CHAT: Final Fantasy (was Re: CHAT: anime & manga)

On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 05:16 , Muke Tever wrote:

> From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <anstouh@...>
>>>     oh, & I reaaally loved _Final Fantasy_ (& that was not terribly
>>> sexist
> or
>>> artistically crude at all...& the mild violence served the story-line &
>>> the
>>> storyline had a neat interpretation of the Gaia Theory).
>>
>> Hmm? Story line in _Final Fantasy_? I can't remember such a thing...
>> However, I loved the graphics, all except the hair. The hair was _so_
>> unnatural...
>
> You'll notice most of the characters didn't have much hair to speak of.
>
<laugh>  I couldn't make heads or tails out of the storyline, but then, I
haven't played any of the Final Fantasy games either, merely *sat through*
  all of them as my friends played obsessively.  (The first semester I was
going out with my boyfriend I was treated to 1-5? in rapid
succession...*he* would play games while *I* did my homework at his dorm.
Hmph.)

> Actually, the main character (Aki) was the most poorly animated and
> modelled of
> all of them, IMO.  The others were all decently animated (actually it
> looked
> like rather good animation of bad actors playing the characters in the
> movie)
> but she was the only one I particularly noticed as having -unnatural-
> motions.
I think I spent the majority of the movie scrutinizing her hair (which
moved like a single organism) and her *elbows.*  <laugh>  I like General
wossname in the black leather and gloves and all.  He was a *fun* good
animation of a bad actor.

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