Ever since I bought the LEGO Prince Of Persia sets last spring I have been some what interested in seeing the movie that spawned them. Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time is based on a video game which I haven't any interest in at all. The movie is directed by Mike Newell who's directed an odd lot of movies including Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire. Joe ordered POP:TSOT from NetFlix for Friday and we watched it on BlueRay on his 50 inch tv. It looks really nice. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as the street urchin taken in by the Persian king and raised as his third son. I only have a couple of Jake's movies. Donnie Darko and The Day After Tomorrow. The first is a fairly unique tale and the second an average action film. I have hardly seen anything else he's been in. Mostly dramas. Same with Ben Kingsley, who plays the King's brother, I have missed many of his movies. The LEGO sets told me he was the villian, but I could tell just by looking at his mustashe. It's a pretty predictable story. Jake's older brother takes it on himself to invade Alamut. He suspects they are making arms for his enemies. Jake sneaks in and mostly captures the city. Gemma Arterton is the princess of Alamut and the keeper of a sacred dagger that can send the holder back in time about a minute. Nice thing to have. That dagger is connected to a powerful force that can destroy the world. It's something the gods left lying around. What dicks, huh. Why would they do that? Greg, said it's a test. Gods should be helping man out, instead of leaving dangerous toys where stupid people can fiddle with them. There's a lot of running around. You'd think Jake had some Parcour training the way he was jumping around in the film. He's all buff and stuff. There's lot's of fighting and he does pretty well with some of that. Many of the fight scenes are shot pretty close up making it hard to see what might actually be going on. Just a style that I'm not much in favor of. There's lots of great shots of Moroco. The mountains and the desert are pretty cool. The dagger is eventually stuck into the place it shouldn't go and the world is nearly destroyed. Jake saves the day, the world, and gets the girl in the end. I'd probably pick one of these dvd's up someday when it's 5 bucks at Target. It'll be a happy bonus after those great POP LEGO sets that yielded up some nice new parts. It was in those sets that the first camel and ostrich made an appearance.
There won't be any LEGO sets made from Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl but, like our first movie, it's adapted from another type of media. This 2009 Japanese film set in a high school is based on a Manga series. Yoshihiro Nishimura is the co-director with Naoyuki Tomomatsu. Yoshihiro did the special effects on The Machine Girl and wrote and directed Tokyo Gore Police. This movie shares the same over the top gore filled makes no sense style. VGVFG has a vampire girl turn a guy into a half vampire by feeding him a chocolate laced with her blood. Eeeeww! She wants him to join her on her ageless journey. He's not so sure but her choices are vamp or death so he goes along. That's the problem with vampires. They suck. Especially those selfish ones, which seems to be most of them. If a vampire turned me against my wishes I'd want to get me some revenge. Revenge turns up a lot in Japanese movies. It seems very popular. There's a lot of other stuff going on, some of it pretty racist and off putting, some of it just plain goofy. I don't remember any nudity but there's a never ending stream of gore. I supposed it might be some sort of comedy, perhaps like Scary Movie but with lots of gore, but it isn't that funny to me. Don't they have any intelligent comedies in Japan. Can't I see one? I certainly don't plan on seeing this movie again. Not when there are so many great movies to see and see over.
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