Siphaed Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 Spoiler alert: Anything you're about to read contained within this thread will most likely be a spoiler of the movie Prince of Persia. If you do not want the plots or the general movie spoiled for you, then please do not read any further. Thank you. Anyways, that movie sucked. It's like taking and creating Aladdin into a live-action movie, but instead replacing the a few minor plot points and changing the lamp with a time-changing dagger. 1) Evil villain is the trusted 2nd hand of the King. 2) Main hero character was a street urchin adopted in some way into royalty. 3) Evil guy tries to put all blame and burden on good guy. 4) Street urchin marries princess and gets praised by all. It wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't cliche and corny. See, Destin was praised for leading an army into defeating a city (holy city, which is weird), but then shortly after is blamed for a set up of murdering the king (his adopted father). Goes through a desert running into a band of thieves (40 thieves seems appropriate and fitting considering the similarities). Gets chased by Hassassin's, gets the thieves to help him, drags the princess through the whole spheel and eventually defeats the bad guy at the very end while sneaking past many armies many times unnoticed (apparently a king's son isn't that famous to be noticed by the hundreds around him...?). In the end, everyone died but the dagger miraculously made the sand go back into the sandglass and then it went back before any of the events happened, right before they stormed the castle where the dagger was and killed his uncle who was the one who set him up and murdered his father in the first place. Plot points that didn't make since: -Destin sneaking into the Persian capital city unnoticed without a mask or something of that nature. -Destin escaping the city without being caught even though it was surrounded by an army and thousands visiting for the funeral. -The fat guy having hundreds of walnuts in the desert where there are no walnut trees. -The fact that nobody noticed the big castle of Hassassin training still had dozens of servants and people working at it....did the king neglect to check that after he closed them down? -How the hell did the sand get back into the sandglass near the end? -Why didn't they speak with the 'spy' in the beginning before the invasion? -The constant bitching by the thieves about taxes and other shit (was Disney trying to make a political point here?). -Where's the princess get more sand? If the only way to get sand was to pierce the sandglass with the dagger, and the dagger only contained so much sand....seriously that's a big head scratcher there. Basically, it's a giant fucked up vid-game movie that's no good. Resident Evil was the only partially decent vid-game movie that released in the past decade, and even that was moderately okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttaM Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 House of the Dead was pretty good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F4ithl3ss Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I read bits and pieces of your thoughts on Prince of Persia and once I read "te fat guy was eating walnuts and there are no walnut trees in the desert" I stopped I liked the movie, it was pretty good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tminus Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I liked it too. I thought it was very enjoyable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apt. 2B Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gracefail<3 Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 You should have used ninja quotes to avoid the spoiler alert factor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomHanks Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Saved me some cash. Thanks siphead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEE SUPER GERMAN! Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Yeah, movie sucked. I mean, where the fuck were the sand-creatures!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingless Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Granted, working in the theater industry for a few years may have ruined movies for me forever, but my takeaway during the screening was something like this: "This is not a good movie. Most people will at least enjoy it from a purely stabby perspective. It lacks substance and a fully cohesive plot. At one point, I wanted the sanpocolypse to come just so the movie would end. It's 2 hours of Jake Gyllenhaal smiling, but this time, not in a gay way." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxCarsnerxX Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 This is why i dont go to pay for movies anymore most everything that goes to theater now a days isnt worth paying 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaki Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 This is why i dont go to pay for movies anymore most everything that goes to theater now a days isnt worth paying 4 AGREE! its true.. ahaha.. its about free online movies.. lol! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torchx Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Movie was all right and man.. the princess was hot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illmatic Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 I actually enjoyed the movie a lot. Don't need to get analytical, it's a fuckin Disney action movie what do you expect. Overall, I thought it was pretty good for a PG movie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illmatic Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Prince gets dagger containing sand.Prince uses all of sand stopping himself being killed by princess. Later (before prince has got more sand but after sand from necklace has been used) Prince gives dagger to brother before killing himself. Brother USES SAND to stop him from killing himself. I don't get it, where does that sand come from? He got a refill. Remember when he was staring at the princess' necklace, then took it later on? Her necklace had more sand in it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feline Inc Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 I actually enjoyed the movie a lot. Don't need to get analytical, it's a fuckin Disney action movie what do you expect. Overall, I thought it was pretty good for a PG movie ...is it really rated pg?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordps3 Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 video game movies suck because they are all action movies / blockbusters action movies and blockbusters suck all of the resident evil movies sucked too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 all of the resident evil movies sucked too Fuck off and die, in the quickest way possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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