There are times when Sinbad tries to convince himself that he’s completely irresponsible, even though the movie’s clearly moving him towards having a great redeeming moment. It sets a tone early on where you’re never worried about him or his crew, even when the movie tries to make you think he’s in danger. The movie starts with an action scene where Sinbad is never the least bit worried, despite how his ship is being attacked by a giant sea monster. I couldn’t find much more about this movie’s creation, so let’s get into it. That rounds out the only characters that get any kind of development in the movie. She’s also in a love triangle with Sinbad and Prince Proteus, Sinbad’s childhood friend portrayed by Joseph Fiennes. She clearly had fun with the role and it’s hard not to have fun listening to her performance.Ĭatherine Zeta-Jones portrays Lady Marina, who travels with Sinbad, proving herself to be useful to the crew. Everything about her performance is somewhere between mischievous, a bit of a sexual temptress and at times, blatantly angry. Michelle Pfeiffer voices Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos, as the lead villain, and unlike Pitt’s bland performance, she’s probably the best part of this movie. I can’t help but feel that this is a perfect example of how a professional voice actor would have worked better than a celebrity name. He’s fine in the role, but his performance isn’t anything special. Instead, Brad Pitt agreed to voice the title character after his role in Spirit didn’t quite work out. Russel Crowe was originally going to voice Sinbad, but dropped out for scheduling problems. But I’ve got to say, they used the blend much better in Spirit. The human characters are hand drawn, yet the backgrounds and most of the monsters are computer generated, similar to the blend of animation styles that Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron used. Interesting enough, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas was the first movie ever produced fully using the Linux operating system. Soon after forming DreamWorks, he brought up a number of his scrapped and rejected ideas, including Prince of Egypt, Antz, and this movie. While he still worked at Disney, DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg pitched the idea of a Sinbad movie to Disney. It’s also a movie I didn’t even know existed before I started researching for this DreamWorks blogathon as a whole. Having virtually no memory of the show, I went into DreamWorks’s own Sinbad movie with zero expectations either way. One quick search discovered that there are entire episodes of the show on YouTube if you’re curious enough to check it out. The show was filmed half in Southern Ontario, Canada (where I’m from) and Cape Town, South Africa, and it strongly resembles Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess in style and tone. The show was successful and they even planned a third season, but contract disputes led to its premature cancellation. It was a live action show that lasted two seasons and 44 episodes. The most I knew was of a TV show I remember seeing a couple times as a kid called The Adventures of Sinbad. Long story short, he’s a sailor from Bagdad who’s taken fantastic adventures in magical realms, encountered monsters and witnessed all sorts of supernatural phenomena in his adventures.īefore doing this research, I knew about Sinbad as a character, but not much about his legend. My quick research can’t seem to pinpoint exactly when Sinbad was created, but his legend takes place in the 8 th and 9 th century. This legend wasn’t part of the original Arabic collection of Knights from the 14 th century, but was added by various European translations in the 18h and 19 th century. Another such legend from Arabian Nights is The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor. Aladdin originated in The Arabian Nights, a collection of Arabian myths from many centuries worth of storytellers, with roots going everywhere from Arabia, Greece, India, Turkey and Jewish legends. The gritty and well-thought narrative of the game brings a human touch to the harsh realities of a mass post-apocalyptic pandemic.At some point last year, I reviewed Disney’s Aladdin. Joel is tasked with smuggling Ellie across the United States despite the deathly threats they face from the infected. Another central part of the game is the development of the father-daughter-like relationship between Ellie and her counterpart Joel. The gameplay focuses on a teenage protagonist Ellie on her quest to find a resistance group- 'The Fireflies' during a time when a percentage of the human population is affected by a parasitic infection. First released in 2013, The Last of Us narrative-based game franchise has gained popularity amongst gamers worldwide. If you're a fan of post-apocalyptic worlds set in a dystopian reality, you've likely already heard of HBO's latest hyped-up show, ' The Last of Us'.
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