Max Payne - The new HT showoff movie.

[Sheep]

Watched this last night. I never played the games, but I knew of them. I knew about the bullet time, and roughly that he kills a lot of people. The movie has a clear cut story, but you never know how everything pieces together until near the end (Which I like, keeps you guessing). I really can't comment on the visuals, it was a decent theater, but the sound is going to set a new standard. Lots of bass sweeps, low rumbling explosions, and well placed details to accent them. This isn't your typical explosion that hits you will all forms out sound at once. It felt almost separated, each different range coming at different times, layering and building up a much more violent and devastating sound. They mimicked the Bullet time almost exactly like that game, with similar sound muffling (Watch youtube clip for reference).

Overall I was very entertained, and drawn in by the dark story and characters. Recommended guy action flick.

Trailer:

Bullet time:

SheepStar

 

[Bluesmoke]

This movie was absolute ****. Looked great and sounded great. But it was simply one of the worst movies ever made, with very little action - especially considering this was a Max Payne movie. The Shotgun bullet-time looked dumb. I heard people actually giggling due to the way it was scripted.

Great Bass and excellent use of surrounds. Too bad they couldn't pull a decent script out of their @$$.

 

[Sheep]

This movie was absolute ****. Looked great and sounded great. But it was simply one of the worst movies ever made, with very little action - especially considering this was a Max Payne movie. The Shotgun bullet-time looked dumb. I heard people actually giggling due to the way it was scripted.

Great Bass and excellent use of surrounds. Too bad they couldn't pull a decent script out of their @$$.

How objective of you.

SheepStar

 

[Bluesmoke]

How objective of you.

SheepStar

Well, the movie kind of lost me at the point where a guy never noticed that his wife HAD A BIG TATTOO of a wing on her forearm. Kind of hard to miss. I stayed for the action, and there was very little.

 

[mike c]

i played the game ... but don't remember winged creatures.

Spoiler

if i had to guess those try to justify the bullet-time/matrix-like powers?

 

[Mike.A]

i played the game ... but don't remember winged creatures.

I played it also. Never remeber them either.

 

[Djizasse]

This isn't your typical explosion that hits you will all forms out sound at once. It felt almost separated, each different range coming at different times, layering and building up a much more violent and devastating sound.

Sounds interesting. Gonna see it at my "basshumongous" theatre. I saw Star Wars Ep III and in the beginning of the movie, the sound of the crusaders made me lose my coherent speech for a few seconds
How do you rate the bass of Max Payne comparing to SWEp3?

 

[emorphien]

I'm sure I'll see this at some point, but based on what I've been reading and told, I don't think it'll be happening in a theater. It's disappointing though, as I've played the second Max Payne game and it seems like they could really do some interesting things with it in a movie.

 

[Sheep]

I'm sure I'll see this at some point, but based on what I've been reading and told, I don't think it'll be happening in a theater. It's disappointing though, as I've played the second Max Payne game and it seems like they could really do some interesting things with it in a movie.

The Movie was based on the first game.

Star Wars has a lot of bass, but I prefer Max Payne to it. The bass is different. I really liked how it gelled together.

SheepStar

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Sounds like a good Blu-ray buy when it comes out.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I hate to say this, but...

I just saw Max Payne, and I thought it was a TERRIBLE movie!

Terrible story, terrible directing, terrible acting - just absolutely terrible.

There is no way I'm buying the blu-ray for this movie!

And I thought The Happening was BAD!

 

[MatthewB.]

The games were awesome, the movie just plain sucked. Although they did capture some of the sets perfectly. I was amazed at how well they captured that part. As for the rest, yeah it sucked. I thought the one set they should've used was the main loby scene at the end of the fisrt game with the snipers on the three levels. The realism of that set in the game was awesome (and made it hard as heck to get through that level).

While watching it I was like, what's with the winged creatures. This movie should've focused more on the games where Max was just getting revenge for the death of his wife and child while being framed by the mob and wanted by the police. But they hardly even touched that.

If you want a more realistic version of the game. Watch "Shoot em Up" with Clive Owen, who I felt looked and sounded much more like Max than Marky mark ever could. "Shoot em Up" was more true to the game than this movie ever was.

 

[suave2906]

I usually like mark walkberg movie but this one seems to be pretty bad