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| Movies was quite engaging in my opinion. I mean, the movie added different elements to the story, namely an exploration of the seething sentiment of the Weimar Republic after a humiliating costly defeat in the great war. They held no punches in showing a clear antisemetic nationalistic views. If only, just once, they would do an accurate portrayal of Imperial Japanese views (inferior asians), I could die a happy man. Just once, one middle finger to the historical revisionists, give history a win here in the land of the setting sun! But to put it bluntly, the anime industry is a coward, they are also too 'polite' to dare offend their customer base. Even if the customer base can be considered the west's version of irrational holocaust deniers (reads only nazi material as reference). The ending was nothing more than a reiteration of the first ending, bar a different setting, terrible ending. Need I forget to remind you folks of the tediously boring filler episodes that add little character development in the first installment? Or the irritating shifts between serious scenes and stupid chibi faces that made some of you want to punch them. I also disliked the villain. I would of preferred that she came to a horrifying conclusion when she was studying alchemy, the same conclusion that Hohenheim came to. The fact that the death and suffering of her world fuelled the alchemy of that world. Overcome by disgust and fear, she then would try to destroy this beastly realm. I think it would of added more depth to the plot and softened her cartoonish villainy. |
| Nothing can happen until you swing the bat. |
| Weak villain, plot armor (literally) they dodge bullets lol, but overall 7/10 ... or so I thought My reactions watching the end: > Lulzwhat? He's coming back to our hell world? WTF!? who would want that? >Al is coming too? Well that's better, I guess... now let's see Winry's reaction when studying our technology (^^) Can't wait... >Ok Winry stop hiding inside the plane... I'm getting mad >Haha the director can't fool me, she will be in the credits traveling with them... right? ... right? Enjoyment: -100 Time to recalculate the score: 7/10 - 100= ... since we can't go negative let's just give it a 1/10. |
SousukeARX7Dec 7, 2016 2:35 AM
| An enjoyable movie overall, but I didn't have that same feeling compared to when I was watching the original Fullmetal Alchemist. Not to mention, I liked the ending to the original Fullmetal Alchemist far more than the ending to this movie. I felt that if this movie were to be a 2nd season instead with more episodes, it would've been better, but things were just going by too fast and things were getting resolved too quickly. Don't even get me started on the villain, oh man........ Overall though, 7/10. Good movie, but I was not completely satisfied. The endings of FMA 03 and FMAB did it better. |
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| This is what episode 52 should've been. This movie ended the series much better than episode 51 that's why I think it is so good. Although the CG soldiers were really crap hehe |
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| Coloring was better than the show. Well it was good to finally see the end of the original anime show. Truly I foersaw the parallels with FMA and old germany, it was quite obvious to anyone tbh. But this really gave context and clarity to the connections. Sad ending, but oh well, I finished FMA brotherhood too recently. Thus endeth this franchise. ^~^ 6/10 |
| I actually quite liked this film, animation was 10 times better. There wasn't really a big sense of danger regarding the villains but that didn't distract from me enjoying it. 8/10 |
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| Great movie, but the ending kinda blew. Why did Ed go to Earth? |
| This movie and the 2003 series is everything that I wish Brotherhood had been. Poor Winry though |
| This was better than I expected. 7/10. Had a nice conclusion that the 2003 series lacked. |
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| This is not the ending FMA deserved, it's decent but not quite good enough. At least it wasn't a forced sad ending like I thought it would be. Plot is meh. The movie was entertaining though, ah, it was fine, music and animation are pretty good and I like what they did with AU!Hughes (can't say the same with some characters though). The ending is still bittersweet considering they're going to live in Nazi Germany, but whatever. 6/10 |
| Around the gif~ "It's a big mistake to think you're the only one who can turn into a car" - Shiori Takatsuki |
| The movie was alright. I just wanted ed and al to be together again :3 |
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| This movie was pretty much screwed from the start. I'm not sure if you guys know, but this movie was originally planned to be made in a 12 episode second season, but they scrapped that and made a much, much larger original script for a movie compared to what we got here, I've seen some parts of the original script and it was so so much better. So many more things were added and explained. Then, of course, they fucking scrapped the much larger script and turned into what we got here. They screwed the director over so fucking much here. Production values were trash. It's honestly sad and pretty amazing that they were able to make this movie decent. I gave this movie an 8, but it doesn't compare to the OG ending. This movie had so much potential and it's sad that people screwed this show over |
| Trying to stuff a lot of idea in a short time lead to a disastrous plot this was really clumsy half baked and bad |
| hey, could someone tell me how did ed end up in this world? I dont feel like rewatching the whole fma just to remember. |
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Kotori said: THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Fucking retarded ending, even more so than the series' 1/10 ................................... |
| Nice, all the small details that left episode 51 is addressed here (dragon Envy, Gluttony + Wrath, Al's journey etc etc)! Very satisfactory movie even with the disposable villain and her CGI armors (but at least she filled her role well). |
| What a lame ending... pretty meh except for the action it packed. 6/10 |
| Is this movie based on the manga? |
| Wow, on a recent rewatch, this movie is even worse than I used to think somehow. None of this makes sense. I honestly prefer to think of 2003 without acknowledging this exists; it's fine on its own. |
| What a well-planned movie. Outstanding job to conclude the original FMA. I Loved the historical aspect of the other side, just after WW1 and getting ready for WW2. So glad its a happy ending. Although I wish they would have taken Winry with them to the other side in the end :) |
oooo3333Apr 2, 2023 8:54 PM
| Let's imagine this movie never existed. This movie was an insult to Arakawa-sensei. |
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| Even generic villains are more fleshed out than that woman. FMA 2003 never required this fanfic of an ending. 1/10(being generous) |
RioFSFeb 14, 2022 8:16 AM
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| it took me some years to watch this one since I thought the 03 TV series ended where it should. as it is, it turned out to be worse than i thought. quite the achievement i read on a letterboxd review that they didn't want to make a continuation and were pressed to do so on the unsuitable film format, which would make a lot of sense to explain how this came to be |
| Ending was stupid— but I quite liked the movie since I’m a history buff and it concluded the 2003 anime’s mind breaking and surreal conclusion. Also it introduced me to L’arc en Ciel. |
| And so Germany enjoyed peace for another 10 years... Poor Winry was left behind yet again. Hoenheim was useless even with his 400+ years of experience. Ed and Al are together but in the other world now. Hughes and Pride was pretty funny though ngl. 6/10 |
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