Would it have helped the FF movie to add more background to Aki and Grey's past?

[I.R Joey]

Sorry for being a couple months late but you know with it coming home recently on VHS and DVD I thought it would be a good idea to post this.


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I thought the descent into the phantom crater was to long and drawn out personally. I think it would have served the screenwriter better to use this time to explain how the two charecters got hooked up, how their relationship went, and why they where driven appart. Maybe a flashback seeing Grey with an engadgement ring standing in the rain as Aki has abandoned him, or better yet having them already engadged and having her run off anyway (thus explaning his bitternes towards her.) I mean seriously, one make out scene in Zero G can not... I repeat repaet can not hold up all the romantic subtext and tension in a movie? Seriously I was diggin the angst and tension between the two of them (how they where snapping back and forth at each other) but they killed it so much, because half way through the movie they where working together easily no prob, like nothing ever happened between the 2 of them. Anyone agree?

[Nightflower]

I just saw it again on DVD last weekend. Even with romantic subplots, it would have not saved the plot.

It should not have had the words "Final Fantasy" in the title >:(

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

A romantic subplot would have bogged down the film further. Origin stories and stuff are better suited for TV shows.

[The Mad Hatter]

I'd rather they fixed the vapid mysticism of the flick and the clunking dialogue first. That would be... erm... a start...

[Singin' Stray Cat]

I don't know whether explaining their past would have helped or not...it might have for me, since I have never played any of the Final Fantasy games. But, as Hatter said, there were more serious problems with the movie than exposition. Technically, it looked great, but almost everything else was a letdown.

And who the heck wrote that ending?!? I was totally confused by the time it was over. I would have been mad too, if that old scientist guy (forgot his name) hadn't said his last line. At that point my friends and I looked at each other and did our best to stifle our laughter until we got out of the theater.

That reminds me, I never did get around to writing "Final Parody: The Plotholes Within" ...

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

The Final Fantasy movie has no connection to the games. Each Final Fantasy game stands on its own as a complete story, with only a similar atmosphere to connect them. The movie is no different. Though it didn't FEEL very Final Fantasy to me.

Personally, I think a TV series would do better to illustrate the scope of the franchise. And please, no more CG humans. Quite frankly, I hate CGI humans.

[James]

I was beyond disappointed. The characters weren't nurtured, the romance felt forced (especially the lovers scene in the space craft). The concept was okay, although I always found FF was about exploring a fantasy world - there was little outside the dome and perhaps there should have been a few more characters introduced along the way.

The biggest mistake was setting it in a rather miserable future. There was no twist of magic or spellbounding enviroments. Each game actually makes you want to visit that games world. I have no intention going near the world represented in the movie.

[Jowy Blight]

I think a TV series would do better to illustrate the scope of the franchise.

Which is why one is currently being made in Japan.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

Originally posted by Jowy Blight


Which is why one is currently being made in Japan.

No, it's already airing. And it's too kiddified, from all reports I've heard.

[The Mad Hatter]

The movie tried to go for the "feel" of the FF series with a deep romantic subplot and a focus on spiritual matters. However, they didn't include the two real hallmarks of the series... great characterization and dialogue. Most of the characters were vastly underdeveloped , aside from perhaps Aki. And that ending... yech. Japanese ambiguity at its worst. Square made a similarly confusing ending for FF7, and the fan backlash was so harsh they never did it again. Er, till the movie.

With the depth of the plot and characters, a mini/maxi series would fit FF better.

[Jowy Blight]

And it's too kiddified, from all reports I've heard.

Really? That's too bad, they could of started a great new story or continued and old one (like FF7 after that ending).


With the depth of the plot and characters, a mini/maxi series would fit FF better.

Agreed, I don't think you could fit that into a 2 hour movie very well.