Max Payne: The Movie
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It's a movie based on a video game. That alone stacks the deck against it.
Hitman wasn't half bad, actually...
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I also thought the Tomb Raider movies weren't *horrible*.
The problem is that game adaptations are associated with Uwe Boll and Paul Anderson.
I also thought the Tomb Raider movies weren't *horrible*.
The problem is that game adaptations are associated with Uwe Boll and Paul Anderson.
Yeah, there's no fundamental reason why game movies are bad... it's usually one of two things. Either the game doesn't have a narrative worth telling (Doom) or the person who made the movie is an idiot (Boll).
The real problem is that the people who own the IPs don't seem to care enough to make sure they give it to filmmakers who know what they're doing.
The real problem is that the people who own the IPs don't seem to care enough to make sure they give it to filmmakers who know what they're doing.
I think the biggest problem with video game movies is that because you're relying so much on the name brand, you slum it. Granted, there are incompetent idiots out there like Uwe Boll who make video game movies at the creative level of "rock bottom" and manages to make them even worse (and is stupid enough to trash other directors' video game movies and even go so far as to claim they stole from him).
You don't need someone like Christopher Nolan to make it good, just someone who gives a big enough damn about simply making the best movie possible that happens to be based on a video game. Keep the things from the game that work cinematically and create new stuff to replace what doesn't work.
Imagine how Guillermo del Toro would've made Alone in the Dark or Silent Hill. Aren't Nicolas Cage and Bruce Willis teaming up for Kane & Lynch?
You don't need someone like Christopher Nolan to make it good, just someone who gives a big enough damn about simply making the best movie possible that happens to be based on a video game. Keep the things from the game that work cinematically and create new stuff to replace what doesn't work.
Imagine how Guillermo del Toro would've made Alone in the Dark or Silent Hill. Aren't Nicolas Cage and Bruce Willis teaming up for Kane & Lynch?
Am I the only one who actually liked DOOM?
I mean, yeah it was a shitty movie, but it was worth a watch.
Max Payne is more of a game that lends itself to a movie more than some other incarnations. The whole point of the game was that you were essentially playing a John Woo movie, sans John Travolta.
I mean, yeah it was a shitty movie, but it was worth a watch.
Max Payne is more of a game that lends itself to a movie more than some other incarnations. The whole point of the game was that you were essentially playing a John Woo movie, sans John Travolta.
Honestly, I think I liked gentle, sincere Boll more than asshole Boll. At least before, you could look at him - and I say this in all kindness - as the Forest Gump of directors. Now he's just a dick.
So he's the Lieutenant Dan of directors?
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Will there be a half hour of a baby screaming? Cause, man, that was SUCH a highlight.
ARRGH!!!
I had blocked that whole process from my memory! Damn you!
*Breathe. Compartmentalize.*
I enjoyed the doom movie too for what it was, but it wasn't really very true to the game, more like a resident evil movie
Doom is a pretty serviceable action / zombie movie. Oddly enough, its worst parts come when it tries to be slavishly adherent to the games (like the first-person sequence).
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