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Just splatting down linkage for an interesting AMV; the footage is from the FF movie from last year? and the music is an orchestral/choral piece, but for some reason it's not streaming smoothly at the mo.

I've been wading through waaaay too many AMVs lately; can't quite decide whether to list some of my favorites for public consumption. One huge hurdle is that I tend not to look at AMVs unless I have some previous familiarity with the show or the music/audio, and at this point I don't recognize about 80% of even the band names involved, esp. the popular ones such as Linkin Park, Evanescence, and I dunno what-all.

Yes, yes, I am now so tragically unhip that it's a wonder my bum doesn't fall off, pace Beeblebrox.

On edit: now that I think to look up the usage, evidently "pace" in that last sentence means the opposite of what I'd always thought. Alas. I continue to have a vague ticklish sense that there's still some single fancy-schmancy loanword, or perhaps brief phrase, for indicating an indirect quotation, but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is.

on 2006-07-09 05:04 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] qadgop.livejournal.com
I'm so unhip I had to simply guess that AMV stands for Anime Music Video. Imagine my surprise, though: from this entry, I was execting a Fantastic Four songvid. Has there been another Final Fantasy movie? The only film I remember is The Spirits Within from some years back, and I thought I was the only one on the planet who liked it.

on 2006-07-09 05:06 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] qadgop.livejournal.com
Also, the YouTube file doesn't seem to want to play.

on 2006-07-09 05:20 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] wombat1138.livejournal.com
Yeah, I know-- it keeps playing tiny 3-second snippets or so, separated by much longer gaps. At this point I'm just letting it sputter all the way through in the background, in the hope that once the entire thing has streamed through, it'll play more smoothly from a local cache. Everything else on YouTube has been working fine, so I dunno what's going on with this particular clip.

I have very little knowledge of Final Fantasy in general, but apparently this is from a movie (FF: Advent Children?) that was released in Japan last year, possibly spliced together from the cutscenes of several different chapters of the FF7 game. I didn't see the 2001 movie, though, and am barely sure whether I have even seen the wombat-consort play an early version of FF on the PC. But there was another AMV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM6wRt0V878&search=vindaloo) using footage from the same source to the tune of one of the Brit anthems at the World Cup; I thought the graphics were pretty though drifting into pixeliciousness toward the end, hence looking for more FF:AC AMVs with clearer images.

on 2006-07-09 02:45 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] qadgop.livejournal.com
Yeah, I know-- it keeps playing tiny 3-second snippets or so, separated by much longer gaps.

I just get a frozen image of the first frame; it doesn't seem to actually load. Oh well.

My understanding of Final Fantasy is that, with a couple of exceptions, each game (and movie) is completely unrelated to any of the others--different plots & characters, different settings--and I admit to some confusion as to what therefore makes them a series. All I've actually seen of it is The Sirits Within, plus the first few scenes of Final Fantasy X before I got bored with repeatedly getting killed and having to play through the whole damn thing again.

Because I'm a grouch, I have to say the music to that last linked AMV doesn't fit the onscreen action at all; and furthermore, what a terrible anthem: "Na na naaa, na na naaa, naaa naaaaaaaaaa... ENG! LAND!" is about on the level of "IIIIIIIIIIIII love New Yoooooooooork! (For a great vacation!)"

And they're all pretty fifteen-year-olds with pointy hair, too. Grar. Not a morning person.

on 2006-07-09 08:18 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] wombat1138.livejournal.com
There seems to be some overlap between the more recent FFs and Kingdom Hearts, but then KH pastiches characters from throughout Disney as well.

WRT "Vindaloo", I didn't say it was a *great* (or possibly even *good*) AMV. Heh. Actually, according to Wikipedia, the song was originally conceived as a deliberately obnoxious/nonsensical parody of sports anthems in general, but then was adopted into standard use thereof anyway. The action... is actiony; it's pretty rare IME for the clips to be terribly well matched with the lyrics (just like standard music videos, really), which is something that I also look for but seldom find. But in that dimension, the visuals kinda match the "Vindaloo" lyrics in their gleeful lack of coherence.

on 2006-07-09 08:46 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] qadgop.livejournal.com
Actually, according to Wikipedia, the song was originally conceived as a deliberately obnoxious/nonsensical parody of sports anthems in general, but then was adopted into standard use thereof anyway.

Ah: "Yankee Doodle Dandy" syndrome!

I've seen some pretty well edited songvids (including a TPM vid I saw at a con that managed to pack much more of an emotional wallop than the actual film). I'm rather partial to this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZkVHUajYK0), myself.

on 2006-07-09 02:48 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] qadgop.livejournal.com
I continue to have a vague ticklish sense that there's still some single fancy-schmancy loanword, or perhaps brief phrase, for indicating an indirect quotation, but for the life of me I can't figure out what it is.

"Following"? "As with"? "To paraphrase"? "Like that guy"?

on 2006-07-09 03:39 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] fujifunmum.livejournal.com
Oh! Do post your favorite AMV's! I'm so out of it I have a hard time finding them, lol!

And why is it, pray tell, that most RK AMV's are set to heavy metal? I guess I shouldn't care since they all contain the same Kenshin/Saitou, Kenshin/Shishio fight scenes. I thought I'd never get tired of watching those. Wrong again.

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