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[jshackles]

I recently re-watched all of these movies and was wondering which one GAF thought was the best.

The Spirits Within:

The Spirits Within was goofy as shit and didn't really have much to do with Final Fantasy outside of them just going for a bit of name recognition and some general overtones that were shared with a few of the games. It's basically the movie that famously made Square lose their shirts. Considered by some to be a cult classic, but personally I consider it garbage.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

AKA "the movie that makes absolutely no sense, even if you've played Final Fantasy VII". The real problem with this movie is that they decided to introduce so many new characters into the franchise and then have the movie focus almost exclusively on people nobody cared about. Reno and Rude stole the show, in my opinion.

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV

Hey guys - let's make a Final Fantasy XV prequel that has almost nothing to do with the characters you play in the game itself. Cool? Cool. The inclusion of the all-star cast in this film was an interesting choice, especially since Sean Bean and Lena Headey's characters are just about the only two characters in this movie that matter to the XV universe, and they do not play those same characters in the game. It's a 2 hour long movie whose plot is easily explained in about 4 minutes of cutscenes in the game. The animation is top notch though.

So GAF - what do you think? Objectively, which of these travesties is the best?

 

[Mista]

Advent Children and nothing comes close. And yes I watched them all

 

[Verdanth]

Advent Children but I voted Thor: The dark world

 

[jshackles]

Advent Children and nothing comes close. And yes I watched them all

Gotta say that I absolutely agree with you. The overarching message of "fighting for your family" and "don't be too proud to ask for help from the people close to you" resonated with me a lot more than the whole "save the planet from dying" that Spirits Within had or the "sacrifice yourself for the greater good" message that Kingsglaive was going for.

Also the Sephiroth and Bahamut fight sequences were really cool.

 

[stranno]

Spirits Within is my favourite, by far. It was absolutely groundbreaking back in the day. Of course it was much more expensive but just compare it with Resident Evil: Degeneration, published 7 years later.

Who needs drop pods when you have the slime pods?

Not a big fan of the Advent Fanservice movie but this moment was sooooo cool.

Spoiler: Spoilers Galore

Here in Spain, Thor 2 reads as tordos, which means poops, so ... yeah.

 

[Fbh]

I guess Kingsglaive? It was pretty bad but it looked nice and sort of got me interested in the world of FFXV and looking forward to what they were going to do with the game.
Sadly, as average as the movie was it still ended up having a better and more complete story, better writing and more character development than the game.


I don't remember much of Spirit Within other than not liking it. And Advent Children looked nice and had some cool fights but it had the abysmal storytelling and writing of everything Nomura is involved with.

 

[Rodolink]

For me was ffvii amazing at the time to see my fav characters in high detail.

 

[Carna]

I feel that, Spirits Within is a somewhat forgetible, but nice little sci-fi flick. With a cool setting that could be implemented into a mainline final fantasy game.

 

[Nymphae]

Spirits Within is my favourite, by far. It was absolutely groundbreaking back in the day.

Still looks incredible. My favourite as well, good voice cast and the plot was sufficiently FF.

 

[Pejo]

AC ruined Cloud for me, Spirits Within was just bad (sorry Gooch). I guess I didn't hate Kingsglaive, so that's my pick. Plus Nyx was pretty cool.

 

[base]

I like Kingsglaive. Nyx was way more interesting than Noctis.

 

[base]

 

[mcz117chief]

Spirit Within is pretty decent flick. I watched it numerous times. Kingsglaive is pretty good too. I did vote Spirit Within since I was major league impressed with it when it came out.

 

[Grand Theft Scratchy]

Kingsglaive is the best but that's not really saying much as they're all pretty forgettable storywise.

 

[kunonabi]

Spirits Within by a country mile. The other two were complete garbage.

 

[Thabass]

Anyone who says Spirits Within is not a Final Fantasy fan nor are they a movie fan. Spirits Within is STRAIGHT GARBAGE.

 

[RydonStarLives]

I don't think any of these are good movies. But I do feel that Spirits Within feels like an actual Movie - so that gets my vote. AC is just some fan service, and also for me signals a point where Square really stopped creating new and boundry pushing things, and started just looking into it's backlog for items to make money off of.
Kingsglaive I also found to not really be a movie, just a side story that tied into the game, and also made the overall story of the game make (a little) more sense, but really the whole thing is just blah.

 

[Myths]

They’re all terrible, but I’d rather rewatch AC than the others. Could be that AC was a movie I used to watch so many times and I was attached to when younger.

 

[StrafeJumper]

Spirits Within plot was a mess, but worked well for his time.

 

[Sub_Level]

Anyone who says Spirits Within is not a Final Fantasy fan nor are they a movie fan. Spirits Within is STRAIGHT GARBAGE.

It was directed and written by Sakaguchi who is the ultimate authority on Final Fantasy.

Furthermore it has motherfucking Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, James Woods, Donald Sutherland, Keith David, and Ving Rhames. It had incredible animation for its time.

Advent Children is anime bullshit that undermines the original FF7, much like Dirge, Genesis, Angeal, e.t.c.

 

[Thabass]

It was directed and written by Sakaguchi who is the ultimate authority on Final Fantasy.

Furthermore it has motherfucking Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, James Woods, Donald Sutherland, Keith David, and Ving Rhames. It had incredible animation for its time.

Advent Children is anime bullshit that undermines the original FF7, much like Dirge, Genesis, Angeal, e.t.c.

Don't care, it had none of the charm of the games nor was it written well. Get that trash out of here.

 

[Mista]

Gotta say that I absolutely agree with you. The overarching message of "fighting for your family" and "don't be too proud to ask for help from the people close to you" resonated with me a lot more than the whole "save the planet from dying" that Spirits Within had or the "sacrifice yourself for the greater good" message that Kingsglaive was going for.

Also the Sephiroth and Bahamut fight sequences were really cool.

Yeah I'm sick and tired of the same niche shit in all those movies. That's why Advent Children were special among them all

Sephiroth in general was wicked in the movie. And to see all that CG quality in a movie from 2005 was something mind-blowing!

 

[Vawn]

 

[Hinedorf]

Couldn't pick one, I don't like any of them.

 

[base]

Couldn't pick one, I don't like any of them.

Then why did you come here?

 

[Vawn]

Then why did you come here?

Don't be an ass. He's contributing by stating his opinion that they're all pretty bad movies.

 

[Carna]

Dragon Quest: your story, also had a bad critical reception. in Japan.

 

[xellos2099alpha]

Got to be advent children. I mean come on, all of us cheer when Cloud was doing his super omini slash

 

[base]

Don't be an ass. He's contributing by stating his opinion that they're all pretty bad movies.

But the topic name is "which one".

 

[Hinedorf]

Don't be an ass. He's contributing by stating his opinion that they're all pretty bad movies.

Then why did you come here?

Because I love Final Fantasy at least the early part of it's franchise and I've seen all of the movies. None of them are good which is quite unfortunate, I would consider Spirits Within the most complete product and also the worst.

 

[Fbh]

Kingsglaive I also found to not really be a movie, just a side story that tied into the game, and also made the overall story of the game make (a little) more sense, but really the whole thing is just blah.

To be honest the game felt more like a sidestory to what Kingsglaive was setting up. In Kingsglaive you get the whole thing with the two nations and the invasion and the crystal and Luna and the ring.

...... and then the game is the bros going camping, taking pictures and riding chocobos as the plot set up by the movie unfolds off screen.

 

[D.Final]

I recently re-watched all of these movies and was wondering which one GAF thought was the best.

The Spirits Within:

The Spirits Within was goofy as shit and didn't really have much to do with Final Fantasy outside of them just going for a bit of name recognition and some general overtones that were shared with a few of the games. It's basically the movie that famously made Square lose their shirts. Considered by some to be a cult classic, but personally I consider it garbage.

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

AKA "the movie that makes absolutely no sense, even if you've played Final Fantasy VII". The real problem with this movie is that they decided to introduce so many new characters into the franchise and then have the movie focus almost exclusively on people nobody cared about. Reno and Rude stole the show, in my opinion.

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV

Hey guys - let's make a Final Fantasy XV prequel that has almost nothing to do with the characters you play in the game itself. Cool? Cool. The inclusion of the all-star cast in this film was an interesting choice, especially since Sean Bean and Lena Headey's characters are just about the only two characters in this movie that matter to the XV universe, and they do not play those same characters in the game. It's a 2 hour long movie whose plot is easily explained in about 4 minutes of cutscenes in the game. The animation is top notch though.

So GAF - what do you think? Objectively, which of these travesties is the best?

My personal favorite is Kingsglaive.
Especially when Diamond Weapon enters the scene.
(and for the CG quality is objective the best of the three)
But Advent Children and The Spirit Within are also good, for one reason or another.

 

[ExpandKong]

Advent Children. They're all terrible so flashy fighty fanservice takes the vote. Though Spirits Within gets points for James Woods.

 

[sublimit]

There is only one final fantasy movie. Advent Children.

 

[base]

Nyx when the ring allows him to use its power.

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Advent Children all day

 

[JordanN]

Let's be real: all those movies where really just fancy tech demos.

 

[Celcius]

Advent Children was the only one that was actually good (and yes I've seen all four of these)

 

[TacosNSalsa]

Kingsglaive for me . Advent Children was fine but I'm not a big FFVII fan so these characters dont mean that much to me . Spirits Within was ...something . Other than having a character named Cid , I have no idea how it's even considered a FF property

 

[Rentahamster]

I hope Kojima doesn't pull a, Sakaguchi when he does his Hollywood turn.

 

[royox]

Kingslaive. I consider it the real FFXV. The "thing" we got as a game in pre.alpha state did no justice to the movie. Nyx forever.

 

[MAtgS]

-Story continuation of FFV, the best FF.

-Classic 90s anime OVA goodness,

-Shameless panty shots, including right on the Japanese cover.

 

[Sub_Level]

Kingslaive. I consider it the real FFXV. The "thing" we got as a game in pre.alpha state did no justice to the movie. Nyx forever.

In an alternate universe we got these folks as the protags instead of the backstreet boys.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

No such thing as a good FF movie.

 

[Quasicat]

Only The Spirits Within has this song, so it wins automatically.

 

[ALAXio]

FF7

 

[NahaNago]

They are all pretty terrible. Spirits within just felt like a sci fi movie with the Final Fantasy name attached to it. I like sci fi movies generally so I enjoyed it. Advent Children was just plain fan service so I liked it. I stopped watching halfway through that Kingsglaive movie. It was just soo boring. I'll probably go back and finish it this month.

 

[Lanrutcon]

Not even a question. Advent Children gave me everything I wanted.

Man, that Omni Slash.

 

[cireza]

FF XIII the only right answer.

Never watched a FF movie by the way

 

[PhilipDoesMatter]

FF XIII the only right answer.

Never watched a FF movie by the way

I'm up there with you.