Escape to the Movies: Prince of Persia

Abedeus

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Well, this whole review was a bit anticlimactic.

See what I did there?

...I don't. Okay, still, I plan on seeing this movie. Not this week, next week, when I get my allowance. Just because I liked the trailer and it probably won't suck.
 

LostTimeLady

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Good and informative review MovieBob. I think if this is genuinely the first good video game movie then surely we should roll out the red carpet for the tsunami that is to follow of more GOOD video game movies? Ok, maybe I'm being overly optamistic but at least this one's aparently good.
As a fan of POP: Sands of Time (only the first game as I'm about a generation behind with my video gaming) as long as the film lives up to that, I'm happy. And, I agree with everyone else, there's nownt wrong with Aladdin.
 

Keyser_Soze

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Umm Bob. No criticsms (couldnt care less about the whole whitewashing nonsense)

Firstly: The middle east like India IS part of Asia. Its not a seperate continent.

Secondly, Yeah Ben Kingsley can pull off the whole thing by being half Indian, since India is an Aryo-dravidian civilization. I.e Immigrants from the middle east, mainly what you would now call Iranians, settled in the Indian Sub continent a few thousand years ago. Hence the idea of the linguistic category: Aryan. i.e Iran which means land of the Aryans.

Just saying.
 

MB202

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Not much of a Prince of Persia fan I guess, are you MovieBob?

Me neither, but then again, I've never played the games. I've been meaning to ever since Yahtzee did that Prince of Persia retrospective video, since I know all three games of the "main" 3D series are available on the GameCube, but I haven't found them at the retailers I go to.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback, I'll probably go see this movie now.
 

Noodle99

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Good? I thought the film was terrible. I think that even Doom was a better video game movie than this.

Predictable, uninteresting, unoriginal, and just generally bad is how I'd describe it. Just my opinion, but I'm really surprised at how well some people are receiving it.
 

LewsTherin

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About the whole India thing. As I remember SoT, India was the place the were invading in the intro and the setting of the game....so yeah. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoYeah]
 

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That last thing was I'd assume the ending to lost, and all I can say is it sounded a lot like yugioh.
 

GameGoddess101

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Probably going to avoid it, or see it when it comes to the dollar theater... Whatever. I wasn't impressed by the concept, only because POP:SOT was already a really cinematic, story and character driven game. Honestly, take out the repetitive battles, exploration, and having to redo particularly difficult rooms, you've already got like, 4 hours worth of game at most, so really it's not asking too much of Hollywood to try and make that leap.

Not trying to sound pessimistic, but I'm just not all that impressed by the concept... Whatever. Might see it.
 

Jandau

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Huh, so it doesn't suck? I may just mosey on down to the cinema and take a look. Heck, I might even drag the missus along with me and force her to endure the damn thing for my sadistic pleasure...

As for the Lost, I'm in the "Don't really care" camp here. I tried to watch the show when the first season started airing and by the time the 4th or 5th episode rolled around, I was bored out of my mind. Once every year after that, I'd give the show another go and endure about two episodes, finally giving up on trying to figure out what was going on and who these people were. The plot seemed to get more and more convoluted without actually moving anywhere and the entire thing was a writing clusterfuck as far as I could ascertain.

The only thing I have trouble wrapping my mind around is that the people who wrote Lost also seem to be in charge of Fringe, which is a pretty damn good show...
 

MowDownJoe

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I am so glad I never got into Lost. That sounds like a stupid ending for a show where half of the fun of watching it is the Wild Mass Guessing you and your friends get into while watching it.
 

Danpascooch

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Oh thank GOD it didn't suck, this could be the first of a wave of decent videogame movies!

It could be the Spiderman of video game movies! You know, the one that sets the genre rolling.
 

Jory

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I'm just posting here to say how pissed off I also was at the ending of Lost.

It was such a let down.

Also, you apologised for mixing up the flags, then used the phrase "British Accent" which is a rather touchy subject ;D
 

Pseudonym2

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You know, in response to all the "whitewashing" complaints, I have to say... get over it. They picked the actors they thought would be best in the roles, race or ethnicity be damned. They could have gotten a middle eastern actor to play the prince, yeah, but that doesn't mean he'd have been necessarily as good an actor in the role. I actually applaud the fact that they didn't focus solely on their appearance and went with acting talent instead. I mean, look at Michael Cera. He keeps getting cast as an awkward teenager because he looks like one, but he's not a good actor in those roles. The casting director picked the actors that would best carry the story of the movie, and that's the important thing.
You don't think the fact that Hollywood can't or won't find any good middle eastern actors is very damning? I think it goes back to Hollywood's bullshit assumptions that minorities can identify with white people but white people can't identify with a minorities. That's why Barbershop is a "black movie" but any John Hughes movie isn't a "white movie."

Why are so many Hollywood movies criticizing the war in Iraq now? It might have done some good six or seven years ago.
 

Keepitclean

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Not loving the flowplayer watermark. Do I have to be a premium user or something to get rid of it? It's really annoting, it blocks out a quater of the screen. If it's like that for ZP I'll be pissed as it will make it almost unwatchable with the white drawings on the yellow background and all.

Oh yeah, the review. The trailers made it look a lot like a Disney Chronicles of Narnia movie where everything is too clean.
 

Trucken

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Also, I don't care what anyone says, I liked Mortal Kombat and the first Resident Evil movie. But none of the others :p
I agree with you on Resident Evil, I still think it's really good.

Another one that's not fantastic but really funny is Postal. Definitely not the finest piece of movie, but still pretty solid and hilarious as hell.
 

Cameron Baxter

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ok well if its a rainy day i guess i will pick up tickets then
also the british accent thing is kinda true tbh although its never a real british accent its an american british accent which is worse.
 

BlueInkAlchemist

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Good. After seeing Ebert's review, I was afraid this would be universally bad, like most of the other non-animated video game flicks out there.

Might still wait to rent it, though. I like the game, I like Jake, but I don't know if it's worth the better part of $20 American.