I have a pretty jaded view on video games turned movie (this thread will get to Max Payne eventually, promise).
Almost every awesome storyline in a video game that I've loved has been torn to shreds by rogue directors, and I would almost never buy a video game based on a movie.
Maybe this says something about the incompatibility of the two.
For example: Doom, the original game, never loses its playability to me. The story behind it doesn't quite match up with the graphic engine in terms of "coolness," but it was still fun to play. The story itself was I think more fun to learn about than playing the game. Doom 3 was a little closer, I think.
The movie was crap. The Rock? And why do directors feel the need to make movies exactly like the video game they're emulating? I don't particularly want to watch a movie in first person, thanks. Cheesefest and a half. And I think that movie lost all the darkness and evil that has to do with Doom.
Let's examine Silent Hill. Although I love Pitch Black as much for its silly sci-fi B-rated acting as for Richard Riddick's bad-assedness as a character, Radha Mitchell took cheesiness to a whole new level in this piece of crap movie. The dialog has always been stilted and awkward in Silent Hill (though I think that adds to the eeriness). I expected no less from the movie. But when Mitchell's character looked at the "map" and it "zoomed in" thus emulating the gameplay, it was over for me. Brilliant graphic work wasted on complete crap.
Thus comes Max Payne, based on the hit x-box/PC game about a dark comic-book type detective sucked into an underworld of drugs by the murder of his family.
My first thoughts of the trailer: awesome.
Despite Marky Mark.
Despite Celso's girlfriend.
Awesome.
But I've been burned before by these types of movies, and I can't help but be skeptical about this one. I certainly think the big screen can't make this movie PG13 and still keep with the sick shit from the video game, but maybe they can do what most other video game/cinematic hybrids failed to do: adopt the storyline of the game without a.) changing it drastically or b.) overdoing the geeky video game emulation type crap.
If they can do that, I'll shut up.
Wondering if anyone else is planning to see this movie and what you think of it/other video game movies.
Almost every awesome storyline in a video game that I've loved has been torn to shreds by rogue directors, and I would almost never buy a video game based on a movie.
Maybe this says something about the incompatibility of the two.
For example: Doom, the original game, never loses its playability to me. The story behind it doesn't quite match up with the graphic engine in terms of "coolness," but it was still fun to play. The story itself was I think more fun to learn about than playing the game. Doom 3 was a little closer, I think.
The movie was crap. The Rock? And why do directors feel the need to make movies exactly like the video game they're emulating? I don't particularly want to watch a movie in first person, thanks. Cheesefest and a half. And I think that movie lost all the darkness and evil that has to do with Doom.
Let's examine Silent Hill. Although I love Pitch Black as much for its silly sci-fi B-rated acting as for Richard Riddick's bad-assedness as a character, Radha Mitchell took cheesiness to a whole new level in this piece of crap movie. The dialog has always been stilted and awkward in Silent Hill (though I think that adds to the eeriness). I expected no less from the movie. But when Mitchell's character looked at the "map" and it "zoomed in" thus emulating the gameplay, it was over for me. Brilliant graphic work wasted on complete crap.
Thus comes Max Payne, based on the hit x-box/PC game about a dark comic-book type detective sucked into an underworld of drugs by the murder of his family.
My first thoughts of the trailer: awesome.
Despite Marky Mark.
Despite Celso's girlfriend.
Awesome.
But I've been burned before by these types of movies, and I can't help but be skeptical about this one. I certainly think the big screen can't make this movie PG13 and still keep with the sick shit from the video game, but maybe they can do what most other video game/cinematic hybrids failed to do: adopt the storyline of the game without a.) changing it drastically or b.) overdoing the geeky video game emulation type crap.
If they can do that, I'll shut up.
Wondering if anyone else is planning to see this movie and what you think of it/other video game movies.
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As an inner-city WOP myself, I couldn't get past this weenie white-bread accent-less actor NOT saying things like "youse" and "ay" and "madonna mia". 
