Apparently this might even be PG-13!? When you base a movie of something that is known to be pretty violent you don't censor it.

lars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_payne#Max_Payne_3

there wasn't much blood in the first max payne game, or strong language or nudity so this isn't even an issue. if it's pg 13 they'll show a bunch of soldiers getting shot in the chest rather than showing chunks of their brains spewing out against the wall

it could still be pretty cool, especially as max payne had crappy dialogue and excellent action which is what vidcon movies are all about!

Looks like it'll be the best videogame to film adaption yet.

it's pretty obvious the angels are from his drugz and just hallucinatory.

i'll probably see this, only con so far is mark wahlberg.

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do...you....remember when you were...a kid....and you went past the graveyard??

and what the fuck's up with the flying demons or whatever? This is Max Payne, not Resident Evil.

you just said you played through max payne and now you're saying the demons are stupid???  wtf?

for those who haven't played the game, it revolves around a drug called valkyr (valkyries being the angels that took men to valhala there's lots of norse stuff in the story) and max is injected with the drug and trips balls.  the segments are these weird postmodern meta-segments where payne questions his reality and claims he exists in a video game then relives his families brutal murders.  if anything the movie will probably blend the tripping balls with real life (it's probably when he's chasing that goofy guy during the level "fear gives men wings to fly").

"i dont know about angels, But its fear that gives men wings"

I absolutely LOVE the max payne games. And have always said that if a movie is made they should make it without any bullet-time at all. The bullet time was a game mechanic, Not part of the story, the movie should tell the story, which is something that im noticing many videogame movies fail at doing. Just look at doom (source wasn't fantastic but what the fuck?)

The first time i watched the trailer, i was "WHAT THE FUCK?" i was ready to burn things. Then i sat back, watched it again and went "Hey those angels and demons look symbolic.... If thats the case. Kick ass" I think Marky Mark will do a good job as payne, I like the actor, and his narration in the trailer was pretty cool, i hope it does it through the whole movie.

but who could forget "The flesh of fallen angels"

This being said, And also because i have NO faith in Movies these days, i reserve judgement until i have seen the film. I saw bullet time in the trailer though, so it wont be the perfect movie i invisioned for it. Hitman was a let down like that aswell.

mark wahlberg needed to be max payne because his face is naturally that way

Edit:

I disagree:
Max Payne always looked like Adam Baldwin since the first day I played the fucking game:


I think adam could play intense, but I think Mark is better at acting intense.

Poster:


Inspired by the box art for the first game, the poster looks pretty cool.

Man this looks so good. As long as MP (yeah i call him by his initials. deal!) ends up killing at least 100 people and they keep the emotional cutscenes to a minimum, then it'll be a good action movie.

As long as Mark plays Max Payne with a continuous constipated face, and they slow the camera for jumping gun fights---it will be perfect.

Hopefully it won't be bad. I mean, the game itself was funny a lot where Max had the one-liners so if they have Mark say those a lot idk, it'd be like the game haha.

Man idk what I'm saying right now I just woke up and my head hurts.

I'll leave this open because I guess it's relevant now but please don't bump month old topics without asking me first thanks.

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3394362/9486308
new trailer it's fucking badass i can't wait

the movie still might suck tho

this is a really good choice for a game-to-movie cross as the story was pretty lame in the first game. i've not played the second.

Holy shit that new trailer kicked ass. SO watching this fucken movie now.. Although that chick kinda pissed me off for some reason. Is she that chick from That 70's Show?

That was pretty cool. Notice after he shot the lock on that door he keeps shooting while diving forward in typical max payne style

I'm really looking forward to seeing this, even considering the possibility that it might be bad. I liked the trailer, and Marky Mark isn't well, a terrible choice. But I love the Max Payne games and even started playing them both again just for the hell of it. This is something I'll definitely see.

You know it would be really cool if they snuck the song 'Late Goodbye' in as a wink to Max Payne players but I'm not sure how that would work.

aw, jamie hector is in this crap. it's annoying to see all the wire actors pop up in bullshit now that it's done.

Mona is obviously Angelina Jolie, but they obviously didnt have the money to pay her