Prince of Persia Movie, not good weekend not good Meta

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Wagram said:
Robin Hood was a great movie. But the ending was ultra "MEH" and stupid.

I wouldn't say great, but I liked it it was a good movie over all with a few cringy moments. Underappreciated by the critics I think because of its departure from the general Robin Hood mood. I think people misread the movie if they think it takes itself too seriously. Just because it's a Robin Hood movie that's not a camp light-weight romp with a token black guy doesn't mean it's being overly pretentious.

With PoP it's downfall, despite ticking most of the block buster boxes, is the screenwriter and apparently the marketing (which might have something to do with the poor story). I mean hiring the guy who wrote Dirty Dancing 2: Havanna Nights puts you on the back foot right from the start. It's a step up from Uwe Boll in the writing department (Maybe), but it's not really hiring the sort of writing talent that can give you a storuy on which to build a reallly great action movie. His only / best action-type movie writing job was "From Dusk Till Dawn 2", which by the look of things was sent straight to DVD to die. He directed 2 good movies: "Remember the Titans" and "Fresh", so maybe they should have given him the director's chair and handed the writing job to a more accomplished writer.

So it seems the industry still hasn't put decent talent into all of the most important jobs to achieve a VG adaptation that is generally regarded as good. I've always maintaineed that if you want a decent VG adaptation you need a good quality screenplay, and that means hiring decent screen writeing talent. But the decent screen writing talent is perhaps not all that interested in doing VG adaptation screenplays.

If PoP had the sort of screen writing talent that produced the Incredible Hulk or Iron Man it might have been the real break out VG movie people were hoping for.