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The Posters For MAX PAYNE Are Among The Bad-Assier Things To Come Around In A While!!
Merrick here...
A few weeks back we got a look at the unexpectedly promising looking MAX PAYNE trailer (HERE).
Two posters for the film have now been released, which you can find below. Like the headline says: I think these are pretty awesome myself...raw, inventive, unusual, compelling. And, above all, they're memorable.
What do you think?
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Planet of the Apes. The Happening. This guy is poison. Couldnt' carry a picture if his life depended on it.
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Shit.
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ill give it a chance
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It does amaze me, that a guy with such limited range and so-so screen presence, gets so many opportunities. I don't think he's a bad actor, just not all that interesting to watch. The posters are sweet, though. The second one is excellent. Do we know who or what company did it? I'd love to see more of their work.
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How about that....matches the style of Max Payne.
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Jul 24, 2008 10:49:41 AM CDT
Against all odds this movie actually looks good
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
Ridiculous hardboiled action, pretentious monologues, and some weird ass angel symbolism bullshit? Did they actually go through all the trouble and expense of licensing the Max Payne name for a reason? Somebody somewhere is doing something right here.
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Totally thought the same thing, man. Banksy all the way, and it actualyl looks good. That one poster kinda brought Max Payne to the front of my consciousness again.
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Does Merrick ever post anything other than old shit the other guys wouldn't bother with?
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Really. Great posters.
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The first one looks like the cover of a video game...the second one just doesn't feel right. They should have kept Max's face more in the shadows and I think it would have been cooler.
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..as, MARK WHALBERG!
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It's new to me... :)
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His one truly great performance.
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But he will never be forgiven for this, http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2989661952/tt0108243
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the first poster is good. Why? Because it pretty much rips off the boxart from the games. the Second is arse because it looks like it's trying WAY too hard and what the fuck is that Angel doing there? It's not even metaphorical if it's, you know, ACTUALLY IN THE ROOM WITH HIM. Balls I say.
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Lmao
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I played this game, and I couldn't make it work. It kept going in reeeeally slow, I think the game had a few glitches.
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those kick ass man!
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Second one makes the film look like Constantine or The Prophecy. There's no supernatural stuff in Max Payne, ditch it.
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lifting some guy out a building
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I lied to myself that it was over...It wasn't over...And it would get worse before the end...
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that word hurt my brain.
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so does Merrick
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No one is being ripped off. Just some confusion as to the nature of the images' release.
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has to be a guy committing suicide while under the influence of the drug. I think it's actually a pretty slick way of visualizing the drug's effects. The games are favorites of mine and this movie looks sweet so far.
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...'cause I'm sick and fucking tired of all those PG-13 "action" movies...
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of the orange background, "standing in a group" poster for "Reservoir Dogs," only with a big gun pointing.
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But I'm also not that comfortable with Mark Wahlberg. Though I like that guy.
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I did an IMDB search for 1975 and 1980, two pretty gritty years, and you know what I found? The R-rated crime and suspense dramas and even "action" films weren't crazed rides through exploding heads and flying cars. They were about people, and the action grew out of what the people cared about. Character -> plot -> activity. Otherwise it's just a load of crap. Want to talk violence? Sam Peckinpah. But we always cared about his characters. (Okay, maybe not "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia," but most of the time.) You want to watch people beat the crap out of one another for 90 minutes, go rent an old chop-socky film. Want to see things explode, there are films that will give you plenty of that. But action is not intrinsically based in violence.
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Jul 24, 2008 11:39:23 AM CDT
But Max Payne has to be an R-Rated action movie, imho
by motoko kusanagi
expecially when you want to stick to the source material. I simply don't want a teenie version of Payne with lots of gunfire but zero exit wounds.
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Its avery impressive adaptation for the original artwork for the game. "nd one is cool, but i bit too abstract to represent the film in any defining way... would make a good postcard, but not a poster.
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Though I think the notion of movies based on video games is pretty fucking stupid to begin with. Strictly IMO.
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That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
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that most films these days are crap?
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Constantine.
There, I said it. That shit was cool. Besides, if you look really closely, this flick has 'ASS' written all over it. I'm telling you the truth. Somebody oughta blow up one of those posters really huge and see for themselves ... and then post it for the rest of us. -
there's no supernatural stuff in Max Payne?
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Best 2007 action flick. And these posters are decent, nothing more. The first is kinda above average, but is just an adaptation of the game's. As for the second, I'm not sold.
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Unless they've significantly fucked with the story, the games didn't have any supernatural elements, but they did have some very trippy dreams/hallucinations enduced by the Valkyr drug. It's possible these "angels" are part of a Valkyr hallucination, especially since Valkyr are minor angel-like deities in Norse mythology. It's a bit like using the fire breathing horse in Batman Begins in the trailer despite it not really being in the film beyond an hallucination.
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Simple, undeniable fact: the vast, vast majority of video game movie adaptations have not only paled in comparison to the originals, but have been painfully bad. Super Mario Bros., Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Double Dragon, Doom, Mortal Kombat; all sick jokes. The only one that hasn't been cringe-worthy was Silent Hill. And Silent Hill wasn't exactly an award-winner. The overwhelming probability is set squarely against Max Payne being anything but bad.
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Represent being saved, I think. I remember reading about their imagery somewhere, but can't find or remember it now. Could be the people dieing from the drug and being saved, either way I think it's some hallucination that only Max sees. Or I could be way off and this movie could've dropped the ball more than previously imaginable.
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Cause if there has, I haven't seen it. I fell asleep in a Resident Evil movie, the one you could set your watch by the frequency of things getting quiet followed by a very loud, shrill "freak-out" noise. It was idiotic.
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The beauty of film is that you can include allegorical imagery to help propel the story. Those angels are, from the looks at the trailer, not literal representations or even hallucinations, but metaphorical images. I think they are badass, too.
Another instance of this type of imagery is in Snatch, when Brad Pitt is knocked to the mat, and they show him drowning underwater for the effect.
In the right hands, just a little bit of metaphysical imagery can convey moods and ideas, and compliment the story in ways that literal imagery cannot. -
Therefore, I have no interest in this movie. End of.
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It's widely regarded as being about on the same level as Mario Bros. (i.e. a shitstorm of biblical proportions.
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Your easily amused.
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like Cap n jack said above.. They aren't in the game.. it looks crazy dumb... I really dug the trailer when I saw it. The action stuff looked kick ass. but the angel was f'n retarded
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That trailer looked way better than it had any right to... but I'm not going to get my hopes up until I hear some word on the rating. If this is PG-13 it's a guaranteed pile of shit and everyone will know it. If it's rated R, as it should be, I may actually have to see this.
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The guns and angels are a good combo. Jimmy Swaggart should have thought of that.
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Embiggen is not cromulent enough to warrant using it in every other post.
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There's nothing special about the lower one, I feel.
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That being said, the story was kind of stupid at times. Hitman 2, anyone?
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And the author of this post is talking about memorable? Original? OK.
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This could be good. Cool posters.
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...too 80's. Second one... better... does attract attention. Just the opinion of an art director, as if that really means anything...
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How very 'Betamax', dear boy!
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No, they definately are hallucinations. I've read the script. Which is a little dumbed down from the game version I have to say, a lot less "1 man against the world" and a lot more of a simple detective/revenge story. It mostly stays true to the source in spirit rather than letter, but lets not kid ourselves, this movie is going to live or die on it's action and wahlbergs performance, because the script is good enough to easily make it the best video game adaptation so far.
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Jul 24, 2008 1:26:56 PM CDT
Just show Kunis topless, holding bullets infront of her nipples
by tallboy66
Goddamn, nobody wants to see Max Payne and those scary black things, WE WANT MILA KUNIS NAKED!!! That's how you get them asses in the seats. And no back nudity! God help them if there's back nudity!
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its cool, but feels borrowed.
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yeah
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and marky mark is extremely hit and miss for me. That being said these posters look great. Really like them.
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How do sir? How goes The Zone-age? (I once posted there as Chilli.) On topic, the game was fun because it ripped off bullet-time... but bullet-time in films is done, so I can't see what this can accomplish.
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of "The Spirit"? That rough and a bit retro look..
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better then the second but neither one is all that great. The first one goes for a dark, gritty, edgy look but doesn't quite achieve it with the somewhat clean and overly bright wall. The image of Max on the wall also doesn't work. It's clearly part of the wall because you can see the textures through Max but it's not really a drawing or graffiti, it's just a two tone, black and white image so it comes off as artificial and something some artist Photoshopped on and breaks the illusion of the location and gritty wall. Also, the way too tiny Brooklyn Bridge makes it look out of place and silly rather then setting location or adding contrast. The second poster is just trying way too hard. Eyes closed, on his knees, leaning back, palms up, guns pointing down, multiple light streams streaking across the full page over the guys face, the feathers, the fingers, the shaded angel. Just too much. Also, I realize the font is from the game, but for the images they were going for in the posters, the font just doesn't work. Narrow, clean, sharp, same height, all caps and in both cases, see-through, sort of cancels out the themes they were going for. The font is a minor quibble though.
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Jul 24, 2008 2:30:20 PM CDT
What's with all these dumbasses saying "lol" and "lmao"
by guy who got a headache and accidentally
You guys new here or something? Jesus, as vile, dumb and hateful these talkbacks could be, at least it's never really had swarms of useless jackasses constantly saying shit like lol, lmao, itt, tits or gtfo, or whatever other made up dipshit language the rest of the internet decidess to adopt like the bunch of fucking illiterate sheep they are.
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THe second one is also kinda cool, just feel very different for a movie poster... It'll certainly draw attention though opinions will be divided over whether it looks cool or dumb. And for the last FUCKING TIME the angels are methophorical!!! I swear it's as if half the people here aren't even familiar with what movies can be and have done in the past!!!
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Could be worse Headache Guy, they could be saying it real life.
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do you think that if you use this non-existent comedy verb enough times, that it will actually enter the English language officially?
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One day in the distant future, "LOL" & "LMFAO" etc etc will be taught in English History classes as having been a common part of daily speech, due to their apparent common usage during the earliest known recorded internet years.
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if you see what I mean
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Just watched the trailer, and Mila looks kinda hot in leather for the 0.38 second we can see her, and its got a cheap 90s action style and a pseudo 'The Crow' feel to it with the angels and shit. And the posters are decent enough as images I guess, but for a movie poster they're barely dtv worthy. If it werent for the Max Payne name most people looking at them would just go "meh... the hell kinda movie is that?"
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I wrote a scene once for an unproduced script where a Teacher ripped a student for using wikipedia as fact. Soon, wikipedia WILL be considered fact.
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They should have let that writer and director do the Gi joe movie with Wahlberg as Duke.
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Not the roman emperor, though.
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...calm down. "Embiggen" is a perfectly "cromulent" word!
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I'd be interested in reading it, if it's not too much trouble.
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I sounds like a fuckin' guido, brah.
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interfrastically
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Whoa, little hostility.
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Rules...he was good in a lot of movies , give the cat his due. Boogie Nights , The Departed , Shooter and a few more.
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and not surprisingly, they both hold up rather well in game play and atmosphere. That being said, I really hope they do this right. How that is I won't know 'till I see it, but if the can capture the nuances of the game, then it should be pretty cool. Here's keeping my fingers crossed.
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I watched this trailer and LAUGHED OUT LOUD. IN MY HONEST OPINION, it looks like crap. Seriously, I was LAUGHING MY ASS OFF. If anyone thinks that this will be better than, oh say, Hitman, they should SHUT THE FUCK UP and GET THE FUCK OUT.
Oh, but that first poster does look ok, in the aforementioned derivative sense. -
Just kidding- this is actually starting like it might be the best game-to-movie adaptation ever. Not a big challenge, since Mortal Kombat is probably the best so far.
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that they don't bring anything supernatural to the story. The angel wings has me worried but hopefully, it has to do with the drug story-line in the games.
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Competition for "Worst Action Movie" this fall is going to be FIERCE.
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F'ing hysterical in the game
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me likey.
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That's not a word. I know the preservation of the English language doesn't mean much to AICN, but Jesus Christ. And now we have "Bad-assier"? I feel sick.
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Whatever happened to James Foley? He used to be such a talented and versatile director. I'm not counting "Who's that Girl?"
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Sorry :/
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How can the poster rip off the art to a game when what its "ripping off" is that game to begin with? Of course there's going to be a resemblance given they're the same fucking thing you Lemming.
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poster one, thumbs up. poster two, thumbs down.
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boring
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Embiggen is a perfectly cromulent word. The preservation of the English language may not be a high priority of AICN, but relatively obscure Simpsons' references? They're all over that.
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reminds me of Reservoir Dogs, for some reason -- too bad the film won't.
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And, really, Wahlberg was the fourth best thing in The Departed after Vera Fermiga's snootch, Dirty DiCaprio, and Jack Nicholson.
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Movies are obsolete? Really? That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard. To compare the REASON for a movie experience to a video game, which interrupts the story for you to figure out what your doing wrong and why you keep dying is just fucking retarded.
And the funniest thing is the "Who gives a shit?" posters. Clearly you do. And clearly the many others who bothered to read and reply. Got your answer, sports? -
Why? Not for the trailers or the posters. Because I'm bored as fuck after work haha. Seriously thought if a football or baseball game is not on I'm seeing this because what else is there to do that month movie wise?
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So we can't call shitty movies shitty just because somebody didn't pay us to make them ourselves? Let's say I go out to eat and my meal is fucking horrible, so I complain to the manager of the restaurant. By your rationale, the manager should tell me "Fuck you, cocksucker! Let's see you make adequate fucking eggs benedict, motherfucker!"
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...for the fucking god squad. Just looks like Constantine except with more guns. Crap.
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Truth
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I know that. I was merely pointing it out so no 'props' should be given to the people attached to the movie, when the 'bad ass' poster is just taken more or less straight from the box-art of the game. It took no talent to do that...you jfp2007. That's right. I went there!
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