Quote Originally Posted by Ishin Ookami
Last I checked, Sephiroth ALREADY took her out. Death may not be the TRUE end, but it's the end of the character for the physical and material plains of existence. Having aerieth physically interact, and resolve each and every one of the films major crisis points was just lazy, sloppy, and unimaginative.
Quote Originally Posted by Inshin Ookami
references and mentions of the game have a presence, avoiding a point about the movie's weaknesses by citing the game is avoiding the issue, hence my mentioning that we are talking of the movie, not the game.
I'm going to make one reference to the game just to point out why Aeris's saving the day from the grave bit in AC made sense, at least in my mind.

Wasn't it Aeris that called forth the Lifestream to aid Holy? In one way it's the planet because the planet doen't want to die. But it shows, both in the game and in a non-canonical novel Maiden Who Saves the Planet found in the Final Fantasy VII Ultimania Ω Guide, that even the dead have consciensous in the Lifestream.

Now I watched Advent before playing the game. Taking the movie from that perspective I found that Advent had an intersting and captivating story. And it's not the whole Cloud has to defeat Kadaj and his gang because they're stirring up trouble... even in the ending when Cloud's facing Sephiroth it's not that. It is about Cloud looking for... innocence. Cloud is looking for the innocence that he once had prior to the events in Nibelheim. He falsely finds this innocence in Aries, hence the reason why he is outwardly looking for forgivness. It is in the end of the movie... the scene with the chirldren in the church that, through Aries' gentel guidence, he finds innocence in the children. It's titled Advent Chiildren for a reason. This story is about Marlene and Denzel as much as it is about Cloud.