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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Review

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About this Episode

The hosts continue their deep dive into video game film adaptations with a discussion on the 2010 fantasy action film, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. They break down the film's production value, the casting of Jake Gyllenhaal and Ben Kingsley, the use of parkour-style action sequences, and how well the movie captures the spirit and time-manipulation mechanics of the source game. The group also compares the film to other fantasy franchises and shares their final thoughts and ratings for the movie.

Hi, this is John Delancey and you are listening

to the GeekCast Radio Network. Hello and welcome

to another episode of the Cinema Geeks. I am

one of your Cinema Geeks optimists, Solo, and

joining me for today's episode is... Pretty sent.

Hello. Hey, I'm first this time. Yeah, he looked

at me trying to psych me out about it, too This

hard candy Mandy hello. Oh, he remembered me.

Yeah, I couldn't forget and movie revolt Dan.

Hello Hey, is it are we like going back in time?

I was trying to do something crazy. No, and today

we are delving back into the series on video

game film adaptations. Yes, we have not finished

that yet. We have not given up. We are seeing

it through to the end. Today, the film that is

up is the year 2010 Prince of Persia The Sands

of Time. Obviously, an American action fantasy

film based on the video game series of Prince

of Persia games. And this one is directed by

Mike Newell and starring none other than Jake

Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina and a

bunch of other people that we will probably talk

about at some point during the record. So before

we get to the actual movie, Amanda, did you ever

play the video game series Prince of Persia?

No. Really? That sounds like something that would

be up your alley. There was like a whole like

time period where I did not play video games.

and this was in that time period like i just

got boobs so i was like out hanging out with

people and stuff all right matt what about you

did you play prince of persia games um actually

i generally i did not play prince of persia games

but i have played prince of person the sands

of time excellent and what did you think about

it uh I always love a game that has a time mechanic.

If done well, that's one of the funner types

of games, if I could say such a sentence. And

the fact that it used the... One, it had it as

a mechanic, where it's like, oh, I didn't do

well that fight, I'm just gonna rewind time a

little bit. But then further, it explained in

-game things. Instead of dying... you would almost

die and then it would just reverse time for you

so you couldn't die as long as you had enough

sand or whatever. So rather than having just

continues and game overs and stuff, it used in

-game knowledge to explain a thing out of game

that's normally not explained. So interesting

that we have at least one element there that

was clearly in both the game and the movies.

Dan, did you ever play the Prince of Persia games?

No, I didn't I didn't have boobs either but Well

not Unfortunately, maybe it depends But I did

play a lot of video games during that period

of time, but I never I never I watched people

play Prince of Persia, but I myself never did

I I don't know why like I had the system, but

it was just a game I look that looks like a fun

I should play that and then now it's like 13

years later and I still haven't so Right, right.

So so Matt will rely on you a little bit Obviously

like there is the time element in both the movies

and the games but from your experience playing

Prince of Persia the sands of time How well does

the movie line up with it? I mean, can you tell

just by watching it that there's things that

remind you of the game outside of it being called

Prince of Persia so there are a number of elements

that are very in common like besides just the

the sandy dagger like uh... a lot of the uh...

jumping off walls and stuff like the very acrobatic

combat is very that game like that's true like

they did a good job of getting the soul of that

game i don't know i don't remember i mean i'm

not gonna lie it's been you know a decade since

i played that game i don't remember if the story

at all lines up um you know with this whole like

invasion of a city and i would argue probably

not but if if they don't you know lift the story

which again i mean a video game especially in

that era a video game is 30 to 60 hours long

um and so trying to condense that down into two

hours is is pretty rough so just if they at least

grab the soul of it you know this they did a

pretty good job of making it feel like prince

of persia Gotcha. Gotcha. It says there was a

game that was developed titled Prince of Persia

the Forgotten Sands That was released alongside

the film, but it says it was completely unrelated

to The the first two games the film or the first

two games that kind of came between the sands

of time trilogy I guess I don't probably speaking

nonsense here, but So there was another game

that came out alongside the film that had nothing

to do with it Interesting that there are some

connections. I would have picked up on that too

as far as acrobatics and some of that. Like when

I was watching, I was like, this feels like something

that you probably would have seen in the video

game as far as the way that he's jumping and

some of the athletic skills that Jake Gyllenhaal.

Has so I definitely thought that some of the

athletic parts were something that I would have

expected to see in the Video game itself. So

when we talk about the film, obviously we're

talking about Persia and we're talking about

that time period and we have like this invasion

of a city we have this street kid as far as Jake

Gyllenhaal's character Dastin who He gets taken

in by the royal family and then gets framed for

crimes, etc., and then his adventure to try to

get back in good graces and try to right the

wrongs and uncover the real villain of the story

along with the sands of time element with the

dagger, etc. When it comes down to the actual

movie, Dan, how do you feel Prince of Persia

works as a film? It's a movie like this that

like kind of makes me really respect a movie

like the the part of the Caribbean films because

it was clearly trying to Ape a lot of what they

did and you know similar kind of similar characters

similar type of type of action But you kind of

notice the difference between when you have a

really A director who knows how to kind of get

that even compared to a director that maybe doesn't

have that Capability quite yet. I will say it's

not like downright awful It's not we by far looking

at the other films that we've done. No, there's

a lot of there's money behind this They made

an effort, you know, you have Some of the special

effects are great but in the simple production

design with the amount of extras and things like

that an effort an effort was made and there's

certain like an attempt at like that old -school

type of Mentality, you know the the swashbuckler

type of movies that was trying to go for But

ultimately I think what was really undone by

it was an actor I really expected Jake Gyllenhaal,

but just as the main character he was Probably

the least interesting thing about it and it was

just a role that I think doesn't does not highlight

what he's good at as an actor He's like he's

not that charismatic type of You know, uh, like

show bode type of care like he doesn't work in

that role. I don't think like he's better, you

know with more uh with meteor characters like

a nightcrawler or a stronger like this is not

I think what makes him I think he was trying

to be that during this period of time, but After

seeing a movie like this he didn't work and his

the love interest aspect of it wasn't all that

great So I think ultimately just watching it

It's just forgettable in the way in the sense

that it just makes me think of other movies that

have similar Styles that just do it better but

like I said, it's It's probably the best made

out of all of the video game movies we've done

but In a sense, it's almost like he doesn't do

much with it like a movie with like Double Dragon

It's awful like they didn't put anything behind

that They didn't expect it where you can tell

like they thought this would be the next big

thing, but it just didn't have it Yeah, they

definitely were putting a lot of money towards

the budget was you know between 150 and 200 million

dollars and Disney definitely was trying to have

another Pirates of the Caribbean on hand You

know or something in that yoke. It is interesting

though that you when you bring up Jake Gyllenhaal

So do you think like speaking of Pirates of the

Caribbean like did they need somebody Johnny

Depp style like that Pirates had or do they need

someone like? Maybe like a Harrison Ford like

Indiana Jones had is that what this was missing

someone that had that charisma I mean among a

few other things obviously, but is that one of

the biggest hangups for you? I think it probably

would have helped, because you think of like,

you know, Pirates has Johnny Depp in that role,

and they have Orlando Bloom, like, J .J. Odenhall

could do that Orlando Bloom character, but there

wasn't that, there are some, like, Alfred Marlena's

character was probably, like, my favorite part

of the movie, but if they had, like, I think

he was just not a big enough role, they were,

I think, missing something like that to make

it work. My opinion interesting and we'll get

more into the details here in a second But I

want to get everybody else's get bring them in

on and kind of get their overall views so starting

with you Matt You know you like the the fantasy

realm and obviously this has a touch of that

would like most of the video game films have

but did this film work for you as a movie or

did you have some issues with it? So like I think

I think Dan got it. It's like a crappier Pirates

of the Caribbean. I think that if I saw it in

the theaters where I didn't have my cell phone,

I couldn't be distracted by anything, I think

I would enjoy it. I'd be like, yeah, it was an

okay movie. But I just think next to a lot of

other movies, even movies from the same time

period, it just doesn't stack up. It's good.

It's serviceable. It's probably the best made...

video game movie that we've seen, and then on

top of it, it draws from the video game, unlike

say like a Mario, which is just like nonsense

compared to the game. Again, I don't know if

it's as entertaining as a Mario or a Double Dragon

or Street Fighter. Those are all great, and maybe

not for the right reasons or the intended reasons,

but as far as just rating it as a movie, yeah,

it's probably the best one, maybe Tomb Raider,

the original Tomb Raider. But, like, it is just

like Tomb Raider is not as good Indiana Jones.

This is not as good Pirates of the Caribbean

or King Arthur or any of those fantasy tales.

Amanda, agree or disagree? For the record, it

did manage to put you to sleep, right? Three

times. Okay. Oh, man. It took us all week to

watch this freaking thing. meets Assassin's Creed

is exactly what this movie was. Why was everybody

yellow? Everybody was yellow. Everything had

like this yellowish tint. I didn't like it. I

didn't believe that they were Persians except

for what they were wearing. I was gonna say yellow.

They're all white, not Persian. They were all

yellow looking. Like everybody had like a jaundice.

They all just got real freaking jaundice for

this film and a lot of eyeliner. And then Jake

Dillon Hall's Harry Pitts everywhere. I turned

I was just insane and it was forgettable It did

have some really cool production though. Like

we talked about had that Disney money behind

it So it benefited from that and I think Jake

Dillon Hall was okay, but I wasn't I Don't know.

I wasn't super entertained by him or this, you

know chump -ass love story. They tried to throw

in here And all her struggling sounds every three

seconds. I don't know it was kind of a The movie

wasn't really a mess, but it wasn't as engaging

as I wanted it to be Yeah, I think I agree with

most of what's been said by all three of you

I'm gonna take it a step further though because

I think they had the you know They had the money

behind it and like Matt was saying they they

had some of the video game aspects as far as

You know, they're just crazy action type sequences

with people doing things that, you know, obviously

normal human beings can't do that you would see

in a video game. It does have the time element

with the cool little dagger thing and whatnot,

although I don't know if the best setup is to

just kind of only go back a minute. That doesn't

seem to be a lot of time to do anything, but

I think the main problem with me for this film

is almost 100 % in all of the casting. Like,

the entire cast, to me, for the most part...

with a few exceptions, just doesn't fit what

they needed for this film to work. Dan hit part

of it right on the head. You need somebody charismatic

in that main role. If you're going to try to

start a franchise, which is clearly what they

wanted, they wanted a series of Prince of Persia

films, I don't think Jake Gyllenhaal was the

right person to carry that. He's a great actor

and a... good at a lot of things, but what Dan

was saying was perfect. He's not that charismatic

person that's going to carry this type of franchise.

And I think you can take it a step further. I

think there were just so many people that you

weren't. that weren't memorable, that you weren't

gonna latch onto in their various roles. I think

Ben Kingsley is a terrible casting in this film.

And obviously, Ben Kingsley's great at a lot

of things too, but you put him in this film and

it's so obvious that just by casting Ben Kingsley,

everything is predictable in this entire film.

and you know exactly what route it's going to

go down. And I think they could have done that

better by having that a little bit more hidden

by casting someone that wasn't so obviously going

to play that same role that we've seen from him

so many times. I just think the casting - He

was Persian Uncle Scar. Yeah, I mean, I just

think the casting overall was not very good.

Not to mention, obviously, the fact - At least

he showed up this time. Yeah, he did show up.

He moved out of the throne. And there was a stunt.

double probably picking people and doing stuff.

He was involved in some action sequences. So

I mean, I'll give him that. He wasn't just walking

around a room or whatnot. But I just think the

casting from almost start to finish with maybe

Alfred Molina as an exception. And we did get

a very early version of Toby Kebbell in here

too, which was interesting. But I definitely

didn't know who Toby Kebbell was when this movie

came out. But I just think casting overall in

general was a fail on this film. Kind of bounce

off that Dan or what things didn't work for you

or what other things like You know, this is sands

of time and they have that like that Turning

back time element and I think it was something

they could have utilized a little bit more like

the one sequence where you have that like snake

attack and he uses it like it's probably the

best action sequence in the movie and I felt

like they could do like Could have been I don't

know like even when they were using it the first

time it wasn't really clear what was happening

like in in a way and the action itself like,

you know, this is coming out when Well parkour

is, you know, already really kind of passe but

still it's basically that and None of the acrobatics

in the movie felt real They felt like very stagey

like almost wire work the slow motion when they

used it. I think if anything hurt the Hurt hurt

it because it just made it seem like slow moving

in and plotting rather than athletic So it like

some of those movements where you seem kind of

going up things and jumping around it I don't

know like we've had movies like thinking of like

the casino Royale and other there's like the

district be 13 films that are utilize that same

type of maneuvers and do it a lot more with not

nearly the budget this has and I think like if

that's gonna be Your thing you can make it work,

but it didn't But we did get ostrich races, so

I think there was something to say there. I mean,

there was some benefit. I didn't like, not just

his performance, I didn't kind of like Alfonso

Molina's character, the concept of trying to

create this story behind his land just to not

pay taxes. I don't know, it was very, it was

like the one bit of community. Communique charm

that the film needed that like worked for me

But yeah, I that's kind of the thing that really

disappointed me the most I thought we at least

get some interesting action, but all the action

was just kind of dull Alfred Molina's character

reminded me so much of what's his name from Indiana

Jones on the and What was that Brian? somebody

but that kind of side character that they need

to kind of get them from one place to another.

But hey, it still is that comedy and then things

like that. But I did enjoy his character. Matt,

anything that worked for you in this film? Oh,

like, what Dan just said, like, the Malina scenes

were great. Like, I literally texted in a group

text I have with a couple of friends, like, man,

this movie really picked up when the ostriches

showed up, because my whole ostrich, like, scene

was so much fun and so interesting. And I kind

of... Like, once he got added, it became a little

more interesting because it was a little more

of a, like, that fantasy ensemble bit where it's

like, okay, so now we've got, like, now rather

than just having, like, the unspoiled prince

and the spoiled princess or whatever their dynamic

is supposed to be, like, now we've got, like,

this seedy traitor who's funny and then also

we've got this, like, bounty hunter headsman

guy. Like who's the best warrior in the whole

movie filled with warriors but is also a running

joke? Like have you heard of these guys? Like

it wasn't terrible, it just wasn't amazing. I

like too that there was an element that I never

thought of when it comes to like desert films

or film set and you know these types of things.

There's a moment where like there's a party like

a search party out looking for Jake Gyllenhaal's

character. And it's like, hey, we're in the desert,

so all we have to do is duck. There's hills.

They'll never see us. We're fine. We can have

our little picnic over here, and they'll never

know we're over here. Just duck real quick. So

that was kind of interesting. Can anybody explain

the ending of this film to me? I don't know if

I wasn't paying enough attention, but obviously

the film leads up to a climactic showdown between

Jake Gyllenhaal and Ben Kingsley and the dagger,

et cetera. And I have no idea what happened.

I have no idea what the explanation was for what

was happening. So pushing the sword through the

wall causes the sand to come out and The time

to go back, but you're only supposed to do it

for so long I and then but then there was a tornado

and I don't know why Jake Gyllenhaal went back

in Ben Kingsley didn't I don't mean because he

left left yeah, it was just kind of a mess and

I was expecting Ben Kingsley and him to kind

of like go back to the same time and then like

they're trying to like it becomes Timecop, because

that would be great, but that's not what happened.

I was just like, yeah, I didn't get it, because

they put it in the wall of the glass, but then

he was releasing the end of it so it would come

out, and then he stopped it, and then glass was

shattering, but it wasn't, and then they went

flying off into the edge, and then all of a sudden,

like you said, Ben Kingsley was not back in time,

but Jake Gyllenhaal was, and now we can make

everything fine again. Matt, did you make heads

or tails of how that whole thing ended, or was

it just like, hey, we need to be at the end of

the movie, so let's do this? So she set it up

earlier by saying if it's in the glass and you

push the button, you could reverse time as much

as possible. But if you opened up the dagger

while it was in the glass, it would destroy the

world. Right. And they started destroying the

world at some point. It seemed like they just

ignored that setup. Sort of like having a Chekhov's

gun that's a pistol and then an AK -3 shooting

a rifle. where it's like, we set up that the

guns existed, right? Like, cause yeah, it did

just start to destroy the world, but no one was

taking the cap off. Like, I could've seen if,

like, Ben Kengley was trying to unscrew the cap

and Gyllenhaal was trying to unscrew it back

on or something, but like, yeah, like, they established

how it worked, and then it worked differently.

It's just like, okay, I guess I'll go with it

because I want the movie to be over now. Is Ben

Kingsley good in any movie? Because it was literally

like, they're like, hey, this town is smuggling

weapons. I was like, no, it's not, it's Ben Kingsley.

I was two seconds into this movie and I was like,

no, Ben Kingsley is evil. I know it's not even

this Richard the Great looking dude, this King

Arthur looking Persian. It's just Ben Kingsley

is evil, right? It was weird. Even when he played

Gandhi, he turned out to be the bad guy. That's

what I'm saying. I feel like it was bad casting.

You have to cast someone else in this role so

we don't obviously know who the person is that's

at fault or the villain -type role. Amanda, what

did you think? Anything else? Notes that you

had or something you liked or didn't like that

you wanted to bring up? I had three lines of

hairy armpits. Basically. But was his hair in

his head real? Don't doubt it. I think that the

costumes were good costumes good in addition

to the production value I didn't like all the

fucking snakes Not cool. I'm gonna nightmares

about that. It's weird though because they the

action like Dan was saying like it was so crazy

that it did seem unreal like it did seem out

of a video game which maybe is a good thing but

then also at times was a bad thing because you're

like oh that's really cheesy looking action sequence

or cg or visual effects so it's kind of like

a i don't know which way to take it is it good

because it looks more like it's something you'd

see out of a video game or is it bad because

it looks like it's so forced um i wasn't quite

sure on that as far as like the actual reception

goes uh rotten tomatoes it currently has a 36

% on Rotten Tomatoes. The consensus states it

doesn't offer much in the way of substance, but

Prince of Persia is a suitably entertaining swashbuckler

and a substantial improvement over most video

game adaptations. So that's what Rotten Tomatoes

had to say. As far as a box office, like I said,

it cost about 150 to 200 million, but it made

more than that. It made 336 million. That's worldwide,

but it was considered to be somewhat of a bomb

as far as Disney's... Aspirations to create like

another Pirates of the Caribbean type franchise

Interesting stats for you guys see what you think

about this, but it opened number three at the

box office the weekend It came out behind. Let's

see what else was happening this year number

two at the box office for that weekend was sex

in the city too and Number one was Shrek forever

after so that's what beat it and it's opening

weekend. Here's a stat for you That was a weekend

to go to the movies I don't think I went to the

movies that weekend, actually. I stay away from

those. Interesting note, though, when it comes

to our video game films overall. Because for

a long time, this was the number one box office

king when it came to video game films worldwide.

It is not anymore, though. Any ideas as to who

is number one worldwide when it comes to video

game films? It's gotta be Assassin's Creed, right?

Nope. No, it's Warcraft now, right? Warcraft

is currently worldwide at the number one spot.

Followed, if you're just taking live action,

Prince of Persia The Sands of Time would be number

two worldwide. Prince of Persia also number two

when it comes to domestic growth, but there is

a different film that is ahead of it domestic

-wise. Does anybody want to take a stab as to

which film domestically is about Prince of Persia?

Is it one of the Resident Evil movies or or Mortal

Kombat? It is Tomb Raider. So Lara Croft Tomb

Raider is the number one domestic video game

film and then Prince of Persia would be number

two so Prince of Persia is two both domestic

wise and Worldwide does that surprise any of

you guys as far as how much money it was able

to make because it made 131 million domestic

Like yeah, not too much because like I said,

I think a lot of people were like oh it's gonna

be like prior to the Caribbean but It obviously

didn't do it as well, so I think that's probably

a big reason. Matt, what do you think? Are you

surprised that it's number two, both worldwide

and domestic? That's funny. But when you add

in the fact that it's newer than a lot of them,

although it's still 20 years old, dang. We're

all old. Wait, this is what? Wait, no, no, I

know this is this is eight years old. I'm thinking

of the other movie. We talked about recently

ignore me But if you consider like like what

did you say it made? 135 for domestic and about

330 something for worldwide when you compare

that to the King Arthur movie that came out just

last year where like It didn't even make the

domestic number worldwide like right And it's

like that movie was easily as good. And I mean,

I would say King Arthur has more star power and

more more appeal than than a Prince of Persia

game. So like, I guess it's surprising on that

level because it's not it doesn't stand out in

any way. So I can't imagine people were talking

it up to their friends. How about a crazy cross

connection between our two series going on currently

because our latest Kevin Smith episode that was

being Produced from us and put out live was our

dogma episode How about in Prince of Persia the

sands of time the fact that Alanis Morissette

composed the theme song for the film? So there's

a thing It's all full circle. So let's get closing

thoughts and grades for Prince of Persia And

then where's it stacking up as we get closer

and closer to having to figure out a ranking

system for our video game films? Dan will start

with you. Oh No, we're starting with me. Geez.

Okay One thing we didn't talk about is like watching

this I felt legitimately bad for Gemma Gemma

Ardington Just like I felt Like she was being

just harassed this entire movie by people and

this like the comments that were made towards

her from Jake Gyllenhaal to like the scene where

she's handing out like Yeah, and and she's like

being assaulted and they're like laughing at

her like ha look at her I'm like, what did she

do? Like I feel legitimately bad. Like everyone

was just saying like Just creepy things torture

all the time. I'm just like welcome to my world

I did not treat you like jake jones. I'll treated

her. No, but everywhere I go people say creepy

shit to me Well, I that that's awful. Yeah, you

should make them watch this movie. It's rockford.

So Is that a part of wisconsin is that But yeah,

like in and then again her Jake John Hall had

like legitimately like zero chemistry whatsoever

So I at least like her character had something

to do per se but ultimately it was just yeah,

man, it's I guess like When this just feels like

a movie that no one in it really wanted to be

a part of ultimately like like people did it

because they thought like okay like We need one

of these movies like they Disney made it because

they could care less really about the video game

But they they're trying to create another franchise

and it just didn't happen like it It felt like

no one was there because they really cared much

about what they were trying to make It was it

was almost like hey Disney's doing this franchise

We're gonna throw our name in there just in case

it's successful so we can make a bunch of money

But none of us are gonna do anything to make

us successful. Yeah. Yeah, so it just again it's

like It doesn't feel in an interesting way and

there's something fundamentally I think works

the plot isn't like oh It's predictable, but

it at least is coherent So I think ultimately

it's more like a six out of ten for me because

it's not Awful, it's just you know if this wasn't

a video game movie Probably no one would even

think about it because it would just be among

a lot of other films that are just like this

Amanda what do you think any final thoughts on

what kind of grade would you give this one? Think

I've said everything I need to say about this

movie I mean it was it was okay. I just it couldn't

even keep me awake So I'm gonna give it about

a five. It's just there. I think for me. It's

kind of playing that dangerous game because it's

not Something that you're gonna like because

of how bad it is. It's you know It's not like

it's so cheesy or it's so off the wall and saying

that you're gonna give it extra points It's a

legit trying to be you know somewhat of serious

film for the most part as far as like what it

was trying to achieve so it has that almost going

against it but it is like Dan was saying it's

probably one of the better made or maybe even

the best made films that we've seen so for that

I feel like it should be at least in the top

half when you're ranking all this stuff but but

it fails in some of the ways that could really

elevate it so I think I'm right with Dan I'm

gonna give this one a six what do you think Matt?

It's right there it's middling like it does some

things It does a number of things okay, it doesn't

do anything super well, but I mean, I guess just

to be that guy, I'm gonna give it a six with

the other guys. Excellent, so pretty unanimous.

Fives and sixes here for Prince of Persia, The

Sands of Time. We still have a little bit of

time to figure out where exactly it will fall

amongst the video game films that we've covered.

But that leads us to briefly talk about what's

coming up next, guys. Next up on our video game

film series is the one and only 2014 film, Need

for Speed. Amanda, excitement level. Never seen

it. Don't know if I should be excited or not.

Did you play the game? No. Did play the game

somehow randomly not very much I wouldn't be

able to tell you much about it But I do remember

selling the game to people at Target and I do

remember I think I either watched someone played

it or I played it once upon a time Matt, what's

your anticipation level and did you ever play

Need for Speed? I Definitely have played it not

high anticipation Dan what about you? I don't

need it I don't need it at all. I don't need

the speed at all. I did play the game. I actually

played it recently. I have it for my Xbox One.

I think the older version for it. I just remember

playing it because you could run away from the

cops. And before Grand Theft Auto was a thing,

it was a lot more enjoyable than there. Yeah,

I just remember seeing in that looking at the

previews thinking this looks like a low -rand

Fantastic Four, a low -rand Fast and the Furious

movie, and don't ever want to see it, but hey,

now I am, so there's that. There is that. Originally,

kind of side note, this would have been the final

movie in our video game film series when we started

this out, because it was going to lead us into

the movies that were being released that year,

which were Warcraft and Assassin's Creed. We

didn't quite get through it in time to kind of

do that, so I guess we still have to cover those

two films, I guess. Maybe we'll debate that off

air and see if we want to do that or not. But

Need for Speed from 2014 is the next one on the

list, so you'll have to let us know if you agree

or disagree with our take on Prince of Persia,

The Sands of Time, as we get very close to wrapping

up this video game spotlight. You can also interact

with us directly as a show. You can tweet to

us at CinemaGeekCast, or if you want to talk

to any one of us individual or pose a question

to one of us, you can do that as well. Amanda,

how would somebody interact with you? At Hard

Candy Mandy, I is no wise. Matt, what about you?

I'm at Fridley Sent. Dan? I'm at Movie Revolt,

and I am at... Optimus solo so definitely keep

those comments coming to us either on the website

Facebook Twitter Etc on your thoughts of the

video game series also keep out the lookout for

the other episode I mentioned as we were going

through our Kevin Smith filmography, and we just

put out an episode recently on dogma so check

that out and keep tuned for some fun things coming

up here in 2018 as we kind of venture into some

other types of episodes that we'll be giving

you guys as well. So that does it for this week.

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