Picked up the movie about a week after it released and just got around to watching it today. The movie is definitely a little more coherent, with the new scenes filling some of the plot holes. It was great seeing Elena and Tseng getting more screen time, but I was a little bummed out that they removed the part where Reno and Rude were scaling the building to get to the safety netted Rufus (it was hilarious when Reno stepped on Rude as he scaled the building, in the original).
I noticed that not the whole movie was "HD", it seemed like only the new scenes were sharp while the old ones appeared to be just upscaled from the original (try watching the original DVD release on the PS3, and you'll notice it too). Which is a rather lazy job done, unless the source was SD or something. The lighting in the some of the new stuff looked a little of place as well, most apparent with the new highway footage and the flowers in the after credits scene (could also be because the images are actually HD in the new footage).
I also noticed that the original's credits song "Calling" remains, I thought the new one "Safe and Sound" by Kimuro Hyosuke and Gerard Way was supposed to replace this? I checked out both the english and japanese tracks, and it's still "Calling". A little disappointing, as "Safe and Sound" has grown on me (didn't like it when I first heard it, though). Does anyone know why they opted to remove the song from the NA release? Hopefully it's not because they saving it for a limited edition blu-ray release,
like what they with Last Order.
And thanks for the mini album Kairi, though it's too bad that they didn't include the ACC versions of "Beyond the Wasteland" and "Battle in the Forgotten City". Here's a rip of "Safe and Sound" I made off of a rip of the japanese version of ACC.
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