i didn't really think about it when watching the film because i was too busy being impressed by how shiny and nice everything looks and going 'hahaha ultros' but maybe the plan was to drop ultros into insomnia, like they used diamond weapons and behemoths
THere's a lot of ragging on the characters for blaming Regis, and I get it, it's stupid, but there's an element I really enjoyed about it. That Regis, or at least, people's interpretation of Regis, unintentionally sowed the seeds of his own county's demise.
The movie was beating us over the head with the fact that the Kingsglaive isn't satisfied with what is going on, even before the treaty. The first twelve minutes has the "Regis isn't paying us refugees enough" which is a pretty strong signal that they are outsiders, consider themselves outsiders, and kind of are beginning to resent going into these fights.
Regis ends up giving up their home countries. He didn't have a choice, but if you were fighting fucking Diamond weapon and then realized the place you grew up and love was being thrown to the dogs, misplaced anger is bound to happen.
Even Luna's brother, it was stupid to blame Regis, but he was a kid, and he was expecting Regis to save him and his mother, and he ran the fuck away, not even bothering to save him. From a child's eyes, yeah, it could look selfish and cowardly, even if it wasn't.
I like the concept that Regis decisions have a consequence, even if he couldn't help most of it. I like that he wasn't perfect, that he potentially made decisions more for his son at the cost of others, that as much as he is evidently loved, he his loathed for his decisions that had no right answer.
But it's made clear he always anticipated Insomnia would be invaded anyway, the moment Luna arrived he was like "gurl, you need to book it out of here, it's about to get real." He signed the treaty to spare all the other regions from needlessly having Diamond Weapons dropped on top of them for a prolonged war that was gonna be decided entirely by whether the Wall around Insomnia would hold up anyway. And the Kingsglaive guys are somehow dumb enough to think it's other way around even they themselves are in on the plot to destroy Insomnia during the signing. And in the case of the captain, has been for a while.
Other then that, loved the CGI, Ultros, the Crowe girl, Diamond Weapons Knight of the Round and the Ahrimans.
I watched this last night with my brother and sister. Awesome movie, a bit confusing there near the end, but overall 9/10.
Weird to think during this entire movie Notics and the crew are just dicking around somewhere away from the fighting. Well depending on how you play in the opening hour of the game
Okay guys I'd like to take it upon myself to get an article up about Kingsglaive (unless somebody else had something planned).
For starters, would you all mind just doing this poll super quick giving it a 0 through 5 stars: Poll here
Secondly, my own review will be very positive but I want a second opinion, so is somebody who didn't care for the film willing to write up a roughly 500 word negative opinion? Also if there was somebody who is in like the middle ground 3-star camp who wants to do the same that would be awesome. Spoiler-free of course.
I'll field your three-star needs, though the accompanying text for that number on your poll doesn't exactly suit my feelings. More of a four-star comment while rating it a three.
I'll field your three-star needs, though the accompanying text for that number on your poll doesn't exactly suit my feelings. More of a four-star comment while rating it a three.
I'll field your three-star needs, though the accompanying text for that number on your poll doesn't exactly suit my feelings. More of a four-star comment while rating it a three.
I feel like I liked it enough to not be "the detractor" but I also tend to be hyper-critical of things I actually enjoy these days. Like I wouldn't recommend anyone to not watch it, even if I thought it was utterly utterly terrible. I would then want more people to watch it so we could be miserable about it together. I like to share that way
Just to re-state the need since I'm ready to roll and Tres got his review to me - I'm looking for somebody who genuinely did not enjoy the film to write a "detractor" review (like 1-star) for the article I'm going to be putting together. If nobody feels comfortable with it I could always write up my article and then have Tres be a "second opinion". Also if you're not comfortable having your name attached to a bashing I don't mind making it anonymous.
Hopefully non-spoiler short review ahead, I'm too durnk to recognise spoilers.
I feel like I'm late, but, I just watched this and I quite enjoyed it. Mind you, I've had some alcomahol, which may influence my opinion . Someone mentioned it a few pages back, but I agree; the story seems rushed and not really fleshed-out in favor of action scenes and yes, ten minutes extra would help. I was able to follow it though, but I think that's mostly beacause its storyline, characters, visuals, magic / technology, etc are all very reminiscent of FF titles of the past; there's probably references and/or inspirations to every FF title in this movie. Which, IMO, makes this the most Final Fantasy movie of all. All three, I guess, .
So yeah, the story part is very err, quick or disjointed, and the relatively quick editing doesn't help. It does have glorious action for the first and last part of the movie, but it's hard to actually be able to see what's going on; probably better than, say, the latter Transporter movies or other action movies that switch camera angles every .3 seconds, but still. I guess I prefer Matricks slow-motion over quick busy edits.
I also think that in terms of scale and awesome, this movie has anything produced elsewhere beat. I mean take the Avengers movies, I think those are the most awesoem and large-scale that Hollywood can produce... but this movie pwned them in that regard. And honestly, they can't even blame full-CG vs part-CG for that, given how much CG there is in the Avengers movies.
I also think it's a pretty damn good prequel to the actual FFXV game, although
the post-credits scene... didn't make me excited for the game or its characters, like, at all. But I've probably seen more gameplay and information about the game than the movie by now, so I might be biased. Safe to say, this movie has managed to boost my expectations for the gaem by over 9000.
So yeah. Decent movie, I'd have my dad watch it beacause it's got action and Audis and shit.
Having seen this twice now, I'm still left feeling a bit indifferent about it.
Except the
final battle, which was awesome. Lol KotR.
I wasn't really captivated by any of the characters except Regis, and that was only because I spent the entire movie staring at his face and saying, "wow he looks just like old man Alex."
Pretty much. When companies do an NPS they rate 9-10 as "promotor" 7-8 as "neutral" and 6 or lower as "detractor". Carlie is just above detractor technically speaking but I still feel she was the harshest critic of the three of us.
Man that is crazy. I understand that hoping for people to use the whole scale is a pipe dream, but now we don't even use the top 5 spots? In the days when I would judge more review scores I always felt that 8, 9, and 10 are of course varying degrees of greatness, but that 6 and 7 were still enjoyable as long as you were a fan of the genre/source material. (For instance, a game like Armored Core would be a 6 or a 7 because it's a really niche market. But it fills that niche spendidly.) Then 5 and down are likely tough to redeem. But even an 8 is neutral now? Holy crap.
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