Final Fantasy

it was the single most mind blowing visual experience fo my life. i cannot begin to comprehend the complesity involved with the making of the film.

just watching the heroines hair move made my brain itch . seriously.

awesoem film.

No need to marvel the skills of the CGI gods of Square, I'd worry about the story.

From what I've heard about it, the story is not even close to the complex storylines of the games. I sure hope it's not one of those soggy love stories again, like 90% of all movies.

Finally, I managed to get logged in again under my original accoiunt.

No, THe movie had absolutly nothing to do with any of the games. All the games except VIII were all set in mideval times. VIII was a hybrid of Past and Future times.

And Kenray, I read an interview of one of the graphics workers on the film, and he clained that her hair was the hardest most time consuming part of the process.

oops, I guess it wasn't my original account afterall. Maybe in a few more months

Actually, all FF games were a mix between Science Fiction and Fantasy. I to VI had a medieval setting, but did have technology (for instance, the Airship that pops up in every game and all the robot enemies), VII was more futuristic (take Midgar for instance), and FFVIII was very realistic (still that mix between Fantasy and SciFi, but in quite a modern world). FFIX heralded the return to more of the usual stuff (medieval setting) and coupled that with cartoonesque characters.

I expect the movie to be following the line of FFVIII, with very realistic characters in a rather modern world (or not too far in the future).

/me has played almost all of 'em, except II and III

And good to see you're still around, D'mer.

I took my youngest (7) son to go see it last weekend, we both enjoied it, me for the Jaw Dropping Graphics and him for the action. The story is a bit weak, but it didn't realy matter. I will be buying the DVD when it comes out, no questions asked. But go see it on the big screen. WOW, if Toy Story blew your mind when it came out, this will do the same.

I saw the movie, wonderfull experience. You have to see it too!

I'll be going next week...

you will not regret

I saw it last friday, you'll lose track that it is animation, visualy an absolute wonder. don't miss it on a big screen.

Yup, my boyfriend fell in love with it before he saw it....

and the night I called him..he was at the movies watching it...haha.

He fell in love with it...the second time..and he'll be sure to drag me to watch it when I return to Houston

I saw one of the posters when I was at the movies with my boyfriend one day. Then all of a sudden, Rob was like "That poster doesn't even look animated, look how real it seems"

He's right, that poster looks like a photograph, not a computer drawn animated poster.

Looks like a nicely done movie, according to the previews I saw. Never played the games though.
On a side note, I'm a Tomb Raider fan, and I kinda want to see the movie, but I don't dare. Any TR fan saw it?

Ohhh..

Right here. Tomb Raider Fan all the way.


Haha..my boyfriend told me this after the movie "That's why you don't get to have a gun. You're too much like Lara Croft."

My favorite quote out of that movie is...

"A lady should be modest"

I told Rob I need a "I never claimed to be a lady" keychain

kenray - I talked to some friend today and what they said was that her hair alone already cost about 65 millions. Now they couldn't agree ´wether that figure was correct and wether it was dollar or DEM (that would be about 30 million $ then) but it sure cost them a bit to make your brain itch
I'm gonna go see it right when it starts over here. I still have to watch "Shrek" though. One of the things I'm looking forward to, too. Not sure about Tomb Raider. Elf: so is it really worth seeing, or what?

OK, I guess I have to be the desenting voice here.
While I admit that the graphics in FF were some of the finest eye candy I've seen on the big screen, the plot was the most worn out, simplistic scenario I can imagine. I've seen Saturday morning cartoons with more imagination. I won't throw any spoilers out for those of you who haven't seen it yet, but I challenge you to grab the video (after it comes out), watch the thing with the sound muted and tell me that the dialog and plot added even 2 cents worth of value to the film. Sorry, but I find that even the most simplistic Anime films to be vastly more plot worthy...

Elwin, for me the story is less important. A TV screen will not do, because its quality is too low.

Come to think of it. I couldn't follow the story anyway, because I was too stunned by the graphics

plot...
nope, unneccesary for me.
just looking at the expolsions was worth my 5.25.
much less the hair.

Tomb Raider...hmmm...I enjoyed it, but i think i am a big fan of strong female characters in film.

any movie where a woman kicks a guy in the teeth is most liekly to make me happy!

perhaps TR is the rental of the bunch.

Shrek was great, but cartoony in every way.

A.I. is perhaps, the darkest film made since a clockwork orange-DO NOT TAKE YOUR KIDS TO SEE A.I.

...how many days till Planet of the Apes?