Yeah, I don't count that because to me it wasn't a real honest attempt. It was like an imbetween of do we keep it looking like the video game and treat it as such, or do we make it a real movie. I want them to take all the canon from it and story and backround and give it a live active hollywood chance.
It's been a long time since I played any of the games, but I thought pretty much every Final Fantasy's story was different from the last one. Like there was no connection, there really is no connecting stories between them, each one is a stand alone adventure of itself (i know they have kinda broken that mold with direct sequels to one or two of them, but for the most part I don't think they have). I know that there are similarities in that all of them have things like chocobos and spells and airships and stuff like that, but it's not like a real ongoing, connective saga. Like, you don't need to play, say, Final Fantasy 4 to "get" Final Fantasy 8.
So in that way I would think that a movie version of Final Fantasy would be different from most of the games anyways, unless you wanted to base it directly off of one of the games, which probably wouldn't translate all that well seeing as there are so many different aspects of any of the FF games and more importantly, the story, that YOU as the player have control over, not someone else who has their own spin on it. That's why I don't think video games usually do too well as movies. The best version of a video game's story, especially an epic RPG like the Final Fantasy series or like Mass Effect, is going to be your own version of it, the way you want it to be. A studio exec has no chance of pleasing everyone with their ideas or version of what they think you want.
Movies like Lord of the Rings came from a book, a frame work of definitive characters and events that can be used as a tool for filmmakers. Games like Final Fantasy, that frame work is of each player's own imagination. Can't really duplicate that.
