Max Payne

[Emerald]

Most silver-screen video game adaptions suck, as I'm sure you all know. Then again, Max Payne was originally just an adaption of hard-boiled detective movies, so maybe it'll translate better. Then again... again, judging by the trailer, the entire film just seems to be dedicated to Max Payne kicking insane amounts of ass. Which is only really cool when it's Vin Diesel...


Why am I back here?

[Stupot]

Coz you love us Sean.
Welcome back.

If not Mark Wahlberg, then who does everyone think would make a good Max Payne?
I'm not familiar with the games so I'm not really qualified to answer, so I'll say Orlando Bloom.

[Dualnames]

Why am I back here?

Because you chose to.

[Makeout Patrol]

Was "The Happening" really that bad?

Yes.

Yes it was.

It can't possibly be bad enough to erase the awesomeness of The Departed.

Anyway, Stupot's question is one that I'd echo. Mark Wahlberg looks just as much like the model in Max Payne as the model in Max Payne 2 does (although I think I would have liked someone a bit older - the decision to make him older in the second game was pretty much a stroke of genius in my opinion). Someone that looks like Bruce Willis, but not actually Bruce Willis.

[DGMacphee]

Also, what's with the random supernatural crap?  Max Payne had some surreal moments (when you're inside his memories) but I don't remember valkyrie-griffon things grabbing people and flying around in huge fire tornadoes.

Silly.

Actually I felt this way the first time I saw the Valkyries myself...but I've shifted slightly in my opinion of the issue based off this trailer. I'm hoping that they are intended as deranged hallucinations and not actual physical beings. For example in the scene in the trailer where the guy is pulled out of the window by the Valkyrie...IMO that could be interpreted that the drug (Valkyr) drove him to jump out of the window. If this is the case then I accept this aspect of the movie. If instead they are supposed to be actual physical beings that only the druggies can see...that might be enough (paired with Whailberg ) to destroy the cinematic end of this great franchise.

From what I've read of the film, the supernatural stuff and columns of fire are confirmed by Wahlberg as a side-effect/hallucination from the drug (and, yes, because they're Valkyries and the drug shares the same name).

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/max-payne-the-first-great-videogame-movie/a-20080804113823281022

He’s hell bent and â€" judging by the twisted nightmare-visions of winged gargoyle beasties â€" possibly hell bound...

“The hallucinations are a side-effect of this drug that’s been leaked onto the streets,” says Wahlberg.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

Take the Resident Evil films.  They're really good films

Stop.  Rewind.  Replace good with 'horrid'.  Continue!


As for the images being hallucinations, I suppose that can work as long as no two people in the movie share the same hallucination, which just isn't reasonable.  Ie, the guy being pulled out of the window can't think he's being pulled out of the window by a valkyrie while Max sees the valkyrie also pulling him out of the window.  That's just not how hallucinations work.  Matter of fact, a hallucinogen wouldn't cause you to see any kind of specific imagery at all, and even if you were repeatedly told about 'valkyries' or whatever, each appearance of them in the movie would vary based on individual interpretation of what they looked like.  Yeah, it's just a movie, but it also seems like a pathetically lame excuse to throw in massive doses of CGI...

[InCreator]

Good one!


Bad one! 


no no no


This poster shows well how wrong it looks. Marky should grow some hair first!

[[Cameron]]

Thomas Jane could pass as a resemblance for older Max Payne. I think he's a good actor, he's just in a lot of shit films.

[R4L]

Christian Bale looks like Max from the 2nd one A LOT.

[InCreator]

Christian Bale looks like Max from the 2nd one A LOT.

Yes!

[LimpingFish]

I second the Tom Jane suggestion. He's made many a shite film, but he's likable. He made a good stab at being The Punisher (though the whole tone of that film was wrong, stupidly entertaining though it may have been), and he'd be a pretty good choice for Max Payne.

Wahlberg just comes across as a grumpy house painter.

Personally, I always thought the first Max Payne looked like Johnny Knoxville. Maybe that's why I liked dropping him off buildings so much.

Stop.  Rewind.  Replace good with 'horrid'.  Continue!

Seconded. I still enjoy them for some reason, though. Maybe it's Milla Jovovich's bone-supplying influence. Don't ask me why.

Plus, they keep people like Russell Mulcahy away from other films they might otherwise potentially ruin.

[Dualnames]

Max payne. payne to the max..

[Makeout Patrol]

I second the Tom Jane suggestion. He's made many a shite film, but he's likable. He made a good stab at being The Punisher (though the whole tone of that film was wrong, stupidly entertaining though it may have been), and he'd be a pretty good choice for Max Payne.

There was also that Punisher game that, if I recall correctly, played almost identically to Max Payne, so this might just be fate.

[LGM]

I just read that they're trying to get a PG-13 rating for this film. Bad sign #1.

[LimpingFish]

There was also that Punisher game that, if I recall correctly, played almost identically to Max Payne, so this might just be fate.

Ha! Yeah, I'd forgotten that. Tom Jane also supplied the voice for the game.

[ildu]

I just read that they're trying to get a PG-13 rating for this film. Bad sign #1.

Doesn't make sense either since those who played the games when they were around 13 years old are a lot older now. Can you even show blood in a PG-13 film?

As for the images being hallucinations, I suppose that can work as long as no two people in the movie share the same hallucination, which just isn't reasonable.  Ie, the guy being pulled out of the window can't think he's being pulled out of the window by a valkyrie while Max sees the valkyrie also pulling him out of the window.  That's just not how hallucinations work.

I'm assuming only Max can see them. That's how it was in the game, though POV is a bit different in a game than in a movie. After all, in the game we are Max Payne, and in the movie we're watching Max Payne. In any case, I don't think they're so stupid that they'd do it. It's another case altogether whether they think the audience is that stupid.

Does anyone know if Sam Lake has been actively working on the screenplay with the yank writer, or is he credited as the co-writer only for the premise of the story?

[InCreator]

I just read that they're trying to get a PG-13 rating for this film. Bad sign #1.

Not just bad, I find it awful!
Max Payne is a game made by adults for adults.
Changing it would be... so wrong.

[Stupot]

It's about selling tickets.  Lower the rating, more people pay to watch it. Simple as that.

[[Cameron]]

Well to me it reads that they want to get younger people in, thinking they need them to make up the sales for this video-game film. Kids like games and action films. So they seem to be heading for this demographic rather than the more mature audience that the film should deserve. It needs it's deep character issues and thick adult plot to retain all that makes it Max Payne, yet that seems to be dissipating in favor of a more shoot em up constant action film.
I still hope that I'm not right and this will be a great film, but it isn't much hope.

[InCreator]

This sounds like zombies and half-covered boobs. I already imagine an evil demon lady, with wings and as little of clothes as possible.

Trust me on this.
And no, I have no real proof that there will be one.
But there will.