And it's related to the Sands of Time trilogy.....how? I mean, the first game (in the trilogy) starts out with the Prince causing the [parasitic bomb] to hit the fan, he's ALREADY the [tornado fang]ing Prince. He also has no damn name, why don't they just call him [tornado fang]ing Prince and let THAT be his name. Hell, I know a couple people that thought that actually WAS his name and not just something he was called aside from it being his title. What, does the actual Prince own his own name and he [tornado fang]ing trade marked it? Would they owe him royalties for using his name? Did he do it simply for the [tornado fang]ing irony?
I wouldn't mind if they said that the game was to LOOK like the PoP games and they called it that. The game series has like three different lines and each one is different. The original wasn't about an actual prince, but some guy who fell in love with a princess. The sands of time trilogy had an actual prince who managed to get some sort of demonic side from something happening involving the sands of time (I'll admit, I have no clue, I never had a chance to play the games, but I know something happened). The latest series has something different going on and I haven't gotten far enough into it to find out if the guy is an actual Prince or what. As far as continuity goes, when you name a movie after a game and you decide to send it to hell straight from the start, you're not actually going along with what the hell you're talking about. I can understand that they'd have to make SOME changes, there really isn't anyway to convey the fact that the PoP games are just as much action as they are parkour, so sort of nixing certain elements can only help in a movie sense just because of the fact that you don't have a grip on the movie, but you do the games.
As for movie and games, I really think it needs to stop. First, Hollywood has had enough time coming up with unoriginal [parasitic bomb]. I mean seriously, how many movies have come out in the past several years that had an original story and weren't based on a book, game, comic, or short story. Odds are you aren't going to recall a whole lot. Second, how many of them turn out well? From what I've heard, the best game movie was the Tomb Raider movies, and if no one liked those, then that must say something about the rest of them. Lastly, we're all [tornado fang]ing tired of having some beloved series torn to shreds because some [dark hold] in Hollywood decided they wanted to make a quick buck by slapping the name of the series on a movie.
I think (at least for me anyways) that a lot of people hate and complain about this [parasitic bomb] not because it'll ruin the series, but the fact that rather than try to make an idea original, it's the very fact that others are using what we love just to appeal to us and make money simply by saying "hey, here's the movie you always wanted" and then hoping that the people who don't give two shits about the series will go "hey, that looks mighty interesting" and then go see it just so they can pool together more money that way. No, the series isn't going to turn to [parasitic bomb] because of a movie or some horrible sequel, but it's what they're wanting to DO with it, and that's make a quick buck. It's something that you love being turned into someone else's cash cow because they don't want to show actual effort in creating something based on it.