vincent, Reno= teh <3




They're supposed to be pointy D:

i know i have my copy reserved for te release in america

I loved the part when Reno fought Yazoo. The music was hype!

i liked that ringtone that was the victory music from the game. awesome.

Ha, the ringtone was great. It totally ruined the moment. LOL I wonder if you can find an actual ringtone that's the "you-win" music.

^lol
AC was teh coolest! lol. I loved the fight scenes (especially at the end)
reno's voice/accent is so cool! and cloud's new sword(s) rock!-

you can find the victory ringtone. i found it but i didn't want to buy it. i'll get it somehow....for freeee!

AC was really a spectacular peice of eye candy. I had it on a few weeks ago and my grandma was over and she looked over and was like "what movie is that you're watching?" I told her Final Fantasy Advent Children, "like the games I play grandma." "Oh really," she replies. "Who are the actors?" I was confused and then I realized she thought that what she was seeing on screen was actually real people so I had to explain to her that it was animated on a computer and was pretty much just a very high tech cartoon with voice actors (it actually took me quite some time to persuade her of this). To say the least she was stunned by the animation and so was I in fact when i first saw it.

The story was a bit slow in my opinion but I think that might have been a good thing in the long run. Not having to focus on the story left you free to watch the beautiful senery and intense battle scenes or just the wonderfully real looking characters.

The music was really nice and I was happy to hear some old favorites from the game. I especially liked the ending credits song "Calling" sung by Kyosuke Himuro, and would actually like to find it. So if anyone knows where I might be able to find the song file to download it'd be greatly appreciated.

Everything about the movie in general though was so acurate from the shadows to the movement of clothes and hair or debris even the details put into the fabrics of the character's clothes or the realness of the hair was so beatiful and acuarte to reality. Its true proof that technology has advanced again by quite a leap (now if the PS3 can deliver graphics of this magnitude during real time gameplay like Sony's been promising fans then we're in for an even bigger treat).

Basically what I'm trying to get at is this was a real treat for me to see all in all and much better than Spirits Within any day of the year.

I downloaded the movie, but it doesn't produce any sounds... I clicked on for more info, then it said I needed another player to do it. I tried DivXPlayer, Realplayer, Windows Media player, and Quicktime. But it still doesn't work for me... can someone help me??

i dont know about you but i had sound i just didnt have subtitles

I LOVE Advent Children (at least, it was 100000 times better than Spirits Within) and I can watch action scenes ANIMATED without having to worry about tiring out my fingers or getting my limit breaks XD

The stuff was HIGHLY detailed!
@Harmony: not only your grandma misunderstood, a person passing by (my parent's guests that were 15 years older than them) when I was watching was "Ooh, what movie is this? THe blond guy looks nice, who's the actor?" So, I had to clarify "mm.... Its CG, and the blond guy is Cloud"



Cloud's sword(s) were FREAKIN coool!!! lol, my brother was asking me "why are Cloud's swords so cool?"

@Master Kris: I got mine from Boxtorrents. IT works with Media Player Classic (with VobSub 2.23 installed too) and there are subtitles too.


THere should've been more Cloud x Tifa scenes TT.TT

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT WORKS NOW!!
I WUV U SO MUCH!!

My friend lent me AC a couple of days ago and it is awsome! Especially the fight with Tifa in it.
The only thing I didn't like about was that there were too many mid-air battles.

I found a dubbed copy on ebay. It was awesome. Can't wait for the dubbed version!

I've watch the first part of it.
Just a question
- Do we need to play the game to enjoy the movie?
And what model is cloud's handphone coz my family and I were discussing about that for a while...

Lol, Cloud has a better phone than me

Well heres alittle animated gif I made.

I had the same problem but I used Core Media player and/or VLC, then the subs came on.

harmony_kh_kairi: LOL Your grandma thought it was real actors! When I was watching bits of AC behind my bro, I thought that the animation looked UBER lifelike. If you get closer, you can tell it's animated but from far away, I thought it was real people, too.

RizaBabe: Oooh, pretty gif. Can I take?

Lol, yeah sure.^^

Thanks. ^^

Advent Children finally comes to North American audiences who haven't downloaded it off the internet yet.


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I for one, was very pleased by it. Squeenix worked that CG with the shamelessly over the top action. They even worked some limit breaks into the fight choreography. But I think they could have used some more magic, just to spice the battles up so they aren't just Cloud flighin' in the air and Cloud fightin' on a bike.

My only two real problems (anything else is just nitpickery) is how little the rest of the allies were shown and the reappearances of Sephy and Aeris. I knew that as a movie they don't have the time to give equal screentime to all party members, but I was expecting a bit more than this. Most just threw a few punches at Bahamut and then just chilled on the airship. I like seeing Cloud fight and all, but I would have liked to see some teammates get in on the action a bit more. Seeing Tifa and Vincent throw down were some of the best spots of the movie because the fights worked much differently from Cloud's sword swinging. It's kind of strange that one of the major themes of the movie was Cloud isolating himself from his friends when he shouldn't have, but as soon as he gets back with the team, they sit it out on the airship and say "This is Cloud's fight".

Bringing back the Sephy for more action as the final villian is a bit of a rehash, but this movie is such an unapolagetic fangasium and the scene was so cool, it's hard to hold it against them. I guess bad fanfiction just makes me cynical of bringing back dead villians for round two, but AC makes it work well enough for me to let it pass. Just as I knew Sephy was going to raise his head in this, I knew appearances by Aeris was a sure thing. However, I think they went a little overboard. Not counting flashbacks, the ghost of Aeris is seen and heard from no less than five times in the movie! Overkill! If she only appeared only once, or maybe twice, her presence would have been many times more poignant. In this aspect, I think Squeenix kind of stumbled over themselves trying to please the fans.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the movie immensely. It's all the little things that are great. I am endlessly amused by the fact that all the party members are "equiped" with ribbons. They worked in a great deal of new and awesome arrangements of music from the game. And Cloud's swiss-army sword is awesome.[/spoiler]

i have the movie in my comp... i keep watching the part where tifa fight, she;s damn cool... i like her fighting style... i made several screen shots of her and posted on my friendster account...

Ok.. I've seen the movie and there's still one thing that seriously bothers me about it. For anyone who has played Final Fantasy VII you should know what I'm talking about, for those who havent i wont spoil it for you

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If you remember correctly, at the end of FFVII all of the Sephiroth clones are DEAD. This makes AC highly impossible. Honestly, if they were all destroyed, where is the basis for this movie? I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought about this.
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I love this movie! I just bought the DVD the day it came out (I have seen a subbed version previously) It was awesome on my huge projection screen tv. Though I prefer the japanese version to the english one. It is still an awesome movie, one of my favorites I think.

How's the dubbing? Is it decent?

The dubbing alright^^ The only thing that I hated is that they cooled down Cid's cursing! That's what made Cid what he was! And Cait Sith's voice...Forget it. I couldn't understand him one bit! But the rest was good.

The dubbing was ok, though I hates Cid's (western?) accent. They really messed him in my opinion he was just odd in what he said and how he said it. And why did they make Cait Sith Irish?? Everyone else was ok, though Kadaj sounded way different and the one guy (that fought Tifa in the church) didn't have a deep enough voice.

I love this movie! I like Yazoo the best out of the sliver haired trio! (He's played by Kakashi from Naruto!)
And of course! Can't forget about Vincent (Steven Blum!!!! )

I have both the japanese version only thats on DVD and the english verson I have for my PSP... Unfortunatly, the disc for the english version got broken somehow so i'm stuck with the japanese version for awhile, but I like it better then the english... I just wish I could've found the download for the ringtone on Loz's phone!

Ah i loved Advent Childern i watched it over and over again it never gets old but i still don't understand how Kadaj and company came to be...I thought they were part of the 'black cape' guys but then someone told me they were 'remnants' of Sephiroth but that does'nt make any sence ^^; explainations would be appriciated. ;; eh heh

Anyway i was still very happy with the action and story i like how they showed Aeris alot, it shows how much cloud really cared for her. and plus i'm a fan of that pairing But i do wish they're were some more battle scenes with Yuffie and the others, you don't see much of their action just Cloud swinging his uber cool sword around.


Advent Childern was a great movie with beautiful graphics i was so happy when it finally came out by the way did anyone notice Toru Ookawa as Rufus Shinra and it was a nice end to the world of Final Fantasy...now they need a REAL sequl of Final Fantasy 10 it'd be nice if they made movie sequles to 8,9 i'm sure they would be great!...or not so =_=

i love anything that is related to FFVII the film was was good though the story line coulda been better ¬_¬ i really liked the graphics... and personally, i prefer the japanese version rather than the english dub.

I dont really know the whole story, but in my opinion on the whole Silver-haired trio, I have 2 possibilities; I think that they could either be his actual brothers, only from a diffrent mother boy do I feel sorry for the women if they are... I mean, HOJO...god.... OR that Sephiroth could actually be their father somehow, only they were manipulated by Hojo and Jenova kinda like how Sephiroth was.

Dude that makes no sence

Um, I'm pretty sure Kadaj, Yazoo, and Loz were just Sephiroth clones *nods* I just call them the three emo brothers, and I didn't really like any of them that much other than Kadaj who was awesome with his double katana ^^

*shrug* Its just my lil theory... Meh. Usually my ramblings dont really make sense anyways

Well, i already watched the movie, i think that is excellent, the battle with Bahamut Sin is quite good but my favorite is the battle against Sephiroth

I agree with alchemist of time thats the one of my favorite movie! Cloud and Sephiroth head on sweeto!

When it comes to Kadaj, Yazoo and Loz, they're really just extensions of Sephiroth himself. They're only parts of him, who cannot become him fully until they merge with Jenova. So, they're just attempts for Sephiroth to recreate himself. Or something like that. I can't remember the whole theory. (read it on a site, found it completely plausible)

I can only assume that the parts of Sephy they represent are the psycho part (Kadaj), the long hairred fag part (Yazoo) and the whiney 'I want my mommy' part (Loz).

Anyways, I liked AC. It was pretty downright awesome. As a FFVII sequel that is. As a stand alone movie, it would have sucked ass. XP It's like the opposite of the Spirits Within, which as a stand alone movie would've been okay but because it had Final Fantasy attached to it, it was god awful. XD