See, I have no history or expectations with the Final Fantasy franchise, and don't know any of the characters in any game or even what world it's set in (other than a vague sense that's more fantasy than sci-fi!), so I've never judgeed it on the merits of its faithfulness or respect to its namesake. However, I've endured enough examples of that experience with other properties so completely see where you're coming from.

Dangerous Days is definitely one of the best retrospective 'making of' docs.

Nothing beats "Heart of Darkness" in my book

SO in my continuing quest of re-watching forgotten/hated sci-fi movies from my childhood, I pulled up "Sphere" on netflix streaming. This is an interesting one because I kinda dug it as a kid, and I will say, while the 2nd half of that movie is a goddamn clusterfuck, it's got a really fucking cool premise, and that 1st half is pretty damned good. What I especially like is how it harkens back to more classical sci-fi, where it's just a bunch of scientists trying to logically approach and figure out what is going on. There's also a pretty fun sense of humour between everyone, and they feel like real adults for awhile.

The part that's always stuck with me is when Samuel Jackson reasons out 20 minutes into the movie that clearly they are all going to die, since there was no record of their discovery on the ship from the future.

Of course the second half falls apart spectacularly. Having read and also enjoyed the book, this is a clear case where I really think they should've ditched where the book goes in the 2nd half and found an alternate 3rd act. Killer jellyfish and a giant squid is just a stupid, goofy concept in an otherwise pretty hard-sci-fi movie, and I cannot fathom how they thought this would work as they were making it. It should also be noted that this cribs pretty heavily from Tarkovsky, being kind of a combination of Solaris and Stalker, but applied to a b-movie sci-fi thriller.

Still, for what is ultimately universally acknowledged as a failure, I'd argue there's still some things to like in the film, certainly worth checking out if you've never seen it.

Just saw Attack the Block with my hallmates.   Currently too impressed to form sentences.

I saw Attack The Block in the cinema March last year it has been shown on UK TV a couple of times since as it was financed by Channel 4 over here. I think t's great and it's a shame it wasn't bigger than it was, not even here. It was released at a ridiculous time.

I have been a fan of its director since the 90s as part of comedy duo Adam and Joe

I don't know, You have Romney and Ryan.......

BOOM! Topical! If slightly inaccurate!

The guys whose act mostly consists of pretending to be gay, gangsters, Obama, or some combination of that will save us from Dane Cook?

Actually, another comedy duo came to mind, Garfunkel and Oats, singers of dirty songs. Stephen Lynch also usually has some friends on stage with him so he can play off of them.