Max Payne the movie is.... [SPOILER WARNING]

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zioburosky13

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It is showing earlier here in Asia and Max Payne the movie is (SPOILER ALERT)



































a complete overhyped, waste of idea and talent, spit in your face kind of insult production.


If you expect to see an old school/noir/action movie, this
one will leave you wonder why on earth you spent your hard earned money on such a
piece of shit production. The story pacing is too damn slow and I almost felt asleep during the mid-part of the movie, and I felt insulted since the craptastic 10,000B.C movie.

First, Fox is publishing it, which is bad given their previous record (they cancelled Futurama) and early reviews of the movie criticized their action
Fox is timing the press screenings so late that most reviews won't come in until after opening weekend--a common way to avoid negative press.

Second, the director has bitched for not able to do a R-rated production.

Fans of the game expect to see tons of gun fight will be disappointed and replay the game instead when they get back home. John Woo will not pleased for not enough Bullet time action in the movie.

A sequel is inevitable given the nature of the ending of the movie.

Hollywood should stay the fuck out of picking video game story for material. They
had butchered Mario, Doom, Alone in the Dark, Hitman, Dungeaon Siege, Blood Rayne
(although the game is not that bad....still doesn't deserve a movie), house of the
dead, postal, Wing Commander...
 
Wow, another game to movie that sucks, imagine the odds.

Not that I was expecting the producers of this movie to do any good but if you deal with a script that already sounds like a thriller; a cop wanting revenge for the murder of his family, you would think they couldn't possibly screw that up.

I guess they must have seen it as a challenge.
 
Problem with movies based on games is that producers always want to change stuff. A game like MAX Payne is a movie by itself and don't need any kind of adjustment: just copy-paste the damn thing into a movie, replacing the animated characters by real actors, and earn the money. But nooooo, they always have to put their fucking mark into their job, and that's what screw everything up.
 
I knew it would fail. His hair was all wrong.

Makenshi said:
just copy-paste the damn thing into a movie, replacing the animated characters by real actors, and earn the money.
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You have to compress the "damn thing". Nobody would watch an eight-hour movie. Doing that whilst staying faithful to the game and grasping the essence of it is pretty hard, I guess.
 
Is it really hard to compress an eight hour game into two hours? You don't need to show every single encounter with a bad guy... I feel like most games have a lot of filler to them anyway.
 
bad director, bad lead actor, horrible script= another turd of hollywood, can you believe that they actually are making a mass effect movie?
 
a complete overhyped, waste of idea and talent, spit in your face kind of insult production.
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thats the general idea of every movie which is based on a game.

Doom = Crap.

Hitman = Crap

Resident Evil = Post Apocalypse Crap.

etc. etc...

The only movie which doesn't sound like its gonna suck is Warcraft. but we wont see that till 2010 (presumed.)
 
Arash said:
The only movie which doesn't sound like its gonna suck is Warcraft. but we wont see that till 2010 (presumed.)
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Well considering; the story and lore, the warcraft movie must be based on it can only get better.
 
Arash said:
a complete overhyped, waste of idea and talent, spit in your face kind of insult production.
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thats the general idea of every movie which is based on a game.

Doom = Crap.

Hitman = Crap

Resident Evil = Post Apocalypse Crap.

etc. etc...

The only movie which doesn't sound like its gonna suck is Warcraft. but we wont see that till 2010 (presumed.)
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Excuse me, you forgot Super Mario Brothers and STREET FIGHTER... both cinematographic gold.
 
Mortal Kombat...

Actually it wasnt TOO bad for a low budget cheese fest but then they made MK2.... Sigh.

Seems studios have run out of ideas so not only do we get Warcraft but EA license Mass Effect recently... Decent game but will, per nature, not be a decent movie.
 
Movie games will never really work since the large majority of games have awfully typical plots that are transplanted from the history of film and literature, which means for the most part the popular games being transferred to film tend to be utterly dull and predictable.

To make things worse, games almost always don't have the right level of character development or writing in order to qualify as a "good film" in a transfer.

Don't mention Planescape: Torment, that would make the most awfully boring film in existence. Metal Gear Solid is already a film (they all are dammit) and for the most part the dialog is excruciating so the framework is already full of despair.

I don't see very many games that could make a good adaption, especially considering the fact that any ounce of originality would require the director/writer/actors/crew to alter the source material.

Therefore I'm not surprised, although I'm going more by expectation here than your word.
 
I liked Resident Evil, and both Final Fantasy movies (Spirit's Within and Advent Children).

Most video game movies suck though.

I remember seeing Mario Brothers in the theatre when I was young, and hating it.
 
I kind of liked DOOM movie, wasn't quite what I expected. But compared to Alone In Dark its was a masterpiece.
 
Final Fantasy Advent Children is great. It captured spirit of games nicely. It actually was a continuation of 7th Final Fantasy game story. And it looks beautiful too.
Spirits Within.. I have no idea why that was made, it had nothing to do with FF, and it surely didn't look like it.. Bunch of muscular guys with weapons.. It was just too.. western to resemble FF at all.

Another game movie that didn't completely suck was Silent Hill.. Not really great, but step in the right direction if you ask me.. Still I think only someone like David Lynch could make a seriously good SH movie.

The problem of movies based on the video games, is partly because of video games themselves.. There are just too little of them with a trully good story, most games have a crappy plot. Hence serious filmmakers not taking games seriously, while morons like Uwe Boll get their hands on them.
 
The problem of movies based on the video games, is partly because of video games themselves.. There are just too little of them with a trully good story, most games have a crappy plot. Hence serious filmmakers not taking games seriously, while morons like Uwe Boll get their hands on them.
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Video Games have great stories, it's the stupid film makers that dont know how to bring the "game feeling" to their movie. Doom was an awesome horror game but the movie was...pft...you know the meaning...
 
rcorporon said:
Not a fan of Spirits Within?
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I am a fan of the movie yeah, I just think that it was a great sci-fi movie that looked amazing, I loved the art style in it a whole lot. But I thought it just wasn't a good final fantasy movie.


edit: this is what I think of Max Payne the movie. :twisted:


 
Arash said:
Video Games have great stories, it's the stupid film makers that dont know how to bring the "game feeling" to their movie. Doom was an awesome horror game but the movie was...pft...you know the meaning...
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C'mon.. Doom had a good story? Seriously? I guess that means our standarts for what constitutes a good story are way too different to even continue this argument.

Story and character development is ALWAYS the most important thing about a movie, at least if you want the movie you are making to be any good and for people who watched it to actually have something to think about that movie afterwards. Action scenes nor good CGI won't achieve that. That's not always true about video games, a lot of times game can somewhat compensate for a crappy plot with an entertaining gameplay.
It's not just difficult to adapt a video game story to a movie, but to also find a game actually worth adapting..
 
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