Max Payne. The Movie

Nitefly said:
Surface 1+2, Statue Park, Frigate, Silo, Caverns, Control, Train, Bunker 1 +2, Jungle, Depot....

Off the top of my head :p
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The core story remains the same. They have to stick extra levels in, especially back then as otherwise more than half the playthrough would be watching boring text diaologues with next to no animation.

It boils down to padding basically.

It's like saying the Revenge of the Sith game on xbox isn't a movie game as it shows fights that didn't happen in the film, despite there being several core and pivotal moments that both the film and games share.
 
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z0mbi3 said:
The core story remains the same. They have to stick extra levels in, especially back then as otherwise more than half the playthrough would be watching boring text diaologues with next to no animation.

It boils down to padding basically.

It's like saying the Revenge of the Sith game on xbox isn't a movie game as it shows fights that didn't happen in the film, despite there being several core and pivotal moments that both the film and games share.
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I know, but I was pointing out it was a bit more than the occational deviation :)

I always think the film is rubbish because its not close enough to the game :(
 
Nitefly said:
I know, but I was pointing out it was a bit more than the occational deviation :)
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I suppose I meant the odd exception in terms of actualy important changes to the story line, the game gets to the same place and does it while stopping off at all the key moments so I don't really consider it that much of a deviation.
 
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Well, I'm not going to jump on the bandwagon and needlessly slate the film - I quite liked it!

I haven't played Max Payne in a number of years, and the film had that atmosphere. It had Roscoe Street station, Payne's injured "foot dragging" limp at the top of the tower, the same Valkyr graffiti tags, the same visual style as the game for the "family death discovery" scene.

Sure the story isn't the world's greatest masterpiece, but it's just a simple double-cross storyline at heart, how complicated does it need to be? It also stayed pretty true to the game, plot-wise.

The bullet time wasn't as overused as I thought it might be, and all the better for it - a cool effect for the twice (?) they used it.

I was left a little cold by the ending too, I was waiting for the sunny weather to whip back to snow/rain/dark again as the cops surrounded him on the top of the tower.

All in all, it was a "no watch looks" film, which is pretty good (If I start looking at my watch, it's a bad film!) and an enjoyable enough film to sit down to.
 
See it's been a long time since I played number 1 but I thought this went off on a tangent story wise? Sure it ends up back on the roof but how it got there shared very little with the original story.

Also we didn't really get the insights into Max that we got in the original game. Sure it's a shooter at it's core but we actually had character depth and role development through the comic book scenes. In this film we get that Max is moody and why but half the reasoning and drive is so convoluted that the whole thing just feels like a mess.

As has already been said, this is one game to movie conversion where they already had the story laid on in front of them. If they'd just kept to that and plagiarized the comic book dialogue we'd have nothing to complain about.
 
Films about computer games are normally not very good imo, this one was alright I suppose. The Max Payne games are far better.

As far as Bullet time.. well there wasn't any was there? It was just high framerate slow motion which did the job.
 
Streeteh said:
What the crap was all this valkyrie guff in the trailers about?
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BenjiSayers said:
BUT they couldn't stop there for some reason they couldn't stop there EPIC SPOILER COMING UP apparently it seemed like a good idea towards the end to turn Max in to a junkie. At this point the film seems to dive quicker than a kamikaze pilot and loses any sort of credibility it might of had. I was left thinking 'you what' when it started kicking off my mate who I went just turned and looked at me as if to say 'is this for 'real?'
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You two sure you played the games?
 
z0mbi3 said:
Golden Eye springs to mind. Terminator 2 on the megadrive. Revenge of the Sith on xbox.

Granted there's not loads, and I'm pushed to find recent examples, but they are out there.
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Loads of the Star Wars games: Knights Of The Old Republic, Tie Fighter, etc
 
I am STILL looking forward to seeing this movie :) I think I must be the only person left on the planet who can sit down and enjoy a movie for what it is. I enjoyed watching Doom, Resident Evil 1 2 & 3, Hitman, Tomb Raider 1 & 2 .... yes I even enjoyed watching Dungeon Siege.

Not because they were good movies but because they were enjoyable.
 
BenjiSayers said:
Well you would have thought they should have nailed this conversion. The story was basically already written for them through the game, and Sin City showed exactly how the noir style could have been carried off so it does beg disbelief how they ended up with what they did. Guess it's just the curse of the game to film conversion.

OT ps3ud0 your Sack Boy sig is a bit scary lol :D
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Damn Straight, I think every game to film covnersion that has been done usually turns out to be pretty awfull, Doom, Dungeons and Dragons with Jeremy Irons and SF2 are testament to that !.

I haven't seen silent hill so can't comment on that, but the original resident evil film seemed kind of ok, they just butchered it in part 2 and 3 :(
 
JBod said:
I am STILL looking forward to seeing this movie :) I think I must be the only person left on the planet who can sit down and enjoy a movie for what it is. I enjoyed watching Doom, Resident Evil 1 2 & 3, Hitman, Tomb Raider 1 & 2 .... yes I even enjoyed watching Dungeon Siege.

Not because they were good movies but because they were enjoyable.
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I'm in the same camp. I've enjoyed such movies as:

Waterworld
Death Train
Indiana Jones: Crystal Skull...

In fact, any movie the Radio Times gives 1 star to, I invariably enjoy!
 
timbob said:
I'm in the same camp. I've enjoyed such movies as:

Waterworld
Death Train
Indiana Jones: Crystal Skull...

In fact, any movie the Radio Times gives 1 star to, I invariably enjoy!
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Ah yes the new Indiana film was most enjoyable! I can't see what peoples problems are. Very much like the originals.
 
JBod said:
Ah yes the new Indiana film was most enjoyable! I can't see what peoples problems are. Very much like the originals.
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You've just opened a huge can of worms. We did this to death in the thread when it first came out.

Suffice to say the people that like the new Indi film are the same people that like Resident Evil 2 & 3 and Terminator 3. Many would argue they have crap taste in films, an opinion I'd agree with. I don't have a problem with people enjoying these films for what they are but I do have a problem with directors making a mockery of the films that preceded them.
 
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Yep they have poor taste - its not their fault we get all these substandard films made - actually, it is :mad:

And its Indy!!!

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
I don't get people's problem with the aliens in Indie being unbelievable, as if the Ark of the Coventant shooting spectres from it or the Holy Grail are within the realms of possibility.

As for Max Payne, it was OK, but I paid £7 to see it and as such feel a bit short changed. The direction was very hap hazzard and I think too dependent on being familiar with the game ( which i completed 8 years ago) .

One bit I did like was the abandoned building scene half way through with the russian bird. I'm sure it was a nod to the Matrix scene where Morpheus got captured, looked like the same stairwell the went up.
 
MagicBoy said:
I'm just going to refer to Mark Kermode - Computer Games make bad movies - it's a golden rule. The same is true the other way around - can you ever remember a truely good official computer game of a movie?

Resident Evil was only passable as it used Milla Jovovich as a distraction technique.
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