It's straight to dvd. You don't need to understand every aspect of the game to understand the story, because the movie story doesn't have much to do with the game's story, although if you're watching the movie and don't know who the Sephiroth guy that they are all complaining about you might as well just give up.

A little fun fact...my friend Will had the movie on reserve since 2002.

lol 2002.... i think that about when me and bob found out and put reminders into our phones...
I doubt they are still there now though....

Well if u havent played the game u wont know the following
Who Jenova, sephiroth, Rufus, Turks, Cloud, Clouds Group and the general point of the story is

you wont know what happened to Shinra
What the lifestream IS (as the game has a much larger description)
You wouldnt know clouds past or his relationship with Sephiroth
His relationship with Rufus
What is ment by the quote "As expected by the man who calls him self EX-SOLIDER"
see... there is alot when u think about it... It is connected to the game in more ways then u think...
Like who is that chick in the light, Aeris... but u wouldnt know that if u havent played the game. Who is that guy with her. And how many people who have played the game picked up that Zack and Aeris, once true loves are now finally together... so sweet
But you wouldnt know who Zack is... or his relationship with cloud or Aeris. You wouldnt understand why she is dead, and why she does what she does... Not to mention how... Even i only have theries on that...
You wouldnt understand the Jenova cells cause the bodys lifestream to fight the cells and create the geostigma... And thats about all i can think of right now... SO yeah... YAY! Long post...

It comes out this Tuesday!

lol, iw, i dont have that phone anymore.. Should i find it, start it and see if its still there?

TUESDAY, OMGOODNESSS!!!! *orders*

That's in America....

Yeh, i know, i found dat out last nite .

It's out here.....

Is it worth buying... Or should i just Limewire the english version?

Haven't got it yet. Won't til at least the weekend.

you should always buy your things
*cough**limewire**cough*
i haven't seen it yet... but cloud's eng voice actor is the same 1 from kingdom hearts 1&2
unlike sephiroth, whos voice i will want to hear... that sounds wrong

I prefer to actually have the DVD.

so would i, a burnt dvd haven't you been told the best things in life are free, like oxygen, or sunlight, or love.

LOL
Bob, ignore it! That time we went to melbourne and we went to the adoli shop, and u bought some love... it still counts...

EDIT:
The english version of japanese movies are usually bodged, take naruto for example... Englsih version is crap comapred to japanese version...

have you seen the english vers? i can think of 1 case where it is the opposite, where the english is better than japanese... and thats dragon ball z... but i saw the eng 1st so i may be a bit biased

also dont you mean aduli shop? u should post that short story in crazy house, have a whole short stories thread

I watched the english version the other day and they didn't cut out anything (why would they it's a movie?). The voice acting...isn't what I expected, Cid has a southern accent...he does in Kingdom Hearts 2 as well. Vincent's voice is really deep, Red has a british accent, Barret sounds like a stereotypical black guy, and Sephiroth sounds like a normal guy...which made me angry for some reason, and most of the deleted scenes they added suck.

If you don't mind average v/o then by all means buy it...It's still good.

I heard the V/O was pretty good at least according to IGN.

It's not good, but by no means is it bad...I'm going to edit my previous post because it doesn't blow.

sephy's voice is normal? tell me it's at least arrorgant and supirior in tone..

YES!!! I ordered it, its comeing express, from australia. So it will definatly be here next week, along with my harvey birdman dvd's . Cept i may not be able to play it untill i get a multi region dvd player .

EDIT : I dont mean YES!!! to what you was saying, but YES!!! to im getting it

awesome! say bigbob85, can i see those dvds some time, for... like, to watch