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This Ain't No Game

This Ain't No Game: TANG: Final Fantasy VII Advent Children

Ryan dives deep into this tale of love, loss, and Sephiroth.

Your look into the world of video game movies and the Wonderful Universe of movies with video game themes.

Mar. 5 2009

Cast: Ryan

Posted by: Vinny

194 Comments

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Edited By 88Fingers

I agree, this movie is just for fans of the game.
I tried to make other non-gamers watch it and they were lost.
I myself loved every minute of it. Square won't give us a real sequel...
so this is the next best thing... I guess.
I prefer watching it in Japanese with English subs.

Anyway, total fan service just like Metal Gear Solid IV...
just bring everyone back... even the dead ones!

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Edited By joey2683

lol "it's fine, it's fine".

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Edited By PipeAndSlippers

I like watching these things because I'm interesting in these movies, but not enough to watch them. 5-10 minutes is the exact amount of time I'm prepared to invest in them, so keep making them Ryan, you movie making rat bastard.

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Edited By Kinggi

I like this movie simply for the fact that the action is crazy awesome and its all accompanied by Nobuo Uematsu orchestral soundtrack. I cant believe you didnt mention the music!

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Edited By Deathawk

You know if they made an anime game based on FF 7 I probobly would watch it and then the movie, heck if FF7 was an action RPG I probobly would enjoy it and  therefor watch this however as it was I couldn't get into the series, too many random battles.

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ROFL at the end!

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Edited By Pathos

Lol, I actually have a copy that a friend gave to me! Dunno if I'm going to watch it though, I haven't played FF7 (waiting for a remake)..

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Awesome as always keep em coming

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Edited By Hawk456

Well done Ryan - would have been perfect if you gave an operatic SEPH-I-ROTH

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Edited By trimon

SEPHIROTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111117777

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Edited By AV_Gamer

Final Fantasy Advent Children sucked. They completely ruined the epic appeal the video game had. When they brought Rufus back, that was it for me. And the other characters showing up, just to help Cloud beat Sephiroth? Pathetic. What about their lives? What have they been doing? We never find out.  The Sephiroth Clones were completely pointless. The so called love triangle is never solved. Tifa is more like a Big Sister to Cloud, not a love interest. I could go on, but I don't want to make a novel post.

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Edited By afrokola

The movie was good but the reasoning for Sephiroth's return was pretty fucking ridiculous. I know that's what the mass wanted but I just found it out of place. Granted, the fight was cool but it still irked me. Although I really wasn't expecting anything else so I guess I can't really complain.

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Edited By supersatanic

"Advent children hooks you up."
LOL.

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hell yeah! you may need a nap afterwards, but advent children kicks ass!!

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at us in croatia there isnt that movie

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I like this movie because the action scenes are sompletely ridiculous and awesome, but the story is really shitty. Sephiroth's grand plan of "I AM GOING TO USE THE PLANET AS A SPACE SHIP TO FIND ANOTHER PLANET THAT SUCKS LESS" is retarded and besides that, there isn't really a huge threat that needs to be taken care of.

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Edited By KowalskiManDown

This film is freakin' awesome!

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Edited By lukeyk

Holy shit!!! I might just watch this movie due to zack being in it:) ( At like 4:45 you see him with ares:))

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haha.. 
 
"remember the dog"
"remember the black guy"
 
the way he said that part... HAHA

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I forgot how utterly ridiculous this movie was.  That scene with Cloud getting thrown up into the air...ugh.

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That fighting Bahamut scene looks so retarded

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Edited By BlackHeronBlue

no man, Aerith is supposed to be there man, she reachin out from the dead man, it's all good, it's groovy. Seriously this movie kicks balls, if you can't appreciate it in the context just watch the CGI, it's really good for back when it was made.

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This is one of my all-time favorite anime movies!!!!!! I love it! I need to get it on Blue-ray

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@Yelix:
It's fine if you think the grand plan sucks, but how do you think the northern crater was formed in the first game? Jenova did the same thing, she didn't just land on the planet, she rode an interstellar body to this one, and crashed into the planet to land, and began to prey on life. 
 
Sephiroth only wishes to do the same thing, as he is not capable of interstellar travel, he needs his own celestial body to continiue doing what Jenova was doing before him. 
 
Also, Ryan, Aeris does not reappear. They're just visions Cloud has of her. Yeah she's talking to him, but she's dead. People's "souls" don't die, they go to the lifesteam. 
 
And Kadaj doesn't turn into Sephiroth so much as an avatar of him. "The power to change ones appearance is the power of Jenova" as Sephiroth says in the first game. With enough of Jenova's cells in one place, a recreation of Sephiroth physically could take place. Kadaj could also turn into a giraffe, but this wouldn't make sense. Add to that that again, people's souls do not die, good or evil, including Sephiroth's, and given is ability to influence Jenova's parts/cells in the first game, and bam, Sephiroth's soul + Sephiroth avatar = Sephiroth.  
 
Hope this clears up some confusion.
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Edited By Lokno

I should watch more TANGs, this was very fun and amusingly cut. I like Advent Children for all the crazy action, but the scene Ryan believes is the coolest one from the movie seems very familiar. Its a lot like one of my favorite sequences from the manga One Piece (Chapter 206). 

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@Ryan: Heads up! There's another Final Fantasy movie, and the story makes a bit more sense to the uninitiated than Advent children ever could.

 
Final Fantasy: Spirits Within.
 
It too is totally over the top and silly but hey, isn't that what you want when you're making a TANG video?
It's based on a game and it's got really bad acting, or in this case, really bad voice acting. ;-p

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lol

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If you are going to watch this movie now, watch the " Complete " version, so much better.

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The CG is good by game standards but not for movies. The lip syncing is way off that it would drive me bonkers just looking at it, kinda why I don't watch foreign movies with english audio.
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Edited By teekomeeko

Great video, made me laugh more than a few times at just how "hey, y'all like nostalgia, right!?" the whole movie is. I have an undeniable reverence for FFVII since it was the first RPG I ever played (therefore introducing me to my favorite genre of games from that day forth), but even I was never able to sit through this movie in one go. 
 
Pretty much total nonsense the whole way through, but it has enough "fucking YES" moments to make me enjoy it. I don't consider it canon in the FFVII universe, though, as that would just be silly (same goes for Crisis Core, despite the fact that the game is awesome).

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Damn, these TANGs are so addicting. Good stuff. Keep em coming!

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We need more of these. 

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Only the good die young. Rest in peace Mr. Davies. Im wathing my favorite TANG with tears running down my face.

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"Ha-ha-ba-da-ba-da-ba-daaa"

G'nite, Ryan

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Sleep well, Ryan. Guess I'll see you again at some point.

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Edited By ThreeRoneC

I just watched this moive again yesterday, after idk how many years. Its still pretty good. And free on crackle so you can watch it on you ps3 and xbox.

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Oh this ending...

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Edited By Thiago123

RE: Degeneration TANG Link

(because some day, there will be a playlist option for all the Ryan goodness. #ibelieve)

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I miss Ryan … he was great at this stuff …

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Never played Final Fantasy and have no idea what is going on here.

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I am now old and mature enough to say that I LOVE FINAL FANTASY VII: ADVENT CHILDREN!

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noblenerf

I am now old and mature enough to say that I LOVE FINAL FANTASY VII: ADVENT CHILDREN!

I am now old and mature enough to come in here and say you're wrong. Boom!

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well then, looks like it's time to watch every single episode of TANG. again.