The Weekly Planet - Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - Caravan Of Garbage
Episode Date: May 30, 2024It's time for move bad movies that did badly at the box office video game edition! This week, 2010's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time starring one Jacob Gyllenhaal as the titular Prince Dastan. It ...basically boiled down to this being Disney's attempt at another Pirates of the Caribbean but instead of turning out like Pirates of the Caribbean it turned out like that bad Pirates of the Caribbean. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage reviewSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4SUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNVideo Edition ► https://youtu.be/9qubm5z66pcHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome back everybody to another episode of Carra-Ban, Carra-Ban, Carra-Ban, Mason.
You're gonna leave this in?
Yeah.
Standard edition?
It's gonna be, oh man, it's gonna drag this out, isn't it?
That's right.
We're gonna get their money's worth.
But there's gonna be amazing animations happening behind it.
Maybe one of those roller coaster things.
No!
Like TikTokers don't have-
Extended!
You know the TikTok fans, they don't have any attention span anymore, so there's gonna
be a roller coaster on the side.
It's extended.
Family Guy clip.
It's extended.
They don't do that.
Okay, great. This is it. Nice.
Just dead air on a black screen.
Terrific.
Yeah.
Alrighty.
Welcome back everybody to another episode
of Caravan of Garbage where we're doing movies,
but not just any movies.
I love movies.
Yeah.
Do you like the four that we're doing?
We're on the second one.
I didn't like the first one.
Am I gonna like the second one?
Hypoth...
That's a...
What's that thing?
Not a hypothetical.
You're being facetious?
I'm being facetious!
You didn't like Prince of Persia The Sands of Time 2010?
I didn't hate it as much as you did.
Again, I think there's a trend emerging here.
I think you're hating these movies a lot.
Is that because you hate cinema?
I do hate cinema, but also-
This was pure cinema on a level of Lawrence of Arabia!
No, Mason! In the sense that everybody's white in it.
Everybody!
That's the only part that I liked Mason!
Oh no!
Anyways, please leave a like because we're doing badly made movies that did badly at
the box office video game edition.
Oh yeah, we could franchise this out.
Absolutely.
Get other people to do it is what I'm saying.
Well here's the thing though, this was hoping to be a franchise because Disney ever since Pirates have been looking for the next
Pirates of the Caribbean. I knew it had that flavor to it didn't it? Toothless. Yeah and you know what?
They still haven't found it. They haven't. In many ways they never had it. In a way the first couple
of those Pirates movies were uh were lighting in a bottle and they've never recaptured it. In a way.
pirates movies were uh were about lightning in a bottle yeah and they've never recaptured it in a way yeah well this is a gerry brockheimer production as well so you know this is literally
what they were doing they were like let's do a big pirates franchise let's get a swash buckling
dude running about what do you think the story is behind the gerry brockheimer like production logo
because there's a road and then there's a tree getting struck by lightning. Is that the lightning that hit the Pirates franchise?
Well, they didn't catch it, did they?
No, they didn't.
They burned that tree down.
Probably going to fall on the road, cause an accident.
This is fun.
So Jerry Brackheimer, upon purchasing the film rights to the Prince of Persia games,
said, is it the one where it's got that assassin and he leaps off a rooftop
and he like, you know, all dramatically and he falls into a haystack and they're like, no, that's Assassin's
Creed.
And he's like, can we do some Assassin's Creed stuff anyway?
Can we just chuck that in?
How much can we do without being sued?
Well it's all Ubisoft, so all of it.
All of it then, perfect.
We'll get to Assassin's Creed, Mason.
I bet we will.
So upon purchasing the rights to the Prints of Persia games, he had hoped that the film
could be a brother franchise of sorts to the Pirates of the Caribbean and had anticipated
that the series would go on for seven films.
Now I feel like seven films.
Now if this had have kept going and Pirates were still going, these would have merged
by now, right?
Oh my god, that's right.
And Tron.
Yeah.
Just match them all in.
A bunch of wet guys and a bunch of sweaty guys finally teaming up.
Yeah, crossover we always wanted. Yeah. You know what the problem with this movie is? A lot of things.
I think also I used to say that this is the best video game movie and maybe in 2010 it was but there were
Resident evils and I think one of the Tomb Raiders was good and the first Street Fighter is pretty fun and
Mortal Kombat and Max Payne's great. So you could read a book could read a book you could read a worlds of power junior novelization of a blaster master or Castlevania
Oh get some culture into you you idiots. There's some metal here one look them up. There'll be a dollar on a fight
Nobody wants those Mason. Oh play a video game. Yeah, I read a book. That's a really good point
I'll try with you. We only read them because we couldn't play a video game in reading time at school. That is so true. Yeah, man. So
one of the problems with this is Dastin, the main character. Prince Dastin? Hello, I'm
Prince Dastin. I'm the Prince of Persia. So apparently Jake Gyllenhaal, his name's pronounced
Gillen Hale or something like that. Look, I'm going to say it however I say it. It's
not right. However you're doing it is wrong. There's one way to do it. Here's how it is.
Nobody does it like that. Anyways, he said he found it hard to nail down the English accent.
Because it's important when you're doing a movie set in some mythical Arabian lands.
You gotta nail that English accent because that's how they sound it.
It's not this kind of movie, Mason, to quote Harrison Ford. You know, it's fine.
They don't have to be all English. Also, he's wrong. None of them should be English.
No, that's what I'm saying. I agree.
But he's also wrong for the role because I think they were going for like I get sort of a Captain Jack Sparrow
But more of a Rick O'Connell a Star-Lord, whatever Chris Pine's character was named in Dungeons and Dragons
That's what they were going for here. And Jake Gyllenhaal hadn't worked out
at this point in his life
that he just works better as a creep.
Oh, absolutely, yeah.
Don't you think?
He's got that creepy intensity, doesn't he?
He got it pretty early in Donnie Darko
and he tried to pivot away from it.
That's right.
But he's creeped his way back into the creep zone.
I could get abs, I could get pecs.
We don't want that.
Yeah.
We want a sweaty, sunken chest off you, Gyllenhaal.
That's what we want.
Well, he's still getting abs though, isn't he?
Yeah, this did give me want to be the mummy vibes.
Yeah.
With Jalen Hall in the Brendan Fraser role, we got Gemma Arterton,
who's given me that Rachel Weisz vibe.
Oh yeah.
I think they were hoping for that chemistry.
They were really leaning heavily in this movie into that like,
well, they're enemies, but are they going to turn into lovers kind of vibe?
And I'm like, it doesn't work.
It seems like they really hate each other like you know
they're always putting themselves and each other into like dangerous
situations he's like I'm gonna sell you into a sex trade or whatever he's like
just kidding it's an ostrich race whatever huh like I don't get the sense
that like she tries to like full on stab him at one point but then at one point
she's just like we're in danger let's run away together like there's no there's
no consistency exactly between these these characters
I mean, maybe the heat's driven. I'm crazy. Maybe the heat has driven them crazy. So here's the thing, right?
I'm a big fan of these particular games the sands of time trilogy. Well, there's more than that
But let's just say the trilogy right? He's Fanny the original. Yeah, the blip and the blop
I'm a red. I'm blipped and blocked my Mason. It's not as good as The Sands of Time.
It's better than this movie, but the game I'm saying, Mason.
But there's a bunch of shit in this where I don't understand why they're complicating any of it.
Because they're making it so that he's a prince from the street,
and he's got brothers, and they're all sort of vying to be the king or whatever, but not really.
So he's kind of like, oh, he's got a heart of gold because he's basically fucking Aladdin or whatever, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Where in the game, he just kind of sucks.
Okay.
And he does a horrible thing, he unleashes the sands of time,
and there's a bunch of sand zombies and everybody gets turned into a sand zombie,
except him and the lady,
and they do a fun, kind of parkouring romantic adventure, like
around the tower.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's great, and it's like self-contained.
For a video game, you believe, you know, the romantic tension and relationship for a game
from, you know, 2003.
Oh, that sounds really appealing.
They should make a movie out of that, I reckon.
Sand zombies does sound an awful lot like the mummies from The Mummy, so maybe they
had to...
They didn't get any sand zombies in this got some sort of pseudo undead not really
guys just a guy carrying some snakes we got some Assassin's Creed guys who've
got all sorts of Assassin's Creed weapons they can fling darts and then we
get it we get another angry knife to add to our collection did you notice the
angry knife I did this to not that I mean there's the there's the main knife
yeah yeah the sand knife yawn we'll get to that in a second, but there is another, it's just a grumpy headed knife.
I love it.
I wonder if you can buy that one.
Do you reckon you could?
No, no, absolutely not.
And I think like often I'll say,
they change things from video games
and different adaptations and who cares, right?
But that's only true if you make it like as good or better.
Sure, absolutely.
Like The Last of Us, this is not, this is actually offensive to me Mason.
Yeah, I can tell.
I'm offended.
You're boiling over, like you were in the Saharan desert.
Exactly.
And look, a lot of it really is just running about under different cloaks and hoods.
You put a bit of cloth over your mouth and you tumble through a marketplace.
You enter a busy square and you're looking around.
Fucking boring. What a boring movie and you're looking around, fucking
boring, what a boring movie. It could work though, couldn't it? As you mentioned, that's
the entire premise of Aladdin, plus the genie stuff. Plus the genie stuff. But most of it is running around in a
marketplace with a little scarf over your face or whatever. Exactly, and as
mentioned, I just I need to come back to this, the romance. I've just written,
sucks. The back and forth is dreadful. The video game again,
it's so much more dynamic and fun and there's a bit of push and pull and who's going to betray
whatever. And that is, I guess, here. But it's more, like you said, confusing. Anyway,
Assassin's Cape, Poison Cape. Oh, there is a Poison Cape. Just god, I am sick of all these movies where with the inciting incident is a man, a king
is killed by putting on a poison cape that takes a really long time to affect him.
It's got a countdown.
And then melts him instantly.
Yeah, man.
It's great.
It must be difficult if you live in the Prince of Persia universe to know ultimately who
is going to betray you because everybody is sporting that sinister eye makeup.
Boy, do they, yeah. Everybody looks like an evil vizier of some sort.
Everyone.
Like is it going to be Ben Kingsley? Is it going to be my brother who played
Koba in Planet of the Apes or whatever?
Oh yeah, Toby Gable.
Maybe he's not my brother, I don't know.
Or is my other brother? Is he? I don't know.
Yeah, maybe he's in Dracula Untold, we don't know.
No.
He could be.
Yeah.
Yeah, but like why a poison cape? and they keep bringing it up like through the thing
I didn't give him the poison cape. I swear to god. I didn't know the cape was poison
Could have said acid cape like that would more than poison. It's more of an acid cape anyway, isn't it?
I guess but why not like a poison why?
Exactly. Yep. Why not? If he just never puts on the poisoned cape. What if he's like that looks that fine beading work
I don't want to wreck that. that by taking it out on a walk. Put it directly in the case. You sure you
don't want to wear the regular cape? Sure you don't want to wear the regular cape? No,
it's a wonderful trophy. Put it on the wall.
I don't know, maybe even poisoned Persian cocaine, you know?
Absolutely.
Which might just be sand in this universe. I don't know. What would happen if you did
a line of time sand
What do you reckon that would do to you think that'd spice up your weekend?
Let me tell you I think you'd be coming back to work in your office on Monday, and you'd be like
Let me tell you I got into some ostrich races
Okay, let's talk ostrich races because Alfred Molina is in this and he's a libertarian with a dream to live tax-free
Yes, and run a small ostrich racing business slash scam. Yeah, you're loving all the work that he's doing here
Yes, it's just like everybody in this movie a classically trained English actor tanned up to the nines and some eyeliner
Oh, I mean he is like I think he's like one of his parents is Spanish. So it's it's it's fine
They're making it work his last name ends in a vowel. It's fine. That's practically Arabian. That's fine.
I think he's the best part of the movie and the second best part of the movie is an action sequence towards the end that doesn't
feature any of the main characters. It's just Alfred Molina's like
Lieutenant versus the assassin. Yeah, they're fighting with daggers and knives and throwing stuff
and there's snakes and they're jumping between yeah, you know that that bit's great and then the leads are nowhere to be found
I imagine because they went a Ben Kingsley you want to be an action sequence where you jump around
insider and no, okay
Anywhere we haven't said where yet? Well in the game
Ben Kingsley is like the bad guy, but he's a vizier. Okay, well the that character and he
Makes the prince unlock the sands of time, et cetera, whatever.
And then the prince at the end, he reverses time.
And so it's before the time has been released,
the time sands.
This is the plot of the movie, basically.
Yeah, and then you just like go into a bedroom
and you just beat the shit out of him.
And he's got a staff, but you've spent the whole game
finessing combat against
sand zombies.
You've got a flaming scimitar and you just kick a dude's bedroom door open and you'll
be heading with it.
Not quite but pretty much yeah.
So it's pretty fun.
Again I will highly recommend the games.
But the plot of this one is the good guys quote unquote good guys they have a nearby
Arabian night invade a nearby enemy city to ostensibly to take it over and to find these weapons that they're smuggling
What have you but actually it's a metaphor. I just got it. It's an Iraq war metaphor. I just got it
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that bumps this movie down actually because it's really poorly handled
You're already at zero.
Yeah, I know.
Where are you gonna go?
It's not that bad.
I didn't know we could do negative numbers on this thing.
I've been doing it for years.
It's not that bad.
But anyway, actually-
But it's $200 million, it should be better.
Secretly, he wants the magical dagger filled with magic sand,
and if you push a button on top of it,
it reverses time for a bit.
And it's initially in the hands of Gemma Arterton.
And then it gets taken away.
The city gets invaded and she gives it away to one of her lieutenants and he goes away. And I
spent most, once it was revealed what the power of the dagger was, I spent most of the movie going,
at some point we're going to reveal why she didn't just reverse time initially and just get out of
the situation. And it never happens. Just- Probably didn't just reverse time initially and just get out of the situation.
And it never happens.
Yeah.
Just.
She probably didn't think of it.
Oh yeah, cause she was too busy being rude.
Yeah, she was being quite rude.
Too busy being rude and sassy.
Yeah.
Tell you what, it's probably a metaphor for a different war
that we've forgotten about potentially.
God, there's a moment in this where it just becomes
Lord of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring
where they're just chased by ominous guys on horseback with like black cloaks and whatever. That's a classic action sequence if done well, and it wasn't
The snakes bit where they're throwing snakes at each other. That's a good bit
No, we haven't even mentioned that the entire basis of this movie seems to be built around parkour
Huh, like all the behind-the-scenes stuff. It's just them guy. We've got around parkour. Like all the behind the scenes stuff, it's just them going, we got some parkour guys,
we're gonna Jake Gyllenhaal to do parkour.
We're gonna do parkour.
Was this prime time for parkour
or it had parkour's time past?
It was four years after Casino Royale.
Right, the peak of parkour on the big screen.
The peak of parkour, yeah.
But again, as we talked about,
and I think when we talked about that movie,
it's never been done better in a movie.
And I know there's like specific parkour movies where there's better technical parkour.
Oh absolutely sure.
But I don't care.
That doesn't have Daniel Craig leaping guerrilla style through a wall. So I'm not interested.
Exactly. But some of the special effects in this, there's a moment where he's sliding
down a bunch of collapsing sand stuff. And it looks like, speaking of James Bond, it
looks like the windsurfing in Die Another Day.
It's like that.
The thought that I had at that moment was,
I feel like if you're gonna make a movie
set in a really sandy environment,
maybe work really hard on your sand VFX.
Spider-Man 3.
Because otherwise it's gonna look bad.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Exactly, and it does.
But in the end, Ben Kingsley, we find find out it was Ben Kingsley by the way everyone
I hope you're keeping up
He was he wants to get the knife and he wants to stab the knife into them in the they call it a sand glass
The entire movie and I know technically you can call it that but everybody in the universe calls it an hourglass
But I guess they thought that the viewers would confuse be like is there gonna be another hour of this
I think it's gonna be another hour. I, it's just called that. It's just what
we call it.
I think it was just called like the sands of time. And there's like a big thing in the
game from memory. I didn't even notice they did that. Anyway, don't release the sand,
but also you can do it.
What he's going to do is he's going to stab the he's going to stand, he's going to stab
the hourglass with the knife and then he's going to reverse time to when he and his brother
were kids and he saved his brother, but then he's gonna reverse time to when he and his brother were kids
and he saved his brother
but then he's gonna not save his brother
so then his brother won't become the king
and then he can become the king.
Yeah.
Seems complicated.
It is complicated, yeah.
But he could have done it I reckon.
But yeah, maybe.
I think that's going too far back.
Butterfly effect rules,
I think that's going way too far back.
Yeah, you think he could have done it earlier.
I reckon you go back to just before the poison cape.
And you push him down some stairs instead.
Oh, okay, yeah, that works.
Because there's no way to prove that you pushed him down the stairs.
Oh yeah, because there's no, I'm going to say there's no time machine.
There is a time machine.
There's the exact time machine in this movie, yeah.
There's no video camera.
That's exactly right. And in this movie, he's undone because he...
Hopefully no one's chiseling out the scene as you're doing it.
That's right.
Fred Flintstone style. That's right. Because in the movie, he's's undone of course because he has burns on his hands because he handled the poison
Okay, you idiot or he gave the poison caped to his brother
So so in this you just kick somebody down the stairs
Yeah, you know maybe you'll have their bum print on your shoe maybe just brush it in the sand a bit
They're not gonna look they're not gonna look they're not gonna look at your shoe god damn
Anyway, there's too much sand released though.
Jake Gyllenhaal gets to go back in time and that's okay.
And then he goes back in time to when he first finds the knife and then he goes to Ben Kingsley
and he's like, you're gonna betray us. And Ben Kingsley's like,
Ah ha ha! This guy's had too much sun.
And then Gyllenhaal goes, no you are though. And then Ben Kingsley's like, have it to you.
He's like, all right, the game's up.
I'm gonna do some stabbing.
We're sword fighting, I guess, on these stairs.
No proof, also he hadn't done the murder at that point,
I believe.
Oh my God, is this pre-crime?
It's pre-crime.
Is this movie both a video game adaptation
and a prequel to Minority Report?
Yes.
Wow.
Yeah, that end bit where they're on the steps
and having that little exchange.
Gill and Hall and Gemma Arterton.
Yeah, and Ben King.
Okay, right.
It feels like the end of like a Sherlock homeschool play
where they're just like, I know you did it,
I would know, well, I've got the evidence and what, yuck.
Mason?
Yes.
Got a new section of the show.
New section?
Yep.
I don't know if I like that.
No, you're gonna like this. Because we've had a very successful run of not doing anything new.
That's how a franchise works.
Don't try anything new.
Okay, how about this?
We try it, and if everybody hates it, which they will, we'll never talk about it again.
Okay, great.
Alright, it's called Thoughts and Prizes.
And the funny thing about this is, you can actually win prizes in this section of the
video.
That's for you, Mason, and the people watching at home.
Really? What kind of prizes?
I'll let you know at the end if you win.
If the listeners win, do I not get the prizes?
No, you all would get a prize technically.
Depends if you win.
What's the prize?
We'll talk about it at the end.
This is a trick.
It's not a trick.
This is a trick.
You're sneaky like a grand vizier of some sort.
Anyway, thoughts and prizes.
So here's my thoughts.
And the prizes will be at the end.
Alright.
Is this a pun?
What is he doing?
Is this a play on words?
Thoughts and prizes.
I don't know.
So he's up to something, isn't he, listeners and viewers?
We'll get him after this.
Don't do it.
I don't like how the outfit that he wears at the start, it's more akin to the game Warrior
Within, which is the sequel to Sansa Time.
He never gets in the blue outfit at the start and then goes shirtless. Because in the game he's got a funny little
blue outfit and as you climb the tower or whatever you do the game the outfit strips
away and at the end you're just shirtless with a big pair of puffy pants.
Interesting. I don't like that. They went straight to the
sequel which was more goth. Which sure maybe worked for the game I guess, but it doesn't
work here. You don't open with that. You build to it.
Alright. Great thought. Thank you for that. Thank you. Appreciate that. I mentioned this but where are the Sansa... I mean nerd alert obviously. No, no, no, no, no, I guess, but it doesn't work here. You don't open with that. You build to it. All right, great thought. Thank you for that. Thank you.
Appreciate that.
I mentioned this, but where are the sand?
I mean, nerd alert, obviously.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I mentioned this, but where are the sand zombies?
It's a good point.
I mean, why wouldn't you even put some sand zombies in this?
Because it's expensive and you just have guys in robes.
I guess you could, yeah, yeah.
Remember the bit where Jake Gyllenhaal,
he lands in the room and there's beautiful ladies
and they're like, ooh.
Ooh, where did this, mm,
this is where the other man come from. And he takes the time to be like, I'm they're like, where did this swarthy young
man come from?
And he takes the time to be like, I'm here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm being sexy here.
But he's not, he's a creep.
Yeah, he is.
That's true.
Yeah.
Imagine if Nightcrawler had come through in the room.
Hello, I'm just going to take pictures of an accident.
Get out of here.
They knew.
They knew that was embedded in his soul.
Yep.
Last thought for thoughts and prizes is,
it's funny when Toby Kebbell dies
and his nose is squished down in his helmet
and he looks silly.
That's pretty funny.
Yeah, yeah.
Jalen Hall and he, they're finally having their little,
their little, you know, man-to-man talk
and they finally get some-
We're brothers or whatever.
We get some closure.
I didn't give him the poison cape.
Well, I guess, cause we're in this room, I believe you now.
And then, and then Toby Kebbell just hears a bit of noise and he's like, well, better put
my entire body out of the door.
Oh, it's arrows.
It's so many arrows.
Wow.
Yeah, finally, there were a device that could reverse time just slightly.
Yeah, there isn't.
Luckily, this is a toothless bloodless Disney style movie.
So by the end, I'll be fine.
Yeah, he will be, yeah.
And by the end of this movie, we'll have a device that, I guess, will enable us to reverse
any bad things that ever happen?
That's right.
Forever?
Well, if they did more movies, there's consequences for unlocking the sands of time.
The Dahaka will come after you.
Oh my god.
I don't want to get into it.
James, are you being chased by them in real life?
I can't tell you that.
It's not important what I'm up to outside of these videos.
That's actually my own personal and private time.
James did you unleash some ungodly demon spirits because you forgot to pick your kid up from
school or something and your wife got mad at you and so you reversed time?
No.
I would never do that.
Alright.
I would never do that and I would never be constantly searching for the water sword because
it's the only thing that can stop the dahaka. That's not what
I'm doing. I'm actually working on videos a lot. That's what I'm doing Mason. Anyways
that was the end of thoughts and prizes and unfortunately nobody has won any prizes. Now
it's time for Prince of Trivia. I don't even know what that was. The Sands of Trivia. James
you've got to give out a prize the first time because
otherwise nobody's gonna think they're gonna get a prize. Nobody's, everybody's gonna stop
watching because they're like well there's not gonna be any prizes. Nobody contributed
the thing that was supposed to be for the prize. Nobody did it so we don't, we're not
doing it this way. Interesting. Maybe it'll come back, we'll see. Alright. This film was
meant to be the first in a franchise as mentioned, akin to Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean.
However the film underperformed,
despite selling well on DVD and Blu-ray.
Ubisoft also shifted their attention to Assassin's Creed,
the video game, and dissipating interest in the franchise
led to any sequel plans being abandoned.
The final nail in the coffin was when Jake Gyllenhaal
expressed regret in appearing in the film.
Wow, burning his bridges.
Yep.
In his little blue britches.
That would have got you a prize.
Oh man, too late.
Got in after the buzzer.
I think I learned a lot from that movie
in that I spend a lot of time trying to be very thoughtful
about the roles that I pick and why I'm picking them.
And you're bound to slip up and be like,
that wasn't right for me, or that didn't fit perfectly.
And it certainly didn't Mason.
A Lego tie in toy line was released
and it was the first Lego toy based in a video game.
What a waste.
Oh, but now that's all they do.
Yeah, mostly.
Yeah.
I just wrote Assassin's Creed camera move.
It was probably an earlier,
Ben and Lawrence probably put it in,
but I gotta mention it.
Here it is again.
Yeah, it's happening here, isn't it?
And I was looking at the IMDB trivia as I do.
I watch a bunch of behind the scenes stuff,
I read some fake facts on IMDB,
and I actually found a fake fact.
Do you know for sure it's fake?
Yep, I confirmed it.
The fact was, Charlie Clawson was considered
for the role of Prince Dastin.
We know Charlie Clawson.
We know Charlie Clawson, so I sent him a text.
I said, hey man, true or false, were you considered for the role of the Prince of Persia?
And he wrote, I've had permission to read this out, oh wow, that's a blast from the
past.
Not to my knowledge was I ever considered.
I think what happened was around 2006, someone used my face in some fan art and shared it
on a forum and the rumour started from there.
I had a manager at the time who asked me to take it down because it wasn't a good look. She thought I was campaigning to make it happen
and was worried I might piss off the producers. I was also accused of whitewashing even though
I literally had nothing to do with it."
So there we have it folks, conclusive proof Charlie Clawson, bigot and racist.
And you can check out his podcast that he does with Will Anderson and others over at
Tofop incredible work
They'll say anything they will say anything on a budget of 200 million dollars
It may three hundred and thirty six million dollars
Which meant it definitely lost money
But it is the third biggest opening for a video game adaptation behind Lara Croft and Pokemon the first movie or was it's not now
Super Mario Brothers Mario Brothers and probably Sonic some of the Sonic's aren't probably yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, yeah, it's probably a fortnight. I'm a big Pikachu. Yeah sure sure sure Assassin's Creed. No, not that one
No, no, no, no, no that one. You know, it might have had a bigger opening actually
I'm pretty sure that it did the movie that we're gonna be talking about next week. Here's a hint. What is it?
It's Warcraft. Oh
That's probably gonna be the best ones of these ones we're watching. Maybe.
Maybe.
I only saw that once.
Yeah.
But think about what you've already watched.
And the 10 minutes you sat through of Assassin's Creed before you turned it off.
That is bad.
Yeah.
Alright.
See how we go I guess.
Well I'm excited.
You can actually see that early if you head over to BigSandwich.co also.
Did you know that?
I did know that, yes.
Yeah it's not the only thing there.
Do I get a prize though?
No. Oh what? Well the prize is the content if you pay $9. That's true. It helps support us keep did know that, yes. Yeah, it's not the only thing there. Do I get a prize though? No.
Oh, what?
Well, the prize is the content if you pay $9.
That's true.
It helps support us keep these ads free, whatever.
We don't run ads.
I mean, there's YouTube ads.
I have to say that because someone would be like, oh, I saw an ad on this video.
You're very clever.
You figured it out.
You figured us out, all right?
We're sorry.
But look.
James is being genuine there, by the way.
He sounds sarcastic, but he's like, well done.
You figured it out.
Yeah, you wouldn't want a prize.
We also do movie commentaries.
We do video game let's plays.
We do bonus podcasts.
We also have a podcast called The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows.
That comes out every Monday.
It's got its own YouTube channel.
It's on Spotify.
It's on Apple, et cetera.
Check it out if you so please.
We have a great time over there.
We do, don't we?
All right, everybody.
Grab the...
No, you say that.
What do I say? Why don't you say, I think you're so good.
You could say, see you later.
See you later.
Grab that jam, you guys, we'll see you next week.
See you later.
See you later.
See you later.
Time stuff.
Time stuff.
Time stuff, we could end with, see you next time.
Stuff.
See you next time stuff.