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Fire Mage

#41 September 13, 2008, 04:42:22 am

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Quote from: Feldschlacht IV on September 13, 2008, 01:07:01 am

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.

possibly an intro scene or the credits? haha.

i just hope this movie isn't as horrible as i think it'll end up...KEEP THE MAX PAYNE SPIRIT ALIVE!!

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wtf mona sax is the girl who did the voice of Meg in Family Guy...i didn't look at what else she's done.....

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#42 September 13, 2008, 05:07:46 am

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Her name is Mila Kunis and she was on That 70s Show.

She played Jackie.

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#43 September 13, 2008, 06:29:39 am

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man, mila kunis is so fucking hot. like, seriously! i wish more russian/eastern european women lived around here. the accents alone are ridiculously hot, but the fact that they are often ACTUALLY hot is a bonus too.

also, idk about this, you know. from the trailer it looks like an action movie with OKAY acting (read: not clearly terrible), but you can't really tell much from trailers like those, you know? i wish that instead of trying to pump legitimacy into dumb series, they'd just make actual movies. this would probably be a lot better if it did not have to adhere to the plot of a stupid videogame (note that the trailer showed nothing of this-- although i do think i saw an ANGEL WITH BLACK WINGS which i'm just gonna go ahead and count as a strike against it!). also i'd take it a lot more seriously if it was not called max payne. that is sort of SYMBOLIC i think of how things are. you take something and you try to make it as good as you can, but in the end you are just compensating for the fact that you're bound to fundamentally subpar source material. so instead of a mark wahlberg cop movie, you get a mark wahlberg cop movie with a plot written by nerdy game designers, and actors who spend the entirety of the movie trying to make up for that single fact. they're trying to make a legit movie, but it will still be max fucking payne, so there's only so much they can really do before just being like, yeah you know what, let's make an real movie and not some shitty license.

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#44 September 13, 2008, 07:11:15 am

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it's like a final fantasy rm game except in movie form and with less women wearing unrealistic clothes!!

also i didn't know mila kunis did meg. family guy sucks but still, thats kinda neat, i've been wondering what she's been doing now.

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#45 September 14, 2008, 06:04:28 pm

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Mila Kunis was also (pretty great) in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I didn't really see her as Mona Sax in that though. But I suppose she could pull it off if she's good enough.

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#46 September 14, 2008, 11:54:22 pm

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Omg Mila Kunis & Nelly Furtado <3

I will definitely be seeing this.

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#47 September 15, 2008, 12:05:58 am

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man, mila kunis is so fucking hot. like, seriously! i wish more russian/eastern european women lived around here. the accents alone are ridiculously hot, but the fact that they are often ACTUALLY hot is a bonus too.

i have actually noticed this too. there's a lot of eastern europeans, or at least a noticable amount, around where i live now and the women are so good looking far far too good looking for this town. it's weird, i dunno what it is about these women i just like the way they look, and i don't usually have preferences or whatever. their boyfriends and husbands tend to be bald and fat which is weird but probably a bullshit cultural thing that men don't need to be pretty that just sticks out a little more over here where most men with good looking girlfriends/wives have the good sense to be ashamed of themselves.

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#48 September 15, 2008, 01:57:33 am

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Looks hot, I just hope all the demon-and-fires-in-the-sky shit in the trailer don't scare people away, since they don't really explain in the trailer that they're just drug-induced visions. If I didn't know beforehand i'd be thinking this movie looks kind of like a vampire movie with Matrix gunfights and just generally be like 'what the hell'.

Or maybe people will just be like WHOA GUNS DEMONS N SHIT (AND SOME BABE)

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#49 September 15, 2008, 08:22:08 pm

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So I've never played the game, and what is up with his face, is he tripping so hard, he's got to squint to see great distances??

I am a fan of Wahlberg, though, so that alone might get me to see this movie.

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#50 September 15, 2008, 08:57:14 pm

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Quote from: headphonics on September 13, 2008, 06:29:39 am

man, mila kunis is so fucking hot. like, seriously! i wish more russian/eastern european women lived around here. the accents alone are ridiculously hot, but the fact that they are often ACTUALLY hot is a bonus too.

also, idk about this, you know. from the trailer it looks like an action movie with OKAY acting (read: not clearly terrible), but you can't really tell much from trailers like those, you know? i wish that instead of trying to pump legitimacy into dumb series, they'd just make actual movies. this would probably be a lot better if it did not have to adhere to the plot of a stupid videogame (note that the trailer showed nothing of this-- although i do think i saw an ANGEL WITH BLACK WINGS which i'm just gonna go ahead and count as a strike against it!). also i'd take it a lot more seriously if it was not called max payne. that is sort of SYMBOLIC i think of how things are. you take something and you try to make it as good as you can, but in the end you are just compensating for the fact that you're bound to fundamentally subpar source material. so instead of a mark wahlberg cop movie, you get a mark wahlberg cop movie with a plot written by nerdy game designers, and actors who spend the entirety of the movie trying to make up for that single fact. they're trying to make a legit movie, but it will still be max fucking payne, so there's only so much they can really do before just being like, yeah you know what, let's make an real movie and not some shitty license.

the black angel shit isn't in the game but i guess it has ties.

but really they should've just went fuck-all and tried to make it crazy tongue-in-cheek/noir/whatever-the-fuck styles the game mixed and just been like it...instead of taking all that and trying to make it serious.

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#51 October 17, 2008, 01:56:40 am

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Alright, saw this last night.

Basically I thought it was an incredible looking film - great cinematography, great imagery and all that, but as a movie it was very very poor.

The action was great but honestly there wasn't nearly enough of it, the dialogue was choppy and cliched, the story was jarring and awkwardly written and so on.

As a fan of the games I was pretty disappointed but it's definitely better than say, Hitman. It's a good 'video game movie', it's just not a good movie.

Sad that it turned out this way but at least it was attractive and fairly entertaining.

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#52 October 17, 2008, 02:01:33 am

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It has no good reviews so far.

!!!

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/max_payne/

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#53 October 19, 2008, 02:43:25 am

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i just saw this tonight IT IS HORRIBLE

this is not even a good film on video game terms - it leaves out sections of the story (like about 15 different characters and more), adds in extra stuff, and completely changes the plot.

like the general base idea of the story was ok...but they churned it out of a machine and changed it. literally there's scenes where max (and other people) are going crazy and then they scream like the incredible hulk and the sky bursts into flames (including ceilings falling UPWARDS) and the angels come out everywhere....like what the hell.

the story was even harder to follow than the game itself. the game makes sense at the end, this doesn't. it leaves out many characters and there's a few that are supposed to die (including missing characters) who don't die in the film...like what?

agh how did they even make the movie bad in video game terms. it wasn't even at least faithful to the game!

also ptizzle i disagree, as i've already said this: it's a bad video game movie. totally different from the game.

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#54 October 19, 2008, 06:41:02 am

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I more meant that compared to the general quality of video game movies it's fine but that is really saying nothing.

As a film based on the Max Payne games it was awful.

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#55 October 19, 2008, 06:57:39 am

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YEah it wasn't that great at all but I liked the part where he takes the serum and turns into a tripping badass that was p cool I'm not spoilering that so FUCK YOu

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#56 October 19, 2008, 03:55:54 pm

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Quote from: PTizzle on October 19, 2008, 06:41:02 am

I more meant that compared to the general quality of video game movies it's fine but that is really saying nothing.

As a film based on the Max Payne games it was awful.

well i guess video game movies of uwe boll!

because iirc there's no really good quality video game movie.

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#57 October 19, 2008, 04:03:46 pm

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yeah this was pretty terrible. it looked nice, but not really much more than that.

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#58 October 19, 2008, 08:36:28 pm

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Quote from: Fire Mage on October 19, 2008, 02:43:25 am

i just saw this tonight IT IS HORRIBLE

this is not even a good film on video game terms - it leaves out sections of the story (like about 15 different characters and more), adds in extra stuff, and completely changes the plot.

like the general base idea of the story was ok...but they churned it out of a machine and changed it. literally there's scenes where max (and other people) are going crazy and then they scream like the incredible hulk and the sky bursts into flames (including ceilings falling UPWARDS) and the angels come out everywhere....like what the hell.

the story was even harder to follow than the game itself. the game makes sense at the end, this doesn't. it leaves out many characters and there's a few that are supposed to die (including missing characters) who don't die in the film...like what?

agh how did they even make the movie bad in video game terms. it wasn't even at least faithful to the game!

also ptizzle i disagree, as i've already said this: it's a bad video game movie. totally different from the game.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that if they actually followed the story it would have been good or at least decent. in fact I think that has been the issue with EVERY SINGLE FUCKING VIDEO GAME MOVIE. They change the god damn story so they can give some new writer his dream of writing utter crap.

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#59 October 19, 2008, 10:54:48 pm

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do...do you guys think max payne had a good story? or more to the point, one fit for a movie?

max payne was a parody of the neo-noir sam spade "a tall glass of water poured herself into my seat" raymond chandler shit. movies have already parodied this a thousand times. the choice was to either up the ante and take once farcical elements and apply them at face value (what this movie apparently did) or to create a whole new story devoid of much of the original game's charm but with a potentially better plot.

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#60 October 20, 2008, 01:07:41 am

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Going to see this wednesday night. I haven't played the games so I'm not sure if I'll like it or not but from what Ive read like reviews and what not people say it's actually pretty bad? Is it because it strayed to far away from the game or just in general a bad movie?

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