Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: The Movie
 

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..Ok, first thing I have to say is this: Why can't they pick a damn genre? Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Adaptation is what they got. And also Disney Studios is a part of it...

And can anyone else smell new Trilogy?

SOT was actually one of the few games I always thought would work really well as a movie. It helps that whoever they got to do the actual game script was capable of stringing two words together without embarrassing himself along with you just for being exposed to it.

If the first movie is gonna be as good as Curse of the Black Pearl, then I'll sit through another Dead Man's Chest.

Dude, if the first movie's as good as Curse of the Black Pearl, I'll EAGERLY ANTICIPATE another Dead Man's Chest.

I friggin' loved Pirates of the Carribean.

Damn, i just started playing this yesteday!

Either way, you know they are going to change things (ending included) and that's right there is your problem

Why would they change the ending, though? The actual game's ending tied up any loose threads perfectly except "What happened to them afterward". Meaning, PERFECT for a sequel.

And who knows, maybe they'll do a sequel that's not Warrior Within. :rolleyes:

Warrior Within wasn't even that bad; it just lacked a storyline quite comparable to the majesty of the original, but even then, it wasn't that bad.

Agreed. But you have to admit, it would be much, much worse than SoT (and maybe even Two Thrones) for a movie adaptation.

Especially because it's Disney we're talking about here.

I'm really looking forward to this. SoT was pretty amazing and even if they start churning out sequels it'll still be totally worth it.

There's also that Jake Gyllenhaal is a delicious piece of man-meat.

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Yeah.. >.>

You figured me out. That is my entire reason for going to see this.

Jake Gyllenhal? I take it back, fuck this move.

Fifth's lack of hatred lasted about five minutes longer than I thought it would. Total time without hating it: 9 minutes.

While this is completely unsurprising I am curious to wonder what about Jake Gyllenhal pisses you off so badly?

For me its the shape of his head. I don't know why it incites rage, but he has a weird shaped head.

That he's starring in Prince of Persia.

It's just so stupid in so many ways.

Well, as much as I like Jake, my hopes would've been waaay higher for this movie if they went with that one poll and chose someone of actual royalty.

Is it the 'get a hot male lead cause it worked with Pirates' or the fact that he's not even slightly Persian?

He looks about ten years older than the prince in the first game. He might work for Warrior Within, though.

I'm not sure how you do a movie of this game because unlike a lot of games, it focused way more on long gameplay sequences (mainly of platforming, not combat) and a few plot points interspersed here and there. It'd be almost as bad as trying to do Contra the movie (and then again you'd have lots of guns blazing, anyway).

That guy is way too muscly to play the prince. I can't see him doing wallruns and shit and it not looking like matrix stuff, its supposed to be just the prince is really freakin' agile and badass, not magic.

Still stoked for the movie though.

who actually has sword fighting training, gymnastics experience, and looks like the Prince, and more than likely gets a whole country full of insta-viewers, as well as all the pretty boy status he can handle, yeaaaaah, let's turn him down
It's not like they've never done Parkour movies before.

Of course they turned down the one who wasn't obviously caucasian. This is a Hollywood movie, the Prince of Persia has to be caucasian!!! We all know how the Persian Empire was just filled to the brim with Europeans...why, Iran has a deep history of Europeans named Jake in residence.

are...are you being sarcastic... cause you're....Snake

No, I'm David. Solid Snake is just a codename. (Note the sig.)

I meant that you(you not Solid Snake) usually give off the impression of not being likely to say what you just said. That something that is so obviously influenced by stupid racism, but is easily argueable as something else, (Star Power)You would lean more toward the latter than the former, as far as I knew(may be wrong).

I am surprised by the choice in Jake. He's just... Yeah, this seems more they'll focus on the combat of PoP instead of the parkour. So the Prince will have a Saber two times the size of his head, and the girl (who was always a decent companion in the first game[Farrah]) is going to just be some snobbish woman... Oh crap if they get Kim Kardashian... >_<

Anyway, I'm liking the movie idea and it's all good. But I'd have to believe Johnny Depp is better for this simply in regards to his physique.

Huh?
So, you're...accusing me of being racist because I'd prefer a Middle Eastern actor to play a Middle Eastern role in a movie?!?

I see what premonitions is trying to say but it's not worth the effort to explain it and in any case the impression he got was clearly wrong so let's just let that die there.

Mainly the latter, which I feel is a product of the former.

I don't know that I'd blame Pirates specifically, it's just standard-issue Hollywood Stupid.

I don't even know that I'd be automatically against any white dude ever, it's just that in particular they decided to get the living embodiment of Suburban White Dudeseyness. Which if you're casting Donnie Darko or Brokeback Mountain or whatever in hell then hey that's totally cool. But I can't think of an actor who less reminds me of anything having to do with Persians or Princes.

EDIT: Like okay by way of comparison and speaking of brokeback mountain, if they had made this movie with Heath Ledger in it I at least wouldn't have automatically hated it, because Heath Ledger at least 1. was the right build 2. had an English accent and 3. was a great actor in pretty much any role. I mean I'm not even saying it wouldn't have sucked but it would at least have been hypothetically plausible not to have.

But like, Jake Gyllenhall as the Prince of Persia? That's just wrong in so many different ways.

I'll, uhh, hope that wasn't some sort of an insult, then.
Hollywood isn't really racist (at least, not as racist as it used to be) insofar as there's increasing opportunity for most races these days. African Americans, for example, are no longer really getting shafted or under-represented. (In sitcoms that's another story, I'm not entirely sure why that is. And they're still being typecast, just not shafted entirely.)
Middle Easterners (or those of such a descent) probably are more likely to get shafted then most, though. I mean think about it, how many Arab American figures in television or Hollywood aren't being shown in movies as terrorists or strange people with foreign accents? And it's a bit disappointing that they're not going with an ethnic actor for this role, because there was such a strong Middle Eastern flavor to the world of the Prince of Persia series, and it just won't work well at all with European actors mucking it up all over the place. I mean there are some movies you can kind of fool around with ethnic histories (caucasians voicing the roles in Aladdin didn't bother me), and then there's some like this, where more appropriate casting would have benefitted the production.
Also, insofar as the Prince is a great protagonist who is thoroughly charismatic, likable, and not remotely evil or frightening, it would have been great for an ethnic character to break some stereotypes with him.

See now THIS is what I expected you to say.

Huh? I'm confused as to why you're "expecting" me to say anything.

And his magic dagger?

Also, I have to say, you can beat the game in 3 hours, and that's with fumbling around the magic doors sequence (Fuck that.). I don't think they need to cut anything at all, and I still think the plot, while it could use some fleshing out, doesn't need much editing.

Fleshing out? How so?

Sorry everybody.. feel free to throw things at me
As per the movie,
I agree, the story is just fine for an hour-and-a-half movie, also, I wonder who's the stunt coordinator for this, Maybe Sebastien foucan, since he's broken my heart already with his whoring.

Seriously, sorry again.
WHYYYYYY SEBASTIEN, WHYYYYY!!!!!!!

ok this could be good, and by could, I mean should. It has a solid story, great setting, plenty of action. But since when has that prevented hollywood from making crap

A completely legitimate concern.