final fantasy movies

yes i totally agree with you. i'm actually a final fantasy addict. but my addiction started because of my appreciation for their fmvs. their movies were so fine and intricate it's as if my time is stopping all of a sudden.

yeah, japanese are so creative. they always exert effort on their works...

spirits within really sucked for me. but! IMO, it doesn't mean it's not a final fantasy anymore if it didn't show bahamut, moogle, etc.
as far as i understand, a final fantasy always has a plot of something like: the world is in danger of destruction and the main character has to prevent it. that's why it's called "final" fantasy.

Final Fantasy: The Spirit Within was made mostly by the Japanese part of Square. This is the first try by Square to try making a movie out of Final Fantasy series, and it didn't do well. I myself didn't find the movie very good enough, especially from what we should have expected from the term "Final Fantasy". There is no direct connection with whatsoever things in Final Fantasy series, and this disappoints me. The storyline itself doesn't reflect much on Final Fantasy. They shouldn't have use the term "Final Fantasy" at the first place.

However, Hironobu Sakaguchi and his collegues have learned their lesson. And the result is the awesome, exciting, top-notch CG animated movie, the Final Fantasy: Advent Children.

Final Fantasy games are great games. Nice graphical presentation, great storyline and innovative battle systems. FMVs are wonderful. I've been playing Final Fantasy since FF2!=) And do you know why this series is called Final Fantasy?=)

FF:TSW was absolute garbage, I really do not like it at all. However, Advent Children was brilliant! I also like the FF animated series that was made too.

i think you've missing something important... final fantasy advent children is a direct sequel to the game "final fantasy VII" so it has to follow the same storyline with all same characters. On the other hand, "spirits within" is a completely independent movie whose characters or story line is not related to any of the games whatsoever. And the country of its make has nothing whatsoever to do with it. The summons or GFs are game-specific and needn't possibly appear in anything and everything related to final fantasy. What matters is ultimately whether the movie is good or not, and i personally feel that spirits within is really an awesome one. I only hope there's a movie on FF-X-2 featuring the three cool babes who are my favorite characters in the entire final fantasy series.

I agree with you there but of course not all games made into movies ended the same way. FF7 AC really was a good movie but at the same time kept me asking myself that what move was that used there? was that a weapon flying or a GF? well some moves were familiar like Tifa's Limit Break. My friends and I kept on arguing the move Cloud made towards Sephiroth in the end.:)

Final Fantasy Advent children were ownage:P
i wish that they would make sameking movie from Final fantsy VIII and IX:P

i liked both final fantasy movies. i will agree with the fact that the spirit within wasn't quite that good. but advent children..wwoooo. that movie was fantastic. i think the graphics they used for both movies were beeeaautifuul. i dunno. i think both were pretty good.

I cannot even start. I love final fantasy VII ( Advent Children ) movie. There were times when I watched it three times a day. It is soo cooool!!
And yes, Final Fantasy VII ( Advent Children ) is much much more better than Spirit withing. Spirit within sucks because it is too unrealistic to be unrealistic but not realistic at the same time. So it does not go anywhere.

I think the only reasons people love or hate the Final Fantasy movies are because of those two words: Final and Fantasy. I watched Advent Children with my wife. She hated it. As far as playing the games, she's only played part of FF1. And the plot, to her, was completely assinine.

However, for gamers, there hasnt' been a single person who's disliked FF:AC. As for The Spirits Within, I haven't watched that with my wife, so I don't know her opinion. But the main argument I hear against it is that it's too different from the games. It has no summons, no moogles, no chocobos, etc. But it's not a bad movie.

People only dislike it because of the Final Fantasy moniker, which they feel is undeserved. I think the character development in TSW is more on par with major Hollywood productions, and the story, while cheeseball, isn't so different from Armageddon or any other disaster flick.

AC, on the other hand, has lame-o whiny mama's boys as villians. The character development is non-existent. It's cheesier than TSW, as far as having random characters save the day at the right time. To me, TSW is a better written film. AC, is much more interesting, but has no value to people who haven't played FF7. TSW is for everyone.

Advent Children is not the best movie of all time. It's not even the best movie of the week it came out. Neither is The Spirits Within the worst movie ever. They're mediocre, niche films, that have too much hype for the wrong reasons. Take them for what they are and don't praise (or malign) them for what they aren't.