Prince of Persia delayed a year (don't worry, we mean the movie)

jake gyllenhaal star as the brokeback prince

I'm pretty sure there are thousands of persians here in the US. Couldn't they have just picked one.....anyone could do.

Well, honestly, he has a persian-ish looking face when in a dark scene. At least he's proven throughout his carrer in movies like Red October(the movie where he's busy the rocket and his father is a coal miner) he can actually act a bit.

I'd prefer a reasonably talented actor who has the possibility of looking persian ish over a hot bimboseque filled movie with talentless bimbos. IE DoA movie. God, I'm not sure if it was Uwe's fault entirely as his crew had no acting ability. Their only natural ability appeared to be situps and pectoral implant surgeries(both female and male stars)

I actually saw to day a 2007/2008 comparison shot in People magazine during my break at work and he's starting to look pretty good. He's packed on another 10-15 pounds of muscle doing weight lifting and yoga/etc for flexibility. Anyways, he looks in much better shape.

He's starting to look similar to the Prince of Persia star's main character's look.

This is the same problem I had with Memoirs of a Geisha. The lack of actual Japanese people in that cast was embarrassing and while the movie was beautiful, if you had even a modicum of knowledge about Japanese language/culture, it made you grimace. SERIOUSLY, Zhang Ziyi, the famous CHINESE actress with a CHINESE accent known for her roles in CHINESE films?!

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I would much rather that this movie not see the light of day at all, shame that it was only delayed...

Look, I know this movie is gonna suck, but the best part of this movie is when he starts jumping from wall to wall and runs on walls and stuff...thats gonna be sick, but the rest of the movie is gonna suck. They better use parkour in this movie and lots and lots of it.

I'd rather the movie never appeared too, its sounds very bad.

But you still win for the awesome name, avatar and scream!

See, the problem with your argument is that most terrible "video game movies" ARE terrible because they changed it away from what made the game so appealing in the first place. Why even base it off a game if you don't care for the game itself?

No, that's flawed logic. Video game movies aren't terrible because they deviate from the original material, they're terrible because they try to become simply film versions of their video game counterparts. All that's doing is removing the interactivity from the experience, so why wouldn't you just play the game instead? No, the problem with video game movies is that they don't try to be their own entity, create an independent movie that doesn't require, you know, knowledge of the entire video game series to enjoy.

Your logic is flawed because it isn't based on anything. The majority of video game movies deviate a great deal from the original game, normally only leaving one or two features of the game in the movie.

Doom became about lab mutant people on Mars instead of Demons, and the movie was terrible anyway.

Hitman's Agent 47 was no longer a clone (the main plot point for all of the games), and his character changed compleltely.

Alone in The Dark had hardly anything to do with the games AT ALL.

Super Mario Brothers was set in the future, with human/dinosaur hybrids and Bowser portrayed by Dennis Hopper.

AVP movies completely change the setting and story continuity of the games.

Now name your bombs which stuck too close to the format please.

Stop making out your opinions as facts. Movies will always, ALWAYS deviate from their original source. That includes video games, books, comics, anime, scripts, ideas, other movies, and any of the above that is based on another (example, there's a Men in Black comic book based on the cartoon that's based on the movie that's based on the original comic...-_-)

Whether or not the movie sucks is up to each viewer's discretion. Personally, I like the Resident Evil movies just because they're zombie films. I can't stand it when a fanboy cries YOU CAN'T JUST PUNCH NEMESIS CUZ HE KICKS UR ASS LOLZ

See Dio, I'm just confused by your reasoning. If you just watch it as a Zombie Movie, then it shouldn't be needing the Video Game IP. If they DO make a Video Game movie, they might as well make it more than a vague resemblence through vaseline. Otherwise it's just cashing in on the name. Even if the movie in question is good.

Making alterations isn't a bad thing. The LOTR movies for example made huge alterations, but they really captured the essence of the books.

Ihavepants is right that most video game movies have had 0.1% to do with the game. They chuck in a few settings and a few characters with the same name - but essentially its an original movie with a cash-in name.

Probably the most successful Vg movies (financially) have been the Resident Evil movies... but they have a TOTALLY different style to the games. They use a few settings and characters, but essentially its a different IP.

Probably the most popular videogame movie among fans was Silent Hill. (i thought it was ok.) and its the one that stuck closest to the IP.. and didn't suffer too much for it.

Of course, the choice of game matters. Making a game based on a platformer or fighting game obviously entails big changes... but thats why they are dumb choices.

But Prince of Persia has an excellent, movie-like plot, with great, very filmable characters. Its one of the few games that'd make a great movie with NO changes. But of course they will...

@Ihavepants: Sometimes, in order to maintain your sanity when experiencing any adaptation of anything, you must view the adaptation as a separate entity from the original.

For example, if I had actually tried comparing the movie Queen of the Damned to the book Queen of the Damned by Rice, my brain would have exploded. Instead, I accepted that the movie was very enjoyable in its own bubble and the book very good as well and that they should never be compared, ever, ever.

In order to enjoy movies based off of books or video games, one must sometimes do this. Of course, it doesn't work if the game/movie/book just sucks period.

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