Post by jacksonpostal on Mar 10, 2009 17:54:53 GMT -5
this was by far one of the biggest penis slaps in the face i have ever received as a gamer. I'm so glad i watched this off my Friends laptop and didn't pay to see it.
from the opening comment you can pretty much guess that i ultimately hated this movie, and further more wish for all those involved in the making of it, a terrible case of VD.
first off, lets just pretend it wasn't a video game adaptation. the movie itself was criminally awful. the idiotic dialog, the confusing plot, the characters... i was baffled at how the movie kept getting exponentially worse. it had no life to it what so ever, and the entire thing showed lil to no effort.
this is what I'd call "the directors cut trailer" let me explain...
you know how there'll be a movie you like, if not love? then a couple years, or if a studio is desperate, months later they'll release the directors cut? basically the same movie, scenes are a bit longer, entire scenes are either cut or added, the story might go a different direction but not too drastically... you get it.
well that's what this movie is to it's trailer. trailers are nothing more than a 2 min highlight of the movie, cut in accordance with the film makers to hopefully excite you enough to wanna see it. the scenes shown are short, the dialog simple to summarize what's going on, and the better half of the action sequences are whored out.
if you have seen the max payne trailer, you've seen max payne. all the movie does is stretch out the trailer. as if they shot the trailer first, then went back and shot the scenes around the ones in the trailer. it almost seemed as though entire scenes were left out or that entire scripted pages were burnt.
now my problem with this movie from a gamer stand point.
the movie had the gist of the game, but even from watching the trailer you knew it wasn't going to be faithful to the game in the least. one sign being the fucking dark angels or Valkyries. yes the name Valkyrie is in the game, it's in fact the name of the drug, but when taken you do not hallucinate about fucking angels from any kind of mythology.
you see the game was this magnificent art piece of crime and horror. about a city drowning in it's own blood and corporate america taking advantage of that, and one man with a huge grudge got caught up in the middle of it.
there was actually no need to write a max payne script, the in game dialog was so impressive it would have no doubt made the new york times best seller list if it had been a novel or hell graphic novel. i picture this movie being written and produced by motherfuckers who have never once seen the game in action.
old limy fat bastards sitting in their offices, thinking of ways to pay off penile implants. googling max payne, shaping and pillaging the story how ever they saw fit. taking characters and giving them completely different stories and personality structures. in fact the movie missed what the game nailed.
this was about a man, hell bent on revenge. he had lost everything and thought he had nothing more to live for. it wasn't until at the end of his rampage he saw that no matter what all you've lost, there are still things worth fighting for.
this movie completely shat on that. for some if any who liked it, just try and understand that it's not just some movie adaptation. it's a fraud. i may sound a bit intense, but picture if someone made an adaptation about one of your favorite novels and completely missed the point or hell didn't even try.
I've got to stop writing about this now, I'm too pissed lol.
from the opening comment you can pretty much guess that i ultimately hated this movie, and further more wish for all those involved in the making of it, a terrible case of VD.
first off, lets just pretend it wasn't a video game adaptation. the movie itself was criminally awful. the idiotic dialog, the confusing plot, the characters... i was baffled at how the movie kept getting exponentially worse. it had no life to it what so ever, and the entire thing showed lil to no effort.
this is what I'd call "the directors cut trailer" let me explain...
you know how there'll be a movie you like, if not love? then a couple years, or if a studio is desperate, months later they'll release the directors cut? basically the same movie, scenes are a bit longer, entire scenes are either cut or added, the story might go a different direction but not too drastically... you get it.
well that's what this movie is to it's trailer. trailers are nothing more than a 2 min highlight of the movie, cut in accordance with the film makers to hopefully excite you enough to wanna see it. the scenes shown are short, the dialog simple to summarize what's going on, and the better half of the action sequences are whored out.
if you have seen the max payne trailer, you've seen max payne. all the movie does is stretch out the trailer. as if they shot the trailer first, then went back and shot the scenes around the ones in the trailer. it almost seemed as though entire scenes were left out or that entire scripted pages were burnt.
now my problem with this movie from a gamer stand point.
the movie had the gist of the game, but even from watching the trailer you knew it wasn't going to be faithful to the game in the least. one sign being the fucking dark angels or Valkyries. yes the name Valkyrie is in the game, it's in fact the name of the drug, but when taken you do not hallucinate about fucking angels from any kind of mythology.
you see the game was this magnificent art piece of crime and horror. about a city drowning in it's own blood and corporate america taking advantage of that, and one man with a huge grudge got caught up in the middle of it.
there was actually no need to write a max payne script, the in game dialog was so impressive it would have no doubt made the new york times best seller list if it had been a novel or hell graphic novel. i picture this movie being written and produced by motherfuckers who have never once seen the game in action.
old limy fat bastards sitting in their offices, thinking of ways to pay off penile implants. googling max payne, shaping and pillaging the story how ever they saw fit. taking characters and giving them completely different stories and personality structures. in fact the movie missed what the game nailed.
this was about a man, hell bent on revenge. he had lost everything and thought he had nothing more to live for. it wasn't until at the end of his rampage he saw that no matter what all you've lost, there are still things worth fighting for.
this movie completely shat on that. for some if any who liked it, just try and understand that it's not just some movie adaptation. it's a fraud. i may sound a bit intense, but picture if someone made an adaptation about one of your favorite novels and completely missed the point or hell didn't even try.
I've got to stop writing about this now, I'm too pissed lol.