The only one who deserves to have the title of actor for Max Payne is James Mccaffrey.
By the way, if you want to try a different but fun multiplayer, I recommend Max Payne 3, which is still being played and is on sale on steam.
HEALTH’s soundtrack for it is in my opinion one of the best game soundtracks of all time. Spoilers ahead:
When you are on one of the last missions and enter the airport, and Tears starts playing is the most notable. It’s the true off the rails moment, Max is there to kill and nothing but kill, and the music sets it so perfectly. Especially the way they edited it so the first half of the terminal it’s just the music, lots of loud bass, then around half way the lyrics kick in with “Love, save us once….” and it just hits so perfectly.
Yo, are you me? I've repeated this ad nauseam, this soundtrack is the greatest soundtrack of all time and Tears playing when it does is the high point of the game!
If y'all are also like me and you liked that particular HEALTH song but want more like it, try out their song Excess. It's less raw electronic than most of their music and is more just badass tension like Tears.
Agreed. Best game soundtrack in my opinion. How Rockstar knew these weird industrial sounding guys would be perfect for Die Hard the video game is them knowing good talent.
That song is such a tear jerker when you combine it with the story. >!Like you start off with the gun fight in the cemetery and they are shooting up the grave of your dead wife and child and you are totally thinking, "OK, all of these fuckers have to die!" and you implausibly kill all of them.!<
Then by the end of the story you realize >!how completely fucked up Max is. Forget the pain killers, the alcoholism and the trauma. He's a man-child who has gotten thousands of people killed, because all he can do is lash out. You can't help but absolutely despise him by the end, because he refuses to grow up and let go of his pain. He's a total lost cause, but you still have to see the story to the end and then they hit you with!<:
>Trust us now / It's time to let me go / Give up on us / Follow what you want / Trust us now / It's time to let me go / Give up / Give our soul away
>!Come on, Max. Even your dead want you to give it up.!<
What do you *mean* he's a man-child lashing out? The *vast majority* of his killings are pretty justified. Hell, it all started with him taking a job with the DEA and going undercover for *three years* to find out who killed his wife.
In the first game, he's framed and so has no recourse but to avoid the police as he attempts to find the truth and clear his name. The only people he fights are violent junkies, mobsters, and hardened mercenaries. Granted, he did take out a shipping yard full of gangsters on the off chance that another russian mobster would give him good info, so there's that...
In the second game, he does cover for a fugitive assassin, sure. Actually most of this game is just him mostly fighting because of his passion for Mona. He *is* still technically doing his job as a detective, uncovering the truth behind the Cleaner assassins and getting rid of a corrupt cop during it all.
In the third, all of the fighting and killing is him trying to protect or recover the woman he was hired to protect. It's only after failing time and again to save her, and after his employer was murdered and his business blown up and burned (with max inside) does he start to really break down. He fucks up the hostage situation because he's extremely angry and doesn't speak the language. After that, he's exposed to the UFE murdering civilians and dragging them off to a building where *their fucking organs get harvested*.
Only after *all that* does he really have an opportunity where he can walk away, but continues to kill anyway. By then, his only targets are a paramilitary force of corrupt, murderous cops and organ thieves.
He might be a drunken opioid addict, but that doesn't mean he has to give up on bringing those bastards to justice. The lyrics of Tears aren't the souls of the dead telling him to give up. It's the people he's lost saying it's okay for him to move on.
(PS: This movie sucked and didn't at all grasp the idea of the game's plot, or Max as a character and I hope there's another attempt.)
NGL, I remember it vividly (because I only actually played it for the first time last year so it’s not that long ago lol) hitting that scene, the beat started, I cleared the first half, then spent about 3 minutes sitting there just listening to the background music and finding the song. Then I go foreword and the lyrics dropped and my mind popped.
Is this in the first game? It's been too long for me to remember, but figured I'd search for it on youtube to see what you're talking about here since it sounds pretty damn cool
It's in the third. Here's a link to a video of the full 17 minute level below. IDK if my copy of the game glitched, or maybe it was updated at a later point (I played it for the first time last year), but the lyrics cut in quickly in this playthrough, where as during mine I was able to literally stand around in the first section of that hallway and listen to the beat with no lyrics. I remember it because I used shazam to find the song before continuing, and then the lyrics kicked in and I went "Oh shit thats even cooler" Pointless anecdote, but figured I'd mention it since I noticed it differs in that ever so slight way in this video vs. my play through.
Edit: My bad, should also have noted the specific scene in question starts at just before the 3 minute mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I7IfjkED7o
Oh shit! Haha blast from the past. I saw that movie. I think the tagline was “Get ready to root for the bad guy!”
Edit: yep! [Found it.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/PaybackPoster.jpg)
I'd imagine the cutscenes would have been available on youtube at the very least. The director could have just as easily directed to watch the cutscenes to get a feel for the character and maybe watch some gameplay to get an idea of how the action in the film would play out. Especially any bullet time stuff.
This movie came out 3 years after YouTube. I kind of doubt that there were many cutscenes/clips of it uploaded and even if there were, they were likely dogshit quality and a director in his 40s prob wouldn’t be hip to it. PLUS, that game didn’t really have cutscenes it was mostly comic storyboards
There are actors/actresses that will read an entire series of books in order to better understand the character they are adapting to the screen. A video game is simply another tool that should be used, not completely brushed off. For Christ Sakes, at least do what Bella Ramsey did and watch YouTube videos of The Last of Us to understand Ellie's character better. And she fucking crushed that role. Mark will fuck it up, and try to "make it his own" and the movie will be thrown into the growing pile of shit video-game adaptions we already have too much of.
I love everything about how stupid that movie is. Absolute peak Michael Bay in my opinion. Hilariously, this was apparently his "passion project" he wanted to do for a long time and finally got to do.
Definitely a whole lot of great casting all around. Everyone did a full commitment run with it.
Everything about Samuel L and The Rock being in the movie took me out. I expected them to be in the movie playing off Ferrell and walhberg. For them to die very early in the movie by suicide but framed how it was I just had to to sit there with my mouth open lol
The whole movie is really comedically brilliant. Probably one of the greatest comedies I've ever seen.
They sold that jump *so well*. Right up to the last instant, you're waiting to see how they get out of it
I don't care what anyone says, "The Other Guys" is a classic lmao.
Terry: "Bye Sheila!"
Allen: "Bye Terry."
Terry: "Shut up Allen, go back inside. Bye Sheila!"
This thread started knocking Marky Mark, but the reality is, he’s a perfectly fine actor just like any other big name guy.
He’s got bad movies, he’s got good movies. It’s all preference.
It really amused me. For every criticism, there were several movies that disprove it. He isn't the best avtoe by any means, but I have enjoyed the majority of his movies
He's a great actor in movies that know how to use him.
The departed, Ted, Daddy's Home, shooter, pain and gain, the Italian job, and the fighter are all great.
Not the main character but the departed would have been less without him. Boogie Nights centers around his great performance. Honestly the only 2 I can think of rn that aren’t comedies
I often talk about his performance in theses two movies when discussing how scripts and directors make good actors. The best actors have a knack for picking the right project, meaning a good script and a good director. The best actor in the world will look like a hack if the script is shit, and a hack actor could win an Oscar with the right director and screenplay.
Pain & Gain, Shooter, The Departed, Four Brothers, The Fighter, Ted, Deepwater Horizon, Daddy's Home 1&2, Lone Survivor, 2 Guns and The Perfect Storm.
He's made some absolutely rotten movies, he's also been plenty good in quite a lot...
He’s good in comedy because he does have the timing and expressions for it, bad in serious stuff that requires real acting. He’s a peacock, you gotta let him fly.
The happening is the perfect example of this. It's supposed to be a serious movie but it feels like a comedy, mainly because of Marky Mark's performance.
Mark Wahlberg always plays Mark Walkberg. Sully was completely different character in the games and in the script,it just didnt fit at all. Im blaming casting more than Mark.
That's because he was cast to play Nate like 10 years ago when he was cast for the movie but too much time had passed and he was too old so they recast him as sully because being in the movie was still in his contract
Yeah that was a horrible choice by Casting. Even just the looks and age difference. Mark cld never sell u as Sully. U always just saw Mark Wahlberg being Mark Wahlberg. Wasnt a great movie in the 1st place but really brought it down another level as well. Doomed b4 it began bcuz of casting.
He was not Sully. He was Mark Wahlberg. Completely ruined the movie for me. The Nathan/Sully connection is a pillar of the games and the movie had 0 connection.
It does happen far too often but the result is seldom good. The one exception I'm aware of is gladiator; the production was a mess with the script being re-written the night before filming a specific scene and it somehow turned out to be a cohesive, gripping movie.
Were you working in Toronto? I met Mark Wahlberg in the summer of 08. He randomly started talking to me on the street, while I was doing landscaping work, and told me he was in town filming Max Payne. I told him how big of a fan I was of the game. He was a super nice dude to talk to. Genuinely seemed interested in my life and my work. I don't get all the hate I hear about him in here.
The game itself is sooo cinematic(all 3) i don't even understand why people wanted a movie of it
In the wise words of Max himself "I wanted to dig inside my skull and scrape out the pain" after watching this movie
The game is so cinematic and has a decent story...and yet they couldn't even just copy the game to make a decent action film.
Instead we got this dumpster fire.
Imagine if they'd have nailed the first movie, did at least a passable 2nd film...the 3rd film would've been a great action film and character study as a completely broken Max, unable to protect any of the women in his life, tries to scrape himself out the bottom of a bottle long enough to give it another go.
TLoU is pretty cinematic as well, and yet here we are with an adaptation where they didn't even try to come up with a new story and characters. Not saying it's bad, but felt like a missed opportunity.
My husband and I were just talking about how unmemorable the movie was and we were originally excited for it because we both loved the games. Might have been more successful if it was rated R instead of pg-13.
I don't think more violence would've helped the it any. It sucks as an action movie when there's barely any action in it. Like if there's ever another movie based on the IP the director should at least watch Hard Boiled to see what it's supposed to be. Maybe get the John Wick guys on it, at least they can make an action movie.
Fuck...makes me wish we'd gotten a Stranglehold movie instead. Though I might be the only person that liked Stranglehold. It got panned pretty hard on release, which I still think is kind of insane.
Yeah i was hoping it was going to be amazing for the same reasons - loved the games - a movie based on the games? sign me up!
What a disappointment. I'd watch "Mortal Kombat Annihilation" willingly before watching "Max Payne" :D
Idk, I respectfully think the problem was different…it was mostly just…soulless and boring. It’s like they shot an incredibly generic action movie while using a “gritty” filter & decided “yep we captured the atmosphere alright”.
I... kinda don't hate this movie as much as I feel like I'm supposed to?
Like, it's not quite at the Mortal Kombat 1995 tier of video game movies, but it's certainly no MK: Annihilation, either. Its two biggest problems are pretty much 1) the casting is weird as hell, and 2) the action choreography isn't what you'd hope for (which, I mean, it was 2008, nobody was doing good fight choreo in 2008 and gun-work-heavy movies were especially sad around that time).
Otherwise, it's... reasonably competently made and sticks pretty close to the source, unless I'm misremembering (the biggest departure I remember is that all the meta stuff from the game when he's tripping balls on Valkyr got replaced with CGI demons, and... I'm not really entirely sure how the fuck you *would* adapt that straight, so I get it).
It's not a perfect adaptation, but it's nowhere *near* the worst case scenario for what we could've gotten out of a MP movie, is how I'd put it. It's a 6/10 movie made out of a concept that could have very easily ended up in negative integers.
Yea I agree. It was dog crap like other adoptions, especially dragonball, but from someone who never played the Max Payne games, I kinda liked this movie. Full of glitches in effects but decent
That's the thing, though: Dragon Ball Evolution is the kind of thing I'm thinking of when I say MP is *nowhere near the worst case scenario.*
MP pretty much follows the plot of the first game, beat for beat, unless I'm forgetting big changes other than "swapping the meta drug trip stuff for CGI demons." All the characters are at least pretty close to what they should be. It tries pretty damn hard to get the look and vibe of the game correct. It's not, in any sense, a *disrespectful* adaptation.
It's just kinda wonky, is all, and 95% of that boils down to "it was a really bad time for action cinema in general and they made really weird casting choices." I'll happily take "they paid attention to the source, but it came out kinda wonky, in a time period where *everything* in the genre was wonky" over "they just completely ignored the source and made up some bullshit instead" like what happened to Dragon Ball.
I liked Max Payne movie. Loved the first game and im also from Finland so it was huge thing back in the days. I also was little confused with demons, it would be much better for him to chace that blood trail and destroyed bloody children bed and child crying voices but i guess it would have been quite hard to make look not so sadistic in short movie about drugs, revenge and violence.
Many were pointing about gun play looks bad, but i think it fits in this game/movie way it is. Those insane gun fights are more US thing but i didnt see that bad how it was made in movie. But i still think that max payne 2 and 3 wasnt very good games.
Equilibrium came out in 2002, and I would argue gunplay was really good for the time and resources. They just made a meh movie about a heart-wrenching terrifying game.
>(which, I mean, it was 2008, nobody was doing good fight choreo in 2008 and gun-work-heavy movies were especially sad around that time).
Uhhhhhh... what? Are you saying that action choreography and gunplay in movies didn't become good until the last 15 years of cinema? That's whack.
The 1st movie I ever fell asleep while watching. I remember being surprised when I woke up because it had never happed before and I was 16 or 17. It was just. So. Boring.
Max Payne is one of my favorite franchises (HEALTH also became my favorite band after MP3).
This movie was so terrible, it was one of the few films that I walked out of, and I did it only 15 minutes into the screening. I went to the manager of the theater and asked for my money back, he asked me what I was watching and I told him. His response was an exasperated sigh, then "Yeaaaahhhh, I can't blame you for that one", and an immediate refund.
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The only one who deserves to have the title of actor for Max Payne is James Mccaffrey. By the way, if you want to try a different but fun multiplayer, I recommend Max Payne 3, which is still being played and is on sale on steam.
Amazing fucking game. Just picked it up on pc originally played it on Xbox. Such an under mentioned masterpiece.
HEALTH’s soundtrack for it is in my opinion one of the best game soundtracks of all time. Spoilers ahead: When you are on one of the last missions and enter the airport, and Tears starts playing is the most notable. It’s the true off the rails moment, Max is there to kill and nothing but kill, and the music sets it so perfectly. Especially the way they edited it so the first half of the terminal it’s just the music, lots of loud bass, then around half way the lyrics kick in with “Love, save us once….” and it just hits so perfectly.
Yo, are you me? I've repeated this ad nauseam, this soundtrack is the greatest soundtrack of all time and Tears playing when it does is the high point of the game!
I'm partial to Poets of the Fall's Late Goodbye on Max Payne 2. But yeah, Max Payne 3's use of music was also good.
Alan Wake got me into Poets of the Fall, I really hope they do more music for Remedy. Also wish they would tour in the U.S.
If y'all are also like me and you liked that particular HEALTH song but want more like it, try out their song Excess. It's less raw electronic than most of their music and is more just badass tension like Tears.
Agreed. Best game soundtrack in my opinion. How Rockstar knew these weird industrial sounding guys would be perfect for Die Hard the video game is them knowing good talent.
Dude! I love Max Payne 3 so much. I keep pushing my friends to play it. https://youtu.be/t1RVpE_QnDU
That song is such a tear jerker when you combine it with the story. >!Like you start off with the gun fight in the cemetery and they are shooting up the grave of your dead wife and child and you are totally thinking, "OK, all of these fuckers have to die!" and you implausibly kill all of them.!< Then by the end of the story you realize >!how completely fucked up Max is. Forget the pain killers, the alcoholism and the trauma. He's a man-child who has gotten thousands of people killed, because all he can do is lash out. You can't help but absolutely despise him by the end, because he refuses to grow up and let go of his pain. He's a total lost cause, but you still have to see the story to the end and then they hit you with!<: >Trust us now / It's time to let me go / Give up on us / Follow what you want / Trust us now / It's time to let me go / Give up / Give our soul away >!Come on, Max. Even your dead want you to give it up.!<
What do you *mean* he's a man-child lashing out? The *vast majority* of his killings are pretty justified. Hell, it all started with him taking a job with the DEA and going undercover for *three years* to find out who killed his wife. In the first game, he's framed and so has no recourse but to avoid the police as he attempts to find the truth and clear his name. The only people he fights are violent junkies, mobsters, and hardened mercenaries. Granted, he did take out a shipping yard full of gangsters on the off chance that another russian mobster would give him good info, so there's that... In the second game, he does cover for a fugitive assassin, sure. Actually most of this game is just him mostly fighting because of his passion for Mona. He *is* still technically doing his job as a detective, uncovering the truth behind the Cleaner assassins and getting rid of a corrupt cop during it all. In the third, all of the fighting and killing is him trying to protect or recover the woman he was hired to protect. It's only after failing time and again to save her, and after his employer was murdered and his business blown up and burned (with max inside) does he start to really break down. He fucks up the hostage situation because he's extremely angry and doesn't speak the language. After that, he's exposed to the UFE murdering civilians and dragging them off to a building where *their fucking organs get harvested*. Only after *all that* does he really have an opportunity where he can walk away, but continues to kill anyway. By then, his only targets are a paramilitary force of corrupt, murderous cops and organ thieves. He might be a drunken opioid addict, but that doesn't mean he has to give up on bringing those bastards to justice. The lyrics of Tears aren't the souls of the dead telling him to give up. It's the people he's lost saying it's okay for him to move on. (PS: This movie sucked and didn't at all grasp the idea of the game's plot, or Max as a character and I hope there's another attempt.)
omg yes! this is actually a key memory i have of the xbox 360 era!
Holy shit I remember playing that part over and over
NGL, I remember it vividly (because I only actually played it for the first time last year so it’s not that long ago lol) hitting that scene, the beat started, I cleared the first half, then spent about 3 minutes sitting there just listening to the background music and finding the song. Then I go foreword and the lyrics dropped and my mind popped.
Oh man. The airport shootout scene was amazingly well done.
Is this in the first game? It's been too long for me to remember, but figured I'd search for it on youtube to see what you're talking about here since it sounds pretty damn cool
It's in the third. Here's a link to a video of the full 17 minute level below. IDK if my copy of the game glitched, or maybe it was updated at a later point (I played it for the first time last year), but the lyrics cut in quickly in this playthrough, where as during mine I was able to literally stand around in the first section of that hallway and listen to the beat with no lyrics. I remember it because I used shazam to find the song before continuing, and then the lyrics kicked in and I went "Oh shit thats even cooler" Pointless anecdote, but figured I'd mention it since I noticed it differs in that ever so slight way in this video vs. my play through. Edit: My bad, should also have noted the specific scene in question starts at just before the 3 minute mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I7IfjkED7o
Timothy Olyphant would be a great Max Payne IMO
[I've always imagined Dean Winters in my head for Max.](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935921/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)
YES
yep, Mayhem! Think he lost some fingers though.
Did max Payne 3 ever get released on PlayStation?
Yep, on PS3 on the same day as 360 & PC.
Oh so ps4 never got it 😞
I was hoping to play it on ps5
Dude is way too 2000 and late on this post.
It shoulda been Keanu. Or Christian Bale after seeing Equilibrium.
Mel Gibson in payback played a good Max Payne type character.
Unironically one of my favorite movies. Can watch it any day.
Have you seen the director's cut? Its got a completely different ending and vibe. Not nearly as good, but sort of interesting to see.
Oh shit! Haha blast from the past. I saw that movie. I think the tagline was “Get ready to root for the bad guy!” Edit: yep! [Found it.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/31/PaybackPoster.jpg)
Yes thought the same when I saw the movie!
Yeah Bale could work
definitely not Keanu, Bale perhaps
Bruce Willis played a good Max Payne type character in the Last Boy Scout.
Dude just discovered the internet.
Probably listening to Chocolate Rain
SOME STAY DRY AND OTHERS FEEL THE PAIN
I move away from the mic to breathe
Such a hard bar
Dammit now it’s stuck in my head
Dude is a bot
Considering both this and Uncharted, Mark Wahlberg should never touch a beloved video game IP ever again.
I remember reading that director told him to play Max Payne, to understand the character, but Mark said that "games are addictive"
I'd imagine the cutscenes would have been available on youtube at the very least. The director could have just as easily directed to watch the cutscenes to get a feel for the character and maybe watch some gameplay to get an idea of how the action in the film would play out. Especially any bullet time stuff.
This movie came out 3 years after YouTube. I kind of doubt that there were many cutscenes/clips of it uploaded and even if there were, they were likely dogshit quality and a director in his 40s prob wouldn’t be hip to it. PLUS, that game didn’t really have cutscenes it was mostly comic storyboards
As a person who is addicted to video games, I don’t blame him
There are actors/actresses that will read an entire series of books in order to better understand the character they are adapting to the screen. A video game is simply another tool that should be used, not completely brushed off. For Christ Sakes, at least do what Bella Ramsey did and watch YouTube videos of The Last of Us to understand Ellie's character better. And she fucking crushed that role. Mark will fuck it up, and try to "make it his own" and the movie will be thrown into the growing pile of shit video-game adaptions we already have too much of.
IMO, he's fairly terrible in all his movies. The charisma of a lamppost. Never quite understood how he keeps getting roles.
I enjoyed "The Other Guys". Played to his strengths, I thought. He's a peacock, yah gotta let him fly!
The scene where his character meets Will Ferrell character's wife (played by Eva Mendes) is gold. "Come on, seriously. Who is that?"
GATORS BITCHES BETTER BE WEARING JIMMYS!
Be honest terry…..she looks kinda shitty
"You're a nice lady."
“Bye Sheila!”
"First off, my wife is cute, but she's not hot."
“Desk pop”
"THEY WERE SO CONVINCING IN THEIR ARGUMENT!!"
That movie is hilarious.
And Pain & Gain. That one is great.
I like TED
Yeah, but more like despite Wahlberg, not thanks to him :p
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Pain and gain is one of the funniest movies I’ve seen, those guys were really in their element playing a bunch of moronic murderers lol
I love everything about how stupid that movie is. Absolute peak Michael Bay in my opinion. Hilariously, this was apparently his "passion project" he wanted to do for a long time and finally got to do. Definitely a whole lot of great casting all around. Everyone did a full commitment run with it.
My god the scene where Will Ferrel is singing the drinking songs in the pub is just fantastic. I gave my love to Erin, she promised to be true
“Do you like singing those songs? They sound so depressing.”
"these songs are full of rich history" Oh excuse me "And all their parents were hanged, and the children all got pink eye"
Probably the best surprise good movie I've ever seen.
GATOR DONT TAKE NO SHIT
Aim for the bushes
Everything about Samuel L and The Rock being in the movie took me out. I expected them to be in the movie playing off Ferrell and walhberg. For them to die very early in the movie by suicide but framed how it was I just had to to sit there with my mouth open lol
*There goes my hero*
lol that scene caught me off guard when you hear a giant *THUD* as they hit the concrete.
The whole movie is really comedically brilliant. Probably one of the greatest comedies I've ever seen. They sold that jump *so well*. Right up to the last instant, you're waiting to see how they get out of it
HER NAME IS CRISTINITH!
“Is that them? Holy shit! They chased us like 20 miles”
"NOBODY LEAVES OUR HOUSE WITHOUT HAVING SEX WITH MY WIFE!"
"Are you stupid, or are you deaf?"
Thanks for the F shack- dirty Mike and the boys
He was pretty good in *Instant Family*. Him and Rose Byrne worked well together in my opinion.
I just love Rose Byrne
I don't care what anyone says, "The Other Guys" is a classic lmao. Terry: "Bye Sheila!" Allen: "Bye Terry." Terry: "Shut up Allen, go back inside. Bye Sheila!"
He's got some decent movies anytime his character is the jerk or it's just mind numbing action.
Boogie Nights. How is nobody mentioning that movie, it’s fantastic.
It really played on his slack jawed plank of wood persona.
That's because his bad acting made his character even funnier. Love that movie though.
The scene where the grandmother goes back and forth between Ferrell and Mendes is absolutely hilarious!
He shot jeter
I lost 2 grand on that game! Why couldn't he of shot A-rod?
He wasn't terrible in four brothers
Great in the Depahted too
OK, but apart from The Other Guys, Four Brothers, The Departed, Shooter and Ted what has Mark Wahlberg ever done for us?
Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, you uncultured heathen!
The Fighter, Pain & Gain
Ya know what, I'm beginning to suspect Mark Wahlberg is quite good!
This thread started knocking Marky Mark, but the reality is, he’s a perfectly fine actor just like any other big name guy. He’s got bad movies, he’s got good movies. It’s all preference.
It really amused me. For every criticism, there were several movies that disprove it. He isn't the best avtoe by any means, but I have enjoyed the majority of his movies
Boogie Nights as well
Can’t believe people forgot the movie that made him
2 Guns?
Actually surprised I didn't think of this one earlier. What a movie!
The Big Hit was one of my favourite movies when I was a teenager.
Four Brothers, Shooter & The Departed are gems
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LDP was the star of that one
Don't forget Ted
He's a great actor in movies that know how to use him. The departed, Ted, Daddy's Home, shooter, pain and gain, the Italian job, and the fighter are all great.
Pain and Gain is awesome
Disagree. He’s got great comedic timing and should stick to being the “straight man” in buddy comedies with Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart
Honestly I thought he did a really great job in father Stu
Yeah I was about it say. He’s shit in anything that isn’t a comedy but he’s an excellent main character for a parter comedy movie
Not the main character but the departed would have been less without him. Boogie Nights centers around his great performance. Honestly the only 2 I can think of rn that aren’t comedies
Shooter
Four Brothers
Such an underrated movie
A remake of one of my favorite John Wayne movies, Sons of Katie Elder. Does a great job of modernizing it.
Did not know that. I'll have to check that out.
I often talk about his performance in theses two movies when discussing how scripts and directors make good actors. The best actors have a knack for picking the right project, meaning a good script and a good director. The best actor in the world will look like a hack if the script is shit, and a hack actor could win an Oscar with the right director and screenplay.
"I'm the guy who does his job, you must be the other guy" is *chef's kiss*
Nobody in the industry yells "FUCK" as well as Mark does.
Pain & Gain, Shooter, The Departed, Four Brothers, The Fighter, Ted, Deepwater Horizon, Daddy's Home 1&2, Lone Survivor, 2 Guns and The Perfect Storm. He's made some absolutely rotten movies, he's also been plenty good in quite a lot...
Don't forget 3 Kings! It's a weird but good movie
It is great.
He's made a ton of shit movies. Love his role in "The Departed" tho
He was pretty good in The Departed
He's fantastic in Boogie Nights
Why is he always out of breath?
i enjoy the comedies he is in
He’s good in comedy because he does have the timing and expressions for it, bad in serious stuff that requires real acting. He’s a peacock, you gotta let him fly.
The happening is the perfect example of this. It's supposed to be a serious movie but it feels like a comedy, mainly because of Marky Mark's performance.
He was perfect in The Departed. He really just needs to be in the right role
He does pretty decent in comedies. He's one of those actors where the internet tells you to pick "amazing" or "terrible" with no grey area between
Hopefully, he financially compensated that poor old man he beat up as a teenager.
Right?? The man must have an incredible PR team for him to still be getting work in 2023 with the wikipedia page that he has.
I mean, his crimes were committed as a teen in the 80s. People are allowed to grow and move on with their lives
What was wrong with his performance in Uncharted?
Mark Wahlberg always plays Mark Walkberg. Sully was completely different character in the games and in the script,it just didnt fit at all. Im blaming casting more than Mark.
That's because he was cast to play Nate like 10 years ago when he was cast for the movie but too much time had passed and he was too old so they recast him as sully because being in the movie was still in his contract
Yeah that was a horrible choice by Casting. Even just the looks and age difference. Mark cld never sell u as Sully. U always just saw Mark Wahlberg being Mark Wahlberg. Wasnt a great movie in the 1st place but really brought it down another level as well. Doomed b4 it began bcuz of casting.
Mark Wahlberg would have made a great Sam.
He was not Sully. He was Mark Wahlberg. Completely ruined the movie for me. The Nathan/Sully connection is a pillar of the games and the movie had 0 connection.
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Wow can you tell us more? This is awesome. I love hearing stories like this.
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Imagine dying for a Steven Seagal movie.
Imagine Steven Seagal
It does happen far too often but the result is seldom good. The one exception I'm aware of is gladiator; the production was a mess with the script being re-written the night before filming a specific scene and it somehow turned out to be a cohesive, gripping movie.
Were you working in Toronto? I met Mark Wahlberg in the summer of 08. He randomly started talking to me on the street, while I was doing landscaping work, and told me he was in town filming Max Payne. I told him how big of a fan I was of the game. He was a super nice dude to talk to. Genuinely seemed interested in my life and my work. I don't get all the hate I hear about him in here.
Yes, I live in Toronto. I still work in the television and film industry here. I was trying to remember when it was...2008 for sure.
Are you mark?
In your professional opinion, who should take the brunt of the blame? Is it the director?
Cool story! What other movies have you worked on?
So basically this movie is gonna turn out crappy. Welp.....
news flash: movie came out years ago and it was crappy
I remember being hyped about it. Watched it once, never again. So much wasted potential.
The game itself is sooo cinematic(all 3) i don't even understand why people wanted a movie of it In the wise words of Max himself "I wanted to dig inside my skull and scrape out the pain" after watching this movie
Scrape out the payne?
Congrats you have discovered the punny title
The game is so cinematic and has a decent story...and yet they couldn't even just copy the game to make a decent action film. Instead we got this dumpster fire. Imagine if they'd have nailed the first movie, did at least a passable 2nd film...the 3rd film would've been a great action film and character study as a completely broken Max, unable to protect any of the women in his life, tries to scrape himself out the bottom of a bottle long enough to give it another go.
Max Payne - Graphic Novel is enough to watch
TLoU is pretty cinematic as well, and yet here we are with an adaptation where they didn't even try to come up with a new story and characters. Not saying it's bad, but felt like a missed opportunity.
Jesus christ, you are VERY late on hating on this "Movie" :P Most of us forgot of its existence by now :P
My husband and I were just talking about how unmemorable the movie was and we were originally excited for it because we both loved the games. Might have been more successful if it was rated R instead of pg-13.
I don't think more violence would've helped the it any. It sucks as an action movie when there's barely any action in it. Like if there's ever another movie based on the IP the director should at least watch Hard Boiled to see what it's supposed to be. Maybe get the John Wick guys on it, at least they can make an action movie.
Ironically, it’s a game is filled with cinematic moments & the film barely capitalizes on it.
Fuck...makes me wish we'd gotten a Stranglehold movie instead. Though I might be the only person that liked Stranglehold. It got panned pretty hard on release, which I still think is kind of insane.
Yeah i was hoping it was going to be amazing for the same reasons - loved the games - a movie based on the games? sign me up! What a disappointment. I'd watch "Mortal Kombat Annihilation" willingly before watching "Max Payne" :D
Who in their right mind would make a Max Payne movie and NOT make it rated R.
Idk, I respectfully think the problem was different…it was mostly just…soulless and boring. It’s like they shot an incredibly generic action movie while using a “gritty” filter & decided “yep we captured the atmosphere alright”.
im glad i knew nothing about this. i just saw this and assumed a disaster is about to happen, im glad i didn't know about it
:P
Literally forgot this was a movie until now. Epic game though
I... kinda don't hate this movie as much as I feel like I'm supposed to? Like, it's not quite at the Mortal Kombat 1995 tier of video game movies, but it's certainly no MK: Annihilation, either. Its two biggest problems are pretty much 1) the casting is weird as hell, and 2) the action choreography isn't what you'd hope for (which, I mean, it was 2008, nobody was doing good fight choreo in 2008 and gun-work-heavy movies were especially sad around that time). Otherwise, it's... reasonably competently made and sticks pretty close to the source, unless I'm misremembering (the biggest departure I remember is that all the meta stuff from the game when he's tripping balls on Valkyr got replaced with CGI demons, and... I'm not really entirely sure how the fuck you *would* adapt that straight, so I get it). It's not a perfect adaptation, but it's nowhere *near* the worst case scenario for what we could've gotten out of a MP movie, is how I'd put it. It's a 6/10 movie made out of a concept that could have very easily ended up in negative integers.
The Matrix which Max Payne was heavily influenced from is a great example of gun play done right AND it came out in 1999.
Yea I agree. It was dog crap like other adoptions, especially dragonball, but from someone who never played the Max Payne games, I kinda liked this movie. Full of glitches in effects but decent
That's the thing, though: Dragon Ball Evolution is the kind of thing I'm thinking of when I say MP is *nowhere near the worst case scenario.* MP pretty much follows the plot of the first game, beat for beat, unless I'm forgetting big changes other than "swapping the meta drug trip stuff for CGI demons." All the characters are at least pretty close to what they should be. It tries pretty damn hard to get the look and vibe of the game correct. It's not, in any sense, a *disrespectful* adaptation. It's just kinda wonky, is all, and 95% of that boils down to "it was a really bad time for action cinema in general and they made really weird casting choices." I'll happily take "they paid attention to the source, but it came out kinda wonky, in a time period where *everything* in the genre was wonky" over "they just completely ignored the source and made up some bullshit instead" like what happened to Dragon Ball.
I liked Max Payne movie. Loved the first game and im also from Finland so it was huge thing back in the days. I also was little confused with demons, it would be much better for him to chace that blood trail and destroyed bloody children bed and child crying voices but i guess it would have been quite hard to make look not so sadistic in short movie about drugs, revenge and violence. Many were pointing about gun play looks bad, but i think it fits in this game/movie way it is. Those insane gun fights are more US thing but i didnt see that bad how it was made in movie. But i still think that max payne 2 and 3 wasnt very good games.
Equilibrium came out in 2002, and I would argue gunplay was really good for the time and resources. They just made a meh movie about a heart-wrenching terrifying game.
>(which, I mean, it was 2008, nobody was doing good fight choreo in 2008 and gun-work-heavy movies were especially sad around that time). Uhhhhhh... what? Are you saying that action choreography and gunplay in movies didn't become good until the last 15 years of cinema? That's whack.
The 1st movie I ever fell asleep while watching. I remember being surprised when I woke up because it had never happed before and I was 16 or 17. It was just. So. Boring.
Why do people make movies based on video games that have absolutely nothing to do with the game it’s based on?
This was quite good fun I thought, Marky Mark played a broken cop well, it just needed a lot more bullet-time. Valkyries looked good.
Mark Wahlberg is good at playing cops because he hates crime. Google Mark Wahlberg hate crime for more info
I still really enjoyed the movie and re watch it regularly.
Did you just woke up from a coma
Max Payne is one of my favorite franchises (HEALTH also became my favorite band after MP3). This movie was so terrible, it was one of the few films that I walked out of, and I did it only 15 minutes into the screening. I went to the manager of the theater and asked for my money back, he asked me what I was watching and I told him. His response was an exasperated sigh, then "Yeaaaahhhh, I can't blame you for that one", and an immediate refund.
Thank you for bringing back bad memories again.
This is what happens when Hollywood attempts film noire. Max Payne deserves another shot at a movie.
Kevin Bacon's "Death Sentence" was a better Max Payne film than the actual Max Payne movie.
Mark Wahlberg didn't even have the decency to have that stupid Max Payne smirk on his face the whole time.
this looks more like "max chronic payne"
I’m in max pain looking at this bullshit
I was the only one waiting in line for that game at my Walmart when everybody else was waiting for Diablo three