My one movie a day streak ended after 79 days. Once I missed that one day, I didn’t bother trying to start a new one. Watching movies is a nice pastime, but I needed to start doing something else too. The streak was actually broken by myself finishing the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth marathon (111 hours in total) and spending some time reflecting on it afterwards.
Revisiting a stuffed world of Final Fantasy
Despite being a long time fan of the original game released in 1997, this one didn’t fully click for me. While the visuals and audio were amazing and the open world impressed with its detail, it was also so stuffed with things to do that I felt a bit fatigued by all of it.
Classic locations like Cosmo Canyon were amazing to visit.
The story itself wasn’t as engaging as I wished and the English voice acting especially with the main character Cloud constantly felt stiff and indifferent. When I listened to the Japanese voice-acting (after finishing the game) I felt the problem was that the English translation lost some of emotional impact unlike the Japanese version.
Even so, far from a bad game, not just as all-time great some other fans consider it to be. I’ll probably end up playing the final chapter of the trilogy, whenever that comes. I’ll switch to Japanese voice-overs that time however.
The Gold Saucer theme park was as bonkers as it was in the original game.
Petting a chick chocobo on the way was always a must.
So you think you can ride this Chocobo?
The Room
Even though my movie-a-day streak ended, I’ve still watched plenty of movies. Of all of them I must highlight a cult classic The Room, that is considered to be one of the worst movies ever released. At the Night Visions movie festival it is tradition to screen it on a regular basis and this time I managed to get a ticket before it sold out.
At the movie theatre everyone was handed plastic spoons, which was unclear to me why, but already then I sensed this was going to be a memorable evening how others in the audience were chatting with excitement.
Once the movie began the audience was not shy of clapping, cheering, booing, repeating the lines, commenting and joking out loud how the movie is unfolding. Plus, lots of those spoons were being thrown into the air many times (what always triggered this was quite abstract and took my a moment to pinpoint).
Yes, it was a bad movie, like a really badly made copy of The Bold and the Beautiful soap opera. But thankfully I experienced it with a great audience who truly have embraced its badness into a strength. I will definitely consider watching it again next time it is screened. “Don’t worry about it.”