Let’s be honest here. All video game movies suck.
Super Mario Brothers – Sucked.
Tomb Raider 1 & 2 – Sucked.
Street Fighter – Sucked. Both times.
Heck, one of the worst movies ever on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, is based on an obscure Game Boy Advanced game. Even the best example of a video game adaptation, Doom, was mediocre at best.
Add a super whitewashed cast (including the kinda awkward looking Jake Gyllenhaal), and there is a lot that Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has standing up against it on the road to quality as it heads into theaters on May 28th of next year.
Now that we have the first official trailer, embedded above, I can’t say I’m feeling that much more confident about it.
Sure, the effects and stunts look downright jawdropping, and the cinematography is out of this world, but it feels like the bastard child of the Mummy/Scorpion King series, with a taste of Pirates of the Carribbean mixed into it.
As a fan of the Persia games over the years, I would love to be proven wrong and see a decent video game based movie for once, but this trailer isn’t instilling me with hopes of the flick being more than some mindless eye candy.
We’ll find out for sure when Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time hits on May 28th, 2010.
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mortal kombat. resident evil. as long as paul w.s. anderson is directing, video game movies are awesome.
streetfighter killed raul julia. never forget!
i really like the mario movie, but i’m not going to pretend it’s any good. i just like the cast and the ridiculousness of it.
i’d like to see a lotr-esque zelda movie, and metroid ought to translate pretty well if they can get a good crew.
okay. girl sounds too much like arwen, and i would have preferred staying closer to the games setting, all in one giant palace complex, but they gave him the costume from the sequel, so they’re taking liberties. and they obviously actually played the game, so points to them for that. that’s what most game adaptations get wrong.
i like ridiculous spectacle, i like jake gyllenhaal, i loved the first two mummies and all three pirates movies. will this be good? probably not. will i be there opening weekend? oh hell yes.
I’ll throw Hitman into the mix of good video game movies, even it did take footage directly from Dark Angel. This might have more to me being a big fan of Timothy Olyphant and not knowing he was in it until the last moment.
Dead or Alive gets points for staying as awful as its franchise is.
Final Fantasy is also enjoyable, and Silent Hill had its moments.
Double Dragon, Postal, BloodRayne and In the Name of the King all get the stamp of awful.
I had completely forgotten about Silent Hill.
For Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, the theatrical movie was stunning visually, but was a pretty stupid film otherwise. (Says the guy who owns the DVD)