Max Payne

[Stupot]

I haven't played the games, but fuck me does this trailer look good.

http://www.maxpaynethemovie.com/

[R4L]

I haven't played the games, but fuck me does this trailer look good.

http://www.maxpaynethemovie.com/

I saw this trailer when I saw Babylon A.D. I can't wait. Mark Wahlburg will make that movie good.

[monkey0506]

I'm actually a pretty big fan of the games. They're pretty epic. My brother first got the game on PC the year that it came out...man I loved that mousepad. :'(

He never did believe me about the rats in the subway shooting and killing me though.

Now I have the Xbox version of 1 & 2 and I really must say they are quite enjoyable. There are some quirks to the game, but they provide a unique aspect that if it doesn't turn you completely off to the game can be quite addicting.

On that note, I must say that I wasn't highly impressed by the first trailer I saw. I found certain aspects disappointing. Especially the Mark Wahlberg aspect. I don't want to turn the point of this thread, but The Happening was one of the biggest disasters the film industry has encountered in years IMO (of course minding the fact that I was working in a combined restaurant/movie theater at the time for tips...people tip less when they're disappointed in a movie ).

In any case, this trailer, which was not the same one I saw before does seem to offer a glimmer of hope for this film yet. I'm not convinced, and won't be (at least) until I see the film that this movie will do the games justice (and perhaps not even then), but this trailer has at least sparked a desire for me to give the movie a chance. Thanks for the tip!

[PsychicHeart]

Yeah, i saw the trailer a while ago and was pretty impressed.
Let's hope they can do the whole "Angels and Demons" dream idea right,
and that it shall do the games the justice they deserve.

[Makeout Patrol]

My first impression was that I was disappointed that it looks like another dumb overstylized overproduced action movie, but then I realized that I really shouldn't expect anything else from a Max Payne movie. I'm a pretty huge fan of the games, so I sure hope it'll be enjoyable on the "balls-to-the-wall stylized action movie" level, at least.

[Eggie]

Are the hardened gangsters still played by weedy game-designer types?
I'm not watching this if they aren't.

[DazJ]

I must say, when I heard Mark Wahlberg was playing Payne my first reaction was...erm....yeah. Ok.

But then I realised that Payne is a normal guy with serious issues (who wouldn't having your wife and kid brutally murdered).

I was always rooting for the guy who played Richard Hillman in Coronation Street to play Payne - he was a double of him in Max Payne 2. Don't deny it.

[Buckethead]

Ever since I've played the first game I was dreaming of a movie about it. Now of course it's not exactly what you are hoping for but it looks pretty close.

[InCreator]

Ooh! I went to see Dark Knight last week and noticed the poster, but forgot about it. Thanks for reminding!

Well. I consider Max Payne games best 3rd-person shooters ever made for PC. I other words, total fan.

But this... trailer. It was like a bad heavy metal video.
Wahlberg is a damn boy scout. In every role, he stays emotionless, his steps are counted, his clothes are ironed twice, etc. I bet he washes his hands before and after dinner, and spends an hour making his bed every day. He might play really good solider with all that aura of order and discipline in his every move, but not a bitter cop.

Max Payne was all about emotions, rage, losing control and going rogue. A cop turning revenge into a genocide. Crossing all limits, making bullets only thing that talk. And, a love story.

Now, I really DON'T see Wahlberg being able to express this wide range of emotions. Ever.
Did I see a sword? I did already see swords in Hitman movie. And I hated this because of swords.

Still, as with hitman, I will see this movie and give my best to like it.

And Mila Kunis would make superb Mona Sax, I think. Even her voice is pretty same.
Instead a movie, I would actually prefer Max Payne 3.

** wiping off dust from Max Payne 2 cd... whee, game time!

[Lionmonkey]

Max Payne, ah the nostalgia.
  At first I thought, it's going to be another Uwe Boll's cheap ripoff, but when I saw at imdb that it's not going to be his movie, and what's more important, Sam Lake, the guy who wrote the screenplay and story for both games is going to be one of the movie writers, my anticipation of the movie has dramatically increased.
It does look like an overstyled and over producted movie, but so does the game and that's one of the reasons, I loved it.
  Now, there's one more thing, that made me a Max Payne fan. Practically for the whole game his face stays the same. You see, in real life people wouldn't show their emotions after each every little thing that happens to them. Most of the time people wear the same faceless mask. I mean, yes, Max Payne did have a huge nerve strike when he saw the dead bodies of his relatives. And he started his adventure out of pure anger and lust for revenge, and that's what keeps him going. But I see no reason, why should he munch his face mucles into an angry smiley each time he sees an enemy. Although some bits of the trailer had the actor do that, thanks to InCreator, I've still got hopes that most of the time it won't be so.
  Now, I'm not saying that anyone should think the way I do. One of the most beautiful thing about humans is their diversity. Each has got his/her own set of standarts. I'm just saying that it look like I'm going to enjoy this movie more than some other guys.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

I think Marky Mark should've stayed with his band and not went into acting.

Just my opinion.


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.

[nihilyst]

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.

True, but I can imagine a Max Payne movie or game to have some dark fantastic elements. But what those things are, exactly, who can say it?

[InCreator]

I didn't really mean the grin on the model of first game or cry/rage/cry on his face.

I mean... Max Payne is highly emotional story. It's about what mask is on protagonist face but... I can't explain it. I played MP2 few hours and really... Game takes us through laaarge amount of pain, confusion, betrayal and suffering. And revenge. It's not in the face, but in every word, move and action.

Mark Wahlberg cannot express this all. Cannot express even believable piece of it.
I've seen him on screen enough to be sure of this.
He's the typical quiet passive aggressive solider-type, might perform well in Black Hawk Down, but not as Max Payne.
And his nasal voice isn't nasal voice of Max Payne.

Period.

[R4L]

Also, I fear they might do the same as the director of Silent Hill did. Good approach, but got the stories mixed up.

In the trailer I saw, it showed Mona Sax. Now I haven't played the first game, I only have the second one, so correct me if I'm wrong. Mona Sax only appears in the second game right? She isn't a part of the same story in the first one?

[Stupot]

Films based on videogames rarely ever sit entirely accurately in the game universe.  Take the Resident Evil films.  They're really good films but there are a lot of inconsistencies between them and the game franchise.  This isn't necesarily a bad thing.  After all the films aren't being made solely for the game fans... they have to appeal to a wider audience and this inevitably means making a few minor adjustments and running the films in a universe that is similar but nevertheless parallel to the games.

[Lionmonkey]

Mona Sax only appears in the second game right? She isn't a part of the same story in the first one?

She appears, but very briefly, only in the comics. Here's the appearances, ripped from Wikipedia:

..After an exhausting firefight Max finally kills Lupino, but comes face to face with Mona Sax, the identical twin sister of Lisa Punchinello, Don Puchinello's wife. Sax warns Max that the Valkyr scandal goes all the way up to Don Puchinello, who she intends to kill. Max and Mona share a flirtation and a brief drink before Max realizes Mona spiked his with Valkyr, succumbing to the drug and descends into a surreal, demented nightmare, forcing him to relive his wife and daughter's murder..
..Max appears in the lobby of the Aesir Corporation Building and shoots his way past floors of security guards and mercenaries in pursuit of Horne. Max suddenly encounters Mona Sax, now under the employ of Horne, with orders to kill him. She refuses, only to be shot [in the head] by another wave of Aesir security guards. As Max finishes killing them, he notices Mona's body has disappeared...

[Makeout Patrol]

Where did all of the Mark Wahlberg hate come from recently? Was "The Happening" really that bad? He's a perfectly competent action star, in my opinion.

[InCreator]

He has this fucking whiney 15-year old acne-ridden kid look on his face all time.
Somehow, all his roles consist of whining aswell... or he translates them that way.

[monkey0506]

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.

Films based on videogames rarely ever sit entirely accurately in the game universe...This isn't necesarily a bad thing.  After all the films aren't being made solely for the game fans... they have to appeal to a wider audience and this inevitably means making a few minor adjustments and running the films in a universe that is similar but nevertheless parallel to the games.

I absolutely agree with this sentiment, and though hard-core fans would want a line-for-line adaptation, this isn't always the best approach for the film. Hopefully the adaptations they have made (*cough*Wahlberg*cough* ) will be in the best interest of the film without losing those long-standing fans of the series.

[LimpingFish]

Was "The Happening" really that bad?

Yes.

Yes it was.