Prince Of Persia Trailer
 

Looking Good !!

Don't care what anyone says, Jake is hot with long hair.

Agreed !!

He sure is but he has a bad habit of stealing the sheets at night.

Is he still a toe sucker? I didn't think that would turn me on, but he had a knack for it.

Of course, that was a long, long time ago.

I just mentioned your question to him. He just said, 'Steve, who?' to me.
Nice try, iSm.


:D

I was known as Raoul back in those days.

You can just stop after "hot".

Through work-related circumstances, I read the screenplay for this about a year ago. (It was for a project that didn't end up happening, but it was fun while it lasted.) It was amazing to see what a Bruckheimer movie looks like on paper. No scene has more than three or four lines of dialogue, and those lines are always as short as possible. Frequently, there are instructions such as "highly choreographed fight here" of "amazing effects sequence here." You can almost see the rapid edits and hear the whooshes (oh gawd how Hollywood loves whooshes) in your head while you read.

This kind of thing is never my cup of tea - all flash and zero human interest, with smug one liners substituting for wit or characterization - and I'm tired of over-designed movies that look like they were created completely with ones and zeros; slick, pretty and hollow. On the other hand, it's an appealing cast. A maybe rental from me - but this is currently my very least favorite genre.

(I know that the studio is hoping for a potential Pirates-sized franchise here. But in the screenplay, at least, there is no Jack Sparrow in the wings - in other words, no character with any character. But a lot can change in a year, I guess.)

Although Jake is gorgeous and wonderful and is trying really hard to make that accent work, I don't think the movie will be any good. It'll be number one that weekend it opens because of all the hype and the millions thrown at promoting it but after that it will fizzle. Just a feeling. The same thing will happen to 2012. I don't think anyone is listening about having more quality movies out there. Once a crap film makes money, why try so hard and improve upon a formula that makes moolah? Sad, really.

***ETA: This isn't a reflection on the OP. Just a curmudgeonly look at big budget movies coming out since CG took over.***

What Flippy said. I must need a testosterone shot or something because the whole thing looks ridiculous.

Some years ago there was a Saturday Night Live where Kevin Spacey hosted and did a skit about previously unseen footage of people like Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau auditioning for Star Wars. I think at one point the skit had Matthau saying something like, "Where's the Wookie suit? I'm supposed to put on the suit." Too many movies today look like the actors took their check and put on the suit. Or stood in front of the green screen.

Well, maybe Matthau didn't say it. Dreyfus sort of did. At any rate, that's what I took away from the skit as a comment on the business.

Funny stuff.

Seems I was right. There was another skit with Jack Lemmon, Burt Reynolds, etc. But I can't find it.

I don't put any stock in these movies, but as long as they're not an outright assault -- or they almost purposely veer far into campiness, I don't mind seeing them once. And I'll even give a visual spectacular my in-theater dollars over a much better film that could be just as well enjoyed on my TV because it doesn't require an 80-foot screen and 375-decibel, 30-speaker sound system to do justice to its guilty pleasures.


I'm DYING to see 2012. I'm hoping it will be a laugh riot, and not merely "bad." Similarly, though I know nothing of the video game, I'm going to see Prince of Persia in theaters just for the Jake.



Sorry, but I see everything he's in. He may have forgotten me, but I'll always fondly recall our time together when he was a young man just getting started in the business.

Made my morning. Thanks.

For some reason, and against all reason, so am I. (I'm hoping for some overwrought melodrama, like back in the seventies. Ah, the classic disasters.)

I wonder what would happen if someone (Lucas-berg, maybe) went back to basics and made a feature using no CGI, only matte work, sets and all the good old fashioned trickery ?