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koyotecat on 30 May 2010
axumblade said:
What are you going on about?

First of all,

http://beta.rottentomatoes.com/m/prince_of_persia_sands_of_time/

It's got a 39% percent, which is actually above all other video game movies other then Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (which is HILARIOUS in its own right).

http://beta.rottentomatoes.com/guides/best_video_game_adaptations/6/

I'm not saying that the movie didn't flop but don't try to make it out like it was a rare occurrence for a video game movies. It's overall 3rd in Opening Weekends for video game movies (right behind Lara Croft Tomb Raider and Pokemon's First Movie, which are much more well known franchises).

It does suck because it was hyped up to be a big release. But at the same time, it's nowhere near as bad as you're making it out to be. Also, just throwing this out there but it's only U.S. numbers. If it were 30 million WW, then I'd be worried but the movie has already grossed 87 million internationally according to boxofficemojo.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=princeofpersia.htm

So Good day to you sir.

Wow, you did exactly everything I was going to do. Impressive axum.



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darthdevidem01 on 30 May 2010
axumblade said:
What are you going on about?

First of all,

http://beta.rottentomatoes.com/m/prince_of_persia_sands_of_time/

It's got a 39% percent, which is actually above all other video game movies other then Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (which is HILARIOUS in its own right).

http://beta.rottentomatoes.com/guides/best_video_game_adaptations/6/

I'm not saying that the movie didn't flop but don't try to make it out like it was a rare occurrence for a video game movies. It's overall 3rd in Opening Weekends for video game movies (right behind Lara Croft Tomb Raider and Pokemon's First Movie, which are much more well known franchises).

It does suck because it was hyped up to be a big release. But at the same time, it's nowhere near as bad as you're making it out to be. Also, just throwing this out there but it's only U.S. numbers. If it were 30 million WW, then I'd be worried but the movie has already grossed 87 million internationally according to boxofficemojo.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=princeofpersia.htm

So Good day to you sir.

wow excellent post.

This is no surprise

but I did think maybe this could be more successful than all game movies except tomb raider.



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homer on 30 May 2010

I didn't care much for the movie. Not worth buying a copy but is worth a rent.



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pokeclaudel on 30 May 2010

it not a bad movie. I saw it twice and it was worth it (only $5 a ticket in the morn). There are a lot of nods to the game.



Mad55 on 30 May 2010

To me the movie is great i think its the best movie based of a game released but that's just my opinion. also its not gonna flop it'll break more than even .



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noname2200 on 30 May 2010
pokeclaudel said:
it not a bad movie. I saw it twice and it was worth it (only $5 a ticket in the morn). There are a lot of nods to the game.

Does Farah shoot the Prince in the back a couple of times?  If not, it's not faithful to the original.



homer on 30 May 2010
axumblade said:
homer said:
I didn't care much for the movie. Not worth buying a copy but is worth a rent.

What I keep hearing from my friends is the effects are really good but otherwise, but that's about it.

The effects are pretty good but the main character ( Destin or was it Dustin? I could not tell what they were saying) and the girl ( don't remember her name either) instantly fell in love. It was not gradual at all. It was as if she just drank a love potion imo.



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binary solo on 30 May 2010

OK I think there's a bit of clarification needed here.

The Rotten tomatoes score is actually 39% (not 23%, that score is for the RT top critics only which does not include the sorts of critics that tend to like these sorts of movies). Still not a good score in absolute terms but one of the best for VG adaptations. My view is that if a VG adaptation gets >30% then there's a good chance gamers will think the movie is OK.

Boxoffice Mojo has estimated just above $30 million grossed for opening weekend. This is normally pretty accurate to within a million or so.

The movie isn't going to have good legs. It'll top out at $60 million max in North America, which is not a good performance for a big budget movie with a production budget of $200 million and a promotion budget of who knows what. While a lot of critics may be pretentious dicks when it comes to criticising pulp culture movies, the movies that are wildly successful at the box office yet get poor reviews are the exception to the rule (Transformers being an excellent example), and when they open with a sub $50 million weekend there's no coming back to become a surprise hit.

Thgis movie will have the glitz that other VG movies don't but its underbelly will still be part of the standard VG adaptation fare: poor translation of game story to movie screenplay.

But personallly I'm glad that PoP's rotten tomatoes score has come in under Robin Hood's. I think Robin Hood has been seriously underappreciated by the critics.



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tallgnome on 30 May 2010

It was alright movie better than most movie based games. (Got in free)
Though in terms of gross it will probably make back its money. At global its at 119 million. Not sure about in terms if there will be a sequel or not



Moren on 30 May 2010

it is such a shame shrek 4 defeated this movie