Prince of Persia Opening Weekend Stumbles

[Arkhangelsk]

I haven't seen it, but I think it's because PoP is such unfamiliar territory to the everyman. While it was showed the same way as any other movie, it was partially made on behalf of the fans of the series. And while the fans are many, many of them were skeptics.

 

[ghostmpx]

I want to see this movie so bad.

 

[Irridium]

PoP was actually pretty good. Indeed the first good movie based on a game. I enjoyed it, and it deserves more money.

Its a shame that franchises like Shrek (the first movie was good, everything after that wasn't) get more money and fame.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

The budget will be reached EVENTUALLY (DVD's/Blurays) but I'm not seeing any hope for a sequel.

 

[Goth Skunk]

I enjoyed it, but I never played the Prince of Persia games.

 

[BabySinclair]

Good, not great. I know a few who refuse to see it out of fandom but overall it shouldn't do terrible.

 

[manythings]

Well the problem is who gives a shit that doesn't know about games? We aren't that big of a demographic since most of the gamer crowd thought it would suck and didn't want to hand over cash to be screwed over. I only went to see it mostly to be with friends and was pleasantly surprised.

 

[Decabo]

I loved the Sands of Time videogame, and that's exactly why I didn't see the movie. There are some stories that I think should remain exclusive to the gaming public, because not everything can be done in film. Oh, and the Mass Effect movie is going to suck.

 

[Legion]

To be honest I thought it was pretty good, although the only PoP game I have played is the 2008 one and so I am only slightly familiar with the plot of 'The Sands of Time'.

A couple of annoyances though:

Firstly they did the typical Hollywood thing of "Oh no!, We lost the precious artefact. Oh no! We have been captured yet again". I don't understand what is so interesting about having the protagonists get caught or lose the thing they need to protect half a dozen times in a movie, it makes them look like morons.

Secondly, although it isn't a huge deal I found it strange that they changed the name of the princess for some unknown reason (I haven't even played much of the trilogy and even I know she is called Ferah).

It did have a few other issues here and there, and I would have liked a little more 'parkour' especially involving the dagger (after all, most of the game revolves around that) but considering it was based upon a video game, I'd say they did a fairly decent job.

 

[PureChaos]

it was a good film. never played the game so looking at it purely as a film and not a game made into a film may have made a difference to my opinion. i enjoyed it

 

[Shynobee]

I saw it, and while it was decent, for me, the biggest problem was that every single romantic scene, I couldn't help but supress a giggle at how ham-handedly awkward they all were.

Seriously, every single time the princess and prince were about to kiss, I had to actually try to not laugh out loud. They were so poorly done.

But other than that, the rest of the movie was pretty good.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Awww man... Its actually a fairly good movie. Doesnt deserve this. Then again its better than most other shit now, so it will probably get a good amount of money... eventually.

i think plenty of people were expecting it to be bad...and didn't trust any critics obviously, so they were hesitant to see it the opening weekend

i think it'll do good over the course of the next few weeks, once word of mouth gets out its pretty good for a video game movie, i personally liked it and if i wasn't stingy for money i'd possibly go see it again

 

[Benjamin Grin]

How on Earth did it miss the point of the games? It was in the same "Arabian Nights" vein, written by the same guy, and featured the same McGuffin. It was a retelling, a new story with homages to the games. That's the only way to make a good video game film. Movie Bob was wrong; Maybe it didn't blow us away, but this is the best kind of video game film we're going to get (Which is not to say it is guaranteed to be the best one ever made)

You can't make video games into films. Not really. But what you can do is try to capture the spirit of the game, and this is what they did.

 

[The Austin]

I saw it, and I thought it was pretty damn good to be honest. REALLY damn good actually.

and I wish people would stop saying that this was the "First good video game movie".
We broke that mold a LONG time ago with Tron.

Now the first good movie video game.... There's an achievement.

 

[Broken Orange]

Unlike some people, I am not a snob about a movie. I expected a fun action flick and that is what I received. My guess for why it didn't do great, besides the bad press, is the movies it is competing with. Shrek, Sex and the city, and Iron Man.

 

[Kielgasten]

That is harsh!
Finally we get a good movie adaptation of a game, and noone sees it?
I want sequels dammit!

 

[Phoenixlight]

I was really looksing forward to seeing the film when I first saw the trailer then I noticed that it was a 12A and made by disney so I'm not bothering with it.

 

[Cabisco]

It was an alright movie, good enough to see in the cinema anyway. I hope hoping this movie would start the ball rolling and make people more interested investing in game films, but I'm guessing that between the dissapointing box office figures and the lukewarm reviews that won't happen.

Then again their is a arguement to be made that maybe Game to films don't deserve big investment. As from what we've seen, people arn't willing to support them on release, and they seem unable to translate from Game to film. I can't think of a single one which I'd class as great, now only one as watchable (aside from straight to dvd advent children). If someone told me to give them $200 million to invest in that, I'd tell them to leave and stop making bad jokes.

 

[Kurokami]

Have you seen it yet? What did you guys think?

Very enjoyable, shit story, hate the love interest.

(that's the nutshell of my opinion on it, as with most game-movie movies. Was fun to watch but could have been a whole lot better. IMO they should have ditched the PG rating and gone more for the kick ass and kill everything prince of persia warrior within type of movie)