Last night, me and some friends watched one of the most 'sacred' movies of the year; probably in movie history. It was SO 'sacred'; I mean REALLY 'sacred'; SO 'sacred' that we laughed at how 'sacred' it was.
Stepping into the mall and heading to the cinema, we found out that the movie wasn't in 3D, for a Disney movie with visuals, I think we all assumed it was going to be in 3D. Something I think we kind of got accustomed to since most movies were going 3D now. Especially since the arrival of 3D TV. But the movie didn't have as much as the trailer suggested.
I used to say "Never watch a movie about a game". I take back my words. Now I say "Never watch a movie about a game UNLESS it's by Disney". It was a good movie for Hollywood standards. I think it does justice for fans of the game while at the same time entertains the people who are not. It was a good movie overall but we couldn't help get the feeling that we were watching the famed 'Assasins Creed' for the first 40 minutes of the movie. It becomes apparent during the first scene (before the title of the movie) when the boy 'Dastan' saves his friend 'Bis' from the guards and begins to run across the rooftops, not in Prince of Persia style, but in Assasins Creed's 'Altair' style. Was that intentional? the scene that probably proved this idea was when 'Dastan' made a 'Leap Of Faith'. Everything about that scene was 'AC'.
The movie was extremely predictable in my view, as soon as it came to the scene where the plot begins, I had the movie all mapped out. Except for the last scene, which I thought would've been more interesting if both the people who travelled back in time knew what was going on, but it was just the Prince. Notice in the previous paragraphs that I named two characters in the movie. The main protagonist 'Dastan' and 'Bis'. Of course since 'Dastan' is the Prince you're probably going to see him alot in the movie, and since 'Bis' is his trusted friend he's probably going to be around him wherever he goes... NO. 'Bis' has absolutely no influence over what goes on in the movie, infact they introduced him so that he could die in the first half hour of the movie. What was the point of giving him a name?!
Another annoying fact was that the movie was very 'sacred'. Everything in the movie was 'sacred'. In fact, you couldn't go 15 minutes without seeing something that was 'sacred'... and someone mentioning that fact. " The dagger! It's sacred! " " The sacred sand! " " Nothing is more sacred than Persian gold!" Sacred Sacred Sacred... We ended up laughing every time they said it!! We should've played one of those games where if you hear the word we cry out something!
It was also funny how one minute the Prince was travelling in Sudan under the hot sun bumps into some Arabs who care for nothing but gold and then suddenly they're in the Snow in the Himalayas. Persia was a huge empire back then, but that was long ago, the Arabs didn't live in Sudan at that time, there were no such thing as Hasassins at that time, and where the hell were the romans? Unless this was at the time Alexander The Great was just gathering his peeps.
A controversial point, which was pointed out by a good friend of mine, was the fact that the Dagger had Arabic writing on it. Two things to talk about here: One, Arabs had no influence on Persian language at that time so there couldn't have been ANYTHING in Arabic writing in those times. For those of you who don't yet get it, Persian does not = Arab. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7rlFpUhziE. The second is the idea that the Dagger was brought down by the gods. In a way this is kind of a similar idea to what we Muslims believe in that the Quran was revealed or 'brought down' to the Prophet in Arabic. Maybe no one noticed this idea and thats why it got through the sensors. Alot of movies have been taking a swipe at Arabs in general. The media has been doing that since god knows when. But it's not just Arabs.
Ok I think that's about enough talk from me, let me know what you guys think, I really appreciate feedback on what I write, whether it's good or bad. So just remember to keep you're eyes open for things that people usually don't see, and tell people about it. Be aware of what you are ACTUALLY watching.
Thanks for your time,
Saif,
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