What would you have added or changed?

My main complaints were the 'jumping' and the lack of the other characters. I don't care if it's fantasy and that they just wanted it to look cool, just cause it's fantasy doesn't mean characters can jump 50 ft in the air, and it didn't look cool, it looked stupid. Most of the time the characters looked like they had depth and stuff, even during some of the more 'minimal' parts of a fight scene. But the second they start flying around like that, the more fake and rubbery they become.

And I know AC was supposed to focus mainly on Cloud and whatnot, but come on. Cloud didn't defeat Sephiroth by himself, and from what I can remember, Cloud had to be checked or saved by several characters from VII
due to his own stupidity (insanity maybe? delusions? doesn't matter).
 
I disliked that it was not very long, didn't have an engaging plot, and the battle with Sepheroth was too short. If you are going to make a movie of FF7, do it right.
 
Okay, I officially feel old but alot of people here have asked for more fights. WTF??

The one thing I got from AV Children was too much action and not enough of the character resolution.

So just one thing is difficult to pick. My biggest things I would change are:

1.) No Tseng (he died and they dont even acknowledge it! Rufus is bad enough and Sephiroth makes no sense either)

2.) Sephiroth - AV lets the 'best villain' moniker go to sephiroths head. He looks so serpent-like! As if just looking at him makes him evil!

He was just a dude who went crazy after he found out who he was. He wasnt always bad... but they give him a cartoony crooked nose and just general eeeeeevil look which just didnt do it for me.

Actually, AC has very few redeeming factors for me when it comes to story... the biggest being why Cloud is still the broody brood? His problems in that sense get sorted out when he gets rid of his 'zack' memories and gets back his own. Broody cloud was Zack cloud. Real cloud was kinda goofy in the game. They were quite different. Why is he Zackish at the start of AV?

I get that he missed Aeris... but he would never be such an ass about it to Tifa and just up and leave.
 
As Lady Aerith would no doubt repost for what seems like the millionth time she's had to explain this, he felt guilty. He knew he had an incurable disease and felt guilty over the people he failed to save. Who died for him. And yea, he felt depressed and mopey because he didn't know what to do or how to fix it... not to mention he thought he was destined to die a slow painful death.

Sephiroth looked fine to me in the movie. A little asian maybe but nothing too bad. And yes, he was evil. He started out as a hero in the game, which is what makes him such an incredible character, but by the end he is bitter, broken, and evil. They portrayed him correctly.

Rufus I can understand coming back. You never saw him die. The buidling exploded and it was implied but I can remember making a topic a long long time ago questioning whether he actually died or not. Not as a serious thing, just kind of as a "what if" thing. It turns out he survived. As for Tseng though, you did see him die. You saw his passing breathe... so how he's back, no freaking clue.
 
The jumping was cool. There's an explanation for it, but I just feel too lazy right now to type it all out.

And you have to have the main character angst in any FF. You need it in order for anything to be FF. It's like a requirement. It's right up there with swords, mind problems, and chocobos. :D
 
I missed chocobos in FFAC, clou should have used a chocobo instead of a motorcycle, and Denzel WTF? I didn't see the point in him being there. who the hell is he?
 
Grimoire Valentine said:
Aeris, nobody in there right mind would watch AC without playing FFVII!

Im an FFVII geek and even I got lost by the plot.
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... i didn't play ff7, but i love AC... anyway...i would have given more Vincent and Yazoo time... i mean, come on! they are sexy and they are kickass gunmen.
 
The jumping was cool. There's an explanation for it, but I just feel too lazy right now to type it all out.
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The only explanation I've ever heard for the 'jumping' was that it was supposed to look cool, or because of their 'awesomely high levels' or some shit.

And it didn't look cool to me.

1.) No Tseng (he died and they dont even acknowledge it! Rufus is bad enough and Sephiroth makes no sense either)
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Tseng 'dying' was from an incorrect translation to the English version I thought?
 
Then I shall elaborate. The 'jumping' isn't really jumping. But you knew that. The 'jumping' only appears as such because they're flying (yes flying) but are jumping from one spot to the next, in order to change direction much quicker. You see, if they had to make a 90 degree turn in mid-air, it would be slow, leaving them exposed. Instead, they make passes at each other in the air, jumping up, swinging at each other in the peak of the jump, then going back down to push off for the next round. See? Now you ask "how can they fly?". Easy. 1) with the Jenova cells in each of them the were both bestowed with Jenova powers. This includes the ability to defy gravity. In the game, you see both Cloud and Sephiroth fly. Sephiroth on multiple occasions, and Cloud specifically right before he gives the Black Materia to Sephiroth in the Northern Crater. However Sephiroth, for reasons that I won't get into right now, gained control of his powers much earlier than Cloud. (which could explain Cloud's gravity defying hair ;)

And so that is the plot behind the flying/jumping.

And no, Tseng did not die at all, in the game or the movie. He's very unlucky, but not undead. In the game, he was badly wounded, but was rescued by the shinra that later showed up at the temple. Survival #1. In the movie, again he was badly wounded, but thanks to Vincent, he survived. Survival #2. This man is like a cat. 9 lives. Ya just can't get rid of them.
 
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Then I shall elaborate. The 'jumping' isn't really jumping. But you knew that. The 'jumping' only appears as such because they're flying (yes flying) but are jumping from one spot to the next, in order to change direction much quicker. You see, if they had to make a 90 degree turn in mid-air, it would be slow, leaving them exposed. Instead, they make passes at each other in the air, jumping up, swinging at each other in the peak of the jump, then going back down to push off for the next round. See? Now you ask "how can they fly?". Easy. 1) with the Jenova cells in each of them the were both bestowed with Jenova powers. This includes the ability to defy gravity. In the game, you see both Cloud and Sephiroth fly. Sephiroth on multiple occasions, and Cloud specifically right before he gives the Black Materia to Sephiroth in the Northern Crater. However Sephiroth, for reasons that I won't get into right now, gained control of his powers much earlier than Cloud. (which could explain Cloud's gravity defying hair
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well, thanks for clearing it up anyway. I guess it makes sense, and at least there's some reasoning behind it, but I still can't stand the way it looks xD

Tbh, I didn't really understand why everyone thought Tseng was dead in the first place, cause I remember playing the game, and after everything in the temple thinking, "is he dead?" and then going up and talking to him and him saying "i'm still alive" or something like that, so I thought "oh, okay" But then everyone online kept talking about how he died o_O
 
Yea, you see him severly wounded outside of the Temple of the Ancients. Then you go up to him and he tells you that Sephiroth attacked him and that he's inside. But then when you're done talking to him, you see him die. Although I guess it was just like passing out... but it certainly seemed like he died at the time considering there's some line like "I never thought it would end like this" or somehting like that on his part.
 
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