New, Dark International Trailer for 'Max Payne'

There's a new international trailer for Max Payne, and while I was never down on the project, I'm more "up" on it now than I was before. Having played the game for what felt like about ten straight months, I always thought it had a cinematic quality to it, especially if the screenwriter was smart enough to pare down the violence and accentuate some of the subtext, not that I mind the violence. Apparently, director John Moore (The Omen) doesn't mind the violence, either, but I will say, this looks less like a straight-ahead action movie than a lot of Hollywood types would probably be inclined to make this concept into. And, like the film, while I was never down on Mark Wahlberg as Payne, I'm thinking that he might now do a really good job. Why is he clean-shaven, though? Max Payne opens October 17th. Kudos to MovieWeb for the trailer.

Comments

[Lengthy Johnson]

It looks really promising. If the film stays true to the tone of the trailer (vice versa, really) then I think I might even enjoy it more than the Dark Knigh, personally. Of course; I didn't enjoy the Dark Knight particularly, just saying.

[Get The Big Picture]

Lengthy Johnson hates more everything than I do.

[Lengthy Johnson]

You mean Lengthy hates everything more than you do?

Possibly I hate more than you do but I don't hate everything. Some things I like quite a lot. I liked Wahlberg a lot in The Departed. Mind you, he played a character who hated everything.

I watch a lot of film and nobody is happier than I when they get everything right in a film. However, due to the dispersion of creative control in today's film-making there is usually quite a lot of annoying flaws in films that could have been better if the creative team had been left to it.

I would say that out of 10 major releases, perhaps 3 are horrible, 3 are decent, 3 are commendable and 1 is really good. Unfortunately, it means a lot of complaining if you're gonna talk about film.

[Get The Big Picture]

(No, I mean that the perception is that I hate everything, and my perception is that you hate more everything than even I do).

[Lengthy Johnson]

Ok, so I win?

[Get The Big Picture]

I guess so. I will say, though, that I find your ratio to be pretty consistent. My mileage varies because I have to see so many movies I never would for my own pleasure. In general, most movies are just below fine to watchable, two to three apes, but I think there are more really good movies than really bad ones. Conversely, there's more absolute shit than there are classics.

[Lengthy Johnson]

Yeh, I'm no critic but the woman makes me watch films I don't want to see either. I'm getting better and better at falling asleep, though.

Perhaps a reason that there seems to be more classics than really bad films is that it - fortunately - is easier to forget the bad ones?