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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 10:13AM Duke said

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So he says...
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 10:21AM (Unverified) said

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We all remember that Super Mario Bros. was also not a video game movie.

There's no way it could have been. I've never seen bowser in a Mario game and thought, "Oh he looks like Dennis Hopper".

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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 11:38AM mr nimblewick said

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You know, when you don't expect Mario Bros. to be a faithful adaptation of the game, it's a pretty entertaining movie.
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 1:18PM (Unverified) said

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If by "entertaining," you mean completely horrible and painful to watch.
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 10:23AM NaeemTHM said

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*claps*

Good move. I love Prince of Persia as much as the next guy, but it would suck ass if they tried to make the game into a movie. How do you translate 2 hours of trap jumps and epic sword fights...

WAIT A MINUTE!! NOOO!! DON'T CHANGE IT!!
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 2:23PM MrHashbrown said

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Hopefully this will turn out like Pirates of the Caribbean


.....the first one at least.
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 10:25AM (Unverified) said

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Newell: Not a very 'good director'
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 6:13PM Enzobot24 said

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If you had seen any of his movies you wouldn't be saying that.

Donnie Brasco is one of the best undercover-cop/mafia movies.
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 10:53PM MrHashbrown said

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Yeah he gets major cred for Donnie Brasco. Fantastic movie.
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 10:31AM (Unverified) said

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I would like a job as that kind of assistant.
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 10:46AM samfish said

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I wonder if we'll have bombed Iran by the time this is released?
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 11:39AM mr nimblewick said

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Does it come out before Bush leaves office?
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 10:57AM WC said

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Not a video game movie? EVERY movie that started as a video game is a video game movie, regardless of its actual contents.

By their logic, Alone In The Dark wasn't a video game movie, either... Or Resident Evil... Or... Heck, most of them. Very few of them keep the actual plot of the game... It's part of what makes them so bad!
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 11:01AM Duke said

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Man, wasn't Alone in the Dark the best movie. Oh, I loved it.

I kid.
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 12:24PM samfish said

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Pirates of the Caribbean was based off a Disney ride, though. It's not that they do or don't follow the plot...it's that most video game movies ignore everything but the action elements of it; so you end up with Action Packed Crap while stuff like romance and general character developments are either ignored or, at best, given lip service.

This PoP movie could be good if they basically ignore everything about the games except a few characters and keep a skeleton of time travel/manipulation in place.
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 11:06AM (Unverified) said

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Damn, from the headline I thought it was Gabe Newell unleashing some more huge rips on products. I feel sleighted.
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 11:19AM Dale P said

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This guy has one bizarre CV - Donnie Brasco, Four Weddings And A Funeral, a Harry Potter flick and Love In The Time Of Cholera?!

I have no particular bond with Prince Of Persia, but it could make for a great film... or a horrible effects-laden cheesefest like The Mummy.
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 2:42PM (Unverified) said

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I agree that any movie made using the likeness of a video game character and world is a video game movie. Just because it isn't adapted from the plot of the game doesn't make it something more regardless of what the ostentatious director says.
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 2:56PM (Unverified) said

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Dude, the title of your movie is the same as a Video Game, and your telling us it's "not a video game movie"?

save your breath.
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 5:05PM motang said

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Good, I am looking forward to this movie and I really don't want to it suck!
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 5:14PM (Unverified) said

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cleary Newell hasn't played the Prince of Persia games (hence the comment about his assistant), because if he had actually maybe *WATCHED his assistant play, he would see that the Prince of Persia Trilogy is one of the best narratives out there, especially part 3, which wraps up the series *PERFECTLY (well, wraps up the current Prince's tale perfectly).

he's obviously from the side of the fence that thinks that gaming can't possibly have good writing. i guess he's never seen or played Half Life (whole series), Indigo Prophecy, Shadow of Destiny, Second Sight, the Metal Gear Solid series, the Final Fantasy series, Mark of Kri (great Disney-esque feel and story, but for adults), and so many more i won't even bother to list them all.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was a decent movie, but they could have gone with a better director for this one. hell, any of the other Potter Directors would have been better choices. even Chris Columbus, who's good at establishing a light, fun atmosphere, before more heavy directors step in and take it to a darker tone; like Alfonso Cuaron, who i think, would fit the darker latter two installments of the Prince Trilogy (Robert Roderiguez and Guillermo Del Torro would be my other choices).
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Posted: Nov 12th 2007 5:14PM (Unverified) said

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cleary Newell hasn't played the Prince of Persia games (hence the comment about his assistant), because if he had actually maybe *WATCHED his assistant play, he would see that the Prince of Persia Trilogy is one of the best narratives out there, especially part 3, which wraps up the series *PERFECTLY (well, wraps up the current Prince's tale perfectly).

he's obviously from the side of the fence that thinks that gaming can't possibly have good writing. i guess he's never seen or played Half Life (whole series), Indigo Prophecy, Shadow of Destiny, Second Sight, the Metal Gear Solid series, the Final Fantasy series, Mark of Kri (great Disney-esque feel and story, but for adults), and so many more i won't even bother to list them all.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was a decent movie, but they could have gone with a better director for this one. hell, any of the other Potter Directors would have been better choices. even Chris Columbus, who's good at establishing a light, fun atmosphere, before more heavy directors step in and take it to a darker tone; like Alfonso Cuaron, who i think, would fit the darker latter two installments of the Prince Trilogy (Robert Roderiguez and Guillermo Del Torro would be my other choices).
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