Advent Children

Allow me to geek out in all my nerd glory. I've been a video game fanatic ever since I first played Pole Position On Colecovision back in the early 80's. I read video game magazines and at one time owned all three systems. I wrote a term paper on Final Fantasy. I'm a dork. I admit it. But being a chick gamer, I can still pawn that off as somewhat of a novelty.

So anyhoo... when Final Fantasy: Advent Children was suppose to come out early September, I was there when the store opened, money in hand. But alas, due to cruel fate, the powers that be pushed back the American release date until January. This was so not good. If they were pushing is back past Christmas, in all likelihood, it wouldn't come out until Summer of next year. I was crushed.

But thanks to my resourceful friend Steve, I received a bootleg copy of the Japanese version for my birthday. At first, I had some trouble getting it to play on my computer, but after Steve came over and messed with it, we got it to play. Because its a copy, there is no way to turn on the English subtitles, but to be honest, I didn't need them. The artfully crafted imagery speaks for itself. The lighting and water effects are top notch and the character designs keep the whimsy of the Final Fantasy series, yet eerily come to life. The story is every fanboy (or girl's)wet dream. The return of Sephiroth is magnificent and there are plenty of "holy shit!" moments. It features a beautiful written

Granted this is not a movie for everyone, but if you have any interest in the following: video games, computers, anime, computer animation as an artform, science fiction, film making, etc... go get this movie.