Discussion » Final Fantasy VII: The Advent Children

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Posted by SuperFunGordon_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
My geekiness hits new hights with the excitment I'm feeling about this movie...

www.square-enix.co.jp/dvd/f...
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
i always like the irony of FINAL fantasy with any version number greater than 1.

kinda like those "Very Best Hits of 2005 Volume 2!!!!" CDs they advertise on late night MTV. so, what, these are the very second-best hits?
Posted by SuperFunGordon_DUPE1, around August 2005:
 
From here...

Final Fantasy

Such a beautiful title. Everyone wonders, how can there be more than one Final Fantasy, wouldn’t the name, “by definition”, be the last work of its kind? No. The beauty of Final Fantasy is its abstraction – there may be many final fantasies – they are the fantasies that lead us to our dreams, to our desires, for some, to understand, for others, utopia.

Japan has one such fantasy, and she is expressed over and over, for the world to see, but the World does not hear. All I read are people discussing the technology, the threat to actors, the “beauty” they see, but oh, how the mouths sometimes don’t move quite perfectly every time – because that is what we want, concrete mouth movement, every time. The World is uneducated, because the World does not see abstraction. And in this context, when I say “the World”, I mean the lazy Americans, because these people really believe they are the World. That which was once a joke about how the Japanese thought of us is now true, for all to see – by and large, we are uneducated, we are apathetic, and we are lazy. A dangerous combination, especially for the arts.

Final Fantasy: the spirits within, is, to put it simply, a beautiful film. It is one of Japan’s recurrent dreams, because it stems from its largest recurrent nightmare, the atomic bomb. I can immediately place this film among such company as Mononoke Hime and Pon Poko. Why? Because they too are films that tell us that nature is a living thing, that it is part of us, that it is suffering, that it is suffering because of us, and that as it suffers, we suffer. It touches on hate, and how it consumes itself, it touches love, directly, and faith, as best as we can, and it is free, in all the ways that American animation is not, because it has known loss. And it is for these reasons that the World wishes to kill it with stupid, meaningless words. But you cannot kill a dream.

You can only eagerly await the sequel.
Posted by Grim..., around 4th April 2006:
 
This is out on DVD on the 24th April.
Did it not go to the cinemas? Or did I just miss it?
Posted by zxenor_DUPE1, around 4th April 2006:
 
Sakaguchi had plans to retire after the completion of the project so he named it Final Fantasy because it was his final game, although it was also going to be Square's final game. In fact, it's commonly believed that the game was named Final Fantasy because of Square and not Sakaguchi, although Sakaguchi himself has confirmed it was named because of his plans for retirement.