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

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> 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.
Yeah, but Aki had enough of it to make up for everyone else's lack of the
stuff.

> <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.)
All of my friends played it obsessively too. But they play all sorts of
game obsessively. I haven't done that since Jazz Jackrabbit 1.1 or
something...

If it weren't for the fact that I was with a bunch of friends who were
enjoying the movie, I think it would've been the only movie I'd ever
walked out of... (but then again, I don't see very many of them, so...)

> I think I spent the majority of the movie scrutinizing her [Aki's]
> 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.
Yeah, I did much the same... And by General wossname, do you mean the old
guy? or the evil guy? They were both pretty gcood. (Pedant's point: any
reason why you emphasised the `.' (`*elbows.*'. Looks like any filename
with the string `elbows.' in the middle of it, doesn't it?)?)


Tristan

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