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Max Payne movie trailer - ScottyGrayskull - 07-10-2008
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53528
Not sure how many other people here are fans of this series, but I've loved it since the demo for the first game came out. Broke my heart when the sequel sold so poorly just because you could beat it in 6 hours (6 fucking amazing hours I might add).
The trailer looks pretty good so far. Seems to capture the atmosphere and feel of the first game pretty well. Although I'm not quite sure what the whole angel/ghost shit is supposed to be... The effects of "V" maybe?
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - Neonie - 07-10-2008
I loved Max Paine. I'm a bit skeptical of this though.
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - Surf314 - 07-10-2008
I'm a big fan of Max Pain, but to do a good movie it has to be Noir. Really Noir. Like Brick Noir but with lots of violence.
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - IdiotWithGuns - 07-10-2008
This is gonna suck!
Take my word for it. Remember the Hulk which was released in 2000? Yeah, thats bad!
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - Mission Difficult - 07-10-2008
I still use my Max Payne mouse pad.
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - CaffeinePowered - 07-10-2008
If it has the drug induced crying baby and a trail of blood part, I'm game
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - ScottyGrayskull - 07-10-2008
(07-10-2008, 09:54 AM)Mission Difficult link Wrote: I still use my Max Payne mouse pad.
You too!
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - Budr - 07-10-2008
(07-10-2008, 09:19 AM)Surf314 link Wrote: I'm a big fan of Max Pain, but to do a good movie it has to be Noir. Really Noir. Like Brick Noir but with lots of violence.
Based on the trailer, they seemed to have missed the memo about creating atmosphere.
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - CaffeinePowered - 07-10-2008
(07-10-2008, 11:29 AM)Budr link Wrote: [quote author=Surf314 link=topic=793.msg20308#msg20308 date=1215699599]
I'm a big fan of Max Pain, but to do a good movie it has to be Noir. Really Noir. Like Brick Noir but with lots of violence.
Based on the trailer, they seemed to have missed the memo about creating atmosphere.
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Yea
They should have called the guy that did Sin City
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - Budr - 07-10-2008
(07-10-2008, 11:35 AM)CaffeinePowered link Wrote: They should have called the guy that did Sin City
I guess Rodriguez has enough on his plate and Frank Miller's got The Spirit on the way.
As an aside, is that Marlo Stanfield near the start of the trailer?
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - cbre88x - 07-10-2008
The infamous dream sequence please.
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - Surf314 - 07-10-2008
So no one here liked Brick?
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - Budr - 07-10-2008
(07-10-2008, 12:25 PM)Surf314 link Wrote: So no one here liked Brick?
I loved the premise and thought it was a good film just tried way too hard and I hated the boss character (Pin?)
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - Surf314 - 07-10-2008
(07-10-2008, 12:49 PM)Budr link Wrote: [quote author=Surf314 link=topic=793.msg20344#msg20344 date=1215710734]
So no one here liked Brick?
I loved the premise and thought it was a good film just tried way too hard and I hated the boss character (Pin?)
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I like that he got the shit kicked out of him. Also I almost felt it was a parody at times. Which I kinda liked, it didn't take itself too seriously.
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - Ianki - 07-10-2008
Man, all i did my freshman year of college was play max payne over and over again. From the looks of it, they seem to be doing things right, at least the trailer is filled with to the brim of scene recreations of some of the story board cut scenes in the game, and tone reproductions in the lighting/color and the dialog. Hell, they even had a shoot out that ended in a bullet time lunge.
This might be the closest thing we could get to a faithful video game adaptation until there is a Myst adaptation consisting of looking up the final puzzle and skipping to the end.
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - Budr - 07-10-2008
(07-10-2008, 12:51 PM)Surf314 link Wrote: I like that he got the shit kicked out of him. Also I almost felt it was a parody at times. Which I kinda liked, it didn't take itself too seriously.
I know exactly what you mean but, for me, it tried to tread a line between a serious neo-noir and a comedy rather unsuccessfully. It felt like it should have swung one way or the other. Not to mention that parody-noir is a rather exclusive niche, which happens to house a certain Coen brothers' movie against which anything is going to pale in comparison.
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - Chief - 07-10-2008
I've seen videos of the game, never got into it.
But is it just me, or does the movie look atrocious?
Re: Max Payne movie trailer - Chooly - 07-10-2008
(07-10-2008, 01:22 PM)Ianki link Wrote: This might be the closest thing we could get to a faithful video game adaptation until there is a Myst adaptation consisting of looking up the final puzzle and skipping to the end.
HA! Yeah, videogame movie adaptations, eh, not so much.