Neodevilbane
Master of the Martini
I'll just go ahead and say it.
Disappointed.
Everybody in the whole movie is some kind of pseudo Jedi/Neo Matrixian, 90% of the action shots are either robbed from one of the Matrix movies or are trying to one-up them.
And there's another problem. It's all action. Where's the character pieces, the heart of the story? It's just not there.
Here was the grandest opportunity for them to really give FF VII the wrap-up it deserved that even the developers of the original game admitted--due to time constraints & firm deadlines--they were unable to provide in the game itself.
Squeezing in Barret, Yuffie, Vincent, Cid, and Cait Sith (and why would the Shinra controller of Cait Sith still be bothering to remote control the Cait Sith robot 2 years after FFVII anyway? no explanation offered) is great to make fans go "ooooh! That's so-and-so from the game, that's tight!" but just throwing them into the movie with nothing to do is criminal.
They should have tightened the movie, take out half of the action scenes (which admittedly are remarkable) and focus more on Cloud's guilt towards Aeris (they were really on to something with this at the first flashback to Aeris in the movie, but then kind of just orphaned that subplot) and finally resolving the relationship between Cloud and Tifa, something they've left dangling since the middle of FF VII and isn't so much as even acknowledged in this movie.
It's almost like a 90-something minute preview for a movie we didn't get, I dunno.
And one last thing... I know Square-Enix is more or less a family-oriented company... but where's the blood? Everyone in the movie is a superman/superwoman that never so much as receives a scratch! Sephiroth's Great Katana is plunged into Cloud's shoulder and not even a drop of blood, people are pummeled left and right, slashed and cut... no scratches, no blood, NO POINT. Even the actual game of FF VII had a fair share of blood... look at Sephiroth after you beat him one on one in the last scene in the game. In this movie, Cloud basically does an Omnislash on him in their rematch and defeats him and he's still floating there... not a single blemish or scratch. C'mon... I would expect more even of a PG movie.
Curious as to other people's actual thoughts to the movie are after the initial glow of "oooo, look at the pretty fight scenes" wears off.
Disappointed.
Everybody in the whole movie is some kind of pseudo Jedi/Neo Matrixian, 90% of the action shots are either robbed from one of the Matrix movies or are trying to one-up them.
And there's another problem. It's all action. Where's the character pieces, the heart of the story? It's just not there.
Here was the grandest opportunity for them to really give FF VII the wrap-up it deserved that even the developers of the original game admitted--due to time constraints & firm deadlines--they were unable to provide in the game itself.
Squeezing in Barret, Yuffie, Vincent, Cid, and Cait Sith (and why would the Shinra controller of Cait Sith still be bothering to remote control the Cait Sith robot 2 years after FFVII anyway? no explanation offered) is great to make fans go "ooooh! That's so-and-so from the game, that's tight!" but just throwing them into the movie with nothing to do is criminal.
They should have tightened the movie, take out half of the action scenes (which admittedly are remarkable) and focus more on Cloud's guilt towards Aeris (they were really on to something with this at the first flashback to Aeris in the movie, but then kind of just orphaned that subplot) and finally resolving the relationship between Cloud and Tifa, something they've left dangling since the middle of FF VII and isn't so much as even acknowledged in this movie.
It's almost like a 90-something minute preview for a movie we didn't get, I dunno.
And one last thing... I know Square-Enix is more or less a family-oriented company... but where's the blood? Everyone in the movie is a superman/superwoman that never so much as receives a scratch! Sephiroth's Great Katana is plunged into Cloud's shoulder and not even a drop of blood, people are pummeled left and right, slashed and cut... no scratches, no blood, NO POINT. Even the actual game of FF VII had a fair share of blood... look at Sephiroth after you beat him one on one in the last scene in the game. In this movie, Cloud basically does an Omnislash on him in their rematch and defeats him and he's still floating there... not a single blemish or scratch. C'mon... I would expect more even of a PG movie.
Curious as to other people's actual thoughts to the movie are after the initial glow of "oooo, look at the pretty fight scenes" wears off.
