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.

I think if they had followed that formula and updated it with the 'stylish' shit Max Payne does for the modern crowd it would have been a good movie.

ahahahaha i have a feeling i'm going to love this movie, MAX PAYNE WAS GARBAGE you just didn't notice during the game because you were like "oh come on come on i wanna roll in slow mo again" and skipped all the horrible horrible dialogue.

i've not played max payne 2 but max payne 1 had fairly ugly characters too, i feel really mean for saying it because i'm pretty sure they were just members of the development team.

anything based on a video game plot is going to be fairly illogical because most of the plot is to get the character from one setting into another! start out in the seedy underbelly, get into the military complex, get into the office environment etc

and skipped all the horrible horrible dialogue.

did you not just realize what's been said already? it's a parody, it's bad dialogue/whatever is intentional;

at the same time, the base story behind it (child/wife murder -> crazy cop -> whatever) fits for an action thriller that would've been...quirky. i mean like steel said i get that it'd be another parody in a sense, but as far as ACTION GUNS THRILLER goes the max payne story would work etc.

i thought it was better than the dark knight