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Firstshowing asked what people thought of the Max Payne movie. This is my comment:
I'm a big fan of both games. I never had a good feeling about this movie especially when I found out who they cast as Max Payne. I'm sorry but he doesn't look like Max Payne for starters and his personality doesn't fit either. When I saw the first photos from the movie I thought.. sure they have the visual style down but that's NOT Max Payne doing that shoot dodge. The girl who plays Mona is even worse.. she's not even remotely like the character in the game.. especially in the second game.
There wasn't anything supernatural in the games so if they put that into the movie that's another strike. The closest they got to anything like that was drug induced hallucinations... but those didn't have any demons in them. It's kind of funny too.. they remove the demons from Doom and add them to Max Payne. I guess it may be because if they stuck too close to the plot of the games it'd be even more of a standard generic action flick.
To be honest I have always thought that it wasn't such a good idea to make a movie from this game to begin with. The stories worked well in the games but I've always seen them as adapting and interpreting certain action movies like John Woo's movies into a game. So converting that into a movie is like a reverse conversion or doing a copy of a copy. It becomes a pale imitation of the original especially if they try to condense hours of story from two games into one movie. I've always felt that a movie based off the game is unnecessary. We already had Max Payne the movie in the form of the movies that the games where based on in my opinion.
By the way those complaining about Mona's part being small. It was very small in the first game as well. She only appeared in two plot points tops and it wasn't until the second game that she was a major character and a good one at that. Not that I'm defending it or anything.
I'm a big fan of both games. I never had a good feeling about this movie especially when I found out who they cast as Max Payne. I'm sorry but he doesn't look like Max Payne for starters and his personality doesn't fit either. When I saw the first photos from the movie I thought.. sure they have the visual style down but that's NOT Max Payne doing that shoot dodge. The girl who plays Mona is even worse.. she's not even remotely like the character in the game.. especially in the second game.
There wasn't anything supernatural in the games so if they put that into the movie that's another strike. The closest they got to anything like that was drug induced hallucinations... but those didn't have any demons in them. It's kind of funny too.. they remove the demons from Doom and add them to Max Payne. I guess it may be because if they stuck too close to the plot of the games it'd be even more of a standard generic action flick.
To be honest I have always thought that it wasn't such a good idea to make a movie from this game to begin with. The stories worked well in the games but I've always seen them as adapting and interpreting certain action movies like John Woo's movies into a game. So converting that into a movie is like a reverse conversion or doing a copy of a copy. It becomes a pale imitation of the original especially if they try to condense hours of story from two games into one movie. I've always felt that a movie based off the game is unnecessary. We already had Max Payne the movie in the form of the movies that the games where based on in my opinion.
By the way those complaining about Mona's part being small. It was very small in the first game as well. She only appeared in two plot points tops and it wasn't until the second game that she was a major character and a good one at that. Not that I'm defending it or anything.
