By John Walker on August 30th, 2008 at 1:08 am.
No reason this shouldn’t get a post. The Max Payne trailer looks incredibly cool. (Tampon adverts on the front: odd choice).
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30/08/2008 at 01:13 Real Horrorshow says:
I have faith this will be a cool film, this new full length trailer looks nice.
P.S. Before anyone says it, 99.99% chance the demons are part of Max’s nightmares. Remember the games.
30/08/2008 at 01:17 Rigley says:
I’m worried that they have swapped drugs with demons, much as the Doom movie swapped hell with a viral outbreak.
30/08/2008 at 01:20 Sum0 says:
I was going to do something kill-joy like “Doesn’t look that cool,” but as the trailer comes to the climax I’m like, okay, this is going to be quite interesting. When I think about it, this is the first time anyone’s made a film of a game I actually care about (Tomb Raider barely counts), so I’m finding myself intrigued as to how they’ll transfer the story and my beloved characters to the big screen.
Also, that music reminds me of the Smashing Pumpkins track from the Watchmen trailer.
30/08/2008 at 01:20 nabeel says:
Yeah that second trailer looks better, now my interest is piqued.
nabeel
30/08/2008 at 01:22 Rigley says:
“The Devil is building his army.”
“Max Payne is looking for something that God wants to stay hidden–that’s what makes him dangerous.”
That doesn’t sound like a set-up for a drug related plotline.
30/08/2008 at 01:23 Nero says:
I wouldn’t call it incredible cool myself but looks ok. They could still have used Timothy Gibbs as the lead. But oh well. Max Payne has given me some of my best moments in gaming history. I clearly remember playing Max Payne 1 demo over and over again just having loads of fun with the bullet time thing etc. I’m afraid it will be typically Hollywood with lots of explosions and maybe some nods to some moments in the games.
30/08/2008 at 01:23 Real Horrorshow says:
From what I can tell from the trailer, they’re following the first game failry closely.
Valkirye (sp) drug
Max’s family murdered
Meeting Mona Sax
Stealing papers from that bank vault you had to get to through the subway
etc.
It does look like they’ve traded in the gangsters for gangbangers though :(
30/08/2008 at 01:27 Real Horrorshow says:
He could just be a nutcase. There are plenty of movies/games with criminals and drug dealers that have delusions of divinity and righteousness.
30/08/2008 at 01:33 Jochen Scheisse says:
I really love both games, but the names of the protagonists are just too much. Payne and Sax? I mean, you can save Mona in the second game, and all you can hope for then is that they don’t get married and take a double name.
30/08/2008 at 01:37 Howard says:
This looks bloody awful. As much as I am a fan of Wahlberg this just stinks. Max Paine had an amazingly cinema friendly plot and one of the better soundtracks I’ve ever heard and to simply disregard all that, stash some pompous 2nd rate plot line and a bad song from Marilyn Manson over the top is just criminal.
When will movie writers realise that their gaming counterparts are in fact more talented than them and that they should just go where they point?
30/08/2008 at 01:37 TheLordHimself says:
Gangbangers rock!
30/08/2008 at 01:39 Muzman says:
That’s what we call spooky metaphoric black guy talk, as seen in every other horror film.
(Marlo Stansfield FTW! It looks more Die Hard than film noir anything, but it doesn’t make me think ‘yuck’ and ‘shant’ like the Hitman trailer did)
30/08/2008 at 01:44 moeity says:
there’d better be an appearance of baseball bat boy, or im boycotting
30/08/2008 at 01:44 Aubrey says:
\o/
Marlo indeed!
30/08/2008 at 01:46 GrogLvr says:
more MILA! so much MILA! MILA all over my face! MILA 4TW!
did the helo pad remind anyone else of devil may cry 4 when youre fighting credo? ok maybe a stretch.
30/08/2008 at 01:56 Bozzl3y says:
Panteen? Never heard of it.
30/08/2008 at 02:04 Bozzl3y says:
Erm, sarcasm aside, if anything was gonna make both Max Payne games make any kind of sense on film, that trailer shows the film is close. The things people truly remember the games for (proper bullet time, fetishistic treatment of weapons) look like they’re in there. Dunno about (wilful assumption on my part) replacing the slightly harrowing nightmare sequences of the game with the black angels ripping people out of skyscrapers, but until the proper full film movie thing comes out, who knows.
Personally, looks like it’ll be worth a watch regardless of how close it gets to the source.
30/08/2008 at 02:04 Gap Gen says:
It’s Marlo Stanfield!
30/08/2008 at 02:06 Colthor says:
I’m indifferent to the trailer, but vaguely angered by the existence of the unskippable advertisement preceding it.
30/08/2008 at 02:08 MetalCircus says:
As was mentioned earlier, I hope they haven’t swapped V for mythological creatures.
30/08/2008 at 02:09 Iain says:
It might *look* cool, but I think I can safely predict that the film will be shit.
Why? Because a trailer is meant to show you most of the best bits of a film so that you get all eager to spend your money, and if that trailer is representative of the most interesting and exciting parts of the film, then it rates a “meh” at best.
One day someone will make a good videogame-to-film conversion. But this isn’t going to be it.
30/08/2008 at 02:11 Talisker says:
Very stylish trailer, but I wouldn’t get your hopes up for a good movie.
30/08/2008 at 02:13 Grant Gould says:
The god/devil remarks sound a lot like the first boss in the game (the guy in the rock club) who kept yammering on about the devil coming up to claim humanity, blood sacrifices, the apocalypse, blah blah blah.
EDIT: Lupino. That was the guy’s name. Tremendously tedious to listen to, gratifying to kill because at least it shut him up.
30/08/2008 at 02:14 The Poisoned Sponge says:
In case it’s all been a little too long since you guys played the game, I’ll inform you of a little something.
The games are rife with references, and allusions, to Norse mythology.
Valkyrie, the drug in the game, is a bit of a no-brainer, obviously. Ragnarok, the club Vlad starts, is the name of the final battle of the Norse Gods. Hence, when I see a little bit of symbolism and artistic lisence, I’m not bothered. Particularly since we’ve been told in previous interviews with the director that the Valkyries (they ain’t angels) are all drug induced.
30/08/2008 at 02:17 AlexW says:
I was shocked and disturbed to see a Tampax advert before the trailer.
Also Jackie! I can’t take her seriously as an assassin, just like Topher Grace wasn’t Venom in SM3. Anyone that can clearly can’t remember That 70s Show well enough.
And as for the movie, the valkyrie took the best deceased soldiers from the aftermath of the battle to Valhalla to prepare for the apocalypse, if I recall correctly. They specifically avoided the battles, so being bludgeoned into the role of direct warriors annoys me.
30/08/2008 at 02:35 Bozzl3y says:
First time with a quote, let’s see if it works.
Yep, the games did allude (correct word?) quite heavily to Norse mythology. They didn’t show that the people you shot were dragged out of skyscrapers by black angels. Sorry, but I call “bullshit” on the part of the filmmakers. Although, no matter how sarky I get about it now, I know I’ll be first in line for a ticket when it’s out.
Honesty, gotta love it.
30/08/2008 at 02:35 Amirul B Ruslan says:
Mila Kunis is a horrible choice for Mona Sax, but the one thing that makes this worse? LUDACRIS is Bravura? Hmmph.
All in all though, it may not suck as much as I initially thought.
I’d rather have Remedy do Max Payne 3 any day.
30/08/2008 at 02:37 MeestaNob! says:
That looked pretty good, miraculously. A lot of the characters and scenery was instantly recognisable from the game.
I cant believe I’m saying this, but I’m gonna go watch this.
30/08/2008 at 02:43 Carlton says:
The most compelling thing about it is that it looks different. Pulling itself away from the basic action roots was a good idea, and if the Valkyries are symbolic thing that’s embedded in Payne’s psyche then that’s all the better. If Payne is actually squaring off against supernatural beings I’m not sure I’m interested.
And Ludacris is a good actor, check out Hustle and Flow, it’s obvious he’s got some chops. The only thing that has me hesitant about all this is John Moore being the king of mediocrity and Mila Kunis being a tough sell for a action heroine.
I love the games in a sort of guilty pleasure way, and the best thing they could do was either embrace the noir aspect of it, or turn the Hong Kong action movie expectancies on its head. It also says a lot if Wahlberg is calling it his “favorite role”. Say what you want about the guy, but he’s a pretty well rounded actor.
30/08/2008 at 03:00 Bozzl3y says:
Carlton – up until The Departed, he was always Marky Mark to me. Since then, I’ve warmed to his abilities that require clothes.
30/08/2008 at 03:09 Carlton says:
Bozzl3y – He’s got a lot of bad marks, but he’s got good ones sprinkled in as well. Three Kings, Boogie Nights, I Heart Huckabees, and his creator credit for Entourage makes him more interesting than most give him credit for. If The Lovely Bones turns out well he might shine through even more.
30/08/2008 at 03:19 Benjamin Barker says:
The Crow with a haircut and a 9mm in Dark City with Constantine… this doesn’t look so different, really. Doesn’t look horrible though, and stuff probably gets blowed up real good.
30/08/2008 at 03:22 Stick says:
All of my past was just silent flashbacks, images hanging on a screen like dead birds. The paranoid feeling of a crowd watching my every step. I was in an action flick. Funny as Hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.
… if there’s no “WAKE UP! You’re in a movie!” moment, I will be sorely disappointed. Sorely.
30/08/2008 at 03:41 El Stevo says:
This looks pretty good – atmospheric, good action, and a definite sense of ‘coolness’. The trailer is of course helped by having a great song from Marilyn Manson (“If I Was Your Vampire”, if you’re interested) over the top.
30/08/2008 at 04:03 sbs says:
Stick: Seriously, that would be brilliant. I LOVED that moment in the original game. Also, I think it had 2 possible comics for that scene, one for videogames and one for comics. Might have been two distinct ones though, it’s been a long time.
30/08/2008 at 04:58 Grey_Ghost says:
I will see this in a theatre no matter what!
I really do hope those Valkyries are drug/dream related delusion though, I really really do.
30/08/2008 at 05:33 Charlie says:
Please please please can someone confirm they are drug induced monsters. If they are awesome, if they are not omgwtfbbq!
I can’t decide if it looks amazing or terrible, it all depends on if they are halucinations or not.
30/08/2008 at 05:46 James says:
Did anyone else get a Tampax ad before? Talk about poor targeting.
30/08/2008 at 05:53 Real Horrorshow says:
Watching the trailer some more, it look like this has been shot Sin City style with backgrounds, shadows, etc, and stuff not always perfectly proportioned and stuff like that (w/o the black-and-white of course) which is a nice artistic choice for a video game movie.
30/08/2008 at 06:09 Leeks! says:
Gangbangers or… GANGBUSTERS!?
Lord punish me.
30/08/2008 at 06:30 fibbityjibbit says:
Tampax Payne.
30/08/2008 at 06:34 muscrat says:
@Jochen Scheisse
Hehehehe.
Mona Payne.
30/08/2008 at 07:01 Esha says:
I really want this to be good.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I remember a great deal about Max Payne, and that’s because it was one of my “upgrade games”. Whenever I get a serious computer upgrade, the first batch of games I play tend to leave an imprint. Usually I’ll forget about them if there was nothing particularly special past the graphics (Crysis!), but Max Payne was diifferent.
Max Payne embraced cliché in a solely wholeheartedly way that I hadn’t thought was possible anymore. Movies between the 60′s and 80′s had done this, even Magnum P.I. had done this, but after that it was like a golden era had ended and everyone had to take themselves seriously to “keep it real, yo!”
Max Payne was like a breath of fresh-air, it had a really decent noir/cliché-detective-gone-bad flick attitude to it, and it even had self-bloody-narrative (I miss you, self narrative… it seems like TV and movie heroes all have amazingly empty heads filled with air and little else these days), it was very, very good. Max Payne is the kinid of thing where I end up feeling that if they don’t do it justice, they’ll deserve an anal probing.
And like someone else here said, this is the first videogame movie I’ve ever given a damn about. I’m expecting it to be a bit shit, of course. With the sideline expectation of it being a lot shit. Because then I might get pleasantly surprised, and if not I won’t really be let down and the Max Payne games still exist so I can play them again instead (always did want to check out that Kung-fu mod).
The thing that made those kinds of movies great though was that they didn’t take things seriously; no matter what they dealt with, drugs, sex, gangsters, it was pretty much done with a flair that made them completely ludicrous. It was kind of a pretend-serious that made noir special (made Blade Runner special too, at that, but I won’t get into that).
My worry with this Max Payne movie is that it looks like it’s taking itself too seriously, real-seriously, that is.
I’m probably making no sense here at all. Oh well.
30/08/2008 at 08:31 AFan says:
I don’t like the concept of devils in a Max Payne film. In the first trailer I thought it was just some hallucination caused by his massive doses of painkillers, but now with more appreance by the devils, it is inevitable they are pretty real in the movie.
Nevertheless, since the two games are like my two fav games of all time, that is enough for me to sit through the whole thing. And who cares if it’s crap like all those other game-to-movie movies. It’s Max f***ing Payne!
30/08/2008 at 08:35 JackASS says:
As a little boy, I always dreamt that one day I would become a jackass. Now that dream has been fulfilled. Peace out.
30/08/2008 at 09:05 Rudolf says:
what set the max payne games apart in the video gaming world was the bullet time. That’s been done in movies, ever since matrix, a lot. Now, they get Mark Wahlberg (marky mark yo, coming to rap your socks off yo) to feature in a movie that’s not even original.
But that’s the fate of all game-movie conversions isn’t it? They have to lack a certain creative aspect because so much is already set. Only for a different medium, be it games or cinema. Sometimes it’s so adapted to one medium, that it translates worse than something more generic. Meh, at least it’s not done by Uwe Boll :)
30/08/2008 at 09:26 Someone says:
Why the fuck did they add this shitty singer to the soundtrack?
30/08/2008 at 09:42 Flint says:
What the hell was that?
30/08/2008 at 09:51 Little Green Man says:
I’m hoping that those Valkyries are hallucinations, and I have one tiny shred of evidence! At one point Max is kneeling on the floor with his hands behind his head while the “Valkyries” circle him. To me it looked that he was having a really horrible dream/hallucination from taking drugs and was confused and shit.
30/08/2008 at 10:21 yns88 says:
Wow, did the quality of comments here suddenly pitfall over the past day? Seriously, the naivete(sic) some of the above comments have over the drug stuff is almost youtube-worthy.
In any case, this looks like it has a decent chance of not being a steaming pile of shit.
30/08/2008 at 10:39 kadayi says:
Cheesy Saturday afternoon fun is not always a bad thing ;)
30/08/2008 at 10:44 Muzman says:
While this does look ok so far, I feel I must be a party pooper and mention how great the trailers for Transformers and 300 were. Two completely abysmal films.
30/08/2008 at 10:59 Kitt Basch says:
“It’s a bloody metaphor!” Should be the tag line for the film, in case too many people get confused while watching it.
OMG, I wanna hug Beau Bridges, he’s so cuddly!
30/08/2008 at 11:00 Jay says:
Man, those tampons are fucking hardcore
30/08/2008 at 11:09 Rei Onryou says:
I can’t help but watch that and imagine the Max Payne 2 theme tune (the one played by a member of Apocalyptica on the Cello) playing instead and how much better it would have been, actually recreating the feel of Max Payne. And also, you know, a little homage to the fans of Max Payne, who, if not for them, there wouldn’t be a movie.
Oh, I really hope they do this justice. As others have said, this is the first game to movie conversion I care about. I don’t want them screwing it up.
30/08/2008 at 11:22 Pod says:
Pan-teen?
It’s pan-ten you fucking Ditz. Christ.
Does Max Payne use Panten ProV?
Anywahn, this trailer looks quite good. I’ve never cared for other Games->Film conversions, but this one at least looks interesting. There were many scenes in that trailer that were directly out of the game. And what a good game it was. Not good enough to be a top 10er, but definately good. People who say otherwise are silly.
also: Wasn’t “A New York Minute” insanely fucking hard?!
30/08/2008 at 11:33 Ian says:
I still have no idea whether I like the look of this or not.
30/08/2008 at 12:36 Duke says:
I don’t understand why everyone is so sure the valkyries/angels/demons are anything but fancy movie metaphors. I don’t see them actually doing anything to imply they are anywhere but in Max’ head.
In one scene Max runs towards a guy standing up against a wall. The camera angle shifts and we she the guy being dragged away by a valkyrie. So either the valkyrie represents Max’ anger/vengeance/drug-rage or simply the valkyrie coming to ‘reward those who die in violence’. Or a little of both.
In another scene we see a Valkyrie flying towards a window in an explosion. The second the window breaks the Valkyrie vanishes.
We see Max kneeling holding his head and screaming as they circle his head. We also see the entire skyline behind him burst into flames as he screams and in another the room being torn apart.
To me this all looks like it’s supposed to be in his head. Although if the entire movie is like this from start to finish and we only see it from his point of view it’s really up to you to decide whether they are real or not :P
30/08/2008 at 12:48 Willem says:
Man, now I really want to buy some tampons.
30/08/2008 at 12:59 Funky Badger says:
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is all wrong, Max Payne (I) is Frank Skinner, as any fule kno.
30/08/2008 at 13:06 Real Horrorshow says:
Seriously…
30/08/2008 at 13:12 Jochen Scheisse says:
BTW, I guess that MP movie will be watchable, but I reserve my high pitched screams of awe and joy for the Prince of Persia movie, which up to now has the most potential, because the game actually has a story and the movie is not produced by Uwe “Franchisinator” Boll.
30/08/2008 at 13:33 Diogo Ribeiro says:
I’m fine with the metaphor as long as they don’t overuse it. But there were certain moments in the game – the looping and nearly endless hallways filled with the cries of his baby, the shootout with a doppelganger which mirrored his own guilt – that were much more revealing of his psyche than the CGI stuff the movie seems to carry.
Also, while I have nothing against the sometimes adorable Mila Kunis, the movie really needs Kathy Tong.
30/08/2008 at 13:43 Valentin Galea says:
any thing with Ludacris in it is a big NO NO in my book
30/08/2008 at 13:53 Dreamhacker says:
Im somewhat disappointed with his voice :P
30/08/2008 at 15:10 Little Green Man says:
OMG nothing to do with this but there are 5 new Fallout 3 Vids on Kotaku. Also they reuse Lucien Lachance’s voice in it. Anyone who’s played Oblivion will know what I mean. Looks cool, but even more like (in the towns) and less like Oblivion (wastland and fighting) than I thought.
30/08/2008 at 15:22 James T says:
I’ve got two, can anyone beat two?
30/08/2008 at 15:43 Forceflow says:
Sure, the valkyries are in Max’ hallucinations … but why does his love interest see them too … uh-oh.
30/08/2008 at 15:45 Funky Badger says:
People think a film with Wahlberg will contain metaphor? Have we learnt nothing?
30/08/2008 at 15:53 Jochen Scheisse says:
Wahlberg isn’t that bad. I liked him in 3 Kings, 4 Brothers, The Perfect Storm, The Departed and Boogie Nights. Can’t see why there shouldn’t be metaphor in Max Payne just because Wahlberg is in it, especially because the metaphors in MP are about as subtle as the Russian foreign policy.
30/08/2008 at 16:11 Hornybeast says:
Cool looking movie and i also have an urge to buy female hygene products
everyones a winner baby!
30/08/2008 at 16:18 klomfom says:
Real valkyries dont have wings, duh!
30/08/2008 at 16:23 finchDenton says:
Mark Wahlberg will always be Marky Mark to me…
Other than that, the film looks potentially better than mediocre. However, they may ruin it by try to be too stylised.
30/08/2008 at 16:31 Funky Badger says:
3 Kings is a good/great film despite Walhberg. The Corrupter is a decent/good film despite Walhberg.
He’s a one trick pony, and the trick isn’t very good. When you’re being comprehensively out-acted by Ice Cube and Spike Jonze you really should take the hint…
30/08/2008 at 20:24 Jochen Scheisse says:
No sense in arguing about aesthetic preferences without getting personal I guess. Soooo, I shall suspect your sexual preference to be the kind you really don’t like, I shall say more or less degrading things about your loved ones who I don’t even know, and I shall conclude by calling your aesthetic preferences fitting for a person keeping such company and having such manners. Word.
But whatever you think about Marky Mark: I believe there’s much to get wrong with the MP film, but all this talk about subtle nuances in the games is just your memory glossing things over. I like inner monologue and hard boiled stories as much as the next nerd, but MP is not The Glass Key.
I think the worst problem that movie could have is really that they screw up the inner monologue thing.
30/08/2008 at 20:26 Grey_Ghost says:
Yeah I really hope they aren’t trying to incorporate a Constantine type setting into Max Payne, please god let Max be trippin on Valkyrie or something!
30/08/2008 at 20:29 Pidesco says:
For this to be a true Max Payne movie all the New Yorkers must look like they’re Finns.
Also, the writing should be atrociously pretentious.
30/08/2008 at 20:50 Fumarole says:
I’m surprised that no one here has commented on the fact that Max Payne is the game adaptation of Payback.
30/08/2008 at 20:56 Phil White says:
Is the belief really that Hollywood *can’t* do a game justice? Populist butter spread most widely, as always, I’d say.
Even if this were for the fans, that’s still a demographic. Everything but genuine art sells out if its creator has a thirst to advance an end.
30/08/2008 at 20:57 Jochen Scheisse says:
What does Max Payne have to do with Payback?
30/08/2008 at 21:02 Phil White says:
Wooden acting?
30/08/2008 at 21:29 Abe says:
They’re not hallucinations. The movie is exactly what the trailer makes it look like – it’s Max Payne: Monster Hunter.
It’s weird enough that they’re making a movie out of Max Payne. The only reason the franchise is unique (besides the bullet time mechanic), is because it’s one of the very few games that uses noir and Hong Kong bullet opera as its main influences, rather than the usual hodge-podge of sci-fi, fantasy, and militaristic wankery. Take the story out of the game and put it into a movie, and it’s not unique at all, or even particularly well-told for its genre.
Maybe that’s the reason they’re adding the supernatural hoodoo – to give the film some sort of identity. But it just seems like an awkward and unnecessary addition.
30/08/2008 at 21:40 Jochen Scheisse says:
I’m afraid Abe is right. I checked the homepage, and:
“As the mystery deepens, Max (Mark Wahlberg) is forced to battle enemies beyond the natural world and face an unthinkable betrayal.”
MEH!
30/08/2008 at 22:47 Subjective effect says:
The game has its tongue firmly in cheek though. It doesn’t need this rubbish.
The casting of both Max and Mona is all wrong and now we know it’s Max Payne: Demon Combatorian it all adds up to one big fat meh.
30/08/2008 at 22:56 Rath says:
I was actually looking forward to this more than anything until I heard Red Dwarf is back next year. Now Max Payne must settle for the number 2 spot on the anticipation list.
30/08/2008 at 23:34 Funky Badger says:
Jochen: I suspect they’ll do the voice-overs in the same heavy-handed way they did in the games.
*shudders* Can just hear Walhberg’s dead tones thudding down like coffin, err, splinters…
(But what I really want to see is a Dick Justice film)
31/08/2008 at 00:00 Zyrusticae says:
“Beyond the natural world” could just mean “the world in his head”, y’know…
31/08/2008 at 00:26 Nimic says:
Okay, I was under the impression that the demons are all just his hallucinations from the effects of the drug, and that’s even what the trailer would suggest. But the actual film description seems to say that there are actual paranormal enemies, which will be unbelievably shitty.
31/08/2008 at 02:08 Kennel says:
The “official” film description seems to be BS according to several people who have read the script.
31/08/2008 at 05:09 malkav11 says:
I do believe that is the first videogame movie trailer that’s filled me with anything but dread. I’d be really surprised if it wound up being better than mediocre, but since that’d still be light-years beyond most efforts so far, I’d settle for it.
And, actually, the previews for 300 and Transformers were entirely accurate – they were terrible, and so were both movies.
31/08/2008 at 10:04 simonkaye says:
Well, look at it this way – it just has to be better than the Wing Commander movie.
31/08/2008 at 13:24 Jochen Scheisse says:
After watching the trailer another time, I really disagree with Mila Kunis more than with Mark Wahlberg. That woman looks like an 18 year old stripper, not like the hottest woman in video games ever. I have half a mind to open an online petition and demand Kunis’ face to be digitally replaced by Julianne Moore’s face from the time she starred in Hannibal.
31/08/2008 at 18:35 Anoid says:
Im just waiting for the bit when Max fights a cyber demon with a chainsaw thats going to be awesome,
oh wait this isn’t doom. but im sure it’s not max payne either, what the feck is this?
31/08/2008 at 19:28 Phil White says:
As some of you will know, Korean talent would’ve probably made this a magnificent watch.
31/08/2008 at 22:04 Seth Tipps says:
Not that this conversation needs another post, but it must be pointed out that Mark Wahlberg did get a role that was nothing but Metaphor; the Happening. Whether or not that was a successful metaphor (one that conveyed it’s meaning to the audience) is an argument for another day. But the fact is Marky Mark has had several roles (I Heart Huckabee) that are of a deeper nature.
01/09/2008 at 00:39 GarageGothic says:
According to this GamesRadar article, the valkyries are definitely hallucinations:
He’s hell bent and – judging by the twisted nightmare-visions of winged gargoyle beasties – possibly hell bound… “The hallucinations are a side-effect of this drug that’s been leaked onto the streets,” says Wahlberg.
01/09/2008 at 15:36 LionsPhil says:
Looks like Remedy did a better job of noir-stylings than these filmmakers.
And what the hell did they do to the soundtrack?
Re: Payback—the hell it has to do with Max Payne is that, stylistically, they’re a close match. The plots may differ, but the feel is right. In fact, it looks like we’re not the only ones to think this.
01/09/2008 at 15:49 Mattress says:
Marlo from the Wire plays some weird pseudo Voodoo gangster? …(miscast)…
Still, how could one say that trailer actually looks “good”?
Fun maybe, but it looks like the kinda film that’d become tedious before the end..
Let’s hope they keep the running just below 80minutes for this filmmovie.
01/09/2008 at 21:15 Phil says:
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But I still had to sit through a crappy toothbrush advert that had to buffer for a minute?
Why doesn’t Yahoo just die already, seriously.
07/10/2009 at 09:31 Club Penguin Cheats says:
I liked him in 3 Kings, 4 Brothers, The Perfect Storm, The Departed and Boogie Nights. Can’t see why there shouldn’t be metaphor in Max Payne just because Wahlberg is in it, especially because the metaphors in MP are about as subtle as the Russian foreign policy.
27/10/2009 at 20:26 penguin club cheats says:
I liked him in 3 Kings, 4 Brothers, The Perfect Storm, The Departed and Boogie Nights. Can’t see why there shouldn’t be metaphor in Max Payne just because Wahlberg is in it, especially because the metaphors in MP are about as subtle as the Russian foreign policy.