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Comic-Con: Wahlberg Flexes Biceps as Max Payne
"It's not minimum Payne, not medium Payne, it's maximum Payne!" declared director John Moore at the Max Payne panel. True confession: my experience with videogames is limited to Myst, Riven, and Sim City, basically. I have never played Max Payne and never will, nor is this movie aimed at my demo. Hardly.
"My challenge was not to screw it up," said Moore, who deployed a subjective video-game POV camera as well as super-so-mo Phantom camera which shoots up to 1000 frames per second. "You've got to follow the story. If you take the controller out of a player's hand, and he gives up control and lets you take it from here, you have to give him something exciting and kick ass. That's the point of playing the game. So on Max Payne we kick the shit out of the camera to make you feel like you're Max Payne in the movie."
The footage played well in the Hall. But no self-respecting female will go see this hardcore actioner, no matter how well Mark Wahlberg flexes his biceps. "After Invincible, The Happening and The Lovely Bones, I wanted to kick ass," he told the crowd. He compared this role (wishfully) to what he did in The Departed and Fear, saying this part is "driven by emotion." Wahlberg felt his Boston street cred helped in playing this role. "Payne is a happy man until his family is taken away from him and he gives up all hope in humanity," he said. "This is a dark and ugly world he lives in."
Mila Kunis plays one of quite a few tough babes on display at Comic-Con this year. "I learned how to use a gun and kick ass in five-inch heels," she said, playing to the gallery. "I had weapons training with an automatic and a colt and baton. I got to beat Mark up."
Click here for cast photos from this panel
Here's the trailer:
[Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis and Ludacris]
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The quote was "It's not Minimum pain, not medium pain, but Maximum pain." Money pain makes no sense.
Posted by: Ross Johnston | July 27, 2008 at 12:40 PM
Mark Wahlberg looks so sexy when he's mad....
Posted by: Brianna Brown | November 27, 2008 at 04:28 PM
I remember looking forward to this movie since I heard it was planned!
I saw the trailers and I was drooling, because it looked like they were going to stay really close to the storyline. (even with the winged hallucinations)
and then I went to see it... and the only thing I could think was "well... I'm not going to walk out. maybe it'll get better in a moment?"
but it never did.
I loved the games! My favorite ever, but I don't even want to own the DVD. In fact, if someone buys me the DVD, I'll return it and get another movie, because this movie didn't even make the cut as an action flick. I've seen mediocre movies that were better than this horrid excuse for an adaptation. ;_;
Posted by: Elisabeth hansen | March 12, 2009 at 10:17 AM