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Whiney Robin Feels MAX PAYNE!!
Chris O'Donnell will join Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis in the MAX PAYNE movie.
O'Donell will play executive Jason Colvin
...says THIS ARTICLE on Entertainment Weekly's site.
John Moore (BEHIND ENEMY LINES and the FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX remake) will direct this film adaptation of Rockstar's video game.
O'Donnell's film career pretty much vaporized after the intellectually challenged VERTICAL LIMIT back in 2000, although he has appeared (in recurring roles) on higher profile TV shows like THE PRACTICE and GREY'S ANATOMY.
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In the movie, will Max become self-aware that he is in a film??
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Apr 03, 2008 11:21:37 AM CDT
Hard-Boiled Cop Movie? Hollywood, Pushing the Limits...
by read and shut up
Why not just call it "Every Cliche' We Can Come Up With?" At least it's more descriptive.
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was considered (not by me) a decent actor these days. why is he in this? is this the LOTR of video game movies? or would that be HALO or WOW?
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... it makes batman forever look fantastic... and that was pretty crap aswell. Anyway, who is this character? ive played through the games loads and this isnt ringing any bells. its a bad sign if they're adding characters, because max payne is pretty much perfect the way it is. you could practically just shoot the game script.
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That is without hyperbole one of the single worst films I've ever seen.
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Man am I bored.
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i ant to spraypaint the wall with my brains after watching that clip
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Repressed memories. Ones that I was hoping would stay repressed. Now I'm remembering something about my uncle Eddie.
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Visiting the states in 97 I had an evening double bill of Speed 2 and Batman and Robin. A dark, dark night my friends...
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God, i like laughing at the movie, but holy Balls, that compilation is bamboo shoots under fingernails.
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All Hail GORF!
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Apr 03, 2008 11:37:18 AM CDT
I argued with a friend that this movie sucked...
by buckys_kick_ass_arm
He hadn't seen it since it's release... Fucking guy really doesn't know what he's talking about.
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fuck me.
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Catch up guys!
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Apr 03, 2008 12:02:22 PM CDT
I forgot how many rubber ass shots there were in this movie.
by novaman5000
Good times.
And by "good times", I of course mean "Terrible imes". -
What IS that?!
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cool party!
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It's Harry as Marv from Sin City climbing a wall. I was like, "what the hell is Harry a cat with a dress?"
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Greys Anatomy and I kept refering to Justin Chambers as Chris O'Donnell because I didn't know his name... THEN MOTHER FUCKING CHRIS O'DONNELL IS ON THE SHOW? Now the similarites don't stop there. There is only a 1 inch difference in height. They both have 5 kids. They both have played D'Artagnan in Musketeer movies. They were born the same year less then a month apart only a couple of states apart. Seriously are these two long lost brothers? Well my co-worker told me that he is a distant cousin of Justin, but not nipply Robin. Hopefylly Justin learned from Chris' mistake with that one. Any ways Max Pyane was boring game. Make the Phineas Poe novels into movies. Starring Gary Oldman.
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Yeah, I remember reading in the little game manual (cause I do that *sob*) that they were already planning to take a movie and I should watch out for it. Yeah it's 2008 now and the best you can do is the guy who played Robin in one of the worst movies in history...assholes. Can Gans just please make that Onimusha movie already? I'm thinking Brotherhood of the Wolf+Ninja Gaiden style action+sweeping epic similar to Kegemusha or Ran= cinema gold. Max Payne already came out in movie form. It was called Payback.
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Apr 03, 2008 12:19:38 PM CDT
Worthless game, worthless director, now a worthless actor!
by stalin vs predator
Just get Ehren Kruger to write and Marilyn Manson to score, and all will be complete.
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...we want Gordon Freeman and we want him now! Pass me that fucking crowbar...
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I'm sorry but they're not new anymore nor have been since '90.
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You could probably find a copy of the game for less than $15 if you wanna check it yourself. I just borrowed it from a friend and I vaguely remember reading in the back of the manual that the rights for the movie had already been bought and the movie was coming. Of course, I can't remember if it was a "Greatest Hit" or not yet, which could mean a difference of two or three years. They did the same thing with those nifty little Artemis Fowl books too. Where the fuck is my childhood Artemis Fowl movie assholes? I wanna see some troll-stompin Butler action, I don't care if I read that when I was like twelve!
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Surely the writers deserve at least half the hate for this turkey of a movie. Who the fuck wrote that, anyway? Bruce Vilanch and Bob Odenkirk?
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from that point, I think I won't bother with watching this flick. His crappy actioner with Owen Wilson and his lousy, unnecessary remakes paved the way to the Hack Pack membership. And now? a video game adaptation? Way to go, Johnnie.
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this shoulda been made with unknowns
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Or "creative bone breaking", how I call it.
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Batman and Robin was perpetrated by Oscar winning screenwriter (those words pain me) Akiva Goldsman.
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I remember thinking it was crap in '97, and horrendous by '00, but in a post-Batman Begins world, on the eve of The Dark Knight, that film is almost hilariously awful in every respect -- especially in out of context clips on Youtube. Shudder.
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We each have our cross to bear. :-)
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Apr 03, 2008 12:47:51 PM CDT
"Your emotions make you WEAK. Dats why dis day is mine! HAAAAAAH
by mattmanreturns
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I don't remember any industrialist character with that name in the game. I remember there was an old hag that was the chief of the evil corporation, a Russian mobster, an old dude in a wheel-chair, some Italian mobsters, Mona Sax, the police commissioner... so basically not only the mob doesn't kill Max Payne's wife and baby (instead they kill a sister, or something) but there are also characters, that I imagine get lots of screen time, that weren't in the game? In other words the movie will have nothing to do with the game beyond the title name... what a shocker. Not that I care, really.
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As a videogame, it ripped off bullet-time from the Matrix, and told its story of a haunted cop in the hard boiled comic book style of Sin City. In both cases, been there, done that. Better. Of course John Moore is the perfect choice for a pastiche of a rip off, given the Flight Of The Phoenix AND The Omen remakes. (The Omen only had Mia Farrow going batshit crazy and one of the better decapitations in recent years going for it)
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was wiped off the screen by Alfred Molina and Michael Keaton in last years TNT The Company.
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Apr 03, 2008 12:56:36 PM CDT
What makes it this bad is if you listen to the commentary
by iamnicksaicnsn
by Joel Schumacher, he actually admits he was inspired by the animated series and used elements of it for Mr Freeze (the accident, the ballerina in the glass). So now I feel like those aspects can't really be used again seriously... Oh well.
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... is their storylines almost always come from the most typical movie cliches. I love the game but the story is : dude's a cop, wife and kid get murdered, he slowly goes nuts while killing lots of bad people. The second one might've been a little more fun to see as a movie. But in any case, if it's not a movie of Half-life we're talking about, I could care less.
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Can I get a second on this fellow talkbackers? Imagine the guy who made Brotherhood of the Wolf, but with a huge budget, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro. If you don't understand yet. Find the opening cinematic for Onimusha 3 and get back to me. Onimusha needs a movie so much more badly than this dated, tired subject. Metal Gear is coming as well people. Let us pray...
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but Rockstar didn't develop the original Max Payne, they developed console ports of it, the original was developed by Remedy Entertainment
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MPINO
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Was on TBS last night. I watch it for a couple of minutes and turned it off in horror and a minute later the phone rang and some handsome sounding man (probably George Cloondwag) told me that I was going to die in seven days. And ever since every shirt I put on already has nipples on it!
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Has anyone seen a picture of John Moore? He looks like the love child of Harry and Guillermo del Toro
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Guy Pearce damnit.
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...another yawntastic video game to movie adaptation that won't work and nobody gives a hoot about. NEXT!
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Is Onimusha 3 the one with Jean Reno? If it is, yes, that is one of the most dynamic cinematics I've seen for a video game opening.
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You mean the hack responsible for "I Am Legend" and it's shitty ending? The idiot who gave us "Starsky & Hutch", "Lost In Space", and "I, Robot" after writing such decent scripts as "A Beautiful Mind", "A Time To Kill", and "The Client" ?!?!
THAT Akiva Goldsman?!?
So what we see here is that Goldsman can only write a decent script if it's based on an already-existing novel, AND if not given free reign to change (dumb-down) the novel's details. Am I about right?
But when given a project with NO boundaries, NO novel to base it on, and NO limitations from the director or producers, Akiva cranks out "Batman & Robin"!!! -
and the dialogue was hilarious. 'After Y2K, the end of the world had become a cliché. But who was I to talk, a brooding underdog avenger alone against an empire of evil, out to right a grave injustice? Everything was subjective. There were only personal apocalypses. Nothing is a cliché when it's happening to you.'
The movie sounds balls though. -
The Company starring Robin, Batman 89, and Doc Ock.
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"Purple Johnson" WILL be the "Cop with a Chip on His SHoulder" movie to end all such pieces of crap. Just wait...
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Was Chris O Donnel's career dying moment. Poor fella. Schumacher destroyed many young dissilusioned soldiers. Clooney was lucky to have From Dusk til Dawn to counteract with at the time.
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Is a classic haha.
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Or did something else? Because I thought Vertical Limit was on par with a Ben Affleck action flick and buttface is still making movies.
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He read the scripts before signing on. He's as much to blame for his dead career as any director he's worked with...
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Apr 03, 2008 3:40:00 PM CDT
Mark Wahlberg is a buffy midget and O'Donnel can't fucking act
by vini77
This movie is done. Dead. They're just cashing in.
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Deus Ex and Halo movie projects go down in flames, but Max Payne, Postal, and Far Cry cruise right on ahead???
Seriously, stop choosing shitty games to make into movies and you'll stop having SHITTY VIDEO GAME MOVIES! -
To whoever said that and anyone else bashing it, you need to get your mental retardation tests up to date. Max Payne got phenominal reviews, was amazing, and would make a hell of a better movie than GTA.
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FUCK YOU
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I loved playing the sequel. When that came out, I went through all three of the difficulty levels back to back to back. I still actually load it up every now and then and take down a few Cleaners. Of course, back then, Rag Doll Physics was all the rage. Still, the damn game storywise was based off of a lot of cliches that have already been done to death in the movies. That was the point to Max Payne, taking all of the hard-boiled cop themes and ratcheting it up to over-the-top levels. This won't make for a very interesting movie, I'm afriad. Especially a star vehicle for Mark freakin' Walhberg.
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Your career has bottomed out when you're competing for worst performance in, dollar for dollar, the worst movie ever made.
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@o# !
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...is the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.Well done.
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Don't you EVER make fun of the great Q*Bert!!!
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that wasnt serious right? i havent seen this in years and i think i would remember that. so it was a joke right? jesus. i dont think it was a joke. i mean i think it was a joke in the movie not in the video. i mean fuck. that hurts
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There is NO character by that name in Max Payne! Could the news of this movie get any worse? Well I said that last time with the Mona/Kunis casting, so I guess it easily can get much much worse.
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yeah it has Jean Reno in it. Not sure I would go with the story in that one for the movie, I'm thinking more like from Onimusha 2 (sans giant golden statue baddie) but the opening cinematic is definitely what I was thinking for an Onimusha movie. I have been on this page about seven times now and Max Payne is still sounding pretty lame. I finally made it all the way throught that video though. I had to keep pausing it and doing something else to restore my intelligence. Thank god I stopped and so my speeling esnt hurrible nowe...DAMNIT!
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Until I heard it was PG-13. So if thats true there wont be anything in this movie that made the games so great. Like him coming home to find his wife and his infant dead in a crib on the floor.Not saying that was great but it really gave atmosphere to how gruesome the crime syndicate was. If stuff like that is missing from this film, theres gonna be alot of pissed of Max Payne fans IMHO.
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that Val Kilmer refused to do this piece of shit after reading the part where the skates pop out.
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Just in case you missed him make the pun the first time, he repeats it.
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o doyle rules!
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Wow. I bet this will be yet another Great Game Turned Into Crappy PG-13 Movie shitfest...
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...these three actors don't exactly come to mind. Is it just me, or does the latest crop of action heroes have really high voices? Matt Damon, Mark Whalberg... Bronson would be turning in his grave right now.
Still, if this movie has a ten-minute scene where Max Payne is tightrope walking along his child's blood, then I'm in like Flynn! -
In a sick and twisted way Manhunt was more fun than Max Payne and far more difficult. It truly is not a game for the kiddos. I agree with some of the others in that for being 10 years old Half-Life is one of the best vid games ever. Not sure how it would translate into a movie though... i could see the main guy from 300 with glasses as Freeman though. Probably just cause he's the only frigging actor I can think of that had a beard in recent movies.
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I never saw the movie, as I swore I would not lower myself to that level and I worship Batman. But if that's really what the film was like, I have to ask why WB didn't have Schumaker executed after a tribunal. That is just unspeakable.
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"FREEEEZE IN HELL BATMAAAAN!!!!"
(when talking about Poison Ivy's pheremone dust)"It doesn't work on the cold hearted!"
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