Comments on: Mark Wahlberg Challenged by the Dark Max Payne

By: Bjorn/Gnolad.com

Bjorn/Gnolad.com — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:39:00 +0000

Brings back fond memories.. Max Payne is one of handful of games that I’ve actually played to the end. Still one of the best action games ever made.

By: bigsampson

bigsampson — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:28:14 +0000

YA ROD i here ya….all i give a shit about is bullet time…..lots of enemies

and for the love of god “flesh of my flesh” i need atable amounts of hopped up valkyrie fiends kicking ass under the organization of the meanest betch of all time!

ps she looks like mrs. bush kinda

By: Rodney

Rodney — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:42:51 +0000

Max did have a love interest in the games. She was most of the basis of the sequel. My guess is that she will be light in this movie and if they do the Fall of Max Payne, she will be more predominate.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:39:56 +0000

To be fair I haven’t seen the Happening, but everything I have seen him in was good.

Even in movies that were not so great he still does a good job IN them. I have faith in Marky Mark.

By: Phil Gee

Phil Gee — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:39:58 +0000

Well i love the second game very much but to me, its always been so much like a movie that it seems pointless adapting it into one because you’re not going to have as much fun watching Max Payne as you will playing it. But nobody will be more suprised than me if this is a great film.

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:16:42 +0000

Honestly, I think Mark Whalberg will do well and I have my hopes for the movie, although Rodney, lemme just say he doesn’t shine in EVERYTHING he does. Did you see the happening? Let’s just hope that’s a blemish and nothing more.

By: James

James — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:06:16 +0000

Max Payne can be a great, inspired movie if they follow the games philosophy very, very carefully. A lot of people would look at Max Payne and just decide it’s a revenge flick, when there’s really a lot more detective work, mystery and entangled subplots than there is about revenge. Hopefully the script was written with this in mind, and we get a well-done Max Payne film.

I do have my fears. I’m afraid they may decide to shy away from slow-motion gunfights since most action films have abused that so much. At this point, slow-motion isn’t seen too often in films anymore, perhaps because of the mentioned abuse. Still, the Max Payne movie would NEED to make slow-motion great again.

By: Gershwyn Smith

Gershwyn Smith — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:59:06 +0000

“What do you get when you do a movie based
on a game that was already based on several
different movies?”

‘Doom’?

[ducks, runs]

By: Mozzerino

Mozzerino — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:55:55 +0000

I loved the Max Payne games, but somehow I don’t think it would be that great a movie.

What do you get when you do a movie based on a game that was already based on several different movies?

By: Gershwyn Smith

Gershwyn Smith — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:52:21 +0000

Isn’t Wahlberg becoming a little typecast by the characters he played in ‘Boogie Nights’, ‘I Heart Huckabees’ and ‘Three Kings’? You know, the naive, somewhat clueless doofus with a good heart? It’s nice to see him trying to break into darker roles (and wasn’t Max a drug addict at one point?), but I’ll be skeptical before I see him in this. Especially since they seem to have added a Hollywood Love Interest™ in the form of Mila Kunis.