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

From: "David Peterson" <DigitalScream@...>
> In a message dated 12/5/01 6:12:25 AM, yl112@CORNELL.EDU writes:
>
> << <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. >>
>
>     <ascends soapbox>  Oh, trust me, you don't need to not play the games to
> still be confused by the movie (or that sentence, for that matter...).  Every
> aspect of the movie was poorly written.  And as to the comment on bad
> acting...well, I never thought Alec Baldwin and Steve Buscemi where bad
> actors--rather the opposite, in fact.
Well, me I didn't say the voice actors were bad... I meant the characters... er,
what I meant was:

    - A normal movie is actors on a set playing out a story.
    - These actors can be good or bad; they can display emotion well or
      poorly; they can overact; etc.

    - Animation is usually thought of as representing things
      directly:  I'm not drawing a guy in a rabbit suit playing
      Bugs Bunny, I'm drawing Bugs Bunny himself.
    - I *might* do an excellent animation of a man in a rabbit suit
      playing Bugs Bunny poorly.

    - Final Fantasy looked sort of like it was doing this. The animation
      was realistic (except on Aki), but not quite of people in the world
      of 2065.

Something like that.

        *Muke!