Originally Posted by Mirage
Never seen any of John Woo's hong kong stuff have you? I consider shooting a mans eye out in a early scene, and then to pistol whip the same guy in his eyepatch in response to the arse kicking he's giving you in a later scene to be rather over the top.
Advent Children just had matrix slow mo effects and a lot of leaping through the air and sword twirling. So few of the fight sequences resulted in serious injury, and the few times it did happen (cloud getting shot through the heart, cloud having his sword arm lacerated) the story either threw in some deus ex machina, (ie Aerith will fix it) or just forgot about the injury two seconds later (cloud pulling off limit break with a maimed sword arm). That lack of consequences took all the impact out of the action sequences, and made them tedious and boring instead of intense and thrilling.
Also, I'm a huge fan of animation. Espescially animation that takes itself seriously and breaks the cliche of animation being solely for children. I personally found AC's animation to be very stiff and jerky like. The art itself had a lot of detail and imagination, but the flow of the animation itself was really stiff IMO.
