The bird is a symbol of the Assassins. They, especially the Eagle, represent freedom, but also they are very skilled animals when it comes to get their prey. So the symbol suits (especially when you play the games you understand it). I can't say anything about the movie though since I haven't watched it, and I can only guess how awful they implemented that in the movie.
The story of the games is really long and I don't think they could capture it in that little time. That being said, it's their mistake, and it's no excuse. If even Avatar could make a decent story with explaining what is happening, what they're doing on Pandora, what Pandora is, what an Avatar is, and then spend hours inside the Avatar, then there is no excuse for not being able to do this with Assassin's Creed. Most of the work is given, they screwed it up in the trailer already with that big arm thingy.
And now what bothers me most: the long-ass over-extended fight scenes. It seems that the director doesn't know what an Assassin is. Or what "we work in the dark to serve the light" means. It doesn't take a genius to decipher this. Some fight scenes, yes absolutely. But minimise it to some encounters with two or three guards. The rest should be silent, skillful, dramatic assassination.
You know the best part? I haven't even watched the movie and I already know what is wrong with it. The trailer just gives away all that is wrong, from the stupid arm-thingy that replaces the original Animus to the bad choice of music, which does say something about poor decision making.
Only thing I don't agree is the "HOW are they able to view the protagonists 500+ years old fights as if they were filmed with cameras?". You have a protagonist in a movie, you follow him, and yet you don't see through his eyes. You see as if you were an observer of what is happening around him. When he's in the Animus, he's seeing it through his eyes, but you again are an observer of what he's doing. You have the same mechanic when you're watching Inception and seeing the dream of a person, or Matrix, watching what he's living through in the Matrix, or Avatar etc.
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MongoLloyd
8 years ago
It seems that the director doesn't know what an Assassin is.
This also occurred to me, in that an assassin doesn't get involved in protracted hand to hand combat. THAT'S not their normal mode and I'd say if it came to be that the assassin kept getting into these long drawn out battles, then he's a pretty ineffective assassin.
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gstards
8 years ago
You know the best part? I haven't even watched the movie and I already know what is wrong with it. The trailer just gives away all that is wrong, from the stupid arm-thingy that replaces the original Animus to the bad choice of music, which does say something about poor decision making.
And THAT, considering that no trailer featured any bit of the film's score.
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joelcosta-jcx
8 years ago
That's a fair point. What I meant though is not that the music in the trailer is bad, thus the actual film score is bad, but that a bad choice in music in the trailer, combined with all the other bad choices, doesn't promise anything good. To the contrary, it shows me that people with bad decisions work on the project.
I went to watch it now, and at least the present story was kind of okay. It wasn't special, a bit generic to my taste, but for a first movie that has to (or rather should have) set up a cinematic universe, it's okay.
The whole Animus implementation was horrible, the worst. If they don't trust in the original source, then they shouldn't make a movie about it. It looked bad (CGI-wise), was cheesy, cut the immersion into the Animus sequence (which were short and almost only action-packed), and I bet it cost a lot, a lot more than an actual prop of one of the video game versions would have cost.
As for the score, it wasn't good. Am I the only one or did it sound like a cheap rip-off of Interstellar? It wasn't horrible, but not good either. And the song used after the Aguilar intro: terrible, they did the same mistake as in the trailer.
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