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.

The film is directed by Mike Newell and stars Jake Gyllenhaal

lol

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I have to post this.

EDIT
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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edit: yeah i dont see the point in locking this but stop making shitty topics, for real

Steel will be pleased.

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.

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!"

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.

Steel will be pleased.

why.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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?