First Max Payne Movie Trailer Released

[Fiskmasen]

Like most have said, my thoughts on the fallen angels, is that they're Paynes personal demons. The man is pretty fucked up, and has had the worst of luck. I'd think that would leave you pretty scared. Plus, he's crunching down painkillers like they were tick-tack's.

Also, the trailer is great. Looks like they've really nailed the feeling of the games down. And Wahlberg seems to be a great choice now.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

...I know I'm going to get lynched for this, but Wahlberg looks freaking badass in that trailer.

 

[BillBarilko]

Why would you get lynched? Wahlberg pwns practically every Departed scene that he's in. I'm looking forward to this, but the current imdb cast and crew list for this flick is lacking one Vladimir Lem - how can you do a Max Payne flick without Vlad, and without at least one "Max! Dearest of all my friends!"?

 

[Jackpot]

I'm on the fence. If the plot is rooted in the game (max's wive dies, ha investigates it, finds out about the secret group) i'll be pleased.

There isn't enough there to confirm or deny it.

 

[williamjg]

it looks good but for me if they throw in some supernatural elements in they will ruin it. its good if its in a dream, but if its turns out that like they are in the waking world or if they are like some monsters comming to get him it would totaly destroy the feeling of it being credible.
still heres hopeing it becomes one of the best movie/game adaptions

 

[Fiskmasen]

... but if its turns out that like they are in the waking world or if they are like some monsters coming to get him it would totally destroy the feeling of it being credible.

Yeah, because the Max Payne games are very credible. If they do it right I think they can throw in some supernatural elements without it destroying the movie. There's clearly something supernatural about the V-drug. Perhaps not demons/angels (god vs devil) supernatural but still. It's a crime-noir film (and game), so they have a pretty wide-area were they can stretch what's natural and not.
I've always felt a weird atmosphere coming from the Payne games (a thing that the movie Constantine actually showed for me. Now that I think about it, Keanu "Stone-face" Reeves would probably have made a good Max Payne), and you can't say the developers haven't played with our minds several times during the gameplay.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

I think it looks awesome...

Though I'm kind of amused that I beat you guys (the news staff) to the punch by like 3 hours (I think), not a big difference and I defer to the much more well written article of course, but it amuses me none the less.

 

[maxusy3k]

It looks nice but i was really looking forward to hearing even a hint of the original music. Maybe it will be in a later trailer.

I thought the music on that trailer was some kind of version of the tune that plays behind the graphic novels in MP2. I could be wrong though, been a while since I heard it.

 

[greygelgoog]

While it's looking really kick-ass, I'm hoping this is an instance of "never trust a trailer." Hopefully all those angels and the talk about the Devil is purely metaphor. Or maybe the movie will have so much ass-kickedness that I can overlook such a drastic shift from the source material.

 

[N-Sef]

The trailer looked absolutely fantastic. The narration, action and style is true to Max Payne and that's what we want. Finally we may get a good video game to movie translation, I also thought that Silent Hill was true to form too but I'm getting off track now. Mark Wahlberg I think will do an excellent job as the titular anti-hero, can't wait to see more. Count me as excited.

 

[Dalisclock]

Like most have said, my thoughts on the fallen angels, is that they're Paynes personal demons. The man is pretty fucked up, and has had the worst of luck. I'd think that would leave you pretty scared. Plus, he's crunching down painkillers like they were tick-tack's.

When I first played the game, I said to myself "Even if he wins, he'll probably OD on all the painkillers he's been taking not long after". Not to mention nearly ODing on V at the end of Part 2.

I always thought it would have been interesting to incorporate where the painkillers work, but after a while, they become less and less effective because max builds up a tolerance, and eventually he'll die from overdose.

But the game was hard enough as it was.