So Jake “my last name sucks to type” Gyllenhaal looks pretty damn good on the Prince of Persia movie poster. It’s a good pose and the outfit looks great. The tagline isn’t that bad, either! The second poster features the sexy Gemma Arterton, who also looks pretty good.
The problem with the posters, though, is the f**king font. Look at that sh*t. What the f**k am I even looking at? You could make a white guy look Persiany, but you can’t make the damn typeface look Persian? Not even a little?
Who uses f**king Helvetica in bold for a movie poster about Persia, anyway?! The artist couldn’t even try to “borrow” the font from the games? Dammit, Hollywood.
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4:00 AM on 07.21.2009
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..but now that you mention it, it does look pretty god awful.
TIME IS NOT FONT, FONT IS TIME.
FYI: There's another poster featuring Ben Kingsley in character as well.
I like this more modern look. They should stay the fuck away from any reference to the game during advertising, part of the failure of Hitman and Max Payne is that they tried to link them too much to the source of inspiration and everybody was like 2oh look, another shitty videogame movie".
http://tr.im/tiJ3
and thought "no, that looks too AUTHENTIC. Remember we're making a VIDEOGAME MOVIE here people! Get me the font from Vantage Point so we can really balls this up."
i gave up watching them years ago
move along , nothing to see here people.
Fucking Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer, that's who.
If Disney do the sensible thing and take the cool mechanics of the game (Parkour-style acrobatics and combat, time control) and then develop characters and story, then there's no reason why it can't be a big hit like Pirates of the Caribbean.
P.S.--the font is Apple LiGothic.
That is absolutely brilliant.
Hahaha, just amazing!!
But still, I question the typeface choice, here.
@Timstuff: A lot more than you'd imagine.
Comment of the week. HANDS DOWN.
As far it seems, it is from the creators of Pirates of the Caribbean. But... Johnny Depp's role as Jack Sparrow made that movie epic as hell, so I got my doubts too.
Creators of POTC? I'm not saying you're wrong, but do you know who exactly? Is it just the producers? It definitely isn't the same director. Gore Verbinksi directed POTC while Mike Newell (directed one of the Harry Potter movies.. that's all I know of) is directing Prince of Persia.
I also seem to be alone on my own little island when I feel that Jake Gyllenhaal was a horrible choice for the prince.
At any rate, POTC 2&3 were very forgettable. Let's hope for something at least a cut above those two.
whats so terrible about the poster?