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Date: 2001-07-21 23:03:08

Comment:

Well, I don't exactly agree with it relating to the other final fantasies.  I have played every final fantasy, 1-9 so far, and even the oddball final fantasies that had nothing to do with the other games, and there are a lot of elements that make the final fantasies.  This movie, however, lacked many of those elements.  The only things that it really had that related to the other final fantasies were: unbelievable graphics, a focus on specific themes (love, hardship...), and a character named Cid.  I'm sure there are some other elements I missed, but these alone don't make a final fantasy.  What about the summoned monsters???  How can you leave characters like Bahamut, Leviathan, Ifrit, Ramuh, and Shiva out when they have been around for the longest time, and seem to have been effectively worked into every other FF story.  What about Wedge and Biggs???  How 'bout swords and other classic FF weapons.  Sure the plot was futuristic, but look at FF8.  That had a futuristic plot, yet they still seemed to work in a character with a sword-type weapon, and other medieval devices.  I could go on and on about other such elements that were missing from this movie.  I think it was great that they proved that a realistic computer generated movie could be done as visually well as it was, but they needed to focus on the more classic FF themes to have it go down as a true FF classic.  Oh...not to mention the music.  What the heck happened to some of the songs that have been in every FF to date:  The prelude, the FF theme...that was one of the things I was looking for the most and was very disappointed in.