In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

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Excellent excellent sort of thing there you did

and we're all here to talk about movies because

that's what we do here on the cinema geeks and

today We are talking about another one of our

video game films. That's right, I know we kind

of said the wrong film last time, but we're talking

about In the Name of the King, a dungeon siege

tale. So that is what is up today. Next time

we go to Max Payne. They both came out the same

year, so it's an easy mistake there, but In the

Name of the King, we can't let it not be talked

about, right? One more chance to go into the

U .A. Bowl. Have we done the U .A. Bowl retrospective

now? Did we double that? We did the video game

series and then we somehow also got through his

entire filmography? No, because we haven't done

Blood Rain 2, Blood Rain 3, and The Name of the

King 2. There's so many movies we're missing.

But we covered as many films as anyone should

from his filmography, correct Dan? Well, we did

one so yeah So as we said in the name of the

king obviously is directed by you a bowl This

one's not written by you a bowl though written

by Doug Taylor based on Dungeon Siege by gas

-powered games and stars a bunch of people. Unlike

some of his other films, there's a lot more name

recognition here with the likes of Jason Statham,

Lili Sebesky, John Rhys Davies, Ron Perlman,

Christina Loken, Matthew Lillard, Ray Liotta,

Burt Reynolds, the list goes on. And The Name

of the King was released in 2007, 2008 in the

United States, 2007. seven and a few other countries.

It's about two hour long film that is an action

fantasy film. So first of all, like we normally

do, let's get a quick glance at anybody's experience

with the actual games that this film series is

based off of. Matt, did you ever play or do you

know anything about the games? Oh yeah, I played

a bunch of them. I own Dungeon Siege 1, 2, and

3. It's interesting. Dungeon Siege 1 was just

like, essentially, a lot of people would argue

an improvement on the Diablo style of game. Diablo

pretty much invented it, but Dungeon Siege added

a lot of modern things, like when you drink a

potion, you drink as much as you need rather

than just downing a whole potion. It added party

elements where if you were playing single player,

you could have a whole team of five guys. pretty

classic game. Dungeon Siege 3 has moved entirely

away from that, whereas instead of, like, choosing

a class and choosing a, like, you know, character

and being able to make your own character, it

was just like, hey, these are the four characters

you can choose from, and your party is going

to be these four characters as you find them

in the game. So, like, yeah, I've played them

all. Okay. Amanda, any experience with the Dungeon

Siege games? None. None? Zero zilch? Dan? Have

negative experience with them. Yeah, you have

a negative experience with them or just lack

of experience with them I like lack of I like

so little that it's like negative experience

And I would be like Amanda, I have no experience

with these. I didn't even know this was a game.

I just thought it was a bunch of fantasy movies.

So Matt, that means we have to rely on you. How

well did the movie translate the game onto the

big screen? Did they use any of the same story

elements, any of the same characters or elements

of any kind? Actually, yeah. This was done by

someone who actually, like when he said it was

written by, it wasn't written by Uwe Boll, I

was like immediately like, oh. Now I get it.

That's why this is the least terrible Uwe Boll

film. The person who wrote this, if they didn't

at least play, had some love for or heard about

the Dungeon Seed movie. The Dungeon Seed game

is a little bit closer to the Hero's Journey,

I think. This one kind of takes elements from

it without actually being it. but being a humble

farmer at the beginning and then an attack on

your city makes you start this adventure, that's

pulled right out of the game. Slowly building

a party of a bunch of random characters, including

Faye and mages and stuff, straight out of the

game. There's a number of elements that are taken

from the game and used as well as they could

be in a movie, because the game takes like...

I don't know, like, 50 hours to beat. It's one

of those really long -form RPG -style games.

And you can't really show that in a two -hour

flick. But I would say this is one of the closest

representations we've had in the video game series,

in all honesty. Interesting. So high marks for

its relation to the actual games. Since a few

of us haven't played any of the games, though,

let's see if it also gets high marks as a film.

So... I want to start this one. I usually toss

it to one of you guys first, but I want to intro

this one because when this movie started, I'm

seeing the fantasy elements. I'm feeling the

aesthetics of a lower budget, Lord of the Rings

type of flick, the fantasy action elements. I,

you know, we see the likes of people like Ray

Liotta and John Rhys Davies and Ron Perlman.

And I'm like, okay, you know, these are somewhat

legit, you know, as far as the fantasy realm

and as far as the action realm, you know, Jason

Statham, et cetera. And then early on, there's

a scene where we go to the castle and it is Matthew

Lillard and Burt Reynolds. And I feel like that

was the end of the movie. When you see Burt Reynolds

and Matthew Lillard, all the hopes that I had

for the film basically went out the window. I'm

like, oh, I was wrong to get excited about this

film. Why would anybody in the world cast Matthew

Lillard in any type of film? What? I like Matthew

Lillard. Not in this movie. I have never liked

him in anything. Feel like this is the perfect

role for Matthew Lillard like perfect this like

weird kind of like foppish I don't like like

and weirdo It immediately makes it feel like

spaceballs version of it though. It's like it's

like a spoof version It's like we're watching

the SNL Take on Lord of the Rings as soon as

you see him. Like I just he's I can't stand him

Maybe I'm in an island by myself, but I don't

like him in anything. Did you see 13 ghosts?

No Like, I think he plays an unlikable character

well, but that's exactly the role he's supposed

to be doing here. Like, I like him so much more

in this than Wing Commander. Like, I think what

he should be doing is playing this character

only more as, like, a good guy. Like, I don't

know. Like, I feel like I like him not as...

He's not an intimidating villain, right? And

that makes him a crappy villain. But he does

have a lot of these, like, unlikable characteristics

so, like, he's good in a villain role. I think

the thing I don't like about him in every role

he's ever done is the way his facial expressions

are just so over the top and so exaggerated that

it drives me insane. But okay, so maybe we'll

disagree about Matthew Lillard, but what is Burt

Reynolds doing in this film? Like that role should

have been like Sean Connery or I'm not that he

would do this film, but I'm just saying it should

have been somebody that could hold their own

and Burt Reynolds just. I don't understand that

at all. He was like Ben Kingsley in Blood Rain.

Yeah, it was like, I'm here and I'm going to

do as least amount of acting and moving as possible,

but not quite to the level of Ben Kingsley. I

don't know. So those two threw me off immediately.

But what was your guys' initial take on the film?

Amanda, you had seen this one before. So what

was your memories and what was your take as you

started to watch it this time? So I was bored

as shit the first time I watched this. and I

was even more bored the second time I watched

this. I just couldn't get into it. I mean, there

were some cool things that... That strikes me

as odd to you because it has a lot of elements

that are in movies that you like. Yeah, I don't

know. I just couldn't... I just didn't care.

Like, it just did not make me care. Didn't like

the characters? Didn't like the story? All of

the above? I just didn't think the acting was

great. The story seemed like a mismatch of...

like Lord of the Rings and King Arthur, and it

was just taking too much from other things and

not doing them well. I think I liked a couple

of the visual things. I think the production

was pretty good on this, and the effects and

things were pretty well done. But the fight scenes,

some of them were just slow and just very, you

could tell, you could see the choreography in

it. It wasn't slick. And the characters, I don't

know they they were some were muted some were

exaggerated and just none of them worked for

me All right, dan, what did you think about in

the name of the king? And why are all of these

people signing up to do a uve bowl film? I don't

that is my biggest question like ray leota Like

what? This is good. This is one of my all -time

favorite movies. Like what do you like? Why why

are you doing this? Jason seatham had a career

like he was like he's in like, you know, he's

not Winning Oscars, but he has like transporter

franchises and things like that. Like I Like

my first impression with this movie was how creepy

Ray Liotta is like Uncontrollably creepy. He's

such a lech. That was my first note you Ray Liotta

you lech That's what I wrote when he's like with

the King's daughter. It just seems it's just

like so uncomfortable Like it just does not it's

like those sequences are just so uncomfortable.

She's not the King's daughter and that's a confusion

of the film Okay, I was not truly understanding

who she was then, because I thought that she

played some sort of role in that. She's the Magus,

the Magus' daughter. She's the daughter of the

Merlin character. John Rhys Davis. Okay. Yes.

Who is just being kept at the castle for her

own safety, I guess? It took me a good while

to figure out who was who in this film. That's

for damn sure. Ray Liotta definitely didn't work.

Like, his delivery of the lines was so cheesy.

Like, his voice, what he was... Like, it's just

his normal voice, but it didn't fit, like, the...

what should have been given in the performance.

I'm convinced that everything that Ray Liotta

has done post -Goodfellas or post, like, that

time era, he's been under the influence of something.

Because, like, if you watch him in any of the

films from the last, like... 10 years, his eyes

are like half squinty shut like in every role

and he's just acting weird. I don't know what's

going on with Ray Liotta. Like somebody get him

help. He's in a TV show with JLo right now and

he looks awful. But my first thought was like,

obviously, this is clearly very influenced by

like Lord of the Rings. So was Joey Boles all

that inside. I can do that. And I'll even get

one of the actors that was in that, which. again

surprising that he did that but also that like

this was a long way like there is a lot behind

this because there's a lot of production there's

a ton of extras like there's like this was a

lot of it was weird because in a lot of ways

there was a like he had to kind of step up his

game but also was often lazy with different things

too but i was actually kind of Surprised by the

production value compared to like all the other

you able movies we've seen because there was

at times where I'm like wow, there's this looks

like an actual movie and Pieces are being put

together and I I think it's us like leagues better

than some of the other films like postal is like

in the sky commander and I know he didn't do

that one, but Alone in the dark or whatever.

I thought this actually seemed a little bit better

but ultimately just feels like a very lesser

version of like a Lord of the Rings. And the

comedy too just really threw me off at times,

like the sequence of them crossing the bridge,

like going through the rope. It just seems so

out of place in between scenes of like him legitimately

losing his son. And it's like suddenly now here's

a slapstick comedy scene. It just, I don't know,

I was a little off from it. Yeah, it's actually

it's funny that you say some of those things

because it does fit with some of the statistics

there because the production budget was 60 million

dollars and That is by far his most expensive

film at that time So there's I don't think he's

ever done a film that's cost more than that So

you can definitely see that there's more money

involved and there's more stars involved He even

brought back some of his cast members from former

films that we've seen, you know Kristana Loken

or however You say her name from blood rain is

in this the fairy force lady Laura Yes, she was

a fairy lady The interesting thing another interesting

thing though is that he was he had two versions

of this apparently that he shot too There was

another version. That's like a half hour longer

than this one There's like the two -hour 45 minute

version, I don't know if that's a real thing

or if he just said there was but Does that exist

yeah, but like I said the budget was 60 million

box office 13 so Most expensive film, but not

nearly bringing it back at the box office. Another

comical thing, I guess, it's one of those things

that had a better life as a DVD sale or Blu -ray

release because its theater box office gross

was 13 million, its DVD slash Blu -ray was 14

.8. So it actually made more money on DVD and

Blu -ray than it did in the theater. So I don't

know why people are buying the blu -ray and DVD

I mean I guess we did but it was a dollar but

You bought a secondhand though, so that doesn't

count right, but I definitely bought a brand

new off of Amazon So you're adding to the numbers.

It's 14 .8 and growing I did I did I did the

math and it was like oh I could order these I

could rent these off of the Amazon streaming

app for $11 or I can buy them all on DVD for

$9 and it's like one of them I own them and then

it's cheaper so I went with that one Matt we

didn't get your original take though on the film

so what did you what was your take on them as

movies and how did they work or not work for

you? Well, I think they're not like this movie

is is by far the best uva bowl film and it's

by far the best Representation of the video game

of anything we've done and I think that those

two are not things that should be thrown out

lightly Like I think that there's a good movie

in here I think with a different director and

like really probably just a different director

right we've got there's a lot of talent in in

in the the casting right like like i love reese

davies like he's always so good he gives he has

a great performance um and bert reynolds is very

kingly he's a very kingly dude um i think that

what we need to do is we need to um get rid of

the wife and the child i think that those two

don't serve a purpose Wow, okay, here's the thing.

The wife serves a purpose of being just the damsel

in distress. Like, and like, but then that's

it. And I don't see that as a good, that's like,

that's the worst motivator a character could

have. And that's the worst, like that's your

biggest female role, right? Cause like you have,

you have, you have the daughter of the Magus

who does literally nothing. You have the fairy

who goes, never come to these woods again, ever.

And then he comes to the woods. She's like, I'm

going to join you and help you win this. And

then they walk to the castle and she goes, ah,

I'm out and walks away. Like she literally does

nothing. Like all of the female characters do

nothing except for the one that gets captured.

motivator for the male protagonist like that's

such a shitty story so what you do is you remove

those two characters you you have his motivation

be that his the guy who raised him as a child

Ron Perlman dies to the Krug and so now he's

on a revenge tale then you give the the Magus

lady like you make her useful and then you have

there be a love story where together these two

adventuring people slowly fall in love you like

you could make a good movie with the elements

here Like, just a little bit of rearranging,

a little bit of rewriting, a better director

could have made a great movie with what we had.

Like, the actors are great, they're just poorly

directed. Like, there's a huge budget for special

effects, they do an amazing job. Like, that weird

-ass Ray Liotta -Ray C. Davis sword fight was,

like, amazing, right? It was, like, the best

scene of the movie. And, like, they could have

made a good movie, but they didn't. I think you

are correct, a different director for sure, but

I think the writing does need to be shored up

quite a bit because there is a lot of things

in this movie that either serve no purpose or

don't make any sense. At one point, they're kind

of speaking as if you kill one of the Krugs or

whatever that's controlled by Ray Liotta and

then that will bring down the entire army. They'll

all just fall, which does happen at one point,

but at other points that does nothing. So I didn't

quite get that because there were some times

where they killed like the one that kind of faded

off into Misty wind like wisps or whatever and

it had no effect on anybody else and everybody

else is still just fighting so I don't Understand

that there is that point where they? Have the

human cannonball that they set on fire and then

shoot into the crowd Which is great, but it's

not thought out well because it did no damage

It literally like had no effect on the actual

like battle that was going on like it's a great

idea And then it was just literally a guy that

killed one guy You just burn one guy. At one

point, they set a crud on fire, then he walks

up and gives a hug to a horse, and then the horse

is on fire. It's so dumb. Like, this movie has

a bunch of really hilarious dumb elements, and

a bunch of just neat... Like, they could have

cut a half an hour out of this movie, like, made

some more changes, like, the changes I made plus

some more, and made a really tight movie. but

they didn't. It's just sprawling with endless,

needless storylines. Like the - like, here's

the thing. I think Matthew Lillard plays the

perfect Matthew Lillard role in this. It serves

no function. The whole - the whole role of Matthew

Lillard is like, I wanna be king, I wanna be

king. Like, oh, he plays him the king, but it

didn't work. Oh, like, I assassinated the king,

but that didn't work, but then eventually it

- does and it's like i get taken in for treason

but apparently as long as your treason kills

the king it doesn't matter which is the worst

kind of law ever like hey as long as you successfully

kill the king you become the king that's not

a law anywhere um and then he becomes king and

then immediately everyone goes no he's not this

guy's king we just met him he's cooler like so

his whole his whole storyline this whole b -plot

serves no purpose other than to kill Burt Reynolds

which you could have done with a Krug fire hug

like you could have just gotten rid of him like

so like Matthew Lillard's character though i

think is perfect for him serves no point in this

movie at all so you cut him out like um like

uh Jason Statham's brother -in -law like Like

him and Ron Perlman's story, where it's like

they lead a slave rebellion that kills like four

Krug and then Ron Perlman, so that's pointless,

and then they lead another slave rebellion that

kills maybe, I don't know, a couple dozen slaves,

and then they get saved by the hero? Where it's

like, hey, if you just stayed in your shackles

for another 10 minutes, all these Krug would

have just died because we're gonna win the fight

and no one has to die. So like so his entire

storyline is pointless again, like it's it's

literally Jason Statham and then nine pointless

subplots that go nowhere And then the one biggest

subplot tied to Jason Statham, which is obviously,

you know, his child has been killed spoiler alert

I'm trying to do that on purpose and nobody watches

this film and then we have the mystery of is

his wife killed or captured or what? And instead

of letting that be something that we're unsure

of for the better part of the movie and making

it worth something in the latter half, maybe

the final act, they do a pointless scene where

they show her alive. They cut away to a scene,

show that the wife is alive, it serves no purpose,

and then they go right back to the story as usual.

You defeated all of the mystery, all of the suspense

and everything. And it wasn't in a way that served

any purpose whatsoever. Other than to, like that

was the one that advances Ron Perlman and the

brother -in -law subplot of dying. Because they

show up, they go, oh, you are alive. And they

both get knocked out. No, no, no. It's before

that. It's way before that. They just do like

a splash to a sequence of her in captivity. Also,

like. Here's the thing though, that doesn't serve

a purpose in the story, but maybe it does to

make Jason Statham's character more likeable,

because otherwise he's just like, yeah she might

be alive and I'm going to just throw my life

away and maybe find her? And this way it's like,

oh he's striving towards a thing. It's not a

good idea, it's a really bad idea, but that's

the only reason I could see. Dan should we just

let Matt take over because I'm finding more entertainment

of listening to Matt's take on the film than

I got from watching the film Yeah, I'm not I'm

not disagreeing with you Yes, someone one thing

I touch upon it if they are if they were going

to not make this movie again Not only a better

director, but maybe if these and see them is

gonna be the son of the king get someone that

he at least resembles the tiniest bit or at least

has close to the same accent or like it just

you know it's like yeah you know as you can see

Burt Reynolds and Jason Statham they're the spitting

image of another nobody looks like anybody that's

supposed to be related to anybody in this film

like yeah Like it hurt his isn't who's the other

guy that with Ron Perlman is that supposed to

be his brother -in -law? Is it just brother -in

-law brother -in -law? Okay, I guess he doesn't

need to look like anybody but it's just like

it's just so many people that didn't seem connected

to anybody and that's why I was confused as to

Who like Dan was saying who that girl's the daughter

of who and this that any other just It was kind

of interesting to how the reload it finds out

that that's actually farmers wife Just by the

fact that they bring up bring her to him by accident

like it's like oh wait it's like really not only

that like they bring her to him like oh hey whoops

this is the boss's room what are we bringing

two slaves here for we'll leave he's like get

out of here with those slaves and he goes wait

a minute You smell like you smell like you've

got him inside of you. It's like I You've got

your pregnant with his baby I'm guessing in the

extended version. They flushed that out a little

bit more, right? Really? We all we all know that

in the extended version the only thing that's

added is just more creepy like undertones of

Like the line, I'll take his daughter's virtue

and different things like that. Oh my god. What

about tree ninjas? Can we talk about tree ninjas?

Dude, the royal ninjas are amazing for no reason.

They might have saved a part of the movie for

me. Amanda's like tree ninjas and immediately

had interest for like at least five seconds.

Just for no reason. Whenever the king was in

a fight, there were a dozen ninjas. I love it.

Like, this movie has a lot of great elements.

I mean, they're not good, but they're hilarious.

Apparently, the elements, though, were not enough

to get this film received well from a critical

standpoint. Film currently holds a 4 % on Rotten

Tomatoes based on about 50 reviews. Here's the

quote. As far as the consensus on Rotten Tomatoes,

features mostly wooden performances, laughable

dialogue, and shoddy production values, and The

Name of the King fulfills all expectations of

a Uwe Boll film. So there's that. Amanda, you

had notes. Did you want to say anything else?

Anything you liked about the film besides Tree

Ninjas? I did like one element when the mage

and his daughter did that. like I'm turning into

like particles. And you like see their like skeleton

and their muscles and then they disintegrate

and travel that way like on the wind and then

they like become solid again Oh, you reminded

me of the most ridiculous scene I may have ever

seen in the film or at least in the last like

five years when they do the Rope sequence to

get him from one chasm to the cliff or whatever

conceived action sequence I think I've ever seen

and I'm pretty sure that's not how physics work

Do you guys know which one I'm talking about

when he needs to get, when Jason Statham needs

to get over to where the Magi or the Mag, whatever

that guy is? It's that, it's, it's right towards

the end, right? Where they're like - They do

the run, him and the, him and the elf girl or

whatever do like the running start, grab the

rope, swing. And she like whips him across. And

she somehow whips him and then he goes flying

all the way over to that ledge. Like it was ridiculous.

But like, even more ridiculous is it's like,

they had this moment, right, where they're like,

we're gonna go assault the castle, we're gonna

kill the evil mage, or the king of the Krug,

whatever, and we're gonna save my wife, and it's

like, one character's motivation is like, he

killed her father, or is going to, and he tried

to steal her magic through kissing her. or something

and then like one motivation is is jason save

them and then like the the fairies like i don't

want them in my forest and so they're going to

burn it down so i'm going to go kill them um

and like was there a fourth character i feel

like there was a fourth character but i don't

think there was and like all three of them walk

up and they go oh there's a cliff here there's

a hole over there and so they whip jason save

them across and then they just kind of like stand

there like oh what now And then, and then, like,

I think Christina Loken's character just goes,

I'm out of this movie now and walks away. And

then the mage's daughter stands there until he

dies. And then she accidentally teleports. That's

the writing of this, like of this climactic scene

where it's like, this is the party dungeon. This

is a game about a party going towards a goal.

And all of a sudden they go, eh, let's not do

that. And then like, that is just nothing. Like,

it's so weird. Why does any of that happen? The

film was nominated for five Razzie Awards, including

Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst Supporting

Actor for Burt Reynolds, Worst Supporting Actress

for Lila Sobiski, and UA Bowl One for Worst Director.

So it's got that going for it. Dan, any other

King? Does this film inspire you to watch either

of the two sequels? No, it does not though the

sequels have del fungren so that does have me

intrigued So he clearly was the one person missing

from this No, I think I think we we caught it

though. There wasn't that scene where I can't

remember any character's name but Ron Simon and

the the mage of the the king like bump into each

other and indicate like oh I know you and then

that's never touched upon ever again like that

that I was gonna lead to something but it didn't

I'm like all right well why did why was that

there It was like a lot of that it was just it

was just interesting No, I mean like I like It

was just I also felt like this it felt like it

went on for our forever It just took a long time

like this the action like fights and they just

were like this is this is still going, huh? man

Well, so it's just yeah Matt, any other final

thoughts from you before we go around and give

our grades for in the name of the King of Dungeons

Siege Tale, which is a name that's way too long

and not necessary. Oh my god, when I was shortening

it in our little group message, when I was like,

I -N -T -O -T -K -S, I was just like, this is

the shortest I could get this, guys. I can't

think of a better way to shorten this, and it's

still like nine characters. I do have one...

the thing to point out uh... we're doing these

episodes like right next to each other there

that is this in mall rats and uh... they have

the exact same actress playing like the exact

same role uh... in that she is the main motivator

for the male protagonist yeah i thought that

was crazy that was a really weird coincidence

that only happens because we're doing these two

things at like these particular times, but I

thought it was an interesting thing to point

out. Did you ever think that we were going to

have a video game film and a Kevin Smith film

that we viewed in the same time period that had

an actor in common? No. Alright, let's get grades

then around the horn. Amanda, starting with you,

out of ten, what do you give in The Name of the

King a Dungeon Siege Tale and is it in fact the

best Yve Boll film we've covered? Oh yeah. And

you hated it. I'll give it a three. Is that higher

than you gave? Whatever the other ones are, House

of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, and Postal. I

know it's higher than you gave Postal. All right,

Dan, what do you think for In the Name of the

King? Oh, man, I'll go five. Yeah, on the video

game scale, like four or five, but I'll go five.

Nice, nice. Good score for you. Matt, what do

you got? So like as far as movies go like a five

but like if we want to create it on a curve like

a seven I Am with Dan I'm straight out of five

like I just think that's good like it's there's

four spots for films to be worse than it when

and we've had four films worse than it for sure

and There's spots for films to be better than

it. It's like the best you both know what means

it's like the Still in the top ten worst video

game films of all time, which I still can't I

don't know, I find it funny that there's a list

like that, because they're all so bad up to this

point. So that is In the Name of the King, a

Dungeon Siege Tale. You guys will have to let

us know if you agree or disagree with our takes

on the film. That also means that we're down

to our final five. Our final five video game

films. So next up, like we teased last time,

is again, another 2008 film with Max Payne. Then

we go to Prince of Persia, Need for Speed. and

then finished with Warcraft and Assassin's Creed

from just recently. So that is what is left.

Amanda, what are you looking forward to most

out of those five films? I'm going to say Max

Payne and Prince of Persia. So the next two.

Yes. Then after that, you're out. Yeah. Matt,

what do you think? What's going to be the best

of the five final ones? Oh, man. Like. I want

to say Warcraft just because I know it's going

to be like this, but with more money behind it.

Could be, yeah, that definitely had some production

value to it. Dan, is there any chance that one

of these five has a possibility of cracking into

your top three or top five video game films?

Man, well, that's... There's always a chance.

I'm still holding out hope for Prince of Persia.

It's one of the few of the... I think I've seen

most, I haven't seen Assassin's Creed, but I

just know based upon everyone, what everyone

said, it's awful. I'm just thinking, I'm hoping

like Prince of Persia will just be a meh movie.

So that would make it a contender for the top

three. That also means that there's only five

more films for you to get in your entry into

our contest to win a six pack of video game films.

You have to do that by going to iTunes and leaving

us a review. It's that simple. You just go to

iTunes, leave us a review. It can be positive,

it can be negative, it can be neutral. If you

do it before we're done with this series, you're

entered into a contest to win a six pack of movies.

I think we have four or five entries so far,

so get in there while you can and you might win

something. We should stop giving the number of

entries that we have because it's a very low

number and it's fucking sad. For iTunes reviews,

that's quite a few though in a couple month period

for a lot of podcasts. Yeah, that's a decent

number. Makes me sad inside. As we mentioned,

we're also doing our Kevin Smith retrospective.

We have already obviously put out our episode

on Clerks and you can look forward to all the

other films in Kevin Smith's Filmography if you

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