I'm baaaaaack!!!!!!!!

I pictured you as a Casablanca fan.

 

Being a HUGE Assassin's Creed fan (games), I find myself extremely hesitant on the movie. The ads look really good, but......

I'm also a huge "Avatar: The Last Airbender" fan (the series close was absolutely KILLER!) but look at what hollyweird did with that. Great series, absolutely horrible movie. And Avatar doesn't have anywhere near as extensive or complixated a backstory as Assassin's Creed (which goes all the way back to the Old Man in the Mountain during the Crusades period, plus a massive modern day story that intertwines throughout).

If hollyweird screws up Assassin's Creed (again! there was a straight to video flop a few years back from what I hear) after all the hype, it's going to be very hard to try and bring any other major video game franchises to the big screen. Especially since video game franchises don't generally do very well at the box office (Super Mario Bros the Movie, Street Fighter, Mortal Combat, Final Fantasy, just to name a few).

 

Free jumps are a major part of the game. As far as the scenery being CGI, I'm fine with that AS LONG AS the used the same teams that did the scenery for the games. A whole passel of historical research went into the scenery backgrounds of the various games to make them as historically accurate as possible. As an example: Rennasaince(?) Period Rome looked absolutely NOTHING like Imperial Rome or latter period Italian capital city Rome. Same goes for Istanbul (or is it Constantinople these days?)

Sadly so much has been lost over the centuries. We only have imperfect records to go by in trying to recreate what was.

 

Happy New Year, I slept yesterday, so I'll watch out for the night.