Do you ever get that bad feeling ahead of time, as if you know you’re about to make a mistake, but you go through with it anyway? Yea, well that’s the feeling I get more often than not these days when I go to the movies. Now I like to give pretty much any movie a chance, and in my defense, this time around it was my mom’s choice, and she isn’t known for having the best taste in movies.
I try and take every movie with a grain of salt. I knew well ahead of time that The Phantom Menace wasn’t going to be the stellar achievement in storytelling that it’s predecessors were, but I took it exactly for what it was going into that theater. I sat in nervous anticipation, waiting for my nerd load to be blown all over the seats in my immediate trajectory. And it was exactly what I knew it would be, a brilliant light show and appropriate display of how far visual effects had come and just how deep Lucas’ pockets have become over the years. However people, no one can deny the fact that no matter how bad the story may have in fact been, those movies showed exactly what epic space battles and lightsaber fights between the greatest warriors in the galaxy should have looked like, and they delivered on just that.
With that said, Max Payne looked truly badass. Think a cross between Sin City and 30 Days of Night but in color. And that’s really about all the good I can say about it. If you like shitty plot, horrendous acting by people that really shouldn’t be called actors to begin with, and sloppy unresolved character arcs then you’re in for a treat.
It’s funny because I always defend the way movie stories are drastically changed from the source material, because the fact that most people don’t understand is that movie storytelling is a whole different beast and sometimes it just wouldn’t work in the original form on screen. But I gotta say, when these producers and writers completely change the original story into something that also doesn’t work as a movie, then you epic fail.
But what the hell do I know? I guess the mentality these days is just that hallucinogenic demons and pro athletes playing bad guys with makeshift swords is a formula for success…
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Usually not a good sign when the producer of the original game thinks the movie adaptation sucks. I can usually ignore an action movie plot and most of the nonsensical dialogue in favor of some nice fight choreography and cool explosions, but I dunno about this one. Trailer didn't really win me.
Does Marky Mark at least let them use that delightful "Good Vibrations" song on the soundtrack? He never lets the Funky Bunch have any fun these days...
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