Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Impressions

Tim Butler writes "1UP.com has posted impressions of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children from the premiere screening at the Venice Film Festival. The article also reveals that the film won't be ready until next spring -- but may clock in at more than an hour and a half in running time (is a big screen release a possibility now?)."

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Wow those renders of Venice are photorealistic!

[Anonymous Coward]

But they are right about synthetic humans looking creepier and creepier as they get more accurate. Look at the 4th picture down. Quite nightmarish. Even creepier than that last final fantasy movie.

Aeris!

[JohnPerkins]

If you buy 3 large popcorns, 1 small no-ice Dr Pepper, 1 box of Jr Mints, then enter the hidden theater 5 spaces down and 2 spaces to the left of the ticket booth, you can see the version with Aeris resurrected!

Oh no!

[red floyd]

Another FF movie? Won't somebody please think of the (advent) Children????

Re:Holding out hope.

[Speare]

Actually as sucky as the last FF movie was, it's plot had every element of a FF game story...

You forgot the glue that binds every Final Fantasy premise: an ally character named Cid.

Re:Holding out hope.

[Cid Highwind]

You forgot the glue that binds every Final Fantasy premise: an ally character named Cid.

I'm glad SOMEONE noticed...

WHAT!?!?

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean Aeris DIED!?

NOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo............

Good thing they changed the plot

[Glowing Fish]

It would have been awesome to just reshoot the orginal Final Fantasy VII, but along with the fact it would be hard cutting the 40 hr long story down to 2 hours, most movie goers wouldn't believe Final Fantasy VII's wild, science fiction plot. Final Fantasy VII would have us believe that:

• Someone can become president just because their father is. If someone becomes ruler because of their father, that makes them a king, not a president.
  
• That a government could be nothing more than a front for corrupt energy company executives, and for a clique of people whose fanatical devotion to a "promised land" blinds them to all reason.
  
• That a country with a large space program would suddenly abandon it, simply to produce more and more deadly weapons.
  
• That a government, when confronted with terrorist attacks, would use it as a way to further clamp down on anyone who was trying to challenge their politcal and economic power.
  
• That a nation's economy could be totally wiped out, leaving industrial areas blighted, while close by, people spent all their money playing in high tech floating gambling palaces.
  
• That energy executives, when their productive capacity is destroyed, would merrily celebrate having to raise rates.
  
  • 
    These are just some of the points that make the plot of Final Fantasy VII, no matter how intriguing, too unrealistic for people to take seriously.