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Barrett’s Review: The Video Game Adaptation Curse Continues with Prince of Persia
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (C)
Tapping into video games for source material to make movies hasn’t really worked out thus far. Studios have tried for years, but the ultimate outcome has been mostly pretty awful. The Resident Evil franchise is an exception, as it has been successful at the box-office, but bombs like Hit Man, Max Payne and Doom have proved that making a movie based on a popular video game is no easy task. And while Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a step in the right direction in terms of entertainment (which is not saying much), it’s still a sub-par action blockbuster that you should refrain from wasting $10 on.
The second trailer for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has just hit the web, and I must say that this trailer has me anticipating the film’s May 28th release. I was skeptical after seeing the first trailer that featured little reference to a plot and nothing but overblown typical Bruckheimer action sequences. But this new trailer has dialogue that caught my attention, some reference to appealing story arcs, and was also comical.
In this edition of Trailer Trash MASH we have two trailers for upcoming Disney action-adventure blockbusters. One is based on a popular video game series, while the other is loosely based Disney’s famous Fantasia, both of which have been adapted into live-action blockbusters. Jake Gyllenhaal was at the Spike TV 2009 Video Game Awards with a special presentation of “never before seen” footage of his upcoming Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The first official trailer for POP was released back in early November, so the claim of “never before seen footage” seems like a farce to me, since most, if not all of the footage in this Spike teaser was shown in the previous trailer.
