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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Vanit on October 16, 2008, 12:54:34 am
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia:_The_Sands_of_Time_(film)
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Yeah we all know Asian people aren't allowed to be actors unless they know kung-fu or have some sort of lame sense of humor.
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The film is directed by Mike Newell and stars Jake Gyllenhaal
lol
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lolololol
I have to post this.
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llol aside...
WHAT.
According to Mechner, "Rather than do a straight beat-for-beat adaptation of the new videogame, we're taking some cool elements from the game and using them to craft a new story."
This is what I read...
According to Douche1, "Rather than do something no videogame movie has ever done, we're taking the easy street and letting a writer fulfill his dream of pumping out his own story with the addition of name drops from the game."
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A Good Topic Guide (http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=1341.0)
edit: yeah i dont see the point in locking this but stop making shitty topics, for real
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I'll include some detail next time, I just thought such a badly conceived movie needed no introduction. ~_^
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Steel will be pleased.
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I've been awaiting this movie ever since it was announced. I have high hopes but not ridiculous ones. I'm actually pleased with Jake playing the prince (even though he's not persian) as he certainly looks the part from the photos that people have taken while filming scenes.
(http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5826/jakegyllenhaalprinceofpji1.jpg)
The creator of PoP is involved in the making of this film so I don't think he'll allow them to butcher it too much, and the story isn't going to follow the Sands of Time too faithfully which will probably upset a lot of purists, but I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
This is going to be the new Disney trilogy.
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This is going to be the new Disney trilogy.
So instead of "chortlechortle He's a Pirate!"
it'll be "chortlechortle He's the Prince!"
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Wow, maybe it won't be so bad.
chortle
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I've been awaiting this movie ever since it was announced. I have high hopes but not ridiculous ones. I'm actually pleased with Jake playing the prince (even though he's not persian) as he certainly looks the part from the photos that people have taken while filming scenes.
The creator of PoP is involved in the making of this film so I don't think he'll allow them to butcher it too much, and the story isn't going to follow the Sands of Time too faithfully which will probably upset a lot of purists, but I'm sure I'll enjoy it.
This is going to be the new Disney trilogy.
except the last two games (idk much about the 3rd but it's assumption) became emo and really dark...
so you know how dark goes for disney.
so you know how anything really goes for disney now.
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they should make it like the first game, the whole movie side view LOLZ
(http://www.techtear.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/prince-of-persia.jpg)
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Steel will be pleased.
why.
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According to Douche1, "Rather than do something no videogame movie has ever done, we're taking the easy street and letting a writer fulfill his dream of pumping out his own story with the addition of name drops from the game."
Man isn't this the one way to do a good video game movie adaption? The only way to make it good is to drop the games events and much of its story because that is made for a game and rarely/never translates into a movie well.
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Man isn't this the one way to do a good video game movie adaption? The only way to make it good is to drop the games events and much of its story because that is made for a game and rarely/never translates into a movie well.
There's lots of ways to make this stuff work. For instance, don't have the actor fail at platform jumping, and then do it again and again.
If they kept the kind of action portrayed in the game, in the movie, and snuck in longer cutscenes (so to speak) I personally think it'd be cooler. The only gamemovie I can't argue this for, is like... Super Mario Bros. That was just a bad idea in every way. And there's no way to make it better.
But like, Double Dragon for instance... that's just a beat'm'up film. It'd be like Lord of the Rings the Two Towers. It's still interesting, and it can be taken to the silverscreen, but they need to at very least stop making shit up and mixing it with preexisting shit.
IE: Silent Hill. Why is Pyramid Head there? They could have made a whole Silent Hill movie, keeping the themes and general conscept of the atmosphere, while bringing a new character's nightmare to life.
I'm not quite down with the Mythos of Mortal Kombat, but that was the best game movie to my standards, followed by the Tomb Raiders and DOOM.
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hell yes they need to make another mortal combat movie and silent hill was ok for a vg movie, but yeah they could've done it alot better
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hell yes they need to make another mortal combat movie
I'm going to pretend I didn't read that. Because if I DID read that, we live in a pretty screwed up age.
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I'm not quite down with the Mythos of Mortal Kombat, but that was the best game movie to my standards, followed by the Tomb Raiders and DOOM.
wha
Well what can I say, I guess you and I are looking for quite different things in movies.
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hell yes they need to make another mortal combat movie and silent hill was ok for a vg movie, but yeah they could've done it alot better
No. They killed it with the sequel... :(
wha
Well what can I say, I guess you and I are looking for quite different things in movies. game movies
The above rant was directly concerning video game movies. I hold them in an entirely different cup than other movies, as it's basically a sub-sub genre of any genre. Silent Hill being a sub-class to horror films, double dragon a sub-class to fighting films, etc. I doubt I'll ever say that Tomb Raider is the best action/adventure movie of all time. It's more a crowd pleaser. (if that, in some cases)
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Horrible... gonna butcher this amazing game as a shitty movie now as well.
The prince has got to be Persian and the princess (The Maharaja of India's daughter) as well as everyone else in the movie has to be East Indian, as it takes place in India. From what I read from wiki, clearly that is not the case... The actors and actresses appear to be western and caucasian.. Why the fuck can't they find any proper looking actors/actresses?! There are plenty of proper and talented ones out there..
Hell, even Mohinder Suresh from Heroes would make a better Prince and he's not even Persian, though he is East Indian (So he could probably end up playing someone else in this film)..
Why do they keep butchering shit? First it was that DBZ movie, then Doom, Max Payne... and now this?
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The prince has got to be Persian and the princess (The Maharaja of India's daughter) as well as everyone else in the movie has to be East Indian, as it takes place in India. From what I read from wiki, clearly that is not the case... The actors and actresses appear to be western and caucasian.. Why the fuck can't they find any proper looking actors/actresses?! There are plenty of proper and talented ones out there..
They can, they just don't want to find any proper looking actors/actresses.
The reason is obvious, the money. With major wide releases, if it is not already a household ip, it is important to cast really popular actors because thats money. There would be more appeal for the consumer to see a film with Jake Gyllenhaal on the poster rather than Sendhil Ramamurthy.
Besides, casual American moviegoers hate Asians.
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Man isn't this the one way to do a good video game movie adaption? The only way to make it good is to drop the games events and much of its story because that is made for a game and rarely/never translates into a movie well.
I wouldn't say this is true considering that pretty all video game movies released to date have done this and have ranged from the crappy to the abysmal. I imagine if they did follow the story accurately the movie would be a million times better.
This particular games story I care little for... but I still think it would be better that they FOLLOW IT, rather then throw in a random crappy story that sort of connects the game and movie in name only that some hack writes for it.
Why did I hate DOOM? other then the obvious general low quality. They changed much of the story for the worse. For instance, instead of having Demons from hell, they changed it to a generic crazy mutant shit. or how instead of at least atempting to give a sense of fear by keeping the number of characters low (sense of loneliness), they make it a whole fucking team of idiots. And they center the story around the wrong people all together, it would have been much more interesting for the story to show how the base was taken over rather then have us watch a squad team come in to do what seems like clean up.
Or Silent Hill, The acting was decent, but they changed to much fucking story to the point that it again was just "generic horror movie". I literally stopped watching it halfway through. (something I should have done with DOOM honestly) The story in the original was good enough for a movie, if it was replicated correctly it would have been an excellent movie.
I want to see a video game movie that replicates the story on the level of the GOOD book to movie adaptations. So far there really hasn't been one. They have all pretty much veered off on their own terribly written story and it feels like each time I watch a movie like this I feel like I'm being spit on (as a fan of the series).
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A GOOD book to movie adaption is possible because the book is usually GOOD. Video game storylines are SHIT, I don't care what your shitty defenses are like MAN DOOM BIOSHOCK GEARS OF WAR METAL GEAR SOLID STORYLINES ARE SOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.
No they suck - especially compared to a GOOD BOOK.
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I'm not quite down with the Mythos of Mortal Kombat, but that was the best game movie to my standards, followed by the Tomb Raiders and DOOM.
Did we watch the same movies?
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Yeah Tomb Raider was one of the most uninteresting movies I've ever seen.
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I couldn't stop laughing when Lara Croft punched the shark in the face underwater.... :incred:
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They can, they just don't want to find any proper looking actors/actresses.
The reason is obvious, the money. With major wide releases, if it is not already a household ip, it is important to cast really popular actors because thats money. There would be more appeal for the consumer to see a film with Jake Gyllenhaal on the poster rather than Sendhil Ramamurthy.
Besides, casual American moviegoers hate Asians.
I'm inclined to agree, as much as I hate how money is such a big factor..
Its just gonna upset the diehard fans of the series (people who actually played all of the games and went through the series)..
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I'm inclined to agree, as much as I hate how money is such a big factor..
Its just gonna upset the diehard fans of the series (people who actually played all of the games and went through the series)..
It doesn't matter because diehards are going to see it anyway.
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as well as everyone else in the movie has to be East Indian, as it takes place in India. From what I read from wiki, clearly that is not the case... The actors and actresses appear to be western and caucasian..
You have obviously never seen Touch of Evil starring Chartlon Heston!
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i used to think these gyllenhaals were cool people.
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Jake was fantastic in Zodiac, I thought. He fit the character really well. But I haven't seen enough of his work to really judge him as an actor. But his sister is just awful.
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She was good in Stranger than Fiction, I thought.
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You have obviously never seen Touch of Evil starring Chartlon Heston!
You're right I haven't... who is that?
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You're right I haven't... who is that?
Who is Chartlon Heston!!??
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There's a Prince of Persia rerelease of the PlayStation classic. Apparently improved lighting and graphics for HD quality. I might try it, but who knows... They're already doing a remake of it for PS3.
Who is Chartlon Heston? Is he related to Charlton Heston?
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I'll probably watch this movie just to see how it is. I liked the trilogy quite a lot, and wouldn't mind seeing this adaption. It's intriguing.
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to continue on my story, I hope the prince of persia movie is not like Prince of Persia Classic. It's... Aladdin.
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Who is Chartlon Heston!!??
Yes I know... I only live on Earth
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Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer
This dictates the quality of the movie