Are you serious about making a poll about this? Your comparing something that was bad against somethat ff7 related. Fanboys ahoy.

Who the fuck isn't going to say Advent Children? Seriously now?

Advent Children by far!

Little known fact about Spirits Within:

A few years ago in college, one of the guys who worked on Spirits Within came to our school and lectured about the different projects he had worked on (including Matrix Reloaded as well). Spirits Within is generally hated on, and he was blatantly asked why it was so mehhhh, and he told us all the reasons.

First of all, the people running the project didn't manage or direct or organize anything, in fact, I think I remember him saying they were all out of office and over seas. So they were basically told to make cool shit, and figure out what kind of a cool story would work best for the movie . . . even though most of these guys had never even played a Final Fantasy game. So they made a bunch of cool ships/gizmos/characters/ etc and tried to piece it together.

So what type of story did they go with? According to him, (I wanna say his name was something James Dargy...) they worked on a racing ship intensive storyline. Then . . . Star Wars Episode One was released in theaters, and they literally all walked into the office the next day depressed and mopy because their movie was way too similar to Episode One's scenes, so they pulled the plug and started all over again with the design phase.

So that's why it was completely unorganized and unguided, and that's why the thing was so damn expensive, too, because they started over a few times. It's a shame the whole thing wasn't executed better.

You know I'm gonna say Spirits Within.

No disrespect but to say that TSW isn't FF is rubbish example.

-team of characters traverse a landscape collecting
various items with seemingly mystical properties. spirits = crystals

-The main antagonist is a meglomaniac. general = kefka or sephiroth

-Their main goal is to save the earth/ mankind.

-Near the end of the story their is a deus ex machina plot revelation. gaea = lifesteam, enough said

-they battle seemingly magical enemies in the form of spirits.

-cid=cid

If you define Final Fantasy by magic and summons, then I am
inclined to believe that you dont really know final fantasy.

Thats quite a story Fronz. I'll be surprised if anybody votes for Spirits Within over Advent Children.

My vote is for AC only because Spirits Within was so terrible.

Legend of the Crystals. Then Spirits Within, which at least wasn't based on the worst post-SNES Final Fantasy.

Advent Children

Advent Children easily. It's not even that Spirits Within didn't seem much like a Final Fantasy movie, it was just shitty from beginning to end. It bored me to tears and it was seriously just not fun to watch at all. The story was pretty horrid as well. As convoluted as the story of Final Fantasy VII can be sometimes it seemed like it was simple to understand compared to Spirits Within, in my opinion. Advent Children could have used some better voice actors for the English version, Vincent was awesome though, and maybe went back and improve lip syncing to the English dialog.

I saw spirits within before I had ever played a FF game at all, and that's probably the reason it has taken me till now to start trying them, now that I know that they way different then that throw up on toast of a movie. So even though I haven't seen advent children I'm going to say that no matter what it has to be better (and i will watch it after i finish ff7)

Ignoring the fanboy drooling over Cloud and Sephiroth facing off, I have to say the Spirits Within is a superior FILM.

The plot in AC is abbreviated to say the least, its' progression being relegated to quick conversations with little time to digest the information and lots of people not looking at each other while they talk. Of course, there are plenty of action scenes, but I've never found those types of films to be exactly the epitome of the artform.

Spirits Within, while admittedly flawed, at least had a plot that touched on interesting themes of the spirit and body and utilized a lot of original ideas, even within the realm of video gaming. I did wish for a little more characterization with some of the secondary characters; I felt the team dynamic that is found in Final Fantasy games was killed off a little too abruptly ::SPOILER:: upon the death of the three squad members. ::END SPOILER::

Overall, Spirits Within was a better movie than Advent Children. But I guess one could say Advent Children was a better Final Fantasy movie.

Hell, if Spirits Within is good enough for Roger Ebert, it's good enough for me.

No one mentioned THE FUCKING AWESOME FIGHT scenes in Advent Childeren yet? Shame on you all!!;)

That is the reason I felt it was the better movie, NEVER, EVER have I seen fights like in Advent Children, utterly phenomenal, it's one of the reasons why I watch it weekly, they are simply mind blowing to say the least.

Also it had the better story, thats a given, ain't it?

@Deiga, Ebert liked SW? Really!?!?!

Thanks for the infomation mate, I never knew that! :)

Definitely Advent Children. But Spirits Within was a damn good one too.

Last Order anyone?

I don't know what you guys are talking about... Spirits Within was a really good film, even if it wasn't 100% Final Fantasy. Plus, the story wasn't even half as bad as AC. I mean... Sephiroth some how is still alive and has to be defeated one last time? Niqqa, please.


My vote goes towards Spirits Within.

I have to agree with Deiga that SW was just a superior film. The first time I saw Advent Children, I honestly didn't like it as much as I thought I would. I am by no means a Final Fantasy Fanboy, but I honestly thought that when it was being released "This is a Final Fantasy movie that is going to be very related to the game" and so I was a bit more hyped for it.

Then I saw it. It seemed like the most random movie i'd ever seen. The picture is great. But the movie just looked like a bunch of clips of things that would be cool, and places to fight in that could be cool, all mashed into a single film and sold as a Final Fantasy "movie"... So I saw it and I was focusing on the story and throughout it I thought "This is the most random movie i've seen next to an Uwe Boll movie."

But TSW just seemed like a more well done movie. Almost everything about it was better, with a slight exception that it wasn't as "epic" as AC was.

But maybe my vision of all this was flawed right from the get-go. I see a Final Fantasy game, movie, whatever - and I don't immediately figure "This piece of entertainment requires Bahamut, Cid, An androgynous protagonist, a few large chested or less clothed women, and despite the females strength, they need to have a majority of "Weak" moments."...

I see "Final Fantasy" and I see it just as a specific Style. I don't see it for names or direct looks. I don't expect the characters to look alike or to react exactly the same way as the previous games. That is akin to expecting a sequel. And I suppose after playing so many Final Fantasy films. I honestly had no problem with The Spirits Within having next to no references to the game. As a matter of fact, I am actually getting sick of every Final Fantasy game basically having interchangeable characters and a requirement that a boss or big ally end up being the spirits, espers, whatever one wishes to call them.

Anyhow, I am beginning a rant.. I'll summarize it. I never saw Final Fantasy games/movies as being needily congruent to the previous. I am actually getting sick of it. I am getting tired of there being a practical requirement to fit in a character named after some form of precipitation. And I am getting tired of there being a requirement to "bring back" the names of well liked characters, bosses, summon - and almost always having absolutely nothing to do with the original design, and when the design is similar - having the need to change the look and feel of the character/boss/summon entirely.

I guess even further simplified. My argument is "What Is Final Fantasy?"... Is it "Cid, Bahamut, Precipitation, Ifrit, Shiva, Carbuncle and Moogle". Or is it something else?

Spirits Within.

Advent Children was just a pile of convoluted fanboy wank from beginning to end, it was difficult to make sense of if you had played the game, and I imagine none if you haven't.

Spirits Within, while not a good film, does stand on it's own as a product. It doesn't require you to have played FF7 several times and have developed a deep-seated (and unjustified) understanding and love for the (boring) characters and world.

Spirits Within is an average CG film that stands on it's own. Advent Children is a pile of fanboy wank that is less well written than some FF7 fanfic, and requires you to have considerable knowledge of the game to get much out of it. Thus Spirits Within is superior.

Elrando calls it for me.

i'm for Spirits Within as well. as far as the films go (that is, stripping away game references and going on the characters/bewbs), Aki could whip Tifa six ways to Sunday... even if Spirits Within is in Uncanny Valley territory, which is what i think was/is it's biggest downfall.

hmm, still haven't seen advent children and I don't remember spirits within so it looks like I've got something to do this week...

Advent Children.

Alec Baldwin...that's all I have to say about Spirits Within...

ha! ^

"SYSTEM OVERLOAD"

"...I KNOW!!!!"

ummmmm........WOW!

Spirits Within

AC was retarded for all the reasons already explained, nothing more than pure fanservice.

Both of these movies are terrible. AC wins if only for the fight with Tifa.

I actually really liked Spirits within (though I havent watched it since it first came out so I don't know if that holds). And as far as I remember is actually had a plot. And for the time it looked spectacular I think.

As for Advent children. Well the plot was really just: AWESOME! EXPLODE! EMO CLOUD! AWESOME! EXPLODE! SEPHIROTH IS BACK! AWESOME! None of this makes sense does it? Well then....EXPLODE AWESOME! Though it does of course look magnificent.

That said, I'm voting for Advent Children. What can I say? I liked all the awesome explodey super anime battleness that was AC.