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Prince of Persia: The Movie
ElJeffe
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There's no thread for this film yet? Really?
Saw it yesterday, and it wasn't too bad. Wasn't all that great, either, but it was fun and featured scantily clad hot chicks and Jake Gyllenhaal doing cool stuff.
Spoiler-free mini-review:
All the pieces were in place, and the movie had fun bits, but overall it never seemed to achieve a real sense of buy-in. I wanted to see what happened next, but I didn't much care about the folks involved, nor did I see them as anything more than one-dimensional plot-advancement vehicles. Of course, it was a summer popcorn flick, so that sorta goes with the territory.
The movie did play well with the license, and employed camera work and stage creation that clearly brought to mind the video games. The "Sands of Time" situations and effects were pretty cool, but underused. I was hoping for more scenes in which the Prince used the dagger to pull off awesome precognitive feats, but we only get one such scene, and you saw it in the trailer.
Oh, and the plot kind of forgets it exists at the end:
It's no Iron Man, but it's serviceable, and for a flick based on a game it's pretty excellent.
Saw it yesterday, and it wasn't too bad. Wasn't all that great, either, but it was fun and featured scantily clad hot chicks and Jake Gyllenhaal doing cool stuff.
Spoiler-free mini-review:
All the pieces were in place, and the movie had fun bits, but overall it never seemed to achieve a real sense of buy-in. I wanted to see what happened next, but I didn't much care about the folks involved, nor did I see them as anything more than one-dimensional plot-advancement vehicles. Of course, it was a summer popcorn flick, so that sorta goes with the territory.
The movie did play well with the license, and employed camera work and stage creation that clearly brought to mind the video games. The "Sands of Time" situations and effects were pretty cool, but underused. I was hoping for more scenes in which the Prince used the dagger to pull off awesome precognitive feats, but we only get one such scene, and you saw it in the trailer.
Oh, and the plot kind of forgets it exists at the end:
We're told that if the Sand Glass is broken and the sand's powers used to travel far back in time, the world will be destroyed. And then that happens. Except the world doesn't get destroyed. Because it was used for good? I guess? Whatever, the special effects were pretty.
It's no Iron Man, but it's serviceable, and for a flick based on a game it's pretty excellent.
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As you mentioned, the plot unravels at the end.
Bleh.
Lastly, we're in Persia; why is everyone speaking with English accents?
Seems like it's really based on the Fantasia segment.
Seriously.
About the ending I saw it as
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You mean Nicholas Cage did it.
It kinda felt like Disney were trying to make the Pirates of the Carribean lightning strike twice. We're in a world largely based in physical reality with a few supernatural elements. The action scenes are pretty, and I liked the "shootout", but I think it lacked the comedy undercurrents that made PotC successful. Yeah, the nondom tax dodger was funny, but he jars with Dastan being fairly serious most of the time.
Also, I don't think the chemistry between Dastan and Tamina worked too effectively. They lingered a little too long in the "sexually tense arguments" phase of an action movie romance, and when the elastic finally twanged, they zoomed past the "grudging respect and trust" phase to the "aw look they actually love each other" phase.
Spoilery bits
And yeah, being able to use the Sands to travel back to an effective point despite the warnings we'd all be fucked when the Sands get back wasn't adequately explained.
On the whole, it was an okay movie, but the ingrediants for a great movie were there with a little work.
One good thing came out of it: I found a copy of Sands of Time cheap, so I'm going to play it once I clear my backlog.
On the other side, it gave me great hope for a decent Assassin's Creed movie. In fact, there was one part that was an exact copy of a move in AC.
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What? Those trailers looked fantastic man, and everyone else i've spoken to said the same thing.
People on PA sure complain about their video game properties a lot.
I just didn't... really ever care about the characters? It's hard to describe what keeps a movie from being really good...
Also
I thought the effects and locales and choreography of action scenes were all excellent.
This is the first honest-to-God solid adaptation of taking a video game property and making the jump into a serious blockbuster film we've seen, like, ever. Silent Hill doesn't really count.
And yet we haven't had a thread till now? What the goof?
For the first real game-to-blockbuster film, I guess it was good enough. It did had makings of Assassin's Creed in it,
And also,
I never cared for the game series, platform puzzles not really my thing. Think I got to a point where birds kept killing me and stopped playing.
My main interest is that if this does well, it may improve the chances of the ME movie not sucking.
Also; Tomb Raider.
The movie would've probably faired better if they scrapped the IP and just made up characters who were actually awesome and fun to watch even when they're not in action sequences.
I seemed to be one of the few people who actually bought the first game and thought it was okay; didn't play the rest. Didn't blow my mind honestly (too short) but it was decent.
I'm still aching to see this flick. I just find it ironic that the people who are most interested in catching this are the casual crowd, and the gamers seem to be snubbing this for some reason (?)
Completely bizarre.
I enjoyed it though. It was only a single moment in the middle of the film where I thought it was dragging and the stabbing came back pretty quick.
Though Jeebus, there are times where characters stare into the camera and give out exposition. They didn't even bother to dress it up any.
It wasn't bad or anything, just too short.
Also nobody bought that game. Like, nobody.
The problem I found was that the writing seemed incredibly lacking and simplistic. We're treated with this nice plot but barely spend 5 seconds on any given individual element. And when we do get into the meat of things, it's treated very basically and typically resolves itself in the same five seconds (his capture the first time going into the lands and then getting out of it by giving over the girl and suddenly becoming best friends; the 5 second flight scene after that; the attack by the assassins which occupies all of a few scenes as opposed to a carefully laid plan by master guildsmen; the final battle by that black guy to get to the dagger). For instance, I liked the first sections of the movie for the very fact that it spends some time actually developing relationships: we see the prince's upbringing, and then his relationship with his brothers, the planning going into the siege, the nice work by the Prince to get into the city and its immediate aftermath, and the preparations for the celebration afterwards. This was all for the purpose of both introducing the dynamic of the brothers and advancing the plot point of the city all within a period of movie-time of perhaps a few days. I thought this setup well, and had enough meat on it to actually develop things for the viewers.
But then we have large chunks of the rest of the movie where, whenever an important event in the plot is coming up it is immediately jumped to and resolved within a span of minutes. I'm not sure if it's the writing just going to shit, or the result of the movie trying to cram too much in and not being able to treat it how it should have been.
I'm not sure, as a result, I can say I liked the movie as even a popcorn flick. There were some good parts, I liked the acting itself overall and the premise of the plot, but it just seemed hollower than I would have expected even of a popcorn flick.
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I bought the game and the three sequels.
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do you have any backup for that
because it obviously sold well enough to warrant a terrible sequel, at least
Yeah, for like all but the last couple action sequences it seemed a lot more like an AC movie than a PoP one. Nice to finally see a good parkour sequence that doesn't have an obscene amount of shakeycam though.
As for the 2nd spoiler
According to VGChartz, it sold 2.77 million copies, not counting sales of the Gamecube version. It was overshadowed in the gaming press by bigger-name releases when it first came out, but it did pretty damn well overall.
The sequels sold very well.
I remember reading quite a few articles about Sands of Time not performing up to expectations despite the glowing reviews and hype. Warrior Within sold double what SOT initially did.
Again, going by the numbers that VGChartz has available, SOT sold 2.77 million copies and Warrior Within sold 2.19, and that trend matches up with older figures I've seen. I wouldn't be surprised if WW initially sold better than SOT had in the same post-release time frame, but if it did, sales dropped off enough for SOT to outsell WW overall.
Too many forced "longing looks" between the Prince and Princess probably (when she wasn't trying to stab him....like on 7 different occasions). It was just way too Disney-ish. I enjoyed "Clash of the Titans" more if that says anything... (Plus the girl in this movie looked better in Clash as well)
Yeah, I don't know.
Also, people need to realize there are fans of Silent Hill who have had their series ruined by a movie whereas this movie didn't. CHILL
Random cutting of scenes was really confusing.
Plot holes: very large.
Why were Jake and that lady princess screaming at each other the entire time?
Did the director tell them that British accent = SCREAMING
Really, I try not to be a bummer when it comes to movies. I enjoyed Transformers even though there was pretty much no depth there. This movie just looks boring as hell.
You are wrong.