Is this the sequel to Final Fantasy: Spirits Within???

::EDIT:: No, it's the sequel to the Playstation game: FF VII (honest!) - NS::

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Bien's video was average at best, and the audio wasn't bad for 2ch crap. The scene rules really ruined this release, no doubt about it.

Definitely go with the 2CD internal xvid or one of the dvd-r's if you really want to see this movie in all its glory.

The movie itself was excellent from a technical standpoint, which makes me really bitter that it will not be shown in US theaters. The story itself was so-so; it is far too focused on Cloud and his annoying emo-kid personality, some of the fights drag on for too long, and the music doesn't alway fit the scene and changes from eletric guitar to operatic to classical at the drop of a hat for some unknown reason. None of that matters though, if the question is "should I watch this?" Unless you have no interest at all in CGI, the movie is very impressive and well worth the 4.3GB DL for the dvd-r version.

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in regards to the music... each to their own, and all, but i thought the music throughout was no only great, but was perfect for the movie - sometimes it really helped the drive forward the action (ie the freeway sequence) and at other times it helped create a wonderful contrast (like the classical music during the abandoned church fight)

i think it was a great approach to take, by mixing up the music genres and sequences - it makes for quite a unique experience compared to the usual way most films handle music and action, maybe thats why i enjoyed the musical choices so much.

but as i said, everyone has their own preferences i guess

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The music was really good for sure, it's just the transitions that were sometimes awkward, and there was one or two scenes where I remember thinking that the music didn't fit what was happening on-screen.

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I know that the dvd-r version has better quality but to give this release a 6 for video is just stupid. You are suppose to grade it based on what it is and for an xvid the quality is very superb, it is definatly far better quality than a 6. And as far as the bitching of "why did they make it 700mb" not everyone has a dvd burner me being one of them, but I do have a cd burner and I have made quite a few high quality Ksvcd's and if it werent for people like bien making 700mb movies many people wouldn't be able to enjoy the movies on there TV. anyways, the video is very good and the audio is awesome as well.

9/8/10

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Still, for this release it's very nice in some places, just a little fuzzy looking in others which I guess is due to a soft encoding matrix!?

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They did use a soft quantization type. It was H263.

Release groups don't normally use soft custom matrices, they either use H263 or MPEG -- H263 being soft/losing detail/smoothing it out and normal MPEG being sharp/keeping detail/blocking.

So really, release groups only have two options on what quant. type they're going to use.

On an interesting note they did use bframes (2). That would've helped massively with compressibility.

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Film was alright and the animation was amazing, 11 minutes of credits though!

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This is a Squaresoft trademark -- longwinded credits. I personally don't mind it, it gives time to reflect/absorb what just happened

Does everyone know that some of the animation is unchanged from the CGI you see in FFVII PSX game? If you think those are good keep in mind it's animation 7-8 years old and what's more it's from a PSX game.

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They did use a soft quantization type. It was H263.

Release groups don't normally use soft custom matrices, they either use H263 or MPEG -- H263 being soft/losing detail/smoothing it out and normal MPEG being sharp/keeping detail/blocking.

So really, release groups only have two options on what quant. type they're going to use.

On an interesting note they did use bframes (2). That would've helped massively with compressibility.



This is a Squaresoft trademark -- longwinded credits. I personally don't mind it, it gives time to reflect/absorb what just happened

Does everyone know that some of the animation is unchanged from the CGI you see in FFVII PSX game? If you think those are good keep in mind it's animation 7-8 years old and what's more it's from a PSX game.

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Yes, when it shows Jenova/Mother's head, also the scenes with Sephiroth moving into the fire. If they were "redone" then my bad, they look pretty much the same anyway.

(I've played the game right through a few times, note, but I might have an exaggerated "recollection" of the scenes, since I enjoyed the game quite a lot back n the day)

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Kinda wish there were a seperate AC3 file I could get on my own.. bah. :P

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I know that the dvd-r version has better quality but to give this release a 6 for video is just stupid. You are suppose to grade it based on what it is and for an xvid the quality is very superb, it is definatly far better quality than a 6. And as far as the bitching of "why did they make it 700mb" not everyone has a dvd burner me being one of them, but I do have a cd burner and I have made quite a few high quality Ksvcd's and if it werent for people like bien making 700mb movies many people wouldn't be able to enjoy the movies on there TV. anyways, the video is very good and the audio is awesome as well.

9/8/10

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8/9/5

I dunno why people are rating this movie so high. Yeah it was a lot of fancy CG, but it was just so ridiculous and mediocre. Half of all the fights were in mid-air for crying out loud! I'm not so thick that something like that would normally bother me, but it was just too much.

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8/9/5

I dunno why people are rating this movie so high. Yeah it was a lot of fancy CG, but it was just so ridiculous and mediocre. Half of all the fights were in mid-air for crying out loud! I'm not so thick that something like that would normally bother me, but it was just too much.

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