What went wrong

A Max Payne movie could have worked if it actually stuck to the game's lore. Instead, they made some really 'creative' choices like changing Valkyr from a hard drug to a magic potion.

vietnam fucking shits

Someone told me Ludacris plays deputy chief Jim Bravura. It's probably not half as funny as in my imagination but just picturing it is hilarious to me.

PG-13 and not even trying to make it noir. Those are easily the two biggest mistakes.

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This is so aggressively bad.

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People being able to get together and hate on something together like they hate on each other in the videogame versions thread

the thing is that he's actually TRYING, he's not being over-the-top or anything, he's honestly trying to act like a reasonable person

which is not what you think when Ludacris gets cast

overall the movie has only 1 ok scene in it when Max raids the drug lab with the shotgun, everything else was either boring, innaccurate, or just badly made
and why the fuck did they add in the CGI Valkyries?

sam lake wasnt involved

>dual wielding pump-actions
Sums it up right there.

Literally everybody involved in making this admitted they had never played the game besides Ludacris.

Not because of the subject matter, but because everyone who's tried so far are hacks. If a hokey Disney pirate ride can turn into a multi-million dollar movie franchise and cultural icon, why not a video game?

First off people not being able to use their imagination
Second off people not being able to use their imagination

I bet they don't have enough imagination to interpret those two lines differently

Nothing wrong with that, dude. Chow Yun Fat has done similar shit. It fits in a Max Payne movie.

See, that's exactly why I wrote this . No movie project in the world, no matter the premise, can succeed if everyone involved has zero passion.

Who would you cast as Max?

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Video games are GAMES. It is literally impossible to make a GAME work as a movie.

Despite what you kojima-worshipping faggots think, video games are not "interactive movies".

Keanu Reeves

Marky Mark, obviously.

Then what IS a movie? Does a movie cease to be a movie if the audience can change how the plot develops and even how it ends? There's absolutely nothing in the definition of the term that precludes it; thus, why can't a game be synonymous with an interactive movie?

You're why the video game industry is shit. You're why kojima shit and the last of us and other bottom of the barrel zero-talent faggotry gets published.

Go back 2 reddit where you came from.

We've already had enough slow-mo action from him as Neo, and the main draw of Joh Wick is the LACK of slow-motion and completely real-time combat. Personally, I'd pick Leo DiCaprio. Michael Madsen would've been good too, but he's too old now.

>lets take the videogame trying to be a playable action movie
>then completely change the story into complete nonsense and drop the John Woo inspired action
it's a mystery

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>l-leddit!
And you're why this board is infested with low-effort bait and crossposting zoomers. Let's have a good old debate.

It could have worked if there'd actually been a decent amount of shooty action scenes. Very little of the film had anyone shooting guns, or doing anything other than talking. Whats even the point

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This is you

Johnny Knoxville

>talking
And they fucked that up too, Max became a standard moody hardass cop, the film noir feel was gone, as did all the internal musings.

>Leo DiCaprio

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He was probably the only one that actually liked Max Payne.

Does he chug painkillers in the movie too?

Always see it on sale in used video stores and electronic recycle shops almost bought it for a buck last time I went

Not having the ONLY competent vidya-movie director at the helm with his favorite star.

oh you do not want to know what happens

No, only at the end does he chug the super soldier drug and kill everybody because he wasn't the 10% that go crazy from the "angels" watching him.

I bet you liked the Resident Evil movie series and are looking forward to the Monster Hunter movie.

>Trying to adapt the movie based on a game by bunch of Hollywood hacks.

Nothing special.

No joke, he's an intense actor who could easily play both Max as an idealist and a weathered veteran. Even the dad-bod he's got now completely suits an drug-addicted, alcoholic ex-cop.

>Even the dad-bod he's got now
Can't he just hit the gym like Chris Pratt

It's not even worth watching it for free.

they didn't cast him as max

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Max doesnt have a british accent

Sam Lake

Wahlberg is a shitty actor
Movie barely had anything to do with the game, it's like they randomly chose a script

Honestly, i think 3 kings is the only good movie he made

Even worse.

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That was so fucking bad.

wtf that looks like a fever dream

wtf is this?

should have been keanu reeves

why does he look like hes just smug about being on a poster

Go watch it. It's a max payne movie from 3 years ago.

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shooter was great too

making a hollywood adaptation of a video game influenced by neo noir and hong kong kino without understanding the source material. they should had hired john woo to direct it.

He’s good in The Departed. As good as he can be, anyway.

Almost zero action.

Have a stuntman wear a Sam Lake mask and never have a single character acknowledge this.

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The only good thing about this movie was the back and forth rant I had with 3 friends walking home, trying to figure out what part was the most ridiculous.

excuse you?

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This was actually one of those movies that nailed the atmosphere and if you're in the right mood you'll enjoy it. It has a Zack Snyder vibe

>bullets everywhere
>5% of them hit someone
>dual wields guns
>enemies fall like potatoes after one hit
>gets shot multiple times
>gets up like nothing happens
Looks like Max Payne to me.

In fairness even something like Pirates of the Caribbean was hard to get right. Pirate movies were box office poison and PoC was about to be too with the changes that Michael Eisner wanted. They tried the same formula for Lone Ranger and it didn't work.

Everything

Too bad the director is a fucking hack and scriptwriters wished they were making their own story.